Sheila



Gender:
Origin: Latin
402 famous people named Sheila found on Wikipedia.
238012 female, 648 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 2028-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 50-th in year 1965
Used in: English, Irish

Meanings

A female given name, form of Celia.


Sheila (alternatively spelled Shelagh and Sheelagh) is a common feminine given name, derived from the Irish name Síle, which is believed to be a Gaelic form of Cecilia. Like "Cecil" or "Cecilia", the name means "blind", from the Latin word caecus.
It is also encountered as an alternative spelling of the unrelated Indian feminine name Sheela, which is of Sanskrit origin.


Fem. proper name, Irish equivalent of Celia, shortened form of Cecilia, the fem. form of Cecil. A standard type of an Irish women's name since 1828; slang for "girlfriend, young woman" dates from 1839.


Anglicized form of sile: blind.

Famous People: 402 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Sheila E. 1957 American singer and percussionist
2 Sheila Hancock 1933 British actress
3 Sheila Ferguson 1947 American soul singer
4 Sheila Dikshit 1938 Chief Minister of Delhi
5 Sheila Vand 1985 American artist
6 Sheila Gish 1942 British actress
7 Sheila Dara Aisha 1992 Indonesian singer
8 Sheila Jackson Lee 1950 American politician
9 Sheila Abdus-Salaam 1952 American judge
10 Sheila MacRae 1924 Actress, singer, dancer
11 Sheila Johnson 1949 American businesswoman
12 Sheila Fearn 1940 British actress
13 Sheila Carter
14 Sheila Dixon 1953 American mayor
15 Sheila Kuehl 1941 American actor and politician
16 Sheila Nevins 1939 Television producer
17 Sheila Steafel 1935 South African-born actress
18 Sheila Chandra 1965 English pop singer and actress
19 Sheila McCarthy 1956 Actress
20 Sheila Mercier 1919 British actress
21 Sheila LaBarre 1958 American woman convicted of murder in New Hampshire
22 Sheila Bair 1954 Chairman of the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
23 Sheila Florance 1916 Australian actress
24 Sheila Chisholm 1895 Australian socialite (1895-1969)
25 Sheila Tousey 1960 American actress
26 Sheila Jeffreys 1948 Australian feminist
27 Sheila Copps 1952 Canadian politician
28 Sheila Larken 1944 American television actress
29 Sheila Majid 1965 Malaysian musician
30 Sheila Vogel-Coupe 1928 Prostitute
31 Sheila Canning
32 Sheila Sim 1984
33 Sheila Frazier 1948 Actress and producer
34 Sheila Sri Prakash 1955 Indian architect
35 Sheila Rusly 1971
36 Sheila Stone 1977 Italian pornographic actress
37 Sheila Grant
38 Sheila Widnall 1938 American aerospace researcher and educator
39 Sheila Fitzpatrick 1941 American historian
40 Sheila Raye Charles 1963 American musician
41 Sheila Ramani 1932 Actress
42 Sheila Callaghan 1973 American writer
43 Sheila Miyoshi Jager
44 Sheila Gaff 1989 Mixed martial artist
45 Sheila Ruskin 1946 British actress
46 Sheila Taormina 1969 American swimmer, triathlete, pentathlete, Olympic gold medalist
47 Sheila Nicholls 1970 British musician
48 Sheila O'Connor 1966 French actress
49 Sheila Simon 1961 American politician and educator
50 Sheila Cassidy 1937 English medical doctor, writer and activist
51 Sheila Heti 1976 Canadian writer
52 Sheila Dorfman 1956 Brazilian actress
53 Sheila Jordan 1928 American jazz singer
54 Sheila Ryan 1952 American actress (1952–2012)
55 Sheila Manahan 1924 Irish actress
56 Sheila Lirio Marcelo 1970
57 Sheila Balakrishnan Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist
58 Sheila Allen 1932 British actress
59 Sheila Watt-Cloutier 1953 Canadian environmentalist
60 Sheila Hicks 1934 American artist
61 Sheila Martin 1943 Wife of Canadian Prime Minister
62 Sheila Kaul 1915 Indian politician
63 Sheila Rowbotham 1943 British feminist
64 Sheila Varian 1940 Breeder of Arabian horses
65 Sheila Raynor 1906 British actress
66 Sheila Sitalsing 1968 Dutch journalist
67 Sheila Frahm 1945 American politician
68 Sheila Burnford 1918 British-Canadian writer
69 Sheila Singh Paul 1916 Indian paediatrician
70 Sheila Keith 1920 British actress
71 Sheila Bleck 1974 American bodybuilder
72 Sheila Levrant de Bretteville 1940 Graphic designer, artist and educator
73 Sheila Timothy 1971
74 Sheila Jasanoff 1944 American social scientist
75 Sheila Scott 1922 British aviator
76 Sheila Wellstone 1944 American politician
77 Sheila Bromley 1907 Actress
78 Sheila Burrell 1922 English actress
79 Sheila Coronel Filipino writer
80 Sheila Kennelly 1927 Australian actress
81 Sheila Kelley British actress
82 Sheila Sherlock 1918 Anglo-Irish physician, hepatologist and educator
83 Sheila Kitzinger 1929 British activist
84 Sheila Butt 1951 American politician
85 Sheila Fraser 1950 Canadian civil servant
86 Sheila Young 1950 American speed skater and racing cyclist
87 Sheila van Damm 1922 British rally driver
88 Sheila MacVicar Correspondent for Al Jazeera America
89 Sheila Darcy 1914 Actress
90 Sheila Chipperfield 1975 Musician
91 Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins 1946 Professor of the psychiatry
92 Sheila Kaye-Smith 1887 British writer
93 Sheila Lukins 1942 American chef
94 Sheila Silva e Souza 1944
95 Sheila Fell 1931 20th century British landscape painter
96 Sheila Gilmore 1949 British politician
97 Sheila Y. Oliver 1952 Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
98 Sheila Stewart 1937 Scottish folklorist
99 Sheila González Spanish disc jockey and television presenter
100 Sheila Dillon British radio presenter
101 Sheila Tohir 1990
102 Sheila Nirenberg American neuroscientist
103 Sheila Bond 1928 American actress, singer
104 Sheila Reid 1989 Canadian distance runner
105 Sheila Kohler 1941
106 Sheila Chan 1969 Hong Kong actor
107 Sheila Ocasio 1982 Puerto Rican volleyball player
108 Sheila Guyse 1925 African-American singer, actress, and recording artist
109 Sheila Andrews 1953 American country music singer
110 Sheila Hodgers 1956 Irish housewife
111 Sheila Tracy 1934 British singer, musician, broadcaster, trombonist, journalist and writer
112 Sheila Greibach 1939 American computer scientist
113 Sheila O'Flanagan Irish writer and journalist
114 Sheila Noakes, Baroness Noakes 1949 British businessperson, accountant
115 Sheila Black American Poet
116 Sheila Finestone 1927 Canadian politician
117 Sheila Benson Journalist, film critic
118 Sheila Williams 1956 Science fiction editor
119 Sheila Echols 1964 Athletics competitor
120 Sheila Márquez 1985 Spanish model
121 Mary Sheyla 1979 Brazilian actress
122 Sheila Dhar 1929 Indian singer
123 Sheila Watson 1953 Archdeacon of Canterbury; Archdeacon of Buckingham
124 Sheila K. McCullagh 1920 English children's writer
125 Sheila Malcolmson 1966 Canadian politician
126 Sheila Michaels 1939 American feminist
127 Sheila Sherwood 1945 English long jumper
128 Sheila Connolly 1950 American writer
129 Sheila Scotter 1920 Australian fashion businesswoman
130 Sheila Quigley 1947 British writer
131 Sheila NaGeira Irish princess
132 Sheila Willcox 1937 Equestrian
133 Sheila Humphreys 1899 Irish activist
134 Sheila Mello 1978 Brazilian dancer, actress and model
135 Sheila Kay Adams 1953 American storyteller, author, musician
136 Sheila Dunn 1940 British actress
137 Sheila Rogers American record producer
138 Sheila Mary Tuer British educationalist
139 Sheila Cockrel 1947 American politician
140 Sheila Armstrong 1942 English opera singer
141 Sheila Fischman 1937 Canadian translator
142 Sheila Gwaltney
143 Sheila Nix American political strategist
144 Sheila Hudson 1967 American triple jumper
145 Sheila Hylton 1956 Jamaican musician
146 Sheila Harsdorf 1956 American politician
147 Sheila Cussons 1922 South African poet
148 Sheila Bridges Interior Designer
149 Sheila Nelson 1936 Violinist and composer
150 Sheila Quinn 1920 British nursing administrator
151 Sheila de Vries 1949 Dutch fashion designer
152 Sheila Birtles
153 Sheila White Canadian politician
154 Sheila Klinker 1938 American politician
155 Sheila Bilyeu 1944
156 Sheila Murphy 1951 American writer
157 Sheila Walsh 1928 British novelist (1928-2009)
158 Sheila Finch 1935 American writer
159 Sheila Hocken British dog trainer and autobiographer
160 Sheila Krumholz
161 Sheila Laxon Australian horse trainer
162 Sheila Tlou Botswana poltiican
163 Sheila Camerer 1941 South African politician
164 Sheila Piercey Summers 1919 South African tennis player
165 Sheila Browning 1918
166 Sheila Lambert 1980 American basketball player
167 Sheila Faith 1928 British politician
168 Sheila Gama 1954
169 Sheila McKechnie 1948 British trade unionist
170 Sheila Horne American musician
171 Sheila E. Hixson 1933 American politician
172 Sheila Waters 1929 English calligrapher
173 Sheila McLean 1951 British legal scholar
174 Sheila Bird 1952 British statistician
175 Sheila Roberts American writer
176 Sheila Scott Macintyre 1910 Mathematician
177 Sheila McClean Irish artist
178 Sheila Hamanaka American writer and artist
179 Sheila Bhatia 1916 Indian poet, playwright
180 Sheila Graber 1940 British academic
181 Sheila Cameron
182 Sheila Pepe 1959 American artist and educator
183 Sheila Harrington American politician
184 Sheila Brown Napaljarri 1940 Australian artist
185 Sheila Gordon 1927 American writer
186 Sheila Blumstein 1944 American academic administrator
187 Sheila Forbes 1946 British businessman
188 Sheila Cavanagh Associate Professor at York University
189 Sheila Jones American politician
190 Sheila Leslie 1955 American politician
191 Sheila McClennon 1960
192 Sheila Legge 1911 English artist
193 Sheila Parker 1947 Footballer
194 Sheila Silver 1946 American musician
195 Sheila McNamee American academic
196 Sheila Bender 1948 American writer
197 Sheila McLaughlin 1950 American actress
198 Sheila Girling 1924
199 Sheila O'Donnell 1953 Irish architect
200 Sheila Mullen 1942 British artist