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Shelley Long
Shelley Lee Long (born 1949, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American actress; Diane Chambers on Cheers (1982–1987), Emmy winner 1983, two Golden Globes, later Irreconcilable Differences, Troop Beverly Hills, The Brady Bunch Movie, and Modern Family.
Shelley Looney
Shelley Looney, born 1972 in Michigan, American ice hockey forward; two-time Olympian, 1998 Nagano gold (scored decisive goal) and 2002 silver; later U.S. national team assistant coach.
Shelley Lubben
Shelley Lubben (1968–2019), stage name Roxy, was an American ex-adult film performer turned born-again Christian anti-pornography activist, founder and executive director of the Pink Cross Foundation (2007/2008–2016), author of Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn.
Shelley Luther
Shelley Luther is an American politician and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 62, first elected in November 2024. She gained attention in 2020 for reopening her Dallas salon during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Shelley Malil
Shelley Malil (Shelley Mathew Malil, born 1964, Kerala, India) is an Indian-born American former actor, Haziz in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, known for the Budweiser "Whassup" spin-off and TV guest roles; convicted in 2010 of attempted murder, paroled in 2018.
Shelley Mann
Shelley Isabel Mann (1937–2005), American swimmer; overcame polio, won the first Olympic women's 100m butterfly gold (1:11.0, Melbourne 1956), silver in the 4x100m relay, and set butterfly and medley world records.
Shelley Mayer
Shelley Mayer is a Democratic New York State Senator representing the 37th district, chair of the Senate Education Committee, and since August 2026 chair of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito is an American politician serving as a Republican US senator from West Virginia since 2015, the first woman elected to the Senate from the state.
Shelley Morrison
Shelley Morrison (Rachel Mitrani, 1936–2019), American character actress; played Sister Sixto on The Flying Nun and maid Rosario Salazar on Will & Grace (1999–2006), 68 episodes.
Shelley Plimpton
Shelley Plimpton (born 1947, Rosebury, Oregon) is an American actress who created Crissy in Hair Off-Broadway 1967 and on Broadway 1968, singing "Frank Mills"; mother of Martha Plimpton with Keith Carradine.
Shelley v. Kraemer
Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948), also styled with companion case McGhee v. Sipes: Supreme Court decision holding state courts cannot enforce racially restrictive real estate covenants because judicial enforcement is state action violating the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters, born Shirley Schrift, was an American actress with a six-decade career who won two Academy Awards, for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue.
Shellfish
Shellfish: culinary term for edible aquatic invertebrates, crustaceans (shrimp, crab, lobster) and mollusks (clams, oysters, mussels). Covers US allergen law, FDA trade definitions, bivalve aquaculture over 15 million tonnes yearly, and paralytic shellfish poisoning.
Shelli Yoder
Shelli Yoder is an American Democratic politician representing Indiana Senate District 40, first elected in 2020, who became Indiana Senate Minority Leader in December 2024.
Shellshock (software bug)
Shellshock, also called the Bash bug or Bashdoor, is a family of critical security vulnerabilities in the GNU Bash Unix shell first disclosed in September 2014.
Shellsort
Shellsort is an in-place comparison sorting algorithm that improves on insertion sort by sorting elements a shrinking gap apart, published by Donald Shell in 1959.
Shelly Bernstein
Shelly C. Bernstein is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist and 1984 MacArthur Fellow, recognized at age 33 for cancer genetics research, who has practiced community pediatrics in Weston, Massachusetts since 1990.
Shelly Crawford
Shelly Crawford, full name Michelee Cruz-Crawford, is a Democratic member of the Nevada Senate from District 1, first elected in 2024 after serving as a Nevada higher-education regent.
Shelly D. Dick
Shelly D. Dick, also known as Shelly Deckert Dick, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Louisiana since 2013, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Shelly Desai
Shelly Desai (born Shailesh H. Desai), Indian-American character actor (1935–2026), Bombay-born; played landlord Hwang on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Carlos on Men of a Certain Age, with Broadway roots and 93 screen credits.
Shelly Hettleman
Shelly Hettleman is an American Democratic politician who represents District 11 in the Maryland State Senate, appointed in 2020 after serving in the House of Delegates.
Shelly L. Gable
Shelly Lyne Gable Nayak, known as Shelly L. Gable, is an American social psychologist at UC Santa Barbara known for research on motivation in close relationships.
Shelly Lares
Shelly Lares, born Michelle Lares, is an American Tejano singer, songwriter, and producer from San Antonio, Texas, known as "Little Miss Dynamite," with 25 albums and multiple Tejano Music Awards.
Shelly Martinez
Shelly Leonor Martinez (born 1980, Chino, California) is a Mexican-American model, actress, and retired wrestler and valet, known as Ariel in WWE's ECW revival (valet to Kevin Thorn) and as Salinas, LAX valet in TNA.
Shelly Miscavige
Shelly Miscavige, born Michele Barnett, is the wife of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, whom she married in 1982, and once served as his personal assistant in the Sea Organization.
Shelly P. Dev
Shelly P. Dev, also known as Shelly Dev, is a Canadian critical care physician and medical educator who has been a staff intensivist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto since 2006.
Shelly Short
Shelly Short is an American Republican politician who represents Washington's 7th Legislative District in the State Senate, after first being elected to the Washington House of Representatives in 2008.
Shelly Stokes
Shelly Stokes (Shelly B. Stokes, born 1967) is an American softball catcher, 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold medalist, 1998 ISF World Champion, and two-time Pan American Games gold medalist; Fresno State graduate, not the Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (born 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter, the most decorated 100m runner in history: five world 100m titles, three Olympic golds, 10.60 personal best, career ended Tokyo 2025.
Shelob
Shelob, also called Torech Ungol's spider, is the giant spider-like monster in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, last child of Ungoliant, who guards Cirith Ungol, stings Frodo, and is wounded by Sam with Sting and the Phial of Galadriel.