Sharpless is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Bevan Sharpless Bevan Percival Sharpless (August 2, 1904 – October 28, 1950) was an American astronomer, best known for his 1944 discovery that the orbit of Phobos was decaying. Early life Sharpless was born to Ethel Mae Bevan and Albert Wayne Sharpless on A ...

, solar system astronomer * Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist and Nobel prize winner * Josh Sharpless, baseball player *

Christopher Sharpless Christopher Sharpless (born August 23, 1945) is a bobsledder who represented the United States Virgin Islands. He competed in the two man event at the 1988 Winter Olympics The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter ...

, 1988 Winter Olympics bobsledder *

Mattie R. Sharpless Mattie R. Sharpless (born July 1, 1943) retired after 41 years working for the Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). When she retired in January 2006, she had attained the rank of Ambassador, retired from the U.S. F ...

(born 1942), American diplomat * Stewart Sharpless, galactic astronomer **

Sharpless catalog The Sharpless catalog is a list of 313 H II regions (emission nebulae) intended to be comprehensive north of declination −27°. (It does include some nebulae south of that declination as well.) The first edition was published in 1953 with 14 ...

, a 20th-century astronomical catalog with 313 items * Isaac Sharpless, educator * Norman Sharpless, American oncologist and director of the National Cancer Institute * Disappearance of Toni Sharpless, an American nurse who disappeared in 2009

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Madama Butterfly ''Madama Butterfly'' (; ''Madame Butterfly'') is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther ...

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