Shirk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Amos Urban Shirk Amos Urban Shirk ( 1890 – October 20, 1956) was an American businessman, author and reader of encyclopedias.
As a businessman he worked in the food industry. He wrote ''Marketing Through Food Brokers'', published in 1939 by McGraw-Hill. He invent ...
(c. 1890 – 1956), American businessman
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Bill Shirk
Bill Shirk (born May 3, 1945 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American escape artist, radio personality, broadcast entrepreneur and actor.
Biography
Radio broadcasting
Shirk graduated from Ball State University in 1967 with a Bachelor of Scienc ...
(born 1945), American escape artist
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Dave Shirk
Dave Shirk is a visual effects supervisor. Shirk and his fellow visual effects artists are won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 2013 film ''Gravity''.
He was also nominated for the 2018 film ''Ready Player One
''Ready Player ...
, visual effects supervisor
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Eugene Shirk (1901–1994), American politician
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Gary Shirk (born 1950), American football player
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George H. Shirk
George Henry Shirk (May 1, 1913 – March 23, 1977) was a lawyer, historian, and former Mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In addition to being an author on several subjects related to the history of Oklahoma, he was known as a civic leader ...
(1913–1977), American lawyer and historian
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James Shirk
USS ''Shirk'' (DD-318) was a ''Clemson''-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy from 1919 to 1930. She was scrapped in 1931.
Namesake
James W. Shirk was born on 16 July 1832 in Pennsylvania. He was appointed midshipman on 26 M ...
(1832–1873), American naval officer
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John Shirk (1917–1993), American football player
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Ken Shirk
Ken Shirk (Kenneth Ivan Shirk, popularly known as Cowman and Cowman A MooHa) is an ultramarathon runner who in 1976 was the ninth person to complete the course of The Western States Trail Ride on foot. In 1977 the Western States Endurance Run wa ...
, American triathlete and ultramarathon runner
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Marshall Shirk
Marshall Chester Shirk (born August 3, 1940) was a Canadian football player who played for the Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the Grey Cup in 1968 and 1969. He previously played college football at the University of California, Los Angeles
Th ...
(born 1940), American player of Canadian football
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Matthew Shirk
Matthew Aaron Shirk (born July 9, 1973) is an American lawyer and served as the public defender for Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit. He was elected to the position, which covers Clay, Duval, and Nassau Counties, in 2008 and lost re-election in ...
(born 1973), American lawyer
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Susan Shirk
Susan L. Shirk (born 1945) is a professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Her research field is Chinese politics.
Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East ...
(born c. 1945), American academic
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