Sharkey (disambiguation)

Sharkey is a surname of Irish origin.

Sharkey, Sharky or Sharkies may also refer to:

Places

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

People

• Sharkey Bonano (1904-1972), American jazz trumpeter, band leader and vocalist
• Lewis Brown (rugby league) (born 1986), New Zealand rugby league footballer nicknamed "Sharky"
• Mark Robinson (rugby, born 1975), New Zealand retired rugby union footballer nicknamed "Sharky"
• George Sweatt (1893-1983), American Negro league baseball player nicknamed "Sharky"
• DJ Sharkey (born 1974), British DJ born Jonathan Kneath
• Bill Sharky, former member of The Barron Knights, a British humorous pop group
• Sharky, former member of The Prodigy, an English electronic dance music group

Fictional characters

• An alias for Saruman in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• 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
• Tom Sharky, protagonist of the 1981 film Sharky's Machine, played by Burt Reynolds
• Sharky, mascot of the Sea Life Minnesota Aquarium
• Sharkey, a character in the James Bond film Licence to Kill played by Frank McRae

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"
• Pomona 12th Street Sharkies, a street gang in Pomona, California, United States