Shirley (name) - Given Name

Given Name

Before the publication of the novel Shirley by Charlotte Brontë in 1849 Shirley was an uncommon, but distinctly male name and would have been a very unusual name for a woman. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name and an uncommon male name.

The use of Shirley as a popular given name in the 1950s was emphasized through the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley, which came out in the 1970s.

• Shirley (novel), by Charlotte Brontë (1849)
• Shirley Abicair, entertainer and writer
• Shirley Abrahamson, judge
• Shirley Babashoff, swimmer
• Shirley Ballas, dancer
• Shirley Bassey, singer
• Shirley D. Bowler, Louisiana Republican
• Shirley Crabtree, British wrestler ("Big Daddy")
• Shirley Clamp, Swedish pop singer
• Shirley Hibberd, Victorian gardener, editor and author
• Shirley Jones, actress
• Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong cantopop
• Shirley MacLaine, actress
• Shirley Manson, Scottish singer, lead vocalist of the band Garbage
• Shirley Muldowney, first woman to receive a licence to drive a top fuel dragster by the NHRA
• Shirley Povich, sportswriter
• Shirley Sherrod, a United States Department of Agriculture employee who was wrongfully fired in 2010 due to a speech she made that was allegedly distorted by a conservative website
• Graeme Strachan ("Shirley" Strachan), lead singer of 1970s Australian rock band Skyhooks
• Shirley Temple, child actress
• Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, British politician
• Shirley Yeung, 2001 Miss Hong Kong, TVB actress

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