Famous People with Name Sheldon

Sheldon Lee Glashow            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sheldon Lee Glashow: American physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston Universit

Sheldon Leonard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sheldon Leonard: was a pioneering American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor.Leonard was born Sheldon Leonard Bershad in New York City, the son of middle class Jewish parents Anna and Frank Bershad. As an actor, Leonard specialized in playing supporting characters, especially gangsters or "heavies", in films such as It's a Wonderful Life (1946), To Have and Have Not (1944), and Open Secret (1948). His trademark was his especially thick New York accent. In the cult classic Decoy, Leonard uses his "heavy" persona to create the hard-boiled police detective Joe Portugal. In the 1950s, Leonard provided the voice of lazy cat Dodsworth in two Warner Bros. cartoons directed by Robert McKimson.

Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein: was an American poet, songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books. He sometimes styled himself as Uncle Shelby especially for his early children's books.Silverstein confirmed he never studied the poetry of others, and therefore developed his own style: laid-back and conversational, occasionally employing profanity, and slang.

Sheldon Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sheldon Brown: an American artist and Professor of Computer Art at the University of California, San Diego. He is the Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts [1] at UCSD, a founder of the California Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications [2], where he is currently the Artist-in-Residence, and he is Director of the Experimental Game Lab [3].His work [4] examines the relationships between mediated and physical experiences. This work often exists across a range of public realms.

Sheldon Johnson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sheldon Johnson: is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing District 67B, which includes portions of the Dayton's Bluff and Battle Creek neighborhoods of Saint Paul in Ramsey County, which is in the Twin Cities metropolit

Sidney Sheldon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Sheldon: was an Academy Award-winning American writer who won awards in three careers—a Broadway playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70), Hart to Hart (1979-84), and The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), but it was not until after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980) that he became most famous.

David Sheldon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Sheldon: was a professional wrestler, known by his ring name the Angel of Death, who wrestled in North American regional promotions during the 1980s and early 1990s including Stampede Wrestling, World Class Championship Wrestling, the Universal Wrestling Federatio

George Herbert Sheldon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Herbert Sheldon: was an American diver who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.