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• Abraham Sharp
  Abraham Sharp
  Abraham Sharp was an English mathematician and astronomer.-Biography:Sharp was born in Horton Hall in Little Horton, Bradford, the son of well-to-do merchant John Sharp and Mary Sharp and was educated at Bradford Grammar School.In 1669 he became a merchant's apprentice before becoming a...
  
   (1651–1742), English schoolmaster, mathematician and astronomer
• Alan Sharp
  Alan Sharp
  Alan Sharp a novelist and screenwriter. He published two novels in the 1960s, and since then has written the screenplays for about twenty films, mostly produced in the United States....
  
   (born 1934), Scottish author
• Anne Sharp
  Anne Sharp
  Anne Sharp is a Scottish coloratura soprano particularly associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.-Background and education:...
  
   (born 1916), Scottish soprano
• Anthony Sharp (Quaker)
  Anthony Sharp (Quaker)
  Anthony Sharp was a Dublin Quaker and wool merchant.-Early life:Anthony Sharp, the son of Thomas Sharp, was born in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England in January 1643.-Religion and business:...
  
   (1643–1707), Dublin Quaker
• Anthony Sharp
  Anthony Sharp
  Anthony Sharp was an English actor cast for roles on television and film principally from the 1950s onwards....
  
   (1915–1984), English actor

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• Bartholomew Sharp
  Bartholomew Sharp
  Bartholomew Sharp an English buccaneer whose pirate career lasted only three years . His flagship was the Trinity....
  
   (born c. 1650–1690?), English buccaneer
• Billy Sharp
  Billy Sharp
  William Louis "Billy" Sharp is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Doncaster Rovers. He is now widely known for playing in a game for Doncaster Rovers against Middlesbrough two days after his two-day-old son's death...
  
   (born 1986), English professional footballer
• Bree Sharp
  Bree Sharp
  Bree Sharp is an American singer and songwriter influenced by rock, pop, and folk. She is currently the lead vocalist of the electropop band Beautiful Small Machines.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1975), American singer and songwriter
• Brian Sharp (born 1980), computer game programmer

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• Cecil Sharp
  Cecil Sharp
  Cecil James Sharp was the founding father of the folklore revival in England in the early 20th century, and many of England's traditional dances and music owe their continuing existence to his work in recording and publishing them.-Early life:Sharp was born in Camberwell, London, the eldest son of...
  
   (1859–1924), English music teacher and traditional English dance expert
• Clifford Sharp
  Clifford Sharp
  Clifford Sharp was a British journalist, the first editor of the New Statesman magazine from its foundation in 1913 until 1928.He had previously edited The Crusade....
  
  , British journalist

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• Dallas Lore Sharp
  Dallas Lore Sharp
  Dallas Lore Sharp was an American author and university professor, born at Haleyville, Cumberland Co., N. J. He graduated at Brown University in 1895, served as a Methodist Episcopal minister for four years, and graduated at the Boston University School of Theology in 1899. He married Grace...
  
   (1870–1929), American nature author and university professor
• Dave Sharp
  Dave Sharp
  Dave Sharp is an English guitarist who co-founded, along with Mike Peters, the Welsh punk rock band The Alarm.-Early career:...
  
   (born 1959), English guitarist
• David Sharp (entomologist)
  David Sharp (entomologist)
  David Sharp FRS was an English physician and entomologist who worked mainly on Coleoptera.David Sharp was born at Towcester on 18 October, 1840. Some twelve years later his parents removed to London, where therefore, as a boy he received his education. After attending one or two preparatory...
  
   (1840–1922), English physician and entomologist
• David Sharp (mountaineer) (1972–2006), Everest mountain climber
• Dee Dee Sharp
  Dee Dee Sharp
  Dee Dee Sharp is an American R&B singer, who began her career recording as a backing vocalist in 1961.-Career:...
  
   (born 1945), American rhythm and blues singer
• Dennis Sharp
  Dennis Sharp
  Dennis Sharp was a British architect, professor, curator, historian, author and editor.Dennis Sharp studied at Bedford Modern School and at Luton School of Art...
  
   (born 1933), British architect
• Derrick Sharp
  Derrick Sharp
  Derrick Sharp is an American-Israeli former professional basketball player, and current basketball assistant coach for Maccabi Tel Aviv.Sharp was born in Orlando, Florida...
  
   (born 1971), American-Israeli professional basketball player
• Don Sharp
  Don Sharp
  Donald Sharp is a British film director.His most famous films were made for Hammer Studios in the sixties, and included The Kiss of the Vampire and Rasputin, the Mad Monk . Also in 1965 he directed The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, here played by Christopher Lee...
  
   (born 1922), British film director
• Dudley C. Sharp
  Dudley C. Sharp
  Dudley Crawford Sharp was Secretary of the Air Force from December 11, 1959 until January 20, 1961, under president Dwight D. Eisenhower.-Biography:...
  
   (1905–1987), former Secretary of the United States Air Force

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• Garrett Sharp (born 1985), American treatise writer and novelist
• Gene Sharp
  Gene Sharp
  Gene Sharp is Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is known for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle, which have influenced numerous anti-government resistance movements around the world.-Biography:Sharp was born in Ohio, the son of an...
  
   (born 1928), political scientist
• Graeme Sharp
  Graeme Sharp
  Graeme Marshall Sharp is a former footballer. He started his playing career at Dumbarton before signing for Everton for £120,000 in 1980....
  
   (born 1960), Scottish footballer
• Granville Sharp
  Granville Sharp
  Granville Sharp was one of the first English campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade. He also involved himself in trying to correct other social injustices. Sharp formulated the plan to settle blacks in Sierra Leone, and founded the St. George's Bay Company, a forerunner of the Sierra...
  
   (1735–1813), English abolitionist

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• Hap Sharp
  Hap Sharp
  James "Hap" Sharp was an American race car driver who drove in six Formula One grands prix. But he was best known as co-owner and driver of the revolutionary Chaparral sports racing cars built by Jim Hall and Sharp in Midland, Texas. In 1962 Jim Hall and Hap Sharp formed Chaparral Cars, Inc...
  
   (1928–1993), American Formula One driver
• Harry Sharp
  Harry Sharp
  Harry Philip Hugh Sharp was an English cricketer, cricket coach and scorer.Harry Sharp was born in Kentish Town and played for London Schools. He was spotted by Jack Durston while practising at the Middlesex Indoor School at Acton. Seconded to MCC, his duties included rolling the wicket.He joined...
  
   (1917–1995), American race car driver

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• Isaac Sharp
  Isaac Sharp
  Isaac Sharp was an early New Jersey settler, politician, judge and Colonel of the militia.-Early life and family:Born January 13, 1681, in Dublin, Ireland, Isaac Sharp was the eldest surviving son of Quaker Anthony Sharp and Ann Crabb...
  
   (1681–1735), early New Jersey settler, judge, politician, and colonel
• Isadore Sharp
  Isadore Sharp
  Isadore "Issy" Sharp, OC is a Canadian businessman and founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.In 1952, he graduated from Ryerson University with a diploma in Architectural Technology...
  
   (born 1931), Canadian businessman

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• Jack Sharp
  Jack Sharp
  John "Jack" Sharp was an English sportsman of outstanding talent who is most famous for his 9 year playing career at Everton F.C...
  
   (1878–1938), English international footballer and test cricketer
• James E. Sharp
  James E. Sharp
  James E. Sharp is a top criminal defense lawyer in Washington D.C., and a partner in Sharp & Associates, PLLC.He is a nationally recognized attorney with extensive litigation experience in federal courts throughout the country...
  
   (born 1940), American lawyer
• James Lyall Sharp
  James Lyall Sharp
  James Lyall Sharp is a British diplomat.Sharp served as Ambassasdor to Kazakhstan, and served concurrently as non-resident Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, from 2002 until 2005...
  
  (born 1960), British diplomat
• James Sharp (bishop) (1613–1679), Scottish clergyman
• James Sharp (footballer)
  James Sharp (footballer)
  James Sharp is an English professional football player, currently without a club. He typically plays as a left-sided centre-back but has occasionally been used as a left-back....
  
   (born 1976), English professional football player
• John Sharp (actor)
  John Sharp (actor)
  John Sharp was a British television actor.He made more than 100 appearances in television and occasionally films between 1949 and 1991. Sharp began as a film actor in 1949 and appeared in films throughout the 1950s...
  
   (1920–1992), British television actor
• John Sharp (Archbishop of York) (1643–1714), Archbishop of York
• John Sharp (Australian politician)
  John Sharp (Australian politician)
  John Randall Sharp , Australian politician, is a former National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Divisions of Gilmore and Hume in New South Wales....
  
   (born 1954), Australian politician
• John Sharp (cellist), musician
• John Sharp (Texas politician)
  John Sharp (Texas politician)
  John Sharp is the former Democratic Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, having held the office from 1991 to 1999. He is currently a principal in the Austin office of the Dallas-based Ryan & Company, a tax consulting firm. In 2005, he was appointed to serve as Chair of the Texas Tax Reform...
  
   is a former Texas politician
• Jon Sharp
  Jon Sharp
  Jon Sharp is the current first team coach of Super League club Crusaders Rugby League. Between 2004 and 2008 he was head coach of Huddersfield Giants, having been appointed in 2003 when Tony Smith left the club for Leeds Rhinos. He was also part of the Great Britain coaching set-up under head coach...
  
  , former head coach of Huddersfield Giants
• Joseph Henry Sharp
  Joseph Henry Sharp
  Joseph Henry Sharp was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, of which he is considered the "Spiritual Father". Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists to visit Taos, New Mexico, which he saw in 1893 with John Hauser when he visited in 1893...
  
   (1859–1953), artist (Taos Art Colony)
• Joseph Sharp
  Joseph Sharp
  Joseph Sharp was an early settler of New Jersey, landowner, supporter of education, an iron manufacturer, an industrialist; his mill provided flour to American Troops in the War of 1812.-Influence on education:...
  
   (c.1709-1776), early settler of New Jersey

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• K. B. Sharp
  K. B. Sharp
  K.B. Sharp is a professional women's basketball player. Sharp has also played for a number of overseas teams.- Early years :...
  
   (born 1981), professional women's basketball player
• Kevin Sharp (country music) (born 1970), American country music artist
• Kevin Sharp (footballer)
  Kevin Sharp (footballer)
  Kevin Philip Sharp is a Canadian-born footballer who plays as a left-back for Harrogate Town.-Career:...
  
   (born 1974), Canadian-born footballer
• Kevin Sharp (heavy metal), Americn heavy metal singer

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• Leonard Sharp (1890–1958), British actor
• Lesley Sharp
  Lesley Sharp
  Lesley Sharp is an English stage, film and television actress, particularly well known for her variety of British television roles including Clocking Off, Bob & Rose and afterlife.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1964), English actress
• Lester W. Sharp
  Lester W. Sharp
  Lester Whyland Sharp was an American botanist, a pioneer in cytogenetics....
  
  (1887–1961), American botanist
• Liam Sharp
  Liam Sharp
  Liam Roger Sharp is a British comic book artist, writer and publisher.-Early life:Liam Sharp was born in Derby at St. Mary's Hospital to parents Roger and Linda Sharp. He has a younger sister, Kerry, and younger brother, Rien. He went to School at Brackensdale Junior then infants school, before...
  
   (born 1968), British comic book artist
• Linda K. Sharp
  Linda K. Sharp
  Linda K. Sharp is a former collegiate women's basketball coach. Her coaching career spans 31 seasons with stints on all levels from elementary, junior high and high school to the collegiate and professional ranks, and she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.Sharp served as...
  
  , women's basketball coach
• Lindsay Sharp
  Lindsay Sharp
  Dr Lindsay Sharp is a museologist and writer living near Berry in the coastal hinterland of New South Wales in Australia, working on two large novels....
  
  , museum director

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• Maia Sharp
  Maia Sharp
  Maia Sharp is an American singer and songwriter. In addition to her solo career, she has written songs for and collaborated with several country and pop musicians including Cher, Trisha Yearwood, Bonnie Raitt, Edwin McCain, and Art Garfunkel.-Early life:...
  
  , country music singer and songwriter
• Margaret Sharp, Baroness Sharp of Guildford
  Margaret Sharp, Baroness Sharp of Guildford
  Margaret Lucy Sharp, Baroness Sharp of Guildford is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.-Early life:She is the daughter of Osmund and Sydney Hailstone...
  
   (born 1938), member of the British House of Lords
• Margery Sharp
  Margery Sharp
  Margery Sharp , was an English author. She was a prolific writer in her long career, writing 26 novels for adults, 14 stories for children, 4 plays, 2 mysteries, as well as numerous short stories...
  
   (1905–1991), English writer
• Martha Sharp
  Martha Sharp
  Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp-Cogan was an American philanthropist who, along with her husband Waitstill Sharp, helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution by sending them off through Czechoslovakia-Social Work:...
  
   (1905–1999), American philanthropist
• Martin Sharp (journalist)
  Martin Sharp (journalist)
  Martin Andrew Sharp was an English historian, long a resident in Spain. He assumed the name Martin Andrew Sharp Hume as a condition of receiving a legacy from a Spanish-English relative who was a Hume. He was born in London and was educated at Madrid. He was the editor of the Spanish State...
  
   (1847–1910), English historian
• Martin Sharp
  Martin Sharp
  Martin Sharp is an Australian artist, underground cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker. Sharp has made contributions to Australian and international culture since the early 60s, and is hailed as Australia's foremost pop artist...
  
   (born 1944), Australian cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker
• Matt Sharp
  Matt Sharp
  Matthew Kelly Sharp is a founding member and former bassist for the band Weezer. In 1994, he started a band called The Rentals and released their debut album shortly after Weezer's first release, their second album in 1999, and an EP in 2007...
  
   (born 1969), American rock bassist
• Minnie Bell Sharp
  Minnie Bell Sharp
  Minnie Bell Sharp Adney was a Canadian music teacher and political candidate.She was the daughter of Francis Peabody Sharp, a famous Canadian pomologist, and on September 12, 1899 married Edwin Tappan Adney, the Klondike publicist and Malicite ethnographer. They had one child, Francis Glenn...
  
   (1865–1937), pianist and singer
• Mitchell Sharp
  Mitchell Sharp
  Mitchell William Sharp, PC, CC was a Canadian politician and a Companion of the Order of Canada, was most noted for his service as a Liberal Cabinet minister. He had, however, served in both private and public sectors during his long career.-Background:Sharp was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
   (1911–2004), Canadian politician

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• Pat Sharp
  Pat Sharp
  Pat Sharp is a British radio and television presenter and disc jockey. In the UK, he is known mainly for his work on the children's television programme Fun House, his former mullet and his radio shows as well as his support of Arsenal...
  
   (born 1961), British television presenter
• Patrick Sharp
  Patrick Sharp
  Patrick Sharp is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and alternate captain currently playing for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:Sharp was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
   (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey centre
• Peter Sharp
  Peter Sharp
  Peter Sharp is an Australian professional rugby league coach. He is currently the assistant coach of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in Australia's National Rugby League....
  
  , Australian rugby league footballer and coach
• Philip Sharp (disambiguation), multiple people
• Phillip Allen Sharp
  Phillip Allen Sharp
  Phillip Allen Sharp is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J...
  
   (born 1944), American geneticist and molecular biologist

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• Randy Sharp
  Randy Sharp
  Randy Sharp is a country songwriter who has written songs for Clay Walker, Patty Loveless, Reba McEntire, and the Dixie Chicks. He is also the father of Country singer-songwriter Maia Sharp. In 2002, Sharp released an album titled The Connection....
  
  , songwriter
• Ray Sharp
  Ray Sharp
  Ray Sharp is a Scottish former footballer, who played for Dunfermline, Stenhousemuir, Preston North End, Forfar, Alloa, Cowdenbeath, East Fife and Montrose.- External links :*, Neil Brown...
  
   (born 1969), Scottish footballer
• Ray Sharp (badminton), English badminton player
• Rebecca Sharp (1923–1990) an American artist
• Rhod Sharp
  Rhod Sharp
  Rhoderick "Rhod" Sharp is a Scottish broadcaster, best known as a presenter of Up All Night on BBC Radio Five Live.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1953), Scottish-born broadcaster
• Richard Sharp (politician)
  Richard Sharp (politician)
  Richard Sharp, FRS, FSA , also known as "Conversation" Sharp, was a hat-maker, banker, merchant, poet, critic, British politician, but above all - doyen of the conversationalists.-Family background:...
  
   known as Conversation Sharp, English wit
• Richard Sharp
  Richard Sharp
  Richard Adrian William Sharp from Cornwall, was educated at Blundell's School and at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He was a former Cornish rugby player at Redruth R.F.C., Wasps FC, Bristol FC and England rugby union fly-half and captain. He played for England while at Oxford and led...
  
   (born 1938), English rugby player
• Rodney Sharp
  Rodney Sharp
  H. Rodney Sharp III has been a director of DuPont since 1981. Sharp is president of the Board of Trustees of Longwood Foundation, Inc., and a director of Wilmington Trust. He is a trustee and director of Christiana Care Corporation. Sharp also serves as secretary of the board of Planned Parenthood...
  
   a director of the DuPont corporation
• Ronald Sharp
  Ronald Sharp
  Ronald William Sharp is an organ builder based in Sydney, Australia.He specialised in mechanical, tracker action instruments, and was responsible for re-introducing mechanical action to Australia. His tracker action baroque organs are particularly famous...
  
   (born 1929), Australian organ builder
• Ryan Sharp
  Ryan Sharp
  Ryan Sharp is a race car driver and team manager born in Newtonhill, Scotland, United Kingdom on 29 April 1979. He raced in the FIA GT Championship in 2007 with JetAlliance Racing in their lead #33 Aston Martin DBR9 - with Ex-F1 Driver Karl Wendlinger as his team-mate. Ryan was also the 2003...
  
   (born 1979), British race car driver

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• Sammy Sharp
  Sammy Sharp
  Samuel "Sammy" Sharp was a footballer who played as a wing half in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably with Manchester City....
  
  , footballer of the 1920s who played for Manchester City
• Scott Sharp
  Scott Sharp
  Scott Sharp is an American race car driver in the American Le Mans Series. He is the son of six-time SCCA champion Bob Sharp. Scott Sharp is best known for his years as a competitor in the Indy Racing League....
  
   (born 1968), an American race car driver
• Solomon P. Sharp
  Solomon P. Sharp
  Solomon Porcius Sharp was attorney general of Kentucky and a member of the United States Congress and the Kentucky General Assembly. His murder at the hands of Jereboam O...
  
   (1787–1825), American politician
• Susie Sharp
  Susie Sharp
  Susie Marshall Sharp was an American jurist who served as the first female Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was not the first woman to head the highest court in a U.S...
  
   (1907–96), American jurist
• Sylver Logan Sharp
  Sylver Logan Sharp
  Sylver Logan Sharp has been lead vocalist with Nile Rodgers and Chic since the early 1990s and continues to tour with them in 2006.In 2005, her song "All this time", written by Jonathan Peters, became a huge hit in clubs and dance stations in large cities such as WKTU in New York, KNHC in Seattle...
  
  , vocalist

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• Terri Sharp
  Terri Sharp
  Terri Sharp is a gold record winning American songwriter and vocalist. While writing on Music Row in Nashville, Terri's songs were recorded by many artists including Don Mclean and Hank Williams Jr...
  
   (born 1950), American singer
• Thomas C. Sharp
  Thomas C. Sharp
  Thomas Coke Sharp was a prominent opponent of Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Latter Day Saints in Illinois in the 1840s. Sharp promoted his anti-Mormon views largely through the Warsaw Signal newspaper, of which he was the owner, editor, and publisher...
  
  , opponent of Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Latter Day Saints
• Thomas Wilfred Sharp
  Thomas Wilfred Sharp
  Thomas Wilfred Sharp was an English urban planner and writer. He was born in Bishop Auckland in County Durham, England. He attended the local grammar school and then spent four years working for the borough surveyor...
  
   (1901 - 1978), English town planner and author
• Timm Sharp
  Timm Sharp
  Timm Sharp is an American actor known mainly for his TV roles, including a lead role in the 2001 comedy Undeclared, as well as recurring roles in Six Feet Under and Til Death. He appears with Laura Dern in the HBO comedy series Enlightened, which debuted on October 10, 2011. He also attended...
  
  , American actor
• Tom Sharp (cricketer)
  Tom Sharp (cricketer)
  Thomas Granville "Tom" Sharp is an English cricketer currently playing for Unicorns. Before joining Unicorns during the 2010 Clydesdale Bank 40 competition, Sharp played 9 List A matches for Cornwall, for whom he also plays in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship.-External links:...
  
  , English first-class cricketer for Cornwall CCC and Unicorns

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• Waitstill Sharp
  Waitstill Sharp
  Waitstill Hastings Sharp was a Harvard College graduate and Unitarian minister. He was the son of naturalist author and professor Dallas Lore Sharp and Grace Hastings and a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634...
  
   (1902–1984), American Unitarian minister and humanitarian
• Walter Benona Sharp
  Walter Benona Sharp
  Walter Benona Sharp was an American oil drilling pioneer, innovator and philanthropist.Born in Tipton County, Tennessee, Sharp's mother died when he was eight and his father moved the family to Texas. By the age of twenty Sharp was operating a water well drilling company with his brother...
  
   (1870–1912), American oil drilling pioneer, innovator and philanthropist
• William Sharp (engraver)
  William Sharp (engraver)
  William Sharp , was an English line-engraver and artist.-Life and work:Sharp was the son of a reputable gunsmith who lived at Haydon's Yard, Minories in central London...
  
   (1749–1824), English engraver
• William Sharp (writer)
  William Sharp (writer)
  William Sharp was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime...
  
   (1855–1905), Scottish author and poet, pseudonym Fiona MacLeod
• Willoughby Sharp
  Willoughby Sharp
  Willoughby Sharp was an internationally known artist, independent curator, independent publisher, gallerist, teacher, author, and telecom activist. In 1968, Sharp co-founded Avalanche magazine with writer/filmmaker Liza Béar...
  
   (1936–2008), artist

Fictional Sharps

• Becky Sharp, the main character in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair'
• Phineas Sharp, Disney character
• Gavin Sharp, character in soap opera EastEnders

See also

• Sharp (disambiguation)
• Sharpe (surname)
  Sharpe (surname)
  Sharpe is a surname of French origin, and may refer to:In government:* Alfred Sharpe , British colonial administrator* George Sharpe , Canadian politician, mayor of Winnipeg* George H...
  
  
• Scharping
• Scharf
  Scharf
  Scharf is a German surname. Today it is spread quite evenly over all of Germany. It is an "eke" name; i.e., it describes a physical attribute. In this case it means the original bearer was sharp-witted....
  
  , Scharff
  Scharff
  Scharff is a surname, and may refer to:* Alexander Scharff , German historian* Anton Scharff , Austrian medal maker* Benjamin Scharff , German doctor...