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Shirley Knight
Shirley Knight (Shirley Enola Knight, 1936-2020), American actress from Goessel, Kansas; two Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations, three Emmys from eight nominations, 1976 Tony, 1996 Golden Globe for Indictment: The McMartin Trial.
Shirley M. Tilghman
Shirley M. Tilghman, born 1946 in Toronto, is a Canadian molecular biologist known for genomic imprinting research and as Princeton's 19th president, the first woman to hold the office.
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (Shirley MacLean Beaty, born April 24, 1934, Richmond, Virginia) is an American actress, dancer, and author, sister of Warren Beatty, Oscar winner for Terms of Endearment and New Age writer.
Shirley Manson
Shirley Manson (born 1966, Edinburgh) is the Scottish lead singer of alternative rock band Garbage, joined in 1994 after MTV aired her Angelfish video; albums Garbage and Version 2.0, Bond theme The World Is Not Enough.
Shirley Meng
Y. Shirley Meng, born Ying Shirley Meng, is a battery materials scientist who is the Liew Family Professor at the University of Chicago and studies battery interfaces.
Shirley Muldowney
Shirley Muldowney, "First Lady of Drag Racing" and "Cha Cha," American Top Fuel drag racer; first woman licensed in NHRA Top Fuel (1973), first female Pro winner (1976), and first driver to win three Top Fuel championships (1977, 1980, 1982).
Shirley Phelps-Roper
Shirley Phelps-Roper, Westboro Baptist Church spokesperson, daughter of founder Fred Phelps, defendant in Snyder v. Phelps, mother of defectors Megan and Grace, banned from the UK.
Shirley Robertson
Shirley Robertson (Shirley Ann Robertson-Boag), Scottish sailor born 1968 in Dundee, two-time Olympic gold medallist (Europe, Sydney 2000; Yngling, Athens 2004), first British woman with consecutive Olympic golds, later CNN and BBC sailing broadcaster.
Shirley Setia
Shirley Setia (born 1993, Daman, India) is an Indo-Kiwi singer-actress from Auckland whose 2013 Tum Hi Ho T-Series contest win launched a YouTube career, then films Maska, Nikamma, and Krishna Vrinda Vihari.
Shirley Stelfox
Shirley Stelfox (1941–2015), English character actress, played Edna Birch in ITV's Emmerdale for 15 years from 2000 and was the original Rose in Keeping Up Appearances; RADA-trained, also in 1984 and Personal Services.
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty (1925-2004), Australian sprinter-hurdler, won seven Olympic medals including 80m hurdles gold in 1952 and 1956 and 4x100m relay gold, setting five individual world records.
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple (Shirley Temple Black, 1928–2014), American child star and diplomat; top US box-office draw 1935–1938, Juvenile Oscar 1935, later US ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.
Shirley Temple filmography
Shirley Temple filmography: screen credits of the American child star (born 1928), from Baby Burlesks shorts and 1930s Fox hits like Bright Eyes, Curly Top, and Heidi to 1940s teen roles and Shirley Temple's Storybook TV series.
Shirley Turner
Shirley K. Turner is an American Democratic politician who serves as president pro tempore of the New Jersey Senate, elected in 1997 after serving in the General Assembly.
Shirley Valentine (film)
Shirley Valentine (1989) is a Lewis Gilbert romantic comedy for Paramount, written by Willy Russell from his one-woman play, starring Pauline Collins as a Liverpool housewife rediscovering life in Greece; Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning.
Shirley Verrett
Shirley Verrett (1931-2010), American mezzo-soprano turned dramatic soprano, Met star of Carmen and Les Troyens, sang both Cassandra and Dido in 1973.
Shirley Wang
Shirley Wang is an American businesswoman who founded the fiberglass entry door maker Plastpro in 1994 and leads it as chief executive officer from Los Angeles.
Shirley Williams
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (1930–2021), British Labour Cabinet minister and SDP co-founder with the Gang of Four; won the Crosby by-election 1981 and led the Liberal Democrats in the Lords 2001–2004.
Shirley-Anne Somerville
Shirley-Anne Somerville is a Scottish National Party politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Housing since May 2026 and as MSP for Dunfermline since 2016.
Shirley-My Darling
Shirley-My Darling (Ширли-мырли) is Vladimir Menshov's 1995 Mosfilm comedy-farce about con man Vasily Krolikov, his unknown twin brothers, and the stolen giant diamond "Savior of Russia", starring Valery Garkalin and Vera Alentova.
Shirlie Holliman
Shirlie Holliman (born 1962, Watford), later Shirlie Kemp, was a Wham! backing singer and dancer, then half of Pepsi & Shirlie whose "Heartache" hit UK No. 2 in 1987; married Martin Kemp since 1988.
Shiro Hashizume
Shiro Hashizume (橋爪四郎, 1928–2023), Japanese freestyle swimmer; 1,500 m silver at Helsinki 1952 behind Ford Konno; set 800 m and 1,500 m freestyle world records in 1949; ISHOF Honor Swimmer 1992.
Shiro Ikegawa
Shiro Ikegawa (池川 志郎) is a Japanese medical geneticist and orthopedic surgeon who led RIKEN's Laboratory for Bone and Joint Diseases in Tokyo for over two decades.
Shirō Ishii (石井四郎)
Shirō Ishii (石井四郎), 1892–1959, Japanese army physician who commanded Unit 731's human-experimentation and biological-warfare program; granted US immunity in exchange for experiment data, never prosecuted.
Shiro Kobayashi
Shiro Kobayashi was a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for applying computational mechanics to metal forming and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Shiro Matsuoka
Shiro Matsuoka is a polymer physicist and materials scientist affiliated with AT&T, known for Relaxation Phenomena in Polymers (1992) and work on viscoelasticity of polymeric glasses.
Shirobako (シロバコ)
Shirobako (シロバコ) is a 24-episode original 2014–2015 TV anime by P.A. Works, directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, about five young women in anime production, named for the white box of finished-episode tapes; a film sequel opened February 2020.
Shirogane Noel
Shirogane Noel (白銀ノエル) is a Japanese VTuber with the agency Hololive who debuted in August 2019 as part of its third generation, playing an easygoing, muscle-obsessed knight known as Danchou.
Shiroi Koibito (白い恋人)
Shiroi Koibito (白い恋人, "white lover") is a white chocolate langue de chat sandwich cookie made by Ishiya Seika in Sapporo since December 1976; Hokkaido's iconic souvenir, with a Black milk-chocolate version, Shiroi Koibito Park factory theme park, and a 2007 expiration-date scandal.
Shiromani Akali Dal (Punar Surjit)
Shiromani Akali Dal (Punar Surjit), a breakaway Sikh party formed August 11, 2025 from the SAD Sudhar Lehar reform movement, led by former Akal Takht jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh; claims to be the real SAD, seeks the scales symbol, allied with Waris Punjab De.