Sheldon (name)
Sheldon is an English surname, as well as a masculine given name, combining the Old English scelf and the place name haddon, which in turn comes from the words hǣth and dūn. Popular family history groups and notable people with the name include:
Sheldon surname genealogy groups
- offer free help tracing family trees
- American group offering free help with Sheldon ancestors
Given name
- Sheldon Adelson, American billionaire businessman
- Sheldon Arnold, American football player
- Sheldon Bach, American psychologist
- Shel Bachrach, American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist
- Shelley Berman, American comedian, born Sheldon
- Sheldon Blockburger, American decathlete
- Sheldon Brookbank, Canadian hockey player
- Sheldon Brooks, American businessman, physician, and politician
- Sheldon Brown (American football), American football player
- Sheldon Brown (artist), American artist and professor of computer art
- Sheldon Brown (bicycle mechanic), American bicycle mechanic, writer, and webmaster
- Sheldon Burnside, American baseball player
- Sheldon Canley, American football player
- Sheldon Clare, Canadian politician
- Sheldon S. Cohen, American lawyer
- Sheldon Creed, American racing driver
- Sheldon Day, American football player
- Sheldon Drobny, American investor
- Sheldon V. Ekman, United States Tax Court judge
- Sheldon Gaines, American football player
- Sheldon Glashow, American 1979 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Sheldon Harnick, American lyricist
- Sheldon Lejeune, American baseball player
- Sheldon Jackson, American missionary
- Sheldon Jackson (American football), American football player
- Sheldon Jackson (cricketer), Indian cricketer
- Sheldon Jones, American baseball player
- Sheldon Kennedy, Canadian hockey player
- Sheldon Lavin, American billionaire and owner, CEO and chairman of OSI Group
- Sheldon Leonard, American actor
- Sheldon Mallory, American baseball player
- Sheldon Neuse, American baseball player
- Sheldon Price, American football player
- Sheldon Rankins, American football player
- Sheldon Richardson, American football player
- Sheldon Silver, United States politician
- Shel Silverstein, American poet, songwriter, cartoonist, and children's book author
- Sheldon Souray, Canadian hockey player
- Sheldon van der Linde, South African racing driver
- Sheldon White, American football player and executive
- Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic United States Senator from Rhode Island
Surname
- Alexander Sheldon, Speaker of the New York State Assembly
- A J Sheldon, music critic
- Benjamin R. Sheldon, American jurist
- Bob Sheldon, American baseball player
- Brady Sheldon, American football player
- Brooke E. Sheldon, 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, Alaskan bush pilot
- Edward Sheldon, American dramatist
- Fred Sheldon (English footballer), English footballer for Stoke
- Fred Sheldon (Welsh footballer), Welsh footballer for Aberdare Athletic
- Frederick H. Sheldon, American ornithologist
- Gene Sheldon, American pantomime actor
- George Sheldon (preservationist), American historian, judge, and politician
- George L. Sheldon, American politician
- Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury and builder of the Sheldonian Theatre
- Grace Carew Sheldon, American journalist, author, editor, businesswoman
- Henry D. Sheldon, American educator
- Ingrid Sheldon, American politician
- Jack Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter
- Jacy Sheldon, American basketball player
- James M. Sheldon,, American football player
- Jane Sheldon, Australian soprano
- Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon, American entomologist, educator, and museum curator
- Joseph Harold Sheldon, English physician and gerontologist
- Lee Sheldon (writer), game developer and writer
- Lewis Sheldon, American triple jumper
- Lilian Sheldon, English zoologist
- Lionel Allen Sheldon, American Civil War general, politician, lawyer
- Louis P. Sheldon, American Presbyterian pastor and activist
- Lurana W. Sheldon, American writer, editor, suffragist
- Matthew Sheldon, American soccer player
- Mike Sheldon, American football player
- Oliver Sheldon, British businessman
- Robert Sheldon, Baron Sheldon, British politician
- Roland Sheldon, American baseball player
- Sam Sheldon, Australian footballer
- Scott Sheldon, American baseball player
- Sidney Sheldon, American screenwriter and novelist
- Stagger Lee Sheldon, American murderer
- Steve Sheldon, American politician
- Wilfrid Percy Henry Sheldon,, English consulting physician
- William Herbert Sheldon,, American psychologist
- William Wallace Barbour Sheldon, American architect
- Wilmon Henry Sheldon, 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
- Tom Sheldon, a supporting character from the video game series Just Cause
- 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