Shamir may refer to: People Shamir (musician), American singer-songwriter Shamir, aka Shamir Bailey Yitzhak Shamir, former Israeli Prime Minister Adi Shamir (born 1952), Israeli cryptographer Dan Shamir (born 1975), Israeli professional basketball coach Gabriel and Maxim Shamir, Israeli graphic designers Israel Shamir, Russian-Israeli-Swedish writer Other Shamir's Secret Sharing, an algorithm in cryptography created by Adi Shamir. Solomon's shamir, a worm described in the Talmud and Midrash as being capable of cutting through or disintegrating stone, used in the construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem Shamir, Israel, an Israeli kibbutz