# Sheldon (name)

Sheldon is an English masculine given name, as well as a surname, combining the Old English scelf (rock ledge shelf) and the place name haddon, which in turn comes from the words hǣth (heath) and dūn (hill; but also, valley). Notable people with the name include:

## Given name

* Sheldon Adelson (1933–2021), American billionaire businessman
* Sheldon Bach (1925–2021), American psychologist
* Shel Bachrach (1944–2024), American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist
* Shelley Berman (1925–2017), American comedian, born Sheldon
* Sheldon Blockburger (born 1964), American decathlete
* Sheldon Brookbank (born 1980), Canadian hockey player
* Sheldon Brooks (1811-1883), American businessman, physician, and politician
* Sheldon Brown (American football) (born 1979), American football player
* Sheldon Brown (artist) (born 1962), American artist and professor of computer art
* Sheldon Brown (bicycle mechanic) (1944–2008), American bicycle mechanic, writer, and webmaster
* Sheldon Burnside (born 1954), American baseball player
* Sheldon Canley (born 1968), American football player
* Sheldon Clare, Canadian politician
* Sheldon S. Cohen (1927–2018), American lawyer
* Sheldon Creed (born 1997), American racing driver
* Sheldon Day (born 1994), American football player
* Sheldon Drobny (1945–2020), American investor
* Sheldon V. Ekman (1920–1982), United States Tax Court judge
* Sheldon Gaines (born 1964), American football player
* Sheldon Glashow (born 1932), American 1979 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
* Sheldon Harnick (1924–2023), American lyricist
* Sheldon Lejeune (1885–1962), American baseball player
* Sheldon Jackson (1834–1909), American missionary
* Sheldon Jackson (American football) (born 1976), American football player
* Sheldon Jackson (cricketer) (born 1986), Indian cricketer
* Sheldon Jones (1922–1991), American baseball player
* Sheldon Kennedy (born 1969), Canadian hockey player
* Sheldon Lavin (1932–2023), American billionaire and owner, CEO and chairman of OSI Group
* Sheldon Leonard (1907–1997), American actor
* Sheldon Mallory (born 1953), American baseball player
* Sheldon Neuse (born 1994), American baseball player
* Sheldon Price (born 1991), American football player
* Sheldon Rankins (born 1994), American football player
* Sheldon Richardson (born 1990), American football player
* Sheldon Silver (1944-2022), United States politician
* Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), American poet, songwriter, cartoonist, and children's book author
* Sheldon Souray (born 1976), Canadian hockey player
* Sheldon van der Linde (born 1999), South African racing driver
* Sheldon White (born 1965), American football player and executive
* Sheldon Whitehouse (born 1955), Democratic United States Senator from Rhode Island

## Surname

* Alexander Sheldon (1766–1832), Speaker of the New York State Assembly
* A J Sheldon (1874-1931), music critic
* Benjamin R. Sheldon (1811–1897), American jurist
* Bob Sheldon (born 1950), American baseball player
* Brady Sheldon (born 1993), American football player
* Brooke E. Sheldon (1931–2013), American librarian
* C. Hunter Sheldon (1907–2003), American physician and advocate of the seat belt
* Charles Sheldon (1857–1946), American Congregationalist minister
* Charles H. Sheldon (1840–1898), American politician
* Chris Sheldon (born 1962), record producer
* David Sheldon (disambiguation), various people
* Dominic Sheldon, Anglo-Irish soldier
* Donald Sheldon (1921–1975), Alaskan bush pilot
* Edward Sheldon (1886–1946), American dramatist
* 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) (1908–1982), American pantomime actor
* George Sheldon (preservationist) (1818–1916), American historian, judge, and politician
* George L. Sheldon (1870–1960), 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 (1874–1948), American educator
* Ingrid Sheldon (born 1945), American politician
* Jack Sheldon (1931–2019), American jazz trumpeter
* James M. Sheldon, (1880–1965), American football player
* Jane Sheldon, Australian soprano
* Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon (1852–1938), American entomologist, educator, and museum curator
* Joseph Harold Sheldon (1893–1972), English physician and gerontologist
* Lee Sheldon (writer), game developer and writer
* Lewis Sheldon (1874–1960), American triple jumper
* Lilian Sheldon (1862–1942), English zoologist
* Lionel Allen Sheldon (1828–1917), American Civil War general, politician, lawyer
* Louis P. Sheldon (1934–2020), American Presbyterian pastor and activist
* Lurana W. Sheldon (1862–1945), American writer, editor, suffragist
* Mark Sheldon, American philosopher
* Matthew Sheldon (born 1992), American soccer player
* Mike Sheldon (born 1973), American football player
* Oliver Sheldon (1894–1951), British businessman
* Robert Sheldon, Baron Sheldon (1923–2020), British politician
* Roland Sheldon (born 1936), American baseball player
* Sam Sheldon (born 1989), Australian footballer
* Scott Sheldon (born 1968), American baseball player
* Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007), American screenwriter and novelist
* Stagger Lee Sheldon (1865–1912), American murderer
* Steve Sheldon, American politician
* 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 and the prequel series Young Sheldon
* Sheldon Lee, a fictional character in My Life as a Teenage Robot
* Sheldon J. 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 Finding Nemo franchise
* 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
* Sheldon Wallace, a fictional character from Private Practice
* Sheldon, a fictional squirrel from the game Animal Crossing
* Sheldon, a character in the animated series Carl the Collector

## Animals

* Sheldon, a chimpanzee featured in several books and documentaries