Meaning of name Shirley

The names of some famous persons by the name Shirley (or its variants) are:

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, born on 8 January, a famous singer. Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey's background: A Welsh singer. She performed the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song.

Shirley Jackson, born on 14 December, a famous author. Shirley Jackson's background: An influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale and Richard Matheson. She is best known for her short story 'The Lottery' (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story 'The Lottery' was published in the June 28, 1948 issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that 'no New Yorker story had ever received.' Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, 'bewilderment, speculation and old-fashioned abuse.'

Shirley Kwan, born on 15 August, a famous singer. Shirley Kwan's background: An idiosyncratic Hong Kong cantopop singer best known for her unique vocal and progressive music style. Kwan first shot to fame in 1989 as a pop sensation with the hit single 'Happy Are Those In Love'. She then successfully morphed into a musical chameleon, infusing different western musical elements into the otherwise monotonous genre of cantopop. In 1995, Kwan published her coming of age psychedelic album 'EX' All Time Favourites, which has since become a modern classic.