Sherpa

Last updated June 15, 2025

Sherpa may refer to:

Ethnography

Sherpa (association), a French network of jurists dedicated to promoting corporate social responsibility
Sherpa.ai, a Spanish artificial intelligence company
Sherpa Capital, an American venture capital firm
Sherpa (delivery service), an Australian courier company
SHERPA (organisation), a UK-based project team with expertise in open access and repositories
- SHERPA/RoMEO, a service to show copyright and policies of academic journals
Cloud Sherpas, an American cloud implementation and migration company, active 2008–2015

Porter (carrier), often called a sherpa
Mountain guide, also sometimes called a sherpa
Leyland Sherpa, a light commercial vehicle produced from 1974 until 2005
Short C-23 Sherpa, a military variant of the Short 330 cargo aircraft, first flight was in 1982
Short SB.4 Sherpa, an experimental British aircraft whose first flight was in 1955
Super Sherpa, a 250 cc dual-purpose motorcycle produced by Kawasaki
A series of military trucks produced by Renault Trucks Defense, including the Sherpa Light
UP Sherpa Bi, a German paraglider design by UP International
SHERPA (space tug), a kick start space tug and satellite dispenser

Agelena sherpa , a spider of family Agelenidae
Sherpa (book), a 2022 book by Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari
Sherpa (emissary), the personal representative of a head of state or government in the G20 or G7
Sherpa (fabric), a fabric with a pile on one side
Sherpa (film), a 2015 documentary film
Sherpa Fire, a 2016 wildfire that burned in Santa Barbara County, California
Sherpa Glacier, an alpine glacier in Washington state
Sherpa Peak, a mountain in Washington state
Sherpa (political consultant), a political consultant guiding a nominee to Senate confirmation
Sherpa (surname), surname originating from the Himalayan region
Yahoo Sherpa, a distributed key value datastore developed by Yahoo!