Shamus may refer to:

Shamus (video game), a 1982 computer game from Synapse Software Shamus (film), a 1973 film starring Burt Reynolds Shamus Wong, a character from the children's book Tracey McBean Colloquial term for a private detective Shamus Award for best detective fiction Shamus Award (horse)

People Shamus Culhane (1908–1996), American animator, film director and producer Shamus Khan (born 1978), American sociologist Shamus O'Brien (1907–1981), Scottish-American soccer player Gareb Shamus, CEO of Wizard Entertainment

See also Shamu, SeaWorld's first killer whale (died 1971) Shamu (SeaWorld show), SeaWorld's contemporary killer whale shows Seamus (disambiguation) Sheamus (born 1978), Irish professional wrestler Shammes or Gabbai, a term for the sexton or caretaker of a synagogue