Great Real Names

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.)

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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

People had great real names like Zacharias Mudge and Stamford Raffles Flint back in the day.

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Beanou-Junior Brandon Deflo Soppy

that’s mister soppy if you’re nasty

Jasrado Prince Hermis Arrington “Jazz” Chisholm Jr.

(Miami Marlins baseball player)

This beautiful glass vase was crafted by Cedar Creek Gallery studio artist Pringle Teetor...

Reginald Goss-Custard.

Apparently a famous family in the world of English organ playing.

Kurt Erich Suckert was the real name of Curzio Malaparte

Who in addition to his various professions (writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat) had time to be a fascist, an atheist, a communist, and a catholic.

I know a woman named Serene Tickle and every time I talk to her I struggle to contain my affection for her name.

Kurt Erich Suckert was the real name of Curzio Malaparte

Who in addition to his various professions (writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat) had time to be a fascist, an atheist, a communist, and a catholic.

Five years ago, Mrs. Zenobia Shoulders Johnson, one of the city's most active church and civic workers...

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

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Composer, musician and instrument builder Limpe Fuchs.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/wire-playlist-limpe-fuchs

I saw her at the weekend playing Tectonics festival here in Glasgow and she was awesome. Apparently drove herself to Glasgow from southern Germany in a Vauxhall Corsa with her rather wonderful percussion set up, which is no mean feat, let alone at 82 or 83 years old. She seemed really nice too.

Photo on fb

A.O.J. Cockshutt

xp wasn't she in kraut-adjacent german band Anima?

Yep, that's her.

Richard Lovelady

I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order): pic.twitter.com/Qj18jPELMI

— Isabella Rosner (@IsabellaRosner) May 16, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqY8YK_7pw

At work we have a new patient called Dudley Buttons

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51VNuwet7NL.jpg

Just got a work email from Sue LaGue.

Vinny Boombatz

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Aribusitamunoipirim Emmanuel "Aribim" Pepple

Sandra Cakebread

Chr1st1an T1ts , works in finance in Belgium

aldrich potgeiter . made the cut at the us open this weekend.

Kobe Bufkin just got drafted by the Atlanta Hawks

Roger Nicely is probably not that great a name, but my inner adolescent is amused.

Madison Marriage

I was recently in the Bahamas, flying into and out of Nassau. I am not sure you are all aware of this, but the airport there is named for the father of Bahamian independence: the honorable and most excellent Sir Lynden Pindling.

It's really quite difficult to be sad while saying the name "Lynden Pindling." Seriously, try it. I have lived a long time. Many tragedies have befallen me and my tribe. However, I have always been made happy while saying the words "snorkel" and "doily." To those, I add the name "Lynden Pindling."

Sure, being in the Bahamas is nice and all. But if the airport in Duluth or Buffalo or Kansas City were named after someone with a resplendent name like Lynden Pindling, I might reconsider those locales as vacation destinations.

^ great post

i've been thinking recently of Eldon Shamblin and Lowman Pauling, two guitarists i really like listening to and who both made important developments to the emergence of rock N roll. they both had great names.

For some reason I’ve begun receiving spam from the Epoch Times newspaper, edited-in-chief by Jasper Fakkert. My man is doing a great job.

Prosper Mérimée