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Shirl is a given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Shirley. It may refer to:
A hypocorism, also called a hypocoristicon, is a diminutive form of a name. Hypocorisms include pet names or calling names, often a diminutive or augmentative form of a word or given name when used as a nickname or term of endearment.
Shirley is a given name and a surname originating from the English place-name Shirley, which is derived from the Old English elements scire (shire) or scīr and lēah. The name makes reference to the open space where the moot was held. Shirley was originally a male name, but its use in Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley (1849) established it as a female name.
People:
- Shirl Bernheim, stage name of American actress Shirley Raphael (1921-2009)
- Shirl Conway, stage name of American actress Shirley Crossman (1916-2007)
- Shirl, a stage name of Graeme Strachan (1952-2001), Australian singer, songwriter, radio and television presenter and carpenter
- Shirl Henke (born 1942), American romance novelist
- Shirley Shirl Jennings (1940-2003), one of the few people to regain his sight after nearly lifelong blindness
- Colleen Shirley Perry Smith (1924-1988), better known as Mum Shirl, Aboriginal Australian humanitarian, activist and social worker
Shirl Bernheim was an American actress of film and television.
Shirl Conway, born Shirley Elizabeth Crosman, was an American television and Broadway actress.
Graeme Ronald Strachan, professionally billed and known as "Shirley" Strachan or Shirl, was an Australian singer, songwriter, radio and television presenter, and carpenter. He was the lead singer of the rock group Skyhooks. While still a member of Skyhooks he had solo singles, which charted on the Kent Music Report, with a cover recording of Brenda Holloway's "Every Little Bit Hurts" and a remake of The Miracles "Tracks of My Tears". After leaving Skyhooks in July 1978 he concentrated on his solo career. He was the host of children's TV program Shirl's Neighbourhood (1979–83), From 1993 he appeared on home renovation TV program, Our House, as a carpenter and co-host. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1993, Skyhooks were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Strachan died in August 2001 in a self-piloted helicopter accident.
Fictional characters:
- Laverne's name for Shirley in the American television series Laverne & Shirley
- Shirl, wife of Cockney Wanker in the British magazine Viz
Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that played for eight seasons on ABC from January 27, 1976, to May 10, 1983. A spin-off of Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley followed the lives of Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, two friends and roommates who work as bottle-cappers in the fictitious Shotz Brewery in late 1950s Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From the sixth season onwards, the series' setting changed to mid-1960s Burbank, California. Michael McKean and David Lander co-starred as their friends and neighbors Lenny Kosnowski and Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman, along with Eddie Mekka as Carmine Ragusa, Phil Foster as Laverne's father Frank DeFazio, and Betty Garrett as the girls' landlady Edna Babish.
Cockney Wanker is a character created by Graham Dury and Simon Thorpe in Viz based on a stereotyped male Cockney. Wanker speaks in rhyming slang and spends his days drinking and selling stolen or unworkable goods to passers-by from an East End market stall. Another of Wanker's specialities is trading used cars. Playing upon the stereotype of the indigenous population of London being fantasists, Wanker often buys a car, sells it back to the same person, for the same amount of money, then declares the transaction to have been "A nice little earner!" He wears cheap gold jewellery or Argos bling and 'Laahndan' gangster dark glasses, and is often seen smoking a cigar.
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