- Shepard, Sam Shepard - United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)
--1 is a kind of dramatist, playwright
- Shepard, Alan Shepard, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. - astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)
--2 is a kind of astronaut, spaceman, cosmonaut