Shire
Shire is the name of geographic objects:
- Shire (administrative unit) , administrative unit in the Anglo-Saxon region
- Shire (river) , outflow of Lake Malawi and tributary of the Zambezi, Malawi, Africa
- Shire highlands , highlands in Malawi Africa
- Shire (city) (Inda Selassie) , city in Ethiopia
Shire stands for:
- Shire Horse , breed of horse
- Shire plc , Jersey based pharmaceutical company
- The Shire , home of the hobbits in the novels of JRR Tolkien
Shire is a family name that may refer to:
- David Shire (born 1937), American composer
- Karen Shire (* 1959), American sociologist
- Michael Shire , English rabbi, scholar of religion and education
- Talia Shire (born 1946), American actress
- Warsan Shire (* 1988), Somali-British author
