Shem (surname)

Shem is the surname of the following notable people:

• Shem Tov, multiple people
• Adam Baal Shem, legendary rabbi and mystic
• Goh V Shem (born 1989), Malaysian badminton player
• Samuel Shem (born 1944), pen-name of American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman
• Yoel Baal Shem, 17th century Orthodox Jewish scholar
• Zechariah Shem (born 1994), Vanuatuan cricketer