Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

Ernest Howard Shepard ( 10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976 ) was an English artist and book illustrator.

Shepard was born in St John's Wood, London.

Shepard was recommended to Milne by another Punch staffer, E. V. Lucas in 1923.

Shepard Fairey rose to fame after his " Andre the Giant Has a Posse " sticker campaign, in which his art was plastered in cities across America.

Astronauts Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space, and Deke Slayton later wrote of how the sight of Sputnik I passing overhead inspired them to their new careers.

In early 1964 Alan Shepard was grounded after being diagnosed with Ménière's disease and Grissom was designated command pilot for Gemini 3, the first manned Project Gemini flight, which flew on March 23, 1965.

* In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Grissom was ranked as the # 9 ( tied with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Alan Shepard ) most popular space hero.

The second manned spacecraft was named Freedom 7, and it performed a sub-orbital spaceflight in 1961 carrying American astronaut Alan Shepard to an altitude of just over.

Besides hosting the Brahmas ' football and women's soccer teams, John Shepard Stadium ( current capacity 5, 500 ) The stadium was expanded to 16, 000-person capacity for the game.

* In The Dark Knight and the follow up The Dark Knight Rises a Shepard tone was used to create the sound of the ' Batpod ' - a motorcycle that the filmmakers didn't want to change gear and tone abruptly but to constantly ascend.

* 1961-US, a Mercury capsule named Freedom 7 with Alan B. Shepard, spacecraft was launched by a Redstone rocket on a ballistic trajectory suborbital flight.

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. ( November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998 ) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, NASA astronaut, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.

Shepard was born in Derry, New Hampshire to Lieutenant Colonel Alan B. Shepard, Sr. and Renza ( née Emerson ) Shepard.

Shepard began his naval career after graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1944, and served on the destroyer USS Cogswell while it was deployed in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

In 1959, Shepard was one of 11 military test pilots invited by the newly-formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration to volunteer for the first US manned space flight program.

In January 1961, Shepard was chosen for the first American manned mission into space.

He was succeeded by James Turner, who expanded the company's range of authors to include such prominent science fiction and fantasy writers as Michael Bishop, Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling, James Tiptree, Jr., Michael Shea and J. G. Ballard, often publishing hardcover collections of shorter works.

The Alan B. Shepard Civic Center (" The Dome "), a significant building in the city's history, was constructed in 1958, was dedicated to the career of former Virginia Beach resident and astronaut Alan Shepard.

Bert Shepard, a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators who had lost his leg in WWII, was also born in Dana.

David Shepard Smith, Jr. ( born January 14, 1964 ), known better as Shepard Smith, is an American television news anchor.

Smith was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, the son of Dora Ellen Anderson, an English teacher, and David Shepard Smith, Sr., a cotton merchant.

Frank Shepard Fairey ( born February 15, 1970 ) is an American contemporary graphic designer and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding

Shepard was born in Towcester, Northamptonshire.

* Kiki Shepard ( born 1951 ), African-American television host

Judith Chapman ( born Judith Shepard on November 15, 1951 in Greenville, South Carolina ) is an actress known to fans of American daytime television.

Her older sister Patty Shepard ( born 1945 ) worked also as an actress.

John Shepard Reed ( born 1939 ) is the former Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.

Lucius Shepard ( born August 21, 1947 in Lynchburg, Virginia ) is an American writer.

* Lucius Shepard ( born 1947 ), American writer

Chiquita Renee " Kiki " Shepard ( born July 15, 1951 ) is an American television host, best known as the longtime co-host of It's Showtime at the Apollo.

Mary Frances Crosby ( born September 14, 1959 ) is an American actress, best known for her role as Kristin Shepard in Dallas ( 1979-1981 ).

He married on October 20, 1869 at Dorchester, Massachusetts, Eliza Frances Shepard, born March 14, 1840 in Dorchester, Massachusetts and died on February 5, 1915 in Newport, Rhode Island.

Chateau-sur-Mer was completed in 1852 as a French villa for William Shepard Wetmore, a merchant in the China trade, who was born on January 26, 1801, in St. Albans, Vermont.

Shepard then attended Catawba College in North Carolina and Casper College in Wyoming, before settling in Denver, Colorado.

* 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.

* Matthew Shepard is murdered near the University of Wyoming for being gay.

Matthew Wayne Shepard ( December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998 ) was a student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured and murdered near Laramie, Wyoming, U. S. A., in October 1998.

Shepard became a first-year political science major at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and was chosen as the student representative for the Wyoming Environmental Council.

The city was mentioned in worldwide news coverage in 1998 after the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming.

* Author and activst Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay student at University of Wyoming who was murdered in 1998, was raised in Glenrock.

The group came into the national spotlight in 1998, when it was featured on CNN for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young man from Wyoming who was beaten to death by two men because of his homosexuality.

The most publicized incident was the murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming after two young men kidnapped, tortured, and murdered him in 1998.

* In 1998 after the kidnapping and murder of Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming college student, the major American news networks would occasionally mention that the student's parents lived in Dhahran and worked for Saudi Aramco.

* 6 – Matthew Shepard is beaten and pistol-whipped and tied to a fence and left to die in a gay bashing incident near Laramie, Wyoming.

* 1998-Gay college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered near the University of Wyoming.

The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project ( specifically, Leigh Fondakowski, Stephen Belber, Greg Pierotti, Barbara Pitts, Stephen Wangh, Amanda Gronich, Sara Lambert, John McAdams, Maude Mitchell, Andy Paris, and Kelli Simpkins ) about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

* Matthew Shepard ( Wyoming, 1998 )

The episode made reference to the real-life killing of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

On March 5, 2011, the Gunderson High School drama department performed The Laramie Project, a play detailing the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming's gay student, Matthew Shepard, in Laramie, Wyoming and the eventual deepened relationship within the Laramie community.