Sharkey (disambiguation)

Sharkey is a surname of Irish origin.

Sharkey, Sharky, Sharkie or Sharkies may also refer to:

Places

• Sharkey, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
• Sharkey County, Mississippi, United States

People

Nickname

• Sharkey Bonano (1904–1972), American jazz trumpeter, band leader and vocalist
• Lewis Brown (rugby league) (born 1986), New Zealand rugby league footballer nicknamed "Sharky"
• Sharkey McEwen, California-born musician and producer
• Mark Robinson (rugby union, born 1975), New Zealand retired rugby union footballer nicknamed "Sharky"
• George Sweatt (1893–1983), American Negro league baseball player nicknamed "Sharky"
• Sharkey Ward (born 1943), Canadian Royal Navy officer
• Sharky, English Youtuber and member of Youtube group, Beta Squad

Surname

• Bill Sharky, former member of The Barron Knights, a British humorous pop group
• Feargal Sharkey, singer from Northern Ireland, former lead singer of The Undertones
• Kevin Sharkey, artist, former actor, tv presenter and presidential candidate
• Rebekha Sharkie (born 1972), Australian politician

Stage name

• DJ Sharkey (born 1975), British DJ born Jonathan Kneath
• Sharky, former member of the Prodigy, an English electronic dance music group
• Sharky P or Sharkie P, a UK garage MC and member of DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies

Fictional characters

• An alias for Saruman, in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• C. P. O. Otto Sharkey, main character of eponymous sitcom starring Don Rickles
• James "Sharky" Harkin, main character of the 2006 play The Seafarer by Irish playwright Conor McPherson
• Sharky, a puppet in Sharky's Friends, an Australian children's television game show
• one of the title characters of Sharky & George, a French and Canadian animated children's television series
• Sharky the Sharkdog, a character in Eek! The Cat, an American-Canadian animated series
• Sharkey, right hand man of Olrik in Blake and Mortimer, Franco-Belgian comics series
• Sharky, mascot of the Sea Life Minnesota Aquarium
• Sharkie, mascot of the Sharks (rugby union)
• Sharkey, one of the protagonists in the James Bond film Licence to Kill
• Lawyer Sharky, a Disney character from the Donald Duck universe
• S.J. Sharkie, the mascot for the San Jose Sharks

Other uses

• USS Sharkey (DD-281), a destroyer in service between the world wars
• Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Australian professional rugby league team nicknamed the "Sharkies"
• Sharkey, an ActivityPub-compliant Fediverse microblogging software

See also

• Shark (disambiguation)