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

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

Hermine Hug-Hellmuth

N0ra B0umzebra

Sneed B. Collard III

I don't know whether to post this here or in 'people who have figured out how to live'. dude writes awesome science-y books about animals for kids.

Sneed Collard spent seven days at the Walworth Barbour American International School in Israel

guess i picked the right thread then

@rbutus tr3u

Rolf Wanka (1901–1982), an Austrian actor

Roger Kuntz (died 1975), an American landscape painter

Hans-Wilhelm Scheidt (1907-1981), German Nazi official

Dox Thrash has been turning up in my art twitter followings recently.

F@ll0n H0use, in one of my classes

esp given the weather in FL this week, made for a chuckle.

🫡 pic.twitter.com/AKtUQ322Rh

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 1, 2022

general is, on one hand, maybe the most conservative thing you can name your kid. unless your last name is booty

that is amazing

Coke Wisdom O'Neal (father of the actor Patrick O'Neal).

now met a dude whose name is J0nath@n B33gl3, but he goes by B33gl3, so his name is B33gl3 B33gl3

https://schott-production.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/media/catalog/product/cache/4e9c0b7090400674309c3cb2e230288d/O/F/OFB_1022-Finger_648__11.jpg

Playwright Thom Babe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babe

Harry Baals

Played in a band with a bass player named Harry Savage. (Yes, his real name.)

https://i.imgur.com/ObyfSrU.png

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/185731

Just got an email from a recruiter named Othello I. Mayweather.

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/185731

― Bellend Sebastian (S-), Wednesday, November 23, 2022 5:56 AM

So, Brigitte Hellgoth or Günter Zamp Kelp?

https://i.ibb.co/X5dpL56/Screenshot-20221205-171555.jpg

(Bishop) Climate Wiseman

forgotten comics writer Gaylord Du Bois

BREAKING: A federal grand jury has indicted Hatchet Speed, the Naval Reserves petty officer already charged in the Capitol riot, on three new felony counts for allegedly possessing unregistered silencers. Speed made his initial court appearance at 2 p.m. https://t.co/e11RHLFZrf

— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) September 7, 2022

Hatchet Speed
Shine your light on me

easily the best name I've seen on LinkedIn, or perhaps anywhere pic.twitter.com/XbUK2VhZIW

— Sergio Sarcagian (the "Desert Diva") (@crulge) January 23, 2023

Tanaquil Le Clercq