Great Real Names

Among ilxen, Ned and Matos and Martin and Lara have damn cool names, and if I'm remembering Ally's full name correctly, she sounds like a Barbara Stanwyck character.

ps he is a dick

anyway.. i used to work for a multinational company which had a searchable online name and address book. So we used to have office competitions to find the best names..

So. here we go with some of the best (and these are real employees)

Nick Sex
Shirley Shallow
Tory S Gaylord
Ricardo Cunto
Eduardo Bastardo
Eric Cartman
Mindy Smelkinson

there were loads more but i can't remember them right now...

He was a great authour, too.

Not as crowd-pleasing perhaps, but there's a statue in Madison Square in New York of a man named Roscoe Conkling.

-- jess

Oh, and my middle school band director was named Rufus Long.

Went to school with a girl who's last name was Sexe (p. "sexy") She was, too.

Geoffrey Stuart Cannon is such a bizarre formal name sometimes I can't really believe it's mine (heh "feeling slightly disconnected from one's own name c/d")

RAGGETT: "Tell me where's your fancy bread.
I need it for me, and I'm called Ned."

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany

Seconding Fletrjet on both the name and his writing.

Working at a university as I do, I've come across many a mysteriously cool name. Current favorites, with slight non-google alterations (as these are folks I am currently having to bill for late books): the very Thai (I believe) Nar1n Charanvattank1t, the quite Scottish yet somehow naughty 1an Mu1r Duckles and the prime winner, someone I can only guess is from an Arabic/Dutch family of some sort, Azareen Vandervl1et Oloom1.

Also, I saw a guy named John Hancock, which is not all that unusual, but I wonder if he would make his signature an exact forgery of the founding father of the same name.

At work today the person who I was given as a sample that would show a particular system error was Mr Doh. I like to imagine that to say his name correctly you have to slap your forehead.

i loved that thread, largely because spectra got so into it! :)

Mr Dickie & Miss K Titmus

Razor Shines

For some reason Nottingham Forest have a bumper crop of these at the moment:

Diop Tehuti Djed-Hotep Spence
Philip Aksel Frigast Zinckernagel
Thomas Gaëtan Bong

... last but not least...

Joe Lolley

Today came across a Ms Fantasy Pedler

Combination of name and hometown: Amanda B0tt0ms of Cheektowaga NY

4my J0nkers

J3w Ra3

wow

in my class today.

Dwayne Dicks, CEO & Founder at Dwayne's Delectable Cuisine

I hope when he introduces himself there's a pause before the last word - "I'm Dwayne Dicks, of Dwayne's Delectable...Cuisine"

Zipporah Batshaw, married name Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman, law professor and wife of documentarian Frederick Wiseman. She passed away last year. I know Zipporah is a Biblical name, still amazing though.

Saw someone in Google results today with last name Dickwish.

....first name, Igotta ?

I think it must come from this German name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diekwisch

Brumbpo Tungus saw heaven when he was 4 years old. pic.twitter.com/6F5DJak3rk

— Max Beasley (@maxbeasleyyy) March 31, 2022

Not a real name, but that kid’s actual name is almost as good: Colton Burpo.

"In 2015, Alex Malarkey – a boy with a similar story to Colton Burpo's – publicly recanted his own story and book"

"Christian Poos (born 5 November 1977) is a Luxembourgian cyclist. His sporting career began with Velo Club SaF Zeisseng."

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Finnish conductor. I love saying his name.

His contemporary and partial namesake Jukka-Pekka Saraste has a good one too.

"Cal Clutterbuck is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger"

https://thegolovine.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/h-cock-the-renissance-in-print.jpg

General Charles Bonesteel

Idit Shner

John Wayne Newton

Ch3rry Crushmore

Gordon Bunshaft

I have loved the name Gordon Bunshaft for 20+ years and I hereby enshrine it in this thread.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/dick-cluster/

i know him. he's a great writer :)

There's a woman where I work called Yoko Rigby. No sign of Eleanor Ono though.

Did we do this one? Elizabeth Wrigley-Field?

https://pop.umn.edu/people/elizabeth-wrigley-field

wow that is top tier

The next supreme court election is April 2023, when rightwing Justice Patience Roggensack's seat is on the ballot

What I discovered today when reading Sofia Coppola's wiki (this guy is her husband):

Thomas Pablo Croquet (born 21 November 1976), known as Thomas Mars, is a French musician and the lead singer of the French indie pop band Phoenix.
Shouldn't have changed his name!

Brent Leggs

 former Ohio Secretary of State candidate Terpsehore Maras

Hillous Buel "Bew" Butrum, American country music guitar player and member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys

Now there’s a name. pic.twitter.com/BteJvfOBVA

— Neil (@_Enanem_) July 19, 2022

Just remembered this then-girl I met in a hostel in Madrid in 2005, didn't spend much time with her, but her name just stuck with me, turns out she is now a doctor, hooray!

https://www.oandg.com.au/team/dr-victoria-snowball

Arthur Lee Drinkard Warrick (Dionne Warwick’s mom)

Got a guy running for Governor of NV (R of course) named Seven Achilles Evans

Mondo Duplantis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs4oFFOBb2o

"Cal Clutterbuck is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger"

oh man i keep a doc going with all my fave hockey names. so many great ones.

On that note: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarley_Zalapski (rip)

Nottingham Forest are reportedly interested in Jizz Hornkamp from Willem II pic.twitter.com/xgCsG0WJ2m

— Project Football (@ProjectFootball) August 4, 2022

great name. rolls off the tongue.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0-HGoOWEAgwOOv.jpg

I may have mentioned this before, but one of Bristol's top urologists is Professor Hashim Hashim:
https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/our-services/a-z-consultants/professor-hashim-hashim

Hashim apparently translates as "destroyer of evil", which makes sense because he's an NHS surgeon. It's his job to destroy evil. In the form of urethral strictures, prostatic enlargement, excessive night-time urination, and general urological problems. He destroys the heck out of evil.

A few years ago I remember speaking with a man whose surname was Electricwallah. It seems that the British insisted that Parsis should have a surname for legal reasons, thus people called Bicyclewallah and Biscuitwallah etc:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-38050007

Of course it's no different from people in Britain being called Baker or Smith or Axialflowturbinemaintenancetechnician. In fact I went to school with a chap called Simon Axialflowturbinemaintenancetechnician. Do you know what his dad did? He looked after axial flow turbines.

A search of the GMC register reveals that there's a GP in Dorset called Dr Kimberley Jupiter Sing Ming Goldstein-Jackson, and a substance abuse specialist in Derby called Dr Martin Franz Frederick Von Fragstein.

The only Dr Doctor seems to have filled in their details incorrectly. As far as I can tell Dr Octagon is not registered to practice here in the UK.

Jetro Danovich Sexer Willems