Shelley's starling

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| name = Shelley's starling

| image = Lamprotornis shelleyi, Omo South Ethiopia, Lip Kee 2015 ((CC BY-SA 2.0).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Lamprotornis shelleyi |volume=2016 |page=e.T22710775A94260002 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22710775A94260002.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| taxon = Lamprotornis shelleyi

| authority = (Sharpe, 1890)

| synonyms =

}}

Shelley's starling (Lamprotornis shelleyi) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in East Africa, within the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, and Tanzania.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate George Ernest Shelley, an English ornithologist and nephew of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.{{cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |title=Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds |year=2003 |publisher=Christopher Helm |page=310|isbn=978-0-7136-6647-2 |oclc=54616507}}