title: Sharples
text: # Sharples
  
  Sharples may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Adam Sharples (born 1954), British executive
  * Charlie Sharples (born 1989), English rugby union footballer
  * Eliza Sharples (1805–1852), British writer and lecturer on freethought, radical politics and women's rights
  * Ellen Sharples (1769–1849), English painter
  * George Sharples (1943–2020), English footballer
  * James Sharples (disambiguation)
  * Jeff Sharples (born 1967), Canada former National Hockey League player
  * John Sharples (disambiguation)
  * Katrina Sharples, New Zealand biostatistician and violist
  * Kayla Sharples (born 1997), American soccer player
  * Linda Sharples, British statistician
  * Mike Sharples (born 1952), British academic
  * Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples (1923–2022), wife of Richard Sharples
  * Philip M. Sharples (1857–1944), American inventor and industrialist
  * Pita Sharples (born 1941), Maori academic and politician
  * Richard Sharples (1916–1973), British politician assassinated while Governor of Bermuda
  * Robert Sharples (1913–1987), British musical conductor, composer and bandleader
  * Robert Sharples (classicist) (1949–2010), English educator and authority on ancient Greek philosophy
  * Rolinda Sharples (1793–1838), English painter
  * Winston Sharples (1909–1978), American composer known for his work with animated shorts
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Carrie Sharples, on the television series Alice
  * Ena Sharples, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
  * Mel Sharples, diner owner and cook in the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and the television series Alice
  
  ## Places
  
  * Sharples, Alberta, Canada, a ghost town
  * Sharples, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, a suburb of Bolton
  * Sharples, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Sharples School, a co-educational secondary school in the Sharples area of Bolton in the English county of Greater Manchester
  