Famous People Named Shirley

Name these famous people who were named Shirley.

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Life	Hint	Person
1898–1992	Won Best Actress Oscar for Come Back, Little Sheba, 2 Emmys and 3 Tonys	Shirley Booth
1916–1965	Writer of The Haunting of Hill House and disturbing short story "The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson
1924–2005	First black woman in Congress; first black Presidential nomination candidate	Shirley Chisholm
1928–2014	Child actress of Curly Top and Heidi who later became an ambassador	Shirley Temple
1934–	Actress in Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias; Warren Beatty's sister	Shirley MacLaine
1934–	Shirley Partridge in The Partridge Family and stepmother of David Cassidy	Shirley Jones
1936– 2020	Later supporting roles: As Good as It Gets, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Shirley Knight
1937–	Sang the theme songs of Bond films Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, and Moonraker	Shirley Bassey
1940–	"First Lady of Drag Racing" who won the championship in 1977, 1980, 1982	Shirley Muldowney
1965–	Scottish Trainspotting actress who was Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter	Shirley Henderson
1966–	Red-headed Scottish lead singer of Garbage	Shirley Manson
Fictional	Duo played by Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams who were title characters of sitcom	Laverne & Shirley

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2 Comments

Level 86

Jun 16, 2022

My first thought was Muldowney.

Level 86

Jun 16, 2022

Mine was ‘you can’t be serious’ :)

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