• Alfred Sharpe
  Alfred Sharpe
  Sir Alfred Sharpe was a professional hunter who became a British colonial administrator and Commissioner of the British Central Africa Protectorate from 1896 until 1910...
  
   (1853–1935), British colonial administrator
• George Sharpe (politician)
  George Sharpe (politician)
  George Edward Sharpe was a Canadian politician serving as an alderman and the 36th Mayor of Winnipeg.He became a Winnipeg alderman in 1946 and served in that role until his election as Mayor for 1955 and 1956....
  
   (c. 1907-1985), Canadian politician, mayor of Winnipeg
• George H. Sharpe
  George H. Sharpe
  George Henry Sharpe was an American lawyer, soldier, secret service officer, diplomat and politician.-Early life:...
  
   (1828-1900), American lawyer, soldier, secret service officer, diplomat and politician
• Horatio Sharpe
  Horatio Sharpe
  Horatio Sharpe was the 22nd Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1753 to 1768 under the Restored Proprietary Government.-Biography:...
  
   (1718-1790), British Royal Governor of Maryland
• James Sharpe (Australian politician)
  James Sharpe (Australian politician)
  James Benjamin Sharpe was an Australian politician. Born in Kiama, New South Wales, he was educated at public schools and moved to Queensland while a young man. He was a tobacconist, labour journalist and press proprietor, as well as an alderman with Brisbane City Council...
  
  
• Merrill Q. Sharpe
  Merrill Q. Sharpe
  Merrell Quentin Sharpe was a Republican American politician from Kennebec, South Dakota.-Governor:Sharpe served as 17th Governor of South Dakota from 1943 to 1947.,...
  
  , American politician
• Penny Sharpe
  Penny Sharpe
  Penelope Gail Sharpe is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since October 2005, when she filled a casual vacancy caused by the decision of Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt to move to the Legislative Assembly...
  
  , Australian politician
• Peter Sharpe
  Peter Sharpe
  Peter Sharpe was an American politician who served as a United States Representative from New York.-Life:...
  
   (1777-1842), American politician, Representative from New York
• Roger Sharpe
  Roger Sharpe
  Roger Sharpe is a public servant, author and North Carolina politician. He was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives from the state's Fifth congressional district in 2006, losing to incumbent Virginia Foxx....
  
  , American author and politician, former member of the North Carolina Senate
• Thomas Sharpe
  Thomas Sharpe
  Thomas Sharpe was a Canadian politician, the 20th Mayor of Winnipeg from 1904 to 1906.Sharpe was born in County Sligo, Ireland and worked as a bank clerk in his teens. He moved to Canada in 1885 initially working in Toronto as a pavement contractor, then in 1892 moved to Winnipeg...
  
   (1866-1919), Canadian politician, mayor of Winnipeg
• William Sharpe (politician)
  William Sharpe (politician)
  William Sharpe was a lawyer and politician from North Carolina, and a delegate to the Continental Congress.Sharpe was born in Rock Church, Maryland, in 1742. He was the son of Thomas Sharpe, of Maryland. He pursued classical studies and law...
  
   (1742–1818), U.S. lawyer and politician
• William R. Sharpe, Jr.
  William R. Sharpe, Jr.
  William R. "Bill" Sharpe Jr. was a Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate, representing the 12th District since 1984 and serving as President Pro Tempore since 1990. He earlier served from 1960 through 1980, and as Majority Whip from 1972 to 1980. This making Sharpe the longest serving...
  
   (1928-2009), American member of the West Virginia Senate

• Bud Sharpe
  Bud Sharpe
  Bayard Heston "Bud" Sharpe is a former Major League Baseball first baseman/outfielder. He played Major League baseball in parts of two seasons-1905 and 1910....
  
  , American baseball player
• David Sharpe, British runner
• Dougie Sharpe
  Dougie Sharpe
  Dougie Sharpe was a former Scottish footballer who played for Queen of the South from the town of Dumfries.-Early years:...
  
  , Scottish footballer
• Duncan Sharpe
  Duncan Sharpe
  Duncan Albert Sharpe is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in three Tests in 1959. Sharpe was an Anglo-Pakistani, therefore he was one of the few Christian players to play for Pakistan....
  
  , Pakistani cricketer
• Jimmy Sharpe
  Jimmy Sharpe
  Jimmy Sharpe is a former football coach, most notably head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies from 1974 to 1977. He also served as an assistant coach at the University of Alabama, under Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, and at Mississippi State University. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1974...
  
  , American college football coach
• John Sharpe (cricketer)
  John Sharpe (cricketer)
  John Sharpe was a bowler who was George Lohmann's partner in the formidable Surrey sides that dominated the first years of the official cricket County Championship...
  
  , (1866–1936), English cricketer
• Lee Sharpe
  Lee Sharpe
  Lee Stuart Sharpe is an English former footballer. Predominantly a left winger, Sharpe joined Manchester United from Torquay United as a youngster in 1988, playing for the club up until 1996...
  
  , (born 1971), English footballer
• Luis Sharpe
  Luis Sharpe
  Luis Ernesto Sharpe is a former professional American football tackle who played 13 seasons in the National Football League for the St. Louis/Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals from 1982 through 1994. A 3-time Pro Bowl selection, Sharpe was selected by the Cardinals in the 1st round of the 1982 NFL Draft...
  
  , American NFL football player
• Mike Sharpe
  Mike Sharpe
  Michael "Mike" Sharpe is a Canadian professional wrestler better known as Iron Mike Sharpe.-Career:Sharpe comes from a family legacy of wrestling, as his father and uncle were a successful tag team in the 1950s, recognized as champions from San Francisco to Japan. He grew up in California, but...
  
  , American wrestler
• Nathan Sharpe
  Nathan Sharpe
  Nathan Sharpe is an Australian rugby union player. He plays lock and is the captain of the Western Force.-Early career:...
  
  , Australian rugby union player
• Phil Sharpe (cricketer) (b. 1936), English cricketer
• Phil Sharpe (footballer)
  Phil Sharpe (footballer)
  Philip Sharpe is a former professional footballer, and was also manager of Bradford P.A. until removed from the post in March 2007....
  
   (b. 1968), English footballer
• Ricky Sharpe
  Ricky Sharpe
  Ricky Sharpe played in the Arena Football League as a defensive back/wide receiver for the Los Angeles Avengers.-High school years:Sharpe attended Mt...
  
  , American football player
• Shannon Sharpe
  Shannon Sharpe
  Shannon Sharpe is a former American Football tight end who played for the Denver Broncos and Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. Sharpe is known for his creative commentary and trash talking. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and inducted on August 6, 2011...
  
   (born 1968), U.S. American football player
• Sterling Sharpe
  Sterling Sharpe
  Sterling Sharpe is a former American football wide receiver and an analyst for the NFL Network. He attended the University of South Carolina, and played from 1988 to 1994 with the Green Bay Packers.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1965), U.S. American football player
• Tony Sharpe
  Tony Sharpe
  Tony Sharpe is a former sprinter from Canada who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Los Angeles 1984...
  
  , Canadian sprinter
• Wendy Sharpe (footballer)
  Wendy Sharpe (footballer)
  Wendy Sharpe is an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level. Sharpe is New Zealand's leading women's international goalscorer....
  
   (born 1963), New Zealand football player

• Alexander Sharpe (1814–1890), English philologist
• Daniel Sharpe
  Daniel Sharpe
  Daniel Sharpe FRS was an English geologist. He was born at Nottingham Place, Marylebone, Middlesex. He studied a number of mountainous formations in Great Britain and Continental Europe and arrived at important conclusions about cleavage in rocks.-Life:Orphaned before his first birthday, he was...
  
   (1806–1856), English geologist
• Eric J. Sharpe
  Eric J. Sharpe
  Eric John Sharpe was the founding Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia...
  
  , Australian scholar of religious studies
• Richard Sharpe (historian)
  Richard Sharpe (historian)
  Richard Sharpe is Professor of Diplomatic at the University of Oxford, based at Wadham College. His interests are broadly the history of medieval England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales...
  
  
• Richard Bowdler Sharpe
  Richard Bowdler Sharpe
  Richard Bowdler Sharpe was an English zoologist.-Biography:Sharpe was born in London and studied at Brighton College, The King's School, Peterborough and Loughborough Grammar School. At the age of sixteen he went to work for Smith & Sons in London...
  
  , (1847–1909), English zoologist
• Robert Sharpe
  Robert Sharpe
  ' is a Canadian lawyer, author, academic, and judge. He was Dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from 1990 to 1995 and is a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario....
  
  , Canadian lawyer, author, academic, and judge
• William Forsyth Sharpe
  William Forsyth Sharpe
  William Forsyth Sharpe is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
  
  , (born 1934), U.S. economist and inventor of the Sharpe ratio

• Albert Sharpe
  Albert Sharpe
  Albert Sharpe was an Irish stage and film actor. His most famous roles were those of Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People and as Finian McLonergan in the Broadway stage production of the musical Finian's Rainbow...
  
  , Irish stage and film actor
• Avery Sharpe
  Avery Sharpe
  Avery Sharpe is an American jazz double-bassist.Sharpe began playing piano at age eight and also studied accordion in his youth. He learned both electric and acoustic bass as a teenager, then studied with Reggie Workman at the University of Massachusetts...
  
  , American jazz musician
• Craig Sharpe
  Craig Sharpe
  Craig Sharpe was the runner-up on Canadian Idol 4 and finished a close second behind winner Eva Avila. He came through seven rounds of auditions judged by Canadian Idol's four-member panel...
  
  , contestant on Canadian Idol 4
• Lennox Sharpe
  Lennox Sharpe
  Lennox "Boogsie" Sharpe is a successful and popular composer and arranger of Steelpan music.-Person:Sharpe began his career with Starlift where he worked as a co-arranger with Ray Holman...
  
   (born 1963), Trinidad and Tobago steelband composer
• Matthew Sharpe
  Matthew Sharpe
  Matthew Sharpe is a U.S. novelist and short story writer.Born in New York City, but grew up in a small town in Connecticut.Sharpe graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio. Afterwards, he worked at US Magazine until he went back to school at Columbia University, where he pursued an MFA...
  
   (born 1962), U.S. novelist
• Tom Sharpe
  Tom Sharpe
  Tom Sharpe is an English satirical author, best known for his Wilt series of novels.Sharpe was born in London and moved to South Africa in 1951, where he worked as a social worker and a teacher, before being deported for sedition in 1961...
  
  , (born 1928), English satirical author of the novel Wilt
• Wendy Sharpe
  Wendy Sharpe
  Wendy Sharpe is an Australian artist. Winner of the Sulman Prize in 1986 with Black Sun - Morning and Night and the Archibald Prize in 1996 with Self Portrait - as Diana of Erskineville, she has entered the Archibald Prize at least 6 times and been hung at least 3 times...
  
  , (born 1960), Australian artist

• Chris Sharpe, a character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
• in the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
  • Deacon Sharpe
    Deacon Sharpe
    Deacon Sharpe is a fictional character on the CBS soap operas The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless. Sean Kanan originated the role on October 1, 2000 on The Bold and the Beautiful and continued in the role until February 22, 2005...
    
    
  • Macy Alexander Sharpe
    Macy Alexander Sharpe
    Macy Alexander Sharpe is a fictional character in the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful...
    
    
• Miriam Sharpe
  Miriam Sharpe
  Miriam Sharpe is a fictional comic book character appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Mark Millar and artist Steven McNiven, she first made her appearance during the 2006 crossover event Civil War #1 as an anti-superhero protestor modeled after activist Cindy Sheehan.-...
  
  , in the Marvel Comics universe
• Richard Sharpe (fictional character)
  Richard Sharpe (fictional character)
  Sharpe is a series of historical fiction stories by Bernard Cornwell centred on the character of Richard Sharpe. The stories formed the basis for an ITV television series wherein the eponymous character was played by Sean Bean....
  
  , central character in the novel and television series Sharpe

• Charles Richard Sharpe
  Charles Richard Sharpe
  Charles Richard Sharpe VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  , English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Edmund Sharpe
  Edmund Sharpe
  Edmund Sharpe was an English architect and engineer. He started his career as an architect, initially on his own, then in partnership with Edward Paley, designing mainly churches but also some secular buildings...
  
  , (1809–77), English architect and engineer
• Henry Granville Sharpe
  Henry Granville Sharpe
  Henry Granville Sharpe was the 24th Quartermaster General of the United States Army from 1916 to 1918.Sharpe was born in Kingston, New York, in 1858, and attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in 1880...
  
   (1858-1947), Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army
• John Sharpe (Australian murderer)
  John Sharpe (Australian murderer)
  The Sharpe family murders was a March 2004 Australian double murder, in which John Sharpe killed his pregnant wife, Anna, and his nineteen-month old daughter Gracie, in the Melbourne suburb of Mornington...
  
  
• Mal Sharpe
  Mal Sharpe
  Malcolm Sharpe is an American television and radio personality with roots in San Francisco, California.In the early 1960s, Sharpe teamed with Jim Coyle to create a series of comic on-the-street interviews for San Francisco radio station KGO. Armed with a tape recorder, Coyle and Sharpe confronted...
  
  , (born 1936), U.S. radio and TV personality
• Samuel Sharpe
  Samuel Sharpe
  Samuel 'Sam' Sharpe, or Sharp, National Hero of Jamaica was the slave leader behind the Jamaican Baptist War slave rebellion. Samuel Sharpe was born in the parish of St. James...
  
  , 19th century Jamaican missionary and revolutionary

See also

• Sharp
  Sharp (surname)
  Sharp is a surname. It is cognate to the German . It is also akin to words which have the sense of scraping, e.g. Latin 'ditch', Russian 'to scrape'.-A:* Abraham Sharp , English schoolmaster, mathematician and astronomer...
  
  (surname)
• 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...