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Shelby Daytona
The Shelby Daytona, also called the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, is a closed-cockpit racing car built by Shelby American in 1964 and 1965 to beat Ferrari's 250 GTO.
Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote (Shelby Dade Foote, Jr., 1916–2005), Greenville, Mississippi novelist and historian, wrote the 1.5-million-word three-volume The Civil War: A Narrative (1958–1974) and became famous through Ken Burns's 1990 PBS documentary, in which he made 89 appearances.
Shelby Grant
Shelby Grant (1936–2011), born Brenda Lou Thompson, was an American actress known for Our Man Flint, Fantastic Voyage, and Batman, and the wife of actor Chad Everett from 1966 until her death.
Shelby Harris
Shelby Harris (born 1991) is an NFL defensive lineman for the New York Giants, formerly Raiders, Broncos, Seahawks, and Browns; a 2014 seventh-rounder known for batted passes and run defense.
Shelby Lynne
Shelby Lynne (Shelby Lynne Moorer, born 1968) is an American country-soul singer-songwriter from Alabama; sister of Allison Moorer, Grammy Best New Artist winner for I Am Shelby Lynne (2000), not the decentralized storage protocol Shelby.
Shelby Mustang
The Shelby Mustang is a high-performance version of the Ford Mustang built by Shelby American, starting with the 1965 GT350 and later the big-block GT500 of 1967.
Shelby Rogers
Shelby Rogers (born 1992, Mount Pleasant, SC) is a retired American tennis player, career-high WTA No. 30 in 2022, three WTA finals, 2016 French Open and 2020 US Open quarterfinalist, beat No. 1 Barty at the 2021 US Open, retired after the 2024 US Open.
Shelby Simmons
Shelby Simmons (born 2002, Richmond, Virginia) is an American actress known as Ava King on Disney Channel's Bunk'd, Sydney in Netflix's Prince of Peoria, and Hillari Kimble in the 2020 Disney+ film Stargirl.
Shelby Slawson
Shelby Slawson is an American Republican politician and attorney representing Texas House District 59, known as lead sponsor of Texas' 2021 law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele (born 1946, Chicago) is an American essayist, former San Jose State English professor, and Hoover Institution senior fellow; author of The Content of Our Character (1990 NBCC Award) and White Guilt, known for critiques of affirmative action and victimization politics.
Shelby Van Pelt
Shelby Van Pelt, American novelist, author of the 2022 debut bestseller Remarkably Bright Creatures (Marcellus the octopus, Tova Sullivan); Heartland Prize winner; Netflix film adaptation with Sally Field.
Shelby Wilson
Shelby Autrie Wilson (born 14 July 1937, Ponca City, Oklahoma) is an American freestyle wrestler who won 1960 Rome Olympic gold at lightweight 67 kg/147.5 lbs, beating Soviet world champion Vladimir Sinyavskiy; Oklahoma State Cowboy, later coach and National Wrestling Hall of Fame Distinguished Member.
Shelby Young
Shelby Young, also called shelbyhyoung, is an American voice, mocap, and on-camera actress born 1992 in Florida, known as Princess Leia in LEGO Star Wars and Soph Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein: Youngblood.
Shelden Williams
Shelden Williams (Shelden DeMar Williams, born 1983) American basketball power forward, Duke record holder for rebounds and blocks, two-time national Defensive Player of the Year, drafted fifth overall by Atlanta in 2006, seven-year NBA veteran averaging 4.5 points.
Sheldon Adelson
Sheldon Adelson (שלדון אדלסון) was an American casino magnate who built Las Vegas Sands by expanding into Macau and Singapore, and became the largest documented individual donor in United States politics before his death in 2021.
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen, born 1947, is an American psychologist at Carnegie Mellon known for viral-challenge experiments showing psychological stress and social relationships affect immunity and cold susceptibility.
Sheldon coin grading scale
Sheldon coin grading scale: the 1-to-70 numeric scale proposed by Dr. William H. Sheldon in Early American Cents (1948) for large cents, originally a value-multiplier formula, now the industry standard used by PCGS and NGC.
Sheldon Cooper
Sheldon Lee Cooper, fictional Caltech theoretical physicist on CBS's The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019, 279 episodes), created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, played by Jim Parsons (four Emmys), subject of the prequel Young Sheldon.
Sheldon Creed
Sheldon Creed (born 1997), "The Showstopper," is an American NASCAR driver from Alpine, California; 2018 ARCA and 2020 Truck Series champion, first O'Reilly (Xfinity) win in 2026 after 137 attempts, joining Sam Hunt Racing in 2027.
Sheldon Greenfield
Sheldon Greenfield (died 2025) was an American general internist and health services researcher at UC Irvine who co-led the Medical Outcomes Study and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1996.
Sheldon H. Landesman
Sheldon H. Landesman is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, best known for research on mother-to-child transmission of HIV and early responses to the AIDS epidemic in New York.
Sheldon Harnick
Sheldon Harnick (1924–2023), American Broadway lyricist, collaborated with composer Jerry Bock on Fiorello! (Pulitzer Prize), She Loves Me (Grammy), and Fiddler on the Roof; also a translator of operas and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee (1972).
Sheldon K. Friedlander
Sheldon K. Friedlander (1927–2007) was an American chemical engineer at UCLA, a father of aerosol science, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Sheldon Kay Friedlander
Sheldon Kay Friedlander was an American chemical engineer at UCLA known as a father of aerosol science, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Sheldon Keefe
Sheldon Keefe (born 1980, Brampton, Ontario) is an NHL head coach, currently of the New Jersey Devils; formerly coached the Toronto Maple Leafs (212-97-40) and won the 2018 Calder Cup with the Toronto Marlies.
Sheldon Koenig
Sheldon Koenig is an American biotechnology executive, president and CEO of Esperion Therapeutics since 2021 and a co-founder of Nuvig Therapeutics, after earlier roles at Merck, Sanofi, and Portola Pharmaceuticals.
Sheldon L. Glashow
Sheldon L. Glashow, also known as Sheldon Lee Glashow, is an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for electroweak unification.
Sheldon Lee Semiatin
Sheldon Lee Semiatin is an American materials scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for thermomechanical processing of aerospace alloys.
Sheldon Leonard
Sheldon Leonard (Bershad), 1907–1997, American actor turned TV producer-director of The Danny Thomas Show, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and I Spy; credited with the TV spin-off and namesake of Big Bang's Sheldon and Leonard.
Sheldon M. Wiederhorn
Sheldon M. Wiederhorn (died 2021) was an American materials scientist at NIST best known for the first quantitative measurements of subcritical crack growth in glass.