People you know who have famous names, but aren't the famous person

[Rabrrrrrr]

Either fictional or real.

I know a Milton Bradley, Laurie Anderson, and Jim Hutchinson (Hutch's full name from Starsky and Hutch), none of whom are famous.

[eyesroll]

1. I work with a Rick Nelson and an Ed Sullivan.

[Goldmund]

2. Oh I love browsing White Pages on the internet

You'll find an Adolf Hitler in New Orleans.

And a W.A. Mozart and a Ludwig Van Beethoven, both in Santa Monica.

[Lefta Dissenter]

3. I know a

Michael Jackson. How sick is that??? :puke:

ooh, edited to add that I know a Don Johnson, too! :D
and edited again to add that my Dad knows yet another Don Johnson! :)

[On the Road]

6. I Knew a "Mychaal" Jackson

(same pronunciation) if that counts.

[Wat_Tyler]

4. David Bowie.

[On the Road]

5. Robbie Robertson

8th grade classmate.

Also Steven Still (no final "s") in college. When the professor called roll in freshman calculus, everyone gasped and looked around.

[7th_Sephiroth]

7. michael bolton

Bartholomew simpson, jack black, and John kerry

[CO Liberal]

8. I Worked With an Ed Sullivan Once

When I went to Devry Tech, the Assistant Dean was James Taylor.

And there was a Richard Burton and a Betty Crocker at my junior high school.

[Lefta Dissenter]

Betty Crocker,

I LOVE that! :D

[Deja Q]

9. Michael Moore

n/t

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

13. Seymour Buttes

pronounced Butts.. no, not a Simpsons episode, but a now-deceased partner in a firm I used to work for.

[nini]

10. Andy Garcia, Eddie Murphy, Jimmy Carter

Rick James, John Kennedy.

[demnan]

11. I grew up with a kid named Lyndon Baines Johnson

and Johnson was the President at the time. The Lyndon was strange enough but to also have the Baines? Weird kid too, kind of a Kleptomanic (set fire to bamboo forest in the neighborhood).

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Set fire to bamboo forest?

By God, just like the president LBJ!

[feminazi]

12. Holly Hunter and Debbie Reynolds.

*

[gollygee]

15. I used to work with a Tanya Tucker. Also where I used to work we had a

client named Bruce Springsteen.

[XNASA]

16. Bob Roberts

nt

[underpants]

17. I used to have a landlord named Andy Gibb

Yeppers

[AngryAmish]

18. I met a Mike Singletary

He was this pencil-necked English white grad student type. He failed to see the obvious humor in having the same name as Samari.

[JaneQPublic]

19. In college...

...I took a Sociology class on "Social Deviance" taught by a Dr. William Faulkner, and the next semester an "Abnormal Psychology" class taught by a Dr. James Joyce.

That same university also had a Karl Marx in its Economics Dept., but I never took a class with him.

[T Wolf]

20. Me, for one.

Tom Wolf, though I spell my last name the correct way. You would think an author could spell an animal with a simple name like wolf.

I also went to college with a Barbara Eden, who was much better looking than Jeannie.

[gospelized]

21. carol brady, andy garcia, jessica simpson

[Rockholm]

22. Jennifer Lopez on the Weather Channel.

[jono]

23. We have a Chris Mathews

at work. Every time someone says his name, I can't help but think of TWEETY! x(

[Jezabell]

24. Jerry Springer

I use to wait tables with a guy Gerald Springer. He went by Jerry cause he hated the name Gerald, then when the Jerry Springer show got so popular he said he cursed the day decided to go by Jerry. It was great for small talk with customers though.

[mitchtv]

25. Me- Thomas Mitchell

"Stagecoach," "It's a wonderful life", and more

[Southpaw Bookworm]

26. One year in college

I worked with David Roth and Phil Collins.

[DieboldMustDie]

27. Jim Carrey & Steve Harvey

:shrug:

[Hepburn]

28. This is an oldie......

.....Carol Lawrence. (Singer who was married to Robert Goulet.)

[SidDithers]

29. I know a Jenna Jamieson...

but she spells her name a bit differently than the, uhmm, accomplished actress of the same name.

Sid

[LizW]

30. Larry King and Billy Graham (n/t)

[Raven]

31. I gave birth to William Pitt!

He's not really famous yet...but, ya never know! :-)

[Dzimbowicz]

32. No one famous,

but I once had a student whose name was Wendy Anne Rainey.

[bif]

33. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Just kiddin'

[Radical Activist]

34. I told those assclowns I like Michael Bolton!

I couldn't resist
I knew a Michelle Phifer, however she spelled it.

[Love Bug]

35. I know a Kevin Klein

He's an actor, too, but has to use a different name.