'Shirley' is the name of several places in the world:

★ in England:

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★ Shirley, Derbyshire

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★ Shirley, London in the London Borough of Croydon

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★ Shirley, Southampton, a district of Southampton

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★ Shirley, West Midlands

★ in New Zealand:

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★ Shirley, New Zealand, a suburb of Christchurch

★ in the USA:

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★ Shirley, Arkansas

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★ Shirley, Massachusetts

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★ Shirley, New York

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★ Shirley, Indiana

★ also

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★ Shirley's Bay, Canada

★ Shirley is a rather uncommon surname, with pockets of Shirley's living in Idaho, North Carolina, and the Atlantic region of Canada, specifically in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

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★ Shirley was the surname of the title character in "Anne of Green Gables", a novel published in 1908 by Lucy Maude Montgomery about an orphan girl in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. Notably, there are no Shirley's listed in current (2007) telephone books for the entire province. It is likely Montgomery had heard the name associated with the neigboring province of Nova Scotia.

★ People with this name: (before the publication of the novel ''Shirley'' by Charlotte Brontë in 1849 Shirley was an uncommon, but distinctly male name and would have been a very unusual name for a woman. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name and an uncommon male name).

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★ Shirley Abicair, entertainer and writer

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★ Shirley Abrahamson, judge

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★ Shirley Babashoff, swimmer

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★ Shirley Bassey, singer

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★ Shirley Crabtree, [male] British wrestler ("Big Daddy")

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★ Shirley Clamp, a Swedish pop singer

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★ Shirley MacLaine, actress

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★ Shirley Manson, singer, lead vocalist of the band Garbage

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★ Shirley Povich, [male] sportswriter

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★ Shirley Temple, child actress

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★ Shirley Williams, British politician

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★ Steve Shirley, (Dame Stephanie Shirley), UK businesswoman

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★ Randall Shirley is a noted Canada-based travel journalist and editor.

★ as well as:

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★ ''Shirley'', a novel by Charlotte Brontë

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★ Shirley & Company, a 1970s disco group

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★ Shirley the Loon, a fictional character in ''Tiny Toon Adventures''

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★ Shirley's World, a 1971 sitcom

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★ Shirley's famous misquote, 'Surely you must be joking. No I am not. And stop calling me Shirley'

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