Sheldon (name)
Sheldon is both a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Sheldon Adelson, American billionaire businessman
- Shel Bachrach, American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist
- Shelley Berman (1925–2017), comedian, born Sheldon
- Sheldon Blockburger (born 1964), American decathlete
- Sheldon Brown (artist) (born 1962), artist and professor of computer art
- Sheldon Brown (football player) (born 1979), professional American football player
- Sheldon Brown (bicycle mechanic) (1944–2008), bicycle mechanic, writer, and webmaster
- Sheldon S. Cohen (1927-2018), American lawyer
- Sheldon Drobny, investor
- Sheldon Glashow, 1979 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Sheldon Jackson, 19th century missionary
- Sheldon Jackson (cricketer), Gujarati cricketer
- Sheldon Leonard, actor
- Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the New York State Assembly
- Shel Silverstein, American poet, songwriter, cartoonist, and children's book author
- Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic United States Senator from Rhode Island (2007–)
- Sheldon Brookbank, hockey player
- Sheldon Kennedy, hockey player
- Sheldon Souray, hockey player
Surname
- Alexander Sheldon (1766–1832), Speaker of the New York State Assembly
- Benjamin R. Sheldon (1811–1897), American jurist
- Brooke E. Sheldon (1931–2013), American librarian
- Charles Sheldon, American Congregationalist minister
- Charles H. Sheldon, American politician
- Chris Sheldon, record producer
- David Sheldon (disambiguation), various people
- Dominic Sheldon, Anglo-Irish soldier
- Donald Sheldon (1921–1975), Alaskan bush pilot
- Edward Sheldon, American dramatist
- Fred Sheldon (disambiguation), various people
- Fred Sheldon (English footballer) (1871–?), English footballer for Stoke
- Fred Sheldon (Welsh footballer), Welsh footballer for Aberdare Athletic
- Frederick H. Sheldon (born 1951), American ornithologist.
- Gene Sheldon (Eugene Hume), American pantomime actor
- George Sheldon (preservationist), American historian, judge, and politician
- George L. Sheldon, American politician
- Gilbert Sheldon (1598–1677), Archbishop of Canterbury and builder of the Sheldonian Theatre
- Grace Carew Sheldon (1855–1921), American journalist, author, editor, businesswoman
- Henry D. Sheldon, American educator
- Ingrid Sheldon, American politician
- Jack Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter
- James M. Sheldon, (1880–1965), American football player
- Jane Sheldon, Australian soprano
- Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon (1852–1838), American entomologist, educator, and museum curator
- Lee Sheldon (writer), game developer and writer
- Lewis Sheldon, American triple jumper
- Lilian Sheldon, English zoologist
- Louis P. Sheldon (born 1934), American Presbyterian pastor and activist
- Lurana W. Sheldon (1862–1945), American writer, editor, suffragist
- Oliver Sheldon, British businessman
- Roland Sheldon, American baseball player
- Sam Sheldon, Australian rules footballer
- Scott Sheldon, American baseball player
- Sidney Sheldon, American screenwriter and novelist
- Stagger Lee Sheldon, American murderer
- Wilfrid Percy Henry Sheldon, (1901–1983), English consulting physician
- William Herbert Sheldon, (1899–1977), American psychologist
- William Wallace Barbour Sheldon (1836–1915), American architect
- Wilmon Henry Sheldon (1875–1981), American philosopher
Fictional characters
- Paul Sheldon, fictional character from the novel Misery
- Sheldon Cooper, fictional character from the television series The Big Bang Theory
- Sheldon Lee, a fictional character in My Life as a Teenage Robot
- Sheldon Plankton, a character in the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sheldon Mopes, protagonist of the 2002 film Death to Smoochy
- Sheldon (webcomic), a daily webcomic
- Sheldon, a seahorse in the animated movie Finding Nemo
- Sheldon Hawkes, detective/doctor in CSI: NY
- Sheldon, a chick in the comic strip U.S. Acres
- Sheldon, a magical genie in the television series Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
- Sheldon, a fictional character from the game Splatoon
- Sheldon, butler at Stourton, Charles Rainier's country house in Random Harvest by James Hilton
- Shelldon, snail in the animated series of the same title
- Sheldon Dinkleberg, a fictional character from The Fairly OddParents
Animals
- Sheldon, a chimpanzee featured in several books and documentaries
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