Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey is a Welsh singer. Best known for her career longevity,powerful voice and recording the theme songs to three James Bond films,Bassey is widely regarded as one of the most popular vocalists in Britain.
A Shirley Temple is a non-alcoholic mixed drink traditionally made with ginger ale and a splash of grenadine,and garnished with a maraschino cherry. Modern Shirley Temple recipes may substitute lemon-lime soda or lemonade and sometimes orange juice,in part or in whole. Shirley Temples are often served as an alternative to alcoholic cocktails,as are the similar Roy Rogers and Arnold Palmer. In some regions of the Midwestern United States,the cocktail is referred to as a Kiddie Cocktail,as it is often served to children.
Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician who,in 1968,became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district,a district centered on Bedford–Stuyvesant,for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972,she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Throughout her career,she was known for taking "a resolute stand against economic,social,and political injustices," as well as being a strong supporter of black civil rights and women's rights.
Shirley Temple Black was an American actress,singer,dancer,and diplomat,who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later,she was named United States Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia,and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.
Seth Adam Meyers is an American comedian,television host,actor,writer,producer,and podcaster. He currently hosts Late Night with Seth Meyers,a late-night talk show on NBC. Prior to Late Night,Meyers was a cast member on NBC's sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2014,and served as the show's head writer and anchor of their news parody segment,Weekend Update,from 2006 until his departure.
Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress. Her accolades include two Scottish BAFTAs,a VFCC Award and an Olivier Award,as well as BAFTA,BIFA,London Critics' Circle,Chlotrudis,Gotham,and Canadian Screen Award nominations.
Sabine Meyer is a German classical clarinetist.
Stephenie Meyer is an American novelist and film producer. She is best known for writing the vampire romance series Twilight,which has sold over 160 million copies,with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in the U.S.,having sold over 29 million books in 2008 and 26.5 million in 2009. Meyer received the 2009 Children's Book of the Year award from the British Book Awards for Breaking Dawn,the Twilight series finale.
Donald Walbridge Shirley was an American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He recorded many albums for Cadence Records during the 1950s and 1960s,experimenting with jazz with a classical influence. He wrote organ symphonies,piano concerti,a cello concerto,three string quartets,a one-act opera,works for organ,piano and violin,a symphonic poem based on the 1939 novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce,and a set of "Variations" on the 1858 opera Orpheus in the Underworld.
Helen M. Meyer is an American lawyer and former judge from the state of Minnesota. She served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Twilight is a 2008 American romantic fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg,based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. It is the first installment in The Twilight Saga film series. The film stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as Bella Swan,a teenage girl,and Edward Cullen,a vampire,and focuses on the development of Bella and Edward's relationship and the subsequent efforts of Edward and his family to keep Bella safe from another coven of vampires.
Greg Meyer is an American long-distance runner. Meyer's winning time for the 1983 Boston Marathon race was 2:09.00. He was the last American to win the Boston Marathon until 2014,and the last person born in America to win the Chicago Marathon until 2017. He set ten American road racing records and two world records,and won the River Bank Run,in his home town of Grand Rapids,seven times.
The DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball program is the NCAA Division I intercollegiate men's basketball program of DePaul University in Chicago,Illinois. The team competes in the Big East Conference. DePaul's last NCAA tournament victory was in 2004. DePaul's NCAA tournament record since the end of the 1991–92 season is 1–2,spanning the last 30 tournaments played.
The Twilight Saga is a series of romance fantasy films based on the book series Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. The series has grossed over $5.28 billion worldwide. The first installment,Twilight,was released on November 21,2008. The second installment,New Moon,followed on November 20,2009. The third installment,Eclipse,was released on June 30,2010. The fourth installment,Breaking Dawn –Part 1,was released on November 18,2011,while the fifth installment,Breaking Dawn –Part 2,was released on November 16,2012.
Lena Johanna Therese Meyer-Landrut,also known by the mononym Lena,is a German singer. She rose to fame after representing Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo,winning the event with the song "Satellite". Both "Satellite" and her debut album My Cassette Player (2010) debuted at number one in Germany and became platinum sellers. With her three entries from the German national final Unser Star für Oslo,Meyer-Landrut set an all-time chart record in her home country by debuting with three songs in the top five of the German Singles Chart. She represented Germany for the second consecutive time in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf with the song "Taken by a Stranger",finishing in tenth place.
The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense,horror and dark fantasy are presented at Readercon,an annual conference on imaginative literature.
Rebecca Meyers is a Paralympic swimmer of the United States. She won three gold and one silver medals in Rio 2016. She was also a member of the 2012 Paralympic Team,and won a silver and bronze in London. Rebecca Meyers has also competed at the 2009 Summer Deaflympics which was held in Taiwan,which is also her only appearance at the Deaflympics. She also clinched a bronze medal in the 4 ×200 m freestyle relay event in the 2009 Summer Deaflympics.
Shirley Christian is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author,known for reporting on the Central American crisis during the 1970s and 1980s. Christian has worked as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times,Miami Herald,and Associated Press. Her book on the Nicaraguan Revolution,according to the Wall Street Journal,“may stand as the definitive account of the fall of Anastasio Somoza and the rise of the Sandinistas.”
Xiaole Shirley Liu (刘小乐) is computational biologist,cancer researcher,and entrepreneur. She has been a Professor in the Department of Data Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is now the co-founder and CEO of GV20 Therapeutics.
Shirley Brill is an Israeli clarinetist living in Germany.
