List of Famous people with last name Shapley

Harlow Shapley was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist during the latter New Deal and Fair Deal.

Lloyd Stowell Shapley was an American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist. He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. Shapley is generally considered one of the most important contributors to the development of game theory since the work of von Neumann and Morgenstern. With Alvin E. Roth, Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."

Willis Harlow Shapley was an American civil servant best known as the third-ranking administrator for NASA during the Apollo program.

Martha Betz Shapley (1890–1981) was an American astronomer known for her research on eclipsing binary stars.