Shirley, a novel by Charlotte Brontë

Randall Shirleyis a noted Canada-based travel journalist and editor

Shirley Temple, child actress

Shirley Povich, [male] sportswriter

Shirley Bassey, singer

Shirley MacLaine, actress

Shirley Manson, singer, lead vocalist of the band Garbage

Shirley Williams, British politician

Shirley, London (London Borough of Croydon, England)

Shirley, Massachusetts, USA

Shirley Crabtree, [male] British wrestler ("Big Daddy")

Shirley Abicair, entertainer and writer

Shirley, New York, USA

Shirley, Indiana, USA

Shirley, Hampshire, a district of Southampton, England

Shirley Clamp, a Swedish pop singer

Shirley, Arkansas, USA

Shirley, West Midlands, England

Shirley Babashoff, swimmer

Shirley, Derbyshire, England

Shirley's Bay, Canada

Shirley Abrahamson, judge

Steve Shirley, (Dame Stephanie Shirley), UK businesswoman

Shirley, New Zealand, a suburb of Christchurch, NZ

Shirley & Company, a 1970s disco group

Shirley's World, a 1971 sitcom

Shirley is a rather uncommon surname, with pockets of Shirley's living in Idaho, North Carolina, and the Canada.

Shirley is the surname of the title character in "Anne of Green Gables", a novel published in 1908 by Lucy Maude Montgomery about an orphan girl in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. Notably, there are no Shirley's listed in current (2007) telephone books for the entire province. It is likely Montgomery had heard the name associated with the neighboring province of Nova Scotia.

People with this name: Note:before the publication of the novel Shirley by Charlotte Brontë in 1849 Shirley was an uncommon, but distinctly male name and would have been a very unusual name for a woman. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name and an uncommon male name.

Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong cantopop

"Shirley" Strachan, lead singer of 1970s Australian rock band Skyhooks

Shirley Yeung, 2001 Miss Hong Kong, TVB actress

Shirley the Loon, a fictional character in Tiny Toon Adventures