Shirley


Gender:
Origin: English, Hebrew
489 famous people named Shirley found on Wikipedia.
685366 female, 9551 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 1464-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 2nd in year 1936
Used in: English

Meanings

A male or female given name: a family name taken from an Old English placename.

Shirley is a given name and a surname. Transferred use for the surname originating from the English place-name Shirley, which is derived from the Old English elements scire (shire) or scīr (bright, clear) and lēah (wood, clearing, meadow, enclosure). The name makes reference to the open space where the moot (an early English assembly of freeman which met to administer justice and discuss community issues) was held. Shirley was originally a male name, but its use in Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley (1849) established it as a female name. The name is also common in Hebrew, in which it means "song unto me" or "I have a song".

Bright grassland. Combine of scire (shire, bright, clear) and leah (wood, clearing, meadow, enclosure). A song for me. Combine of shir (song, poem) and li (me).

Famous People: 489 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Shirley Temple 1928 American film and television actress
2 Shirley MacLaine 1934 American actress
3 Shirley Bassey 1937 Welsh singer
4 Shirley Henderson 1965 British actress
5 Shirley Chisholm 1924 American politician
6 Shirley Manson 1966 Scottish singer and artist
7 Shirley Setia 1995
8 Shirley Stelfox 1941 British actress
9 Shirley Douglas 1934 Television and film actress from Canada
10 Shirley Booth 1898 Actress
11 Shirley Jackson 1916 Novelist, short story writer
12 Shirley Phelps-Roper 1957 American lawyer and political activist
13 Shirley Ardell Mason 1923 American artist
14 Shirley Eaton 1937 English actress
15 Shirley Williams 1930 British politician
16 Shirley Knight 1936 Actress
17 Shirley Caesar 1938 American gospel singer, evangelist
18 Shirley Crabtree 1930 English professional wrestler
19 Shirley Hemphill 1947 Actress, comedienne
20 Anne Shirley 1918 American actress
21 Shirley Carter
22 Shirley Bousquet 1976 French actress
23 Shirley Ann Jackson 1946 American physicist, eighteenth president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
24 Shirley Anne Field 1938 English actress
25 Shirley Ballas 1960 British ballroom dancer
26 Shirley Muldowney 1940 American Drag Racing Driver
27 Steve Shirley 1933 British businesswoman and philanthropist
28 Shirley Collins 1935 British folk singer
29 Shirley Sherrod 1948 Civil rights activist
30 Shirley Bellinger
31 Shirley Souagnon 1986 French actress
32 Bill Shirley 1921 Singer
33 Kevin Shirley 1960 South African record producer
34 Shirley Carvalhaes 1954
35 Shirley M. Tilghman 1946 Canadian scholar and academic administrator
36 Shirley Hazzard 1931 Australian-Anglo-American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, non-fiction writer
37 Shirley Horn 1934 American singer
38 Shirley Murdock 1957 American musician
39 Shirley Mills 1926 Actress, dancer
40 Shirley Franklin 1945 American mayor
41 Shirley Owens 1941 American musician
42 Jerry Shirley 1952 British drummer
43 Shirley Hufstedler 1925 American politician
44 Shirley Porter 1930 British politician
45 Shirley Das
46 John Shirley 1953 American writer
47 Shirley Ellis 1929 American singer
48 Shirley Graham Du Bois 1896 American composer and writer
49 Shirley Babashoff 1957 American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
50 Shirley Povich 1905 American journalist
51 Shirley Yeung 1978 Hong Kong actor
52 Shirley Hughes 1927 English children's writer and illustrator
53 Shirley Walker 1945 American composer
54 Kellie Shirley 1983 British actress
55 Shirley Clarke 1919 American filmmaker
56 Shirley Stoler 1929 Actress
57 Shirley Brown 1947 American musician
58 Shirley Robertson 1968 Sailor
59 Shirley Conran 1932 British writer
60 Shirley Mitchell 1919 American actress
61 Anna Shirley 1970
62 Shirley Scott 1934 American organist
63 James Shirley 1596 English writer
64 Shirley Winters 1958 American serial killer
65 Drew Shirley 1974 American guitarist
66 Shirley Verrett 1931 American opera singer, educator and writer
67 Shirley Gómez 1978 Colombian model
68 Shirley Cheriton 1955 British actress
69 Shirley Kwan 1966 Hong Kong singer and actress
70 Shirley Dysart 1928 Canadian politician
71 Shirley Patterson 1922 Canadian actress
72 Shirley Strickland 1925 Australian hurdler and sprinter
73 Shirley Neil Pettis 1924 American politician
74 Paul Shirley 1977 American basketball player
75 Shirley Frimpong-Manso 1977 Ghanaian film director, writer and producer
76 Shirley Abicair 1930 Australian singer, actress, author
77 Shirley Goodman 1936 American singer
78 Shirley Ross 1913 American actress, singer
79 William Shirley 1694 British governor of Massachusetts and then of the Bahamas
80 Shirley Bonne 1934 Actress, model
81 Jon Shirley 1938 American businessman
82 Shirley Jaffe Actress, English
83 Shirley Fry 1927 US tennis and badminton player
84 Shirley Cruz Traña 1985 Costa Rican footballer
85 Shirley Finn 1940 Australian brothel madam and murder victim
86 Craig Shirley 1956 American political consultant
87 Shirley Collie Nelson 1931 American singer/songwriter
88 Shirley Corriher 1935 American biochemist
89 Shirley Abrahamson 1933 Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice
90 Shirley Jean Rickert 1926 Film actress
91 Shirley Braha 1982 American television producer
92 Shirley Théroux 1945 Canadian television presenter
93 Shirley Jones 1953 American singer
94 Shirley McKie 1962 British police officer
95 Danny Shirley 1956
96 Shirley Geok-lin Lim 1944 American writer
97 Shirley Cothran 1952 American model
98 Shirley Weber 1948 California politician
99 Shirley Ann Grau 1929 American writer
100 Shirley Eikhard 1955 Canadian singer
101 Shirley Mason 1900 Actress
102 Shirley Steedman British actress
103 George Shirley 1934 American tenor
104 Shirley Mallmann 1977 Brazilian model
105 Josh Shirley 1992
106 Shirley Clamp 1973 Swedish singer
107 Don Shirley 1927 American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer
108 Anthony Shirley 1565 English traveller
109 Shirley Dinsdale 1926 American actress
110 Shirley Baker 1932 British photographer
111 Shirley Álvarez 1980
112 Shirley Heath 1939 American linguist and anthropologist
113 Shirley Strong 1958 Athletics competitor
114 Shirley Waldemar Baker 1839 Prime Minister of Tonga
115 Shirley R. Steinberg 1952 American academic
116 Shirley Webb 1981 British hammer thrower
117 Shirley Turner 1941 New Jersey State Senator
118 Ray Shirley Actress
119 Shirley Bond Canadian politician
120 Shirley Ann Russell 1935 British film costume designer
121 Shirley Bunnie Foy 1936 American singer
122 Jason Shirley 1985 Player of American football
123 Shirley Prestia 1947 American actress
124 Shirley Brasher 1934 English tennis player
125 Shirley Cheechoo 1952 Canadian film director
126 Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey 1924 Writer
127 Dallas Shirley 1913 American basketball player
128 Shirley Ayorkor Botchway 1963 Ghanaian female politician
129 Shirley Barrett 1961 Film director, Screenwriter
130 Shirley Slesinger Lasswell 1923 American businessman
131 Jack Shirley
132 Shirley Jameson 1918 American baseball player
133 Shirley Fong-Torres 1946 American business woman
134 Shirley Grey 1902 Actress
135 Shirley Cain 1935 British actress
136 Donna Shirley 1941 NASA employee
137 Shirley Thomas 1920 American academic
138 Shirley Sherwood 1933 Botanist
139 Bob Shirley 1954 American baseball player
140 Shirley Letwin 1924 American academic
141 Shirley Nathan-Pulliam 1939 American politician
142 Shirley Guthrie 1927
143 Shirley Summerskill 1931 British politician
144 Marlon Shirley 1978 American Paralympian
145 Shirley Majors 1913 American football coach
146 Roy Shirley 1944 Jamaican musician
147 Edwin Shirley 1948 British music executive
148 Shirley Brooks 1816 English journalist and novelist
149 Shirley M. Watts 1959 American judge
150 Shirley Barber 1935 English children's author and illustrator
151 Shirley Temple Bar Irish drag queen
152 Shirley Armitage
153 Shirley Solomon 1947 Canadian talk show host
154 Shirley Strum Kenny 1935 British academic
155 Shirley Pearce British academic, educator, psychologist
156 Shirley Miranda-Rodriguez American photographer
157 Shirley Matthews Canadian singer
158 Shirley Barker 1911 American writer
159 Shirley Burkovich 1933 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
160 Shirley Huntley 1938 American politician
161 Shirley Horton American politician
162 Shirley Washington American actress
163 Shirley Hodgson Researcher
164 Shirley Smith 1950 American politician
165 Shirley Wilson 1925 American football coach
166 Shirley Polykoff 1908 American businessman
167 Shirley Palesh 1929 American baseball player
168 Thomas Shirley 1564 English soldier, adventurer and politician
169 Shirley Englehorn 1940 Professional golfer
170 Shirley Thoms 1925 Australian singer
171 Shirley Deane 1913
172 Henry G. Shirley 1874 American engineer
173 Shirley Breeden American politician
174 Shirley Childress Saxton 1947 American educator
175 Shirley Burden American photojournalist
176 Shirley Thompson Composer
177 Shirley Reilly 1985 American wheelchair racer
178 Shirley Hibberd 1825 British writer
179 Aaron Shirley 1933 American physician
180 Shirley Myers Canadian singer
181 Shirley Rumsey 1933 Lute player, vocalist
182 Robert Shirley 1980 Australian rules footballer
183 Shirley McClellan 1942 Canadian politician
184 Shirley du Boulay 1933 British writer
185 Shirley Carr 1929 Canadian trade unionist
186 Shirley Dean 1935 American mayor
187 Ken Shirley 1950 New Zealand politician
188 Shirley Kitchen 1946 American politician
189 Shirley Brannock Jones 1925 United States federal judge
190 Shirley E. Flynn 1929 American historian and journalist
191 Natalie Shirley 1957 Oklahoma politician
192 Shirley Ringo 1940 American politician and legislator
193 Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell 1886 American artist
194 Shirley Yu Hong Kong actor
195 Shirley M. Malcom 1946 Ecologist
196 Shirley Miranda
197 Bart Shirley 1940 American baseball player
198 Shirley Erena Murray 1931 New Zealand hymn lyrics writer
199 Shirley Montag Almon 1935 American economist
200 Shirley Bell Cole 1920 American actress