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 Karl Barry Sharpless (born April 28, 1941) is an American chemist and a two-time Nobel laureate in Chemistry known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry. Sharpless was awarded half of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry " ...

, American chemist and Nobel prize winner *

Josh Sharpless Joshua David Sharpless (born January 26, 1981) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. Biography Sharpless grew up in the greater Pittsburgh area, attending Freedom Area Senior High School in Freedom, Pennsylvania. Drafted ...

, baseball player *

Christopher Sharpless Christopher Sharpless (born August 23, 1945) is a bobsledder who represented the United States Virgin Islands The United States Virgin Islands,. Also called the ''American Virgin Islands'' and the ''U.S. Virgin Islands''. officially the Vir ...

, 1988 Winter Olympics bobsledder * Mattie R. Sharpless (born 1942), American diplomat *

Stewart Sharpless Stewart Sharpless (March 29, 1926 – January 19, 2013) was an American astronomer who carried out fundamental work on the structure of the Milky Way galaxy. As a graduate student at Yerkes Observatory he worked under William Morgan with fellow g ...

, 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 Isaac Sharpless, Sc.D., LL.D., L.H.D. (1848–1920) was an American educator, born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard in 1873 and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from there in 1915. He was employed at Ha ...

, educator *

Norman Sharpless Norman Edward "Ned" Sharpless (born September 20, 1966) is the previous Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Before that, Sharpless was Professor of Medicine and Genetics Chair, Director of University of North Carolina UNC Lineberger ...

, American oncologist and director of the National Cancer Institute *

Disappearance of Toni Sharpless In the predawn hours of August 23, 2009, Toni Sharpless (born December 27, 1979)Missing person flyer reproduced at and her friend Crystal Johns left a party at the home of Philadelphia 76er Willie Green in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, United Stat ...

, 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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