Shamus

Shamus may refer to:

• a slang term for a private investigator, from Yiddish
  • Shamus (computer game), a 1980s computer game
  • Shamus (film), a 1973 film starring Burt Reynolds
  • Shamus Award, for best detective fiction
• Shamus, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
• Shamus Culhane, animator, film director and producer
• Shamus O'Brien, American soccer player
• Gareb Shamus, CEO of Wizard Entertainment
• Shamus Wong, a character from the children's book Tracey McBean

See also

• Shamu, SeaWorld's first killer whale (died 1971)
• Shamu (SeaWorld show), SeaWorld's contemporary killer whale shows
• Seamus (disambiguation)
• Sheamus O'Shaunessy, a professional wrestler
• Gabbai, or shammes, a term for the caretaker of a synagogue