Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Edwin Hubble
Fred Hoyle

Fred Hoyle
Geoffrey Hoyle

Collaborated on bad SF novels, can never remember which is the father and which the son.

Which one wrote the bridge book?

The movie Drugstore Cowboy and the band Cowboy Junkies

Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Express

Bradley Walsh & Brian Conley are on the same show right now. That's breaking my brain somewhat.

Tales to Astonish
Tales of Suspense

i always have to take a beat to remember that elizabeth holmes and former teen abductee elizabeth smart are different people

Sir John Soane, Englishman of long ago, known for his collection of items now in a museum;
Sir Hans Sloane, Englishman of long ago, known for his collection of items now in several museums.

OTM

second appearance here for John & Hans, there.

Rob Reiner
Ron Howard

Lauren Laverne
Stella Creasy

Wendy
Lisa

In fact most musical duos/trios, I still don't even know which one's Ant and which one's Dec.

Ant's the drunk one.

calstars
calzino
clemenza

Not helped that they are all lower case.

Having not seen, and having little interest, in Game of Thrones, but wanting to know a certain minimum for quizzes/trivia, where GoT stuff pops up all too regularly, I struggle with remembering whether

the White King is the leader of the Night Walkers
or
the Night King is the leader of the White Walkers

Maurice Fulton
Maurice Deebank

Niche 'Get Back' related example:

Just realised that from the Beatles film world, I've seen mixing up Dennis O'Dell (head of Films at Apple) and Denis O'Brien (Handmade Films with George Harrison).

Extending my earlier confusion of Marinas in the thread:

Marina Hyde (semi-aristocratic Oxford-educated journalist)
Marina Warner (semi-aristocratic Oxford educated historian and novelist)
Marina Wheeler (semi-aristocratic Cambridge-educated barrister and former spouse of Boris Johnson)

Yes.

Classical edition:

Christian Lindberg
Magnus Lindberg

Jackie Bradley Jr.
Jackie Rogers Jr.

"Jackie Rogers Jr. has withdrawn from the race. Now let's hope he withdraws from the human race".

Mr Twin Sister
Men I Trust

Hohner (Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG), iconic manufacturer of musical instruments including at least some of the harmonicas and mouth-organs famously used by famous John of the famous English skiffle group the Beatles

Höfner (Karl Höfner GmbH & Co. KG), iconic manufacturer of musical instruments including the violin bass famously used by famous Paul of the famous English skiffle group the Beatles

Also the very lovely Jazzica guitar, a one-pickup archtop used occasionally by famous English singer/organist Paul Carrack of Squeeze, Roxy Music, Ace, Mike + the Mechanics

Oh very nice and true, actually I've totally conflated these until this moment!

Malcolm Muggeridge
Magnus Magnusson

Ray Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury

John Oswald and John Duncan

Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy

Douglas Rushkoff and David Rakoff

Derrick Carter and Derrick May

Good ones all.

Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy

I did this one several months ago, so I sat my self down and listened to a few songs from each, and decided which one I liked better. Now I can't remember which one that was (I think Snail Mail).

The Japanese House
Japanese Breakfast

I know this is supposed to be based on names, so: Sandy Dennis and Sandy Duncan.

Truthfully, you wouldn't get those two mixed up. I do get Sandy Dennis and Elizabeth Hartman mixed up, though, as to the kind of actresses they are.

This thread should have more of people you get mixed up for reasons other than their name, imo.

On that note, if you were to mix up Sandy Duncan with anyone, it would probably be Karen Valentine.

Peter Stefanovic
Peter Serafinowicz

the 63 MILLION VIEWS man!

Tamarind
Turmeric

Clematis
Cyclamen

George Sanders, British actor 1906-1972
George Saunders, American writer 1952-

LFTs
NFTs

LFF at the NFT

Yes!

Non-fungible Token
National Film Theatre

Every blasted time I read NFT, I think cinema.

Well it's the BFI Southbank nowadays, so unless someone invents block-fungible ingots you shouldn't need to worry.

In SoCal (and other US areas) BFI means Browning Ferris Industries, a trash collecting service.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/BFI_logo.svg/250px-BFI_logo.svg.png

Every time I see SoCal I have to remember it’s not a low-calorie brand

ILB (I Love Books)
ILB (I Love Baseball)

The Weather Prophets
The Wedding Present

Comedian and latterday novelist Richard Osman
Suede member and latterday novelist Mat Osman plus a bit of Suede member Richard Oakes, specifically the Richard bit

You know the two Osmans are brothers, yeah?