Shirley (name)
Shirley is a given name and a surname.
Given name
- Shirley Abicair, Australian singer, musician, actress, and author
- Shirley Abrahamson, American judge
- Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer
- Shirley Ballas, English dancer
- Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
- Shirley Booth, American stage, film, radio, and television actress
- Shirley D. Bowler, American writer and editor
- Shirley Chisholm, first African-American woman elected to Congress
- Shirley Clamp, Swedish singer
- Shirley Crabtree, English wrestler
- Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
- Shirley Jones, American singer and stage, film, and television actress
- Shirley Knight, American stage, film, and television actress
- Shirley Kocaçınar, Turkish-Dutch women's footballer
- Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong singer
- Shirley MacLaine, American actress
- Shirley Manson, Scottish singer, lead vocalist of the rock band Garbage
- Shirley Muldowney, first woman to receive a licence to drive a top fuel dragster by the NHRA
- Shirley Povich, American sports columnist
- Shirley Scott, American hard bop and soul-jazz organist
- Shirley Sherrod, United States Department of Agriculture employee
- Shirley Temple, American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat
- Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, English politician
- Shirley Yeung, Hong Kong actress
- Shirley Zwerus or Shirley (Dutch singer) (born 1946), Dutch singer and pianist
- Shirley (Danish singer), Danish singer
Surname
| Shirley | |
|---|---|
| Family name | |
| Meaning | habitational name for one who lived in one of the parishes called Shirley in the counties of Derbyshire, Surrey, Hampshire and the West Midlands. |
| Region of origin | England |
Shirley is a rather uncommon surname, with pockets of Shirleys living in Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Canada, New Zealand, and parts of Great Britain. A work on the genealogy of the various branches of the Shirley family was published as Stemmata Shirleiana by E. P. Shirley in 1841.
The present generation of the Shirley family is only the most recent to bear a name that dates back to the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. Their name comes from having lived in the parish of Shirley found in the counties of Derbyshire, Surrey, Hampshire and the West Midlands.
Shirley is the surname of the title character in Anne of Green Gables, a 1908 novel by Lucy Maude Montgomery about an orphan girl in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.
- Bob Shirley, American baseball player
- Don Shirley, American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer
- Drew Shirley, guitarist
- James Shirley (or Sherley) (1596–1666), English dramatist
- Jerry Shirley, English drummer
- Kevin Shirley, South African music producer
- Paul Shirley, American basketball player and writer
- Simon Shirley, Australian decathlete
- Stephanie Steve Shirley, UK businesswoman
- William Shirley (1694–1771), British colonial governor of Massachusetts
In fiction
- Shirley Brahms, the Cockney shop assistant in Are You Being Served?. Portrayed by Wendy Richard.
- Shirley the Loon, a fictional character in Tiny Toon Adventures
- Shirley, the surname of the title character in Anne of Green Gables
- Shirley Fenette, a character in the anime Code Geass
- Shirley Yeager from the anime Strike Witches
- Shirley, a fictional character in The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3
- Shirley, a hairdresser in the videogame MySims
- Shirley Fennes, a character in the videogame Tales of Legendia
- Shirley Feeney, titular character in Laverne & Shirley
- Shirley Partridge, the main character in The Partridge Family
- Shirley, one of the main characters of Shaun the Sheep
- Shirley Taylorson, one of the lead characters of the video game Acidic.
- Shirley Yang, a fictional character in Ghost Blows Out the Light.
See also
- Shirl, often a diminutive form of Shirley