shepard

Noun shepard has 2 senses

• shepard(n = noun.person) sam shepard - United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943);
is a kind of dramatist, playwright

• shepard(n = noun.person) alan bartlett shepard jr., alan shepard - astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998);
is a kind of astronaut, cosmonaut, spaceman