Sheila Kuehl
Kuehl was born Sheila Ann Kuehl in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her father, Arthur, was an airplane construction worker at Douglas Aircraft. He was Catholic and her mother, Lillian, was Jewish. As a child actress she performed under the stage name Sheila James.
Sheila Singh Paul
The maiden name of Dr. Sheila Singh Paul was Sheila Therese Martin, born of parents of Jewish descent ( Myers from France ) who migrated to Bihar India in the early 1900s and owned coal mines in Jharia (now in Jharkhand). Before she became a student at Lady Hardinge Medical College, she was a student of Isabella Thoburn College Lucknow and Loreto Convent, Asansol. She worked at the Lady Dufferin Hospital in Calcutta and also served in the Indian Army in the Army Medical Corps (India). She married Balwant Singh Paul [bar-at-law, Lincoln's Inn] son of Sardar Bahadur Kishan Singh, IG of Police and Kings police medal awardee.