sheila

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Sheila is a common given name for a female, taken from the Gaelic name Síle/Sìle, which is believed to be a Gaelic form of Julia or Cecilia. Like "Cecil" or "Cecilia", the name means "blind", from the Latin caecus.

Sheila is also a colloquial term for a girl or woman in Australia and some other Commonwealth countries, thought to be derived from the term 'she-lag,' lag being English slang for convict.

Sheila may also refer to:

People:

• Sheila (singer) (born 1945), French singer
• Sheila Chandra (born 1965), English pop singer
• Sheila Dikshit (born 1938), Chief Minister of Delhi, India
• Sheila E. (born 1957), American singer
• Sheila Fearn (born 1940), English actress
• Sheila Florance (1916 – 1991), Australian actress
• Sheila Fougere, Nova Scotian (Canada), politician
• Sheila Gordon (born 1927), South African novelist
• Sheila Hoskin (born 1936), English track and field athlete
• Sheila Steafel (born 1935), South African-born British actress
• Sheila Taormina (born 1969), American athlete
• Sheila White (actress), (born 1950), English actress
• Sheila Bair, (born 1954), Chairman of the FDIC

• Sheila Wilmot (born 1963), Taking responsibility, Taking Direction: White anti-racism in Canada

In fiction:

• Sheila (Spyro character), a kangaroo
• The tank in Red vs. Blue; see List of characters in Red vs. Blue
• A character in Army of Darkness
• A character from the Dungeons & Dragons (TV series)
• Sheila Carter, a character from The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful
• Sheila Corkhill, a character from the defunct British soap opera Brookside
• Sheila Franklin, a character and a song in the musical Hair
• Sheila Futterman, a character in Gremlins
• Sheila Gallagher (Shameless), a character from the British television series Shameless
• Sheila Tubman, a character in Judy Blume's popular series Fudge

In music:

• The Sheilas, a girl group
• "Sheila" (song), a 1962 single by Tommy Roe
• "Tequila Sheila", a 1980 song by Bobby Bare
• "Oh Sheila", a 1985 song by Ready for the World
• "Sheila Take a Bow", a 1987 song by The Smiths
• "To Sheila", a 1998 song by The Smashing Pumpkins
• "Sheila (Jamie T song)", a 2006 song by Jamie T

Other:

• Sheila na gig, a figure displaying her open vulva in Celtic stone carvings
• Sheilas' Wheels, a UK car insurance company
• ST Sheila, a tugboat

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