title: Shadrach
text: # Shadrach
  
  Shadrach or Shadrack may refer to:
  
  ## Media
  
  * "Shadrack" (Robert MacGimsey song), a 1962 popular song written in the 1930s by Robert MacGimsey
  * Shadrach (novel), a 1953 children's book by Meindert De Jong
  * Shadrach in the Furnace, a 1976 novel by Robert Silverberg
  * "Shadrach," a 1978 short story by William Styron
  * "Shadrach" (Beastie Boys song), a 1989 single by the Beastie Boys
  * An Exciting Evening at Home with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, a 1989 EP by the Beastie Boys
  * Shadrach (film), a 1998 movie based on the William Styron short story
  
  ## People
  
  * Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, three associated Biblical figures
  * Shadrach Bond (a.k.a. Shadrack Bond, 1773–1832), first governor of the US State of Illinois
  * Shadrack Ireland (died 1778), cult leader
  * Shadrach Kabango, Canadian hip hop musician
  * S. M. Lockridge (Dr. Shadrach Meshach Lockridge, 1913–2000), late pastor from California
  * Shadrach Minkins (1814–1875), African American fugitive slave who in 1850 was captured in Boston, held by federal marshals and freed by a group of black men who broke into the courtroom
  * Shadrach Roundy (1789–1872), early Latter Day Saint leader
  * Shadrach Woods (1923–1973), American architect, urban planner and theorist
  * Gracia Shadrack, Vanuatuan politician
  
  ### Characters
  
  * Shadrach Dingle, a fictional character on the British soap Emmerdale
  * Shadrach, a mercenary in the novel Perdido Street Station
  * Shadrack, a mentally-ill World War I veteran in the novel Sula by Toni Morrison
  * Shadrack, an undertaker and employer of the title character in the novel Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
  * Dr. Gregory Herd, a Marvel Comics character also known as Shadrac
  * Shadrack the Great, a headless lion tamer's ghost in 13 Ghosts
  * Shadrach Jones, the titular character in the short story The King of the Elves by Philip K. Dick
  