Shannon as First Name

Shannon Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Shannon Brown: is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA's Chicago Bulls.

Shannon Sharpe            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Shannon Sharpe: Shannon, the younger brother of former NFL wide receiver Sterling Sharpe, grew up poor in Glennville, Georgia. He once joked, "We were so poor, a robber once broke into our house and we ended up robbing the robber.Sharpe graduated with a degree in crimina

Shannon Carl Leto            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Shannon Carl Leto: He has been playing drums since 1977, and currently plays in the band 30 Seconds to Mars, whose singer is younger brother Jared Leto. Some of Shannon's favorite drummers include John Bonham, Stewart Copeland, Keith Moon, Nick Mason, and Lars Ulrich, all o

Shannon Elizabeth Fadal            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Shannon Elizabeth Fadal: Elizabeth came to prominence in the 1999 comedy film American Pie.Elizabeth appeared in several films, including the horror film Jack Frost and Dish Dogs, before being cast in 1999's American Pie, which was a major box office success and garnered her fame for the famous 'webcam scene' in which she appeared topless.[3] Elizabeth subsequently appeared in several major Hollywood films, including Scary Movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Tomcats. Elizabeth starred in the UPN series Cuts until the show was canceled in May 2006. Cuts and its parent show, One on One, were two of the many shows not to be picked up by The CW.

Shannon Brian Moore            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Shannon Brian Moore: is an American professional wrestler best known for his work with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as a member of 3 Count, and for WWE, as a follower of Mattitude in 2003. He returned to WWE in 2006 on the ECW brand, before returning to SmackDown in 2007.[2] On August 8, 2008, he was released from the WWE.He is a former one time WCW Hardcore Champion.[6]Moore befriended Matt and Jeff Hardy as a boy and competed in their backyard wrestling circuit.[7] After the Hardy brothers began wrestling professionally,

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Shannon as Last Name

Howie Shannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Howie Shannon: was the first overall pick in the 1949 NBA Draft, selected by the Providence Steamrollers. He attended Kansas State University.

Claude Elwood Shannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Claude Elwood Shannon: an American electrical engineer and mathematician, was "the father of information theory".Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948. But he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's student at MIT, he wrote a thesis demonstrating that electrical application of Boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. It has been claimed that this was the most important master's thesis of all time.

Del Shannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Del Shannon: was an American rock and roller who launched into fame with the No. 1 hit "Runaway" in 1961.Del Shannon was born Charles Weedon Westover in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He grew up in Coopersville, a small farming community near Grand Rapids. There he learned ukulele and later guitar, and listened to country and western music, including Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. In 1954, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and while in Germany played guitar in a band called the Cool Flames