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* Actor [[Mandy Patinkin]], whose name is a shortened form of Mandel. Usually when you hear "Mandy", it's for a woman, and short for Amanda.

* United States President [[Barack Obama]]'s mother was named Stanley Dunham, after her father, but went by her middle name, Ann.

* The wife of Irish poet [[William Butler Yeats]] was named George.

* Claire Stanfield from ''[[Baccano]]''. It doesn't help that he's also a murderous psychopath. No wonder he prefers to go by nicknames. This is lampshaded in the [[Light Novels]], where Isaac points out that it's not too uncommon for men to have feminine names, {{spoiler|[[Foreshadowing|"and who knows what sort of name a *monster* would have."]]}}

* Similar to Dr. Vivien Thomas above, the mother of NFL player [http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/9628/danieal-manning Danieal Manning] liked the name "Danielle", but had a boy instead. Perhaps she didn't like "Daniel" quite as much.

* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. Rico and Claes are given male names by their handlers, who are somewhat uncomfortable working with brainwashed underaged girl killers, so the names help to disassociate them.

* Gary, the owner of the shoe store where Al Bundy works in [[Married... with Children]], is a woman.

** Mary, the maker of the Bundys' couch, is a man. He insists that his name is a male name [[Its Pronounced Tropay|and emphasized on the last syllable]] whereas the usual female version is emphasized on the first syllable.

** Cameron is also an example of Country Dependant/Cultural Transformation. Originally a Celtic warrior's name, and was a masculine name when it originally transplanted to America, where it gradually became unisex.

* Charlie/Charley/Chaz/Chas - Charles, Charlotte, Charlene (this one oddly enough, means "male")

*** There's an alternative theory that it might also be derived from the german word for "mighty" or "warrior," which, while those are still rather masculine concepts, is better than outright naming your girl "man."

* C(h)ris/Kris - Kristopher, Crystal, Christine (And any one of them can be spelled a half-dozen ways, too.)

** Jo/Joe

** Jordan (Season 16 of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' featured both a male and a female Jordan.)

** Kay

** Kelly (In fact, check out this article, in which a Kelly Hildebrandt marries a Kelly Hildebrandt: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31994977/ns/today-today_people/?[[GT 1]]=43001)

** Sakura ([[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan|Kusakabe]], [[Cardcaptor Sakura|Kinomoto]], [[Street Fighter|Kasugano]], [[Pretty Cure Full Color|Tsuitei]], and [[Pretty Cure Heavy Metal|Cobain]])

** Shigure [[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple|Kosaka]], [[Manga/Shoujo Sect|Komai]] are female while [[Watashi ni XX Shinasai|Kitami]] and [[Rurouni Kenshin|Takimi]] are male.

** Shinobu ([[Love Hina|Maehara]], [[Yu Yu Hakusho|Sensui]])

** Shion ([[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Sonozaki]], and the original [[Saint Seiya|Aries saint]] - as if [[The Dragon]] from ''[[The King of Fighters]] XI'' weren't gender-ambiguous enough by looks...)

** Sora ([[Digimon Adventure|Takenouchi]], or [[The Hero]] from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'')

** Subaru (either [[Tokyo Babylon|Sumeragi]] or [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Nakajima]]

* An episode of ''[[All in The Family]]'' revolved around the following puzzle: "A young man is seriously injured in a car accident. When he's taken to the hospital, the surgeon cries, 'I can't operate on this man! He's my son!' Yet the surgeon is not the young man's father. How can this be?" It took the entire half hour for the characters to figure it out {{spoiler|(the surgeon was his ''mother'')}}, and when the answer was finally given at the end of the show the live studio audience ''gasped'' in surprise. 1840s indeed.

** Same riddle was used on The Cosby Show, you know the one with a the wife character being a powerful attorney. Sadly this puzzle still continues to work nowadays.

* In an episode of Get Smart, Max meets up with an invisible doctor. Knowing that there are KAOS agents guarding the entrance to the restaurant where they met, Max and the doctor have to sneak out another way. Max suggests sneaking out through the men's room, when finally the doctor says that that won't work... In a woman's voice.

* [[Hellsing|Sir Integra]] is a woman. A very scary woman who will kill you at a moments notice, hence the commanding name of "Sir", but a woman nonetheless.