Famous People with Name Shannon

Shannon Denise Bobbitt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Shannon Denise Bobbitt: is an American professional basketball player, who is currently a free agent in the WNBA. One of eight children and a native of the Bronx, New York Bobbitt honed her basketball skills on the neighborhood project courts of Harlem. Following a stellar colle

Shannon Claire Spruill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Shannon Claire Spruill: is an American professional wrestler and valet. She is best known for her appearances with World Championship Wrestling between 1999 and 2001 under the ring name Daffney. She currently works for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where she used the ring name

Shannon Dunn-Downing            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Shannon Dunn-Downing: is an American snowboarder and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal in the halfpipe event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, becoming the first American woman to win a medal in snowboarding. She finished 5th at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Sal

Shannon Bahrke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Shannon Bahrke: is an American Olympic freestyle skier and entrepreneur. With her bronze medal in 2010, she became the first US women's freestyle skier to win multiple Olympic medals. Bahrke was also the 2009 US National Champion in dual moguls. She has reached the podi

Shannon Patricia Elizabeth O'Brien            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Shannon Patricia Elizabeth O'Brien: is a Democrat from Massachusetts. O'Brien served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1987 through 1993, in the Massachusetts Senate from 1993 through 1995, and was the Massachusetts State Treasurer from 1999 through 2003. In that last posit

Stephen C. Shannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stephen C. Shannon: is an American politician. From 2004 to 2009, Shannon represented Virginia’s 35th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was the 2009 Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Virginia. He was defeated by his opponent, Republican Ken Cuccinelli.

Joseph Bernard Shannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Bernard Shannon: was a Democratic political boss in Kansas City, Missouri that was a rival to the more dominant Pendergast political machine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Shannon was chairman of the Democratic State in 1910; delegate to the Democratic Nationa

Thomas Bowles Shannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Bowles Shannon: served as member of the California State Assembly. He would later become elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for California. He returned to the state assembly and became the Speaker of the Assembly.

James C. Shannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James C. Shannon: was an American politician and the 77th Governor of Connecticut. Shannon became as Bridgeport's prosecuting attorney in 1923. He held that position for nine years. He was on the bench of the Bridgeport City and Juvenile Court from 1931 to 1935. He was the

Samuel Leonard Shannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel Leonard Shannon: was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Halifax County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1859 to 1867. In 1858, he was named a Nova Scotia railway board commissioner. Shannon was named Queen's Counsel in 1864. He served as a minister without portfolio in the province's Executive Council from 1863 to 1867. He supported the development of an intercolonial railway, free common schools and Confederation. Shannon served on the board of governors for Dalhousie College and helped establish the Dalhousie Law School, serving as one of its first instructors.