Famous People with Name Sheldon

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

Sheldon Killpack            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sheldon Killpack: is an American politician from Utah. A Republican, he was formerly the senate majority leader of the Utah State Senate, where he represented the state's 21st senate district in Syracuse.On January 16, 2010, he resigned from the Utah Senate after being arr

Joan Mary Sheldon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Joan Mary Sheldon: is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2004, representing the electorates of Landsborough and then Caloundra. She was the state Liberal leader from 1991 to 1998, and ser