Surname Study
SHARROCK / SHORROCK
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FAMOUS PERSONS
Fallon Sherrock (born 1 July 1994 in England) is an English darts player.[1] Born in Buckinghamshire,
Sherrock[2] already has a notable number of successes in her fledgling career, including reaching the
final of the 2015 BDO World Darts Championship, where she was runner up to Lisa Ashton.
Ann Shurrock - Margaret Ann Shurrock (born 22 May 1946) is a former New Zealand female archer. She
competed in the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics in the individual competitions for women. She was
ranked 24th in the women's individual archery at the 1984 Olympics, and in the 1988 Olympics she was
ranked 36th in the final standings.
Glenn Barrie Shorrock (born 30 June 1944) is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter. He was a
founding member of pop groups The Twilights, Axiom, Little River Band, and post LRB spin-off trio Birtles
Shorrock Goble, as well as being a solo performer.
Tim Shorrock is the author of Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. He was raised
in Japan and South Korea and has been covering the intersection of national security and capitalism since
the late 1970s. During the Vietnam War he was active in the peace and antiwar movement and writes and
comments frequently about US military policies in Asia and the Korean peninsula.
Nicole Shorrock is an actress, known for Mech-X4 (2016), Beyond (2016) and Diagnose Me (2015). Nicole
was born in Australia and moved to Canada in her teens. She has dual citizenship.
Sonny Sharrock - Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock (August 27, 1940 – May 25, 1994) was an American
guitarist. He was married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he recorded and performed. One of few
guitarists in the first wave of free jazz in the 1960s, Sharrock was known for his heavily chorded attack, his
highly amplified bursts of feedback, and his use of saxophone-like lines played loudly on guitar.
Ken Sharrock was born on December 11, 1950 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He was an actor and
writer, known for The Living Daylights (1987), A Prayer for the Dying (1987) and EastEnders (1985). He was
married to Sally. He died on November 29, 2005 in London, England.
Thea Sharrock (born 1976) is an English theatre and film director. In 2001, when at age 24 she became
artistic director of London's Southwark Playhouse, she was the youngest artistic director in British theatre.
Sharrock was born to journalist parents in London, England, but spent part of her childhood living in Kenya.
She attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from the age of nine. She then read Philosophy and French
at Corpus Christi, Oxford. While a student there, she was president of the Oxford University Dramatic Soc.
Matt Sharrock is a vibrant musician whose performances have been hailed as “eloquent” (San Francisco
Chronicle), “sumptuous” (Boston Globe), “gorgeously lyrical” (Pittsburgh Gazette), and he is considered
one of "Boston's best percussionists" (I Care if You Listen).
Joan Sharrock (born 1946) is active/lives in Canada. Joan Sharrock is known for wildlife-big cats-birds. A resident of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, she specializes in painting big cats, especially tigers.
Chris Sharrock (born 1964), British musician
Burgess Sharrocks (1919–1988), British artist
George Sharrock (1910–2005), American politician
Ivan Sharrock (born 1941), British sound engineer
John Sharrock (born 1944), Australian football player
Linda Sharrock (born 1947), American singer
Robert Sharrock (1630–1684), British clergyman and botanist
Wayne Sharrocks (born 1965), British writer
William Sharrock (1742–1809), British bishop
Arthur Gostick Shorrock, British Baptist missionary
Eccles Shorrock, British cotton mill owner
Tim Shorrock, American writer and commentator on foreign policy, national security and politics
Will Shorrock, English footballer
Anthony Shorrocks, British economist
Ernest Shorrocks, British cricket player
Jake Shorrocks, English rugby league footballer
Francis Shurrock (1887–1977), New Zealand sculptor and art teacher








