Source : WordNet®

Shepard
     n 1: United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born
          in 1943) [syn: {Sam Shepard}]
     2: astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital
        rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998) [syn: {Alan
        Shepard}, {Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.}]