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Shean is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname
Al Shean comedian

Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg, known as Al Shean, was a comedian and vaudeville performer. Other sources give his birth name variously as Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg. He is most remembered for being half of the vaudeville team Gallagher and Shean, and as the uncle of the Marx Brothers.

Dave Shean American baseball player

David William Shean was an American professional baseball second baseman. He played from 1906 through 1919 for the Philadelphia Athletics (1906), Philadelphia Phillies (1908–1909), Boston Doves (1909–1910), Chicago Cubs (1911), Boston Braves (1917), Cincinnati Reds (1917) and Boston Red Sox (1918–1919) of Major League Baseball (MLB). Listed at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 175 lb (79 kg)., Shean batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Kelli Shean Rackley is a golfer from South Africa. She graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2011. She married Chandler Rackley of Little Rock, Arkansas, in June 2011. They moved back to Little Rock, where she currently coaches at her own Academy, "More Than a Game Golf Academy".

Given name

Shean Patrick Donovan is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. Donovan played in 951 games with seven National Hockey League (NHL) clubs during a career that stretched from 1994 to 2010. He currently serves as a development coach with the NHL's Ottawa Senators.

Shean Garlito is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for AFC Tubize in the Belgian First Division B as a central midfielder.

Yan Wing-shean is a Taiwanese fencer. He competed in the individual foil and sabre events at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

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Gallagher and Shean Vaudevillian musical comedy double act of the early 20th century

Gallagher & Shean was a highly successful musical comedy double act on vaudeville and Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, consisting of Ed Gallagher (1873–1929) and Al Shean (1868–1949); Shean was the maternal uncle of the Marx Brothers.

Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean Comedic vaudeville song from the early 20th century

"Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" is one of the most famous songs to come from vaudeville. First performed by the duo of Gallagher and Shean in the early 1920s, it became a huge hit and carried Gallagher & Shean to stardom. The music was written by Shean, while Brian Foy wrote the lyrics. The song is also sometimes known as "Absolutely, Mr. Gallagher? Positively, Mr. Shean!."

The Gradam Shean-nós Cois Life is an annual award by the Sean-nós Cois Life-festival in Dublin. The award is given to people who have made an exceptional contribution to the tradition of singing in the Irish language.

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