- Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus". She was married to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", and "The Masque of Anarchy". However, his major works were long visionary poems including "Alastor", "Adonais", "The Revolt of Islam", …
- Elena Adelaide Shelley
Elena Adelaide Shelley was born in the Shelley lodgings in Naples, Italy. Her parentage is an unsolved mystery in the lives of two of the world's greatest writers, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary Shelley. Elena was registered as the daughter of Percy Bysshe Shelley and an unknown woman named Marina Padurin. Some scholars suspect her true mother was Claire Clairmont, the stepsister of Mary Shelley, or Elise Foggi, …
- Kevin Shelley
Kevin Francis Shelley (born November 16, 1955 in San Francisco, California) is a California politician, who was the 28th California Secretary of State from January 6, 2003, until his resignation on March 4, 2005. Shelley was raised in San Francisco, the only son in a family of five. His father, Jack Shelley, was a State Senator, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Mayor of San Francisco. Shelley graduated from St. Ignatius High School in 1973.
- Bruce Shelley
Bruce Campbell Shelley is a computer game designer who helped design "Sid Meier's Civilization" and "Railroad Tycoon" with MicroProse and the 1997 hit real-time strategy game "Age of Empires" with Ensemble Studios. He now serves in an advisor role at Ensemble and recently stepped down from the board of directors of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
- John Shelley
John Francis "Jack" Shelley (September 3, 1905 - September 1, 1974) was a U.S. politician. He served as the mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1964 to 1967, the first Democrat elected to the office in 50 years, and the first in an unbroken line of Democratic mayors that lasts to the present (as of 2007). Shelley earned a law degree from the University of San Francisco in 1932.
- Steve Shelley
Steven Jay Shelley (b. 23 June 1963, Midland, Michigan) is a drummer of rock band Sonic Youth. He played in several mid-Michigan bands, and was among the original lineup of the seminal punk band the Crucifucks. Since 1985, he has performed with the experimental rock band Sonic Youth, when he replaced Bob Bert. After leaving the Crucifucks, he moved to Manhattan, subletting the apartment of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon while the band was in Europe.
- Charles M. Shelley
Charles Miller Shelley (December 28, 1833 - January 20, 1907) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and a postbellum U.S. Representative from Alabama. Born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, Shelley moved with his father to Selma, Alabama, in 1836. He received limited schooling, but showed an aptitude for architecture. He became an architect and builder in the 1850s.
- George M. Shelley
George Madison Shelley (1849-1927) was Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri in 1878-1879. Shelley was born in Kentucky and moved to Kansas City in 1870. He was a grocer, president of the City Council and Board of Public Works. During his tenure he was to encourage the Exodusters movement through Kansas City to Kansas. After leaving office he became the city postmaster.
- Rachel Shelley
Rachel Shelley (born on 25 August 1969) is a Swindon-born English actress. She graduated from Sheffield University with a B.A. Hons in English and Drama. She played the character Elizabeth Russell in the film "Lagaan" and, since 2005, plays Helena Peabody on the television show "The L Word". Trivia *Lives in Notting Hill, grew up in London and moved from Swindon at age 1.
- Barbara Shelley
Barbara Shelley (born August 15, 1933) is a British film and television actress. She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s (Blood of the Vampire) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with "The Gorgon" (1964), "Dracula, Prince of Darkness" (1965), "Rasputin, the Mad Monk" (1965), and "Quatermass and the Pit" (1967) among her credits. Although she is known as a scream queen, …
- Carole Shelley
Carole Shelley (born August 16, 1939) is a Tony Award-winning actress from London, England. On the stage, Ms. Shelley made her Broadway debut in the original 1965 production of "The Odd Couple", playing Gwendolyn Pigeon (she would reprise the role for the film version and for the first season of the subsequent television series). She appeared in several plays throughout the 1970s and 1980s, …
- Pete Shelley
Pete Shelley (born Peter McNeish, April 17 1955 in Leigh, Lancashire) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the leader of Buzzcocks, one of the first generation punk rock groups from England.
- Howard Shelley
Howard Shelley (born March 9, 1950) is a British pianist and conductor. He is married to fellow pianist Hilary Macnamara, with whom he has performed and recorded in a two-piano partnership, and they have two sons.
- George Ernest Shelley
Captain George Ernest Shelley (1840 - November 29, 1910) was an English geologist and ornithologist. He was a nephew of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. His books included "A Monograph of the Cinnyridae, or Family of Sun Birds" (1878), "A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt" (1880) and "The Birds of Africa" (5 volumes, 1896 - 1912).
- Jody Shelley
Jody Shelley (born February 7, 1976) was born in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada, but moved to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia shortly after he was born. He is an ice hockey player in the National Hockey League for the Columbus Blue Jackets.
- Harry Rowe Shelley
Harry Rowe Shelley was an American composer, born at New Haven, Conn. He studied with Gustav J. Stoeckel at Yale College, Dudley Buck, Max (Wilhelm Carl) Vogrich, and Dvořák in New York, and subsequently completed his musical education in London and Paris. In 1899 he became organist of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York. He was admitted to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Among his works are two symphonies; a symphonic poem, …
- Paul Shelley
Paul Shelley (born 15 May 1942 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England) is an actor. He is possibly best known for his role in the television drama series "Secret Army" as Major Nick Bradley, but fans of the science fiction series "Doctor Who" will remember his performance as Persuasion in the 1982 serial "Four to Doomsday".
- Cindy Shelley
Cindy Shelley (born 23 March 1960 in Barnet, Hertfordshire) is a British actress, best known for her roles in two high profile BBC television dramas of the 1980s - Alice Courtenay in "Tenko" and Abby Urquhart in "Howards' Way".
- Mike Shelley
Mike Shelley was born on 13th March 1972 in Leeds and became the longest serving player ever in the history of Leeds Tykes rugby union club, having joined them in 1996 from West Hartlepool. He made his Tykes debut against Otley RUFC on 31st August 1996. Shelley was a loyal servant to the Tykes and to many epitomised the club. At the end of the 2005-06 season, despite being due a testimonial, he made the decision to retire after 10 years and 244 appearances for the club.
- Kate Shelley
Kate Shelley was a midwestern United States railroad heroine, and the first woman in the United States to have a bridge named for her.
- Michael Shelley
Michael Shelley is a New York based singer-songwriter. He has released 5 albums. He has opened tours in the USA for They Might Be Giants, Shonen Knife & Marshall Crenshaw, in Japan. Some members of Belle & Sebastian have played on his records & with him live on UK tours. Michael Shelley is also a DJ at freeform radio station WFMU.
- Norman Shelley
Norman Shelley was an English actor, best known for his work in radio, in particular for the BBC's "Children's Hour". He also had a recurring role in the long-running radio soap opera "The Archers". Perhaps Shelley's single best-known role was as Winnie-the-Pooh in "The Children's Hour" adaptations of A. A. Milne's stories - for many people of the right age, his is the definitive voice of Pooh. Other roles for "The Children's Hour" included Dr.
- Jim Shelley
Jim Shelley (b. James Bowman Nipe, February 29, 1956), an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and teacher recognized as an influential long-time figure in the American lo-fi and cassette culture music scenes, has received critical acclaim for his melodic songs and literate, introspective lyrics. Since the release of his first album in 1979, Shelley has usually recorded his records in his home studio, …
- Jim Shelley
Jim Shelley is a British television critic who writes a column for the "Daily Mirror" each Tuesday entitled Shelleyvision. Prior to writing for the "Daily Mirror" he wrote for "The Guardian" and his collection of reviews "Interference: Tapehead vs. Television" was published by Atlantic Books. He writes a monthly column about cop shows for "The Guardian Guide" entitled "Call The Cops".
- Niall Shelley
Niall Shelley was an Irish soccer player during the 1970s. He won league winners medals with Bohemians in 1974/75 and 1977/78 and scored the winning goal for the club in the 1976 FAI Cup final against Drogheda. He made 10 appearances in European competition for Bohs scoring 1 goal.
- Joshua Shelley
Joshua Shelley (27 January 1920 - 16 February 1990) was one of the actors blacklisted by movie studios as a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) investigation of the Communist Party in Hollywood in 1952. He did not begin to again work regularly in Hollywood until 1973 when his career restarted.
- Brian Shelley
Brian Shelley (born 15 November 1981 in Dublin) is an Irish footballer currently playing for Drogheda United in the League of Ireland. He began his career at Shamrock Rovers but moved to rivals Bohemians in 2000. He made his first team debut for the club as substitute in the UEFA Cup tie against 1. FC Kaiserslautern in September 2000. Roddy Collins brought him along with team mate Trevor Molloy to Carlisle United in time for the 2002/03 season.
- Elbert Shelley
Elbert Shelley was an American football player who played defensive back for the Atlanta Falcons. He went to the Pro Bowl four times as a special teams player.
- Mark Shelley
Mark Shelley is the Senior Series Producer for National Geographic Television & Film. He is also the founder and the Executive Director of Sea Studios Foundation, a non-profit team of film-makers, environmentalists and scientists who create films that raise public awareness of major issues facing our planet's health. <br />About Mark Shelley <br />Mark Shelley is the founder and the director of photography for Sea Studios Foundation.
- Alex Shelley
Patrick Martin (born May 23, 1983), better known by his ring name Alex Shelley, is an American professional wrestler currently wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He previously gained fame on the independent circuit, working most notably for Ring of Honor, as well as in Japan, for Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX, where he currently holds the ZERO-1 MAX International Lightweight Tag Team Championship with Chris Sabin.
- André Maurois
André Maurois, or Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog was a French author and man of letters. "André Maurois" was a pen name that became his legal name in 1947. He was born in Elbeuf and educated in Rouen, both in Normandy. During World War I he joined the French army and he served as an interpreter and later a liaison officer in the British army.
- Claire Clairmont
Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was a stepsister of writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra.
- Thomas Wade
Thomas Wade was an English poet and dramatist. Wade a.k.a Wade Lavender by his early readers was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk. He early went to London, where he began to publish verse of considerable merit under the inspiration of Byron, Keats and especially Shelley. He wrote some plays that were produced on the London stage with a certain measure of success, owing more perhaps to the acting of Charles and Fanny Kemble than to the merits of the dramatist.
- Sally Lindsay
Sally Lindsay (born 1972 in Stockport, Cheshire) is a British actress who is best known for her role in the ITV1 Soap opera "Coronation Street" as Shelley Unwin. Her first television appearance was aged 8 when her school choir, the St Winifred's School Choir, released "There's No One Quite Like Grandma", the British Christmas number one single of 1980. Ironically, the song knocked John Lennon off the top spot - in the aftermath of Lennon's death, …
- Hywel Bennett
Hywel Thomas Bennett (born 8 April 1944) is a Welsh actor, born in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Raised in London from an early age, he attended Henry Thornton Grammar School, Clapham and RADA. With a number of major early film roles, Bennett is best known to modern audiences for his appearances on British television. He played small parts in "Doctor Who" and "The Sweeney".
- Charles Cowden Clarke
Charles Cowden Clarke (December 15, 1787 - March 13, 1877), English author and Shakespearian scholar, was born in Enfield, Middlesex
- Richard Garnett
Richard Garnett (February 27, 1835 - April 13, 1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an assistant keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum. Born at Lichfield, and educated at a school in Bloomsbury, he entered the British Museum in 1851 as an assistant librarian. In 1875, he became superintendent of the Reading Room, in 1881, editor of the General Catalogue of Printed Books, and in 1890 until his retirement in 1899, …
- Edward John Trelawny
Edward John Trelawny (November 13, 1792-August 13, 1881), was a biographer, novelist, and adventurer.
- Ron Shelly