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 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 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
 * 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

Animals

 * Sheldon, a chimpanzee featured in several books and documentaries