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As time goes by, we often stereotype writers and creators as [[Typecasting|filling certain niches]]. [[Stan Lee]] is [[Marvel Universe]], [[Stephen King]] is horror (or at the very least supernatural), [[Arthur Conan Doyle (Creator)|Arthur Conan Doyle]] is [[Sherlock Holmes]]... as a result, there are some times where we see somebody's name on something and go "wait, WHAT? Are you sure it isn't just [[~~Names~~ the Same|a guy with the same name]]?".

As time goes by, we often stereotype writers and creators as [[Typecasting|filling certain niches]]. [[Stan Lee]] is [[Marvel Universe]], [[Stephen King]] is horror (or at the very least supernatural), [[Arthur Conan Doyle (Creator)|Arthur Conan Doyle]] is [[Sherlock Holmes]]... as a result, there are some times where we see somebody's name on something and go "wait, WHAT? Are you sure it isn't just [[Name's the Same|a guy with the same name]]?".

These are examples of well-known works (not obscure experiments) of creators that are so far out of their perceived niche that often times people don't immediately realize the person behind it.

Related to [[Playing Against Type]], [[I Am Not Spock]], [[Genre Adultery]] and [[WTH Casting Agency]]. Compare [[Same Face Different Name]], where the creator hides the fact that he's doing something different under a new name. In music, [[Black Sheep Hit]] is a special case in which the ''aberration'' becomes famous. Compare [[Hey ~~Its~~ That Guy]] and [[Hey ~~Its~~ That Voice]], which are often this trope but for actors.

Related to [[Playing Against Type]], [[I Am Not Spock]], [[Genre Adultery]] and [[WTH Casting Agency]]. Compare [[Same Face, Different Name]], where the creator hides the fact that he's doing something different under a new name. In music, [[Black Sheep Hit]] is a special case in which the ''aberration'' becomes famous. Compare [[Hey It's That Guy]] and [[Hey It's That Voice]], which are often this trope but for actors.

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* Shusuke Kaneko directed not only the 90s ''[[Gamera]]'' trilogy, but also the live-action ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' films as well and ''[[Godzilla]], Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack''.

* David Kirschner is responsible for creating and producing several animated childhood classics; ''[[An American Tail]]'', ''[[Once Upon a Forest]]'', ''[[The Pagemaster]]'', ''[[Cats Don't Dance (Animation)|Cats Don't Dance]]''. And...he also created ''[[Childs Play (Film)|Childs Play]]''. It's like if [[Don Bluth]] created ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street]]''!

* Fairly well known, but Ang Lee directed: ''[[Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon]]'' and ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'', ''[[Hulk (Film)|Hulk]]'' (the 2003 movie), ''[[Sense and Sensibility (Film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'', ''[[Film/The Ice Storm|The Ice Storm]]'' and ''[[Ride With the Devil]]''.

* Fairly well known, but Ang Lee directed: ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' and ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'', ''[[Hulk (Film)|Hulk]]'' (the 2003 movie), ''[[Sense and Sensibility (Film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'', ''[[Film/The Ice Storm|The Ice Storm]]'' and ''[[Ride With the Devil]]''.

* ''[[Mad Max]]'' director George Miller was also responsible for ''[[Babe]]'' and ''[[Happy Feet]]''. He's also a medical doctor.

* Acclaimed auteur Alexander Payne, who wrote and directed films such as ''Sideways'', ''[[About Schmidt]]'', and ''Election'', is also credited on the screenplays of ''[[Jurassic Park III]]'' and ''[[I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry]]'', though little of his work on the latter film made it into the finished product.

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* Pierre Boulle, the French novelist most famous for writing ''[[The Bridge Over the River Kwai]]'', also wrote ''[[Planet of the Apes]]''.

* [[Ray Bradbury]] wrote a great deal of non-SF in addition to his famous SF works. He also wrote and narrated ''[[The Halloween Tree]]'', and adapted [[Moby Dick]] into a screenplay for [[John Huston]]'s film.

* Anthony Burgess, the writer of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Literature)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', is described by [[The Other Wiki]] as a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|"novelist, critic, composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist, [and] educationalist"]]; he wrote one of the most popular English translations of ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]''. (In fact, he didn't like ''A Clockwork Orange'' very much - he once described as "[[Old Shame|something I knocked off]] [[Money Dear Boy|for money in three weeks.]]")

* Anthony Burgess, the writer of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Literature)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', is described by [[The Other Wiki]] as a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|"novelist, critic, composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist, [and] educationalist"]]; he wrote one of the most popular English translations of ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]''. (In fact, he didn't like ''A Clockwork Orange'' very much - he once described as "[[Old Shame|something I knocked off]] [[Money, Dear Boy|for money in three weeks.]]")

* [[Orson Scott Card]] wrote the famous [[You Fight Like a Cow|Insult Fights]] from the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' games, as well as the script for ''[[The Dig]]''. He also wrote for Marvel Comics.

* [[Anton Chekhov (Creator)|Anton Chekhov]] was a famous doctor and considered literature something more of a hobby.

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* Thriller novelist [[Dean Koontz]] has scripted (but not drawn) ''In Odd We Trust'', a manga-style comic book prequel to his ''Odd Thomas'' series.

* Mikhail Lermontov, a Russian 19th-century poet, was also a talented landscape painter.

* [[HP Lovecraft (Creator)|HP Lovecraft]] wrote a few travelogues, despite usually being considered a recluse who rarely left his home (which isn't true. While he did spend most of his life in Providence and didn't socialise much, he did often travel to meet his friends in other parts of the country). He also wrote the comic short story [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sweet_Ermengarde Sweet Ermengarde], a parody of romantic melodrama, and [http://lovecraftlibrary.org/hpl/waste/ Waste Paper], a painfully spot-on parody of "[[The Waste Land]]." In a vaguely related vein, he responded to a friend's teasing about his teetotaling by writing "Old Bugs", a parodically exaggerated [[Scare Em Straight]] story about alcohol.

* [[H.P. Lovecraft (Creator)|HP Lovecraft]] wrote a few travelogues, despite usually being considered a recluse who rarely left his home (which isn't true. While he did spend most of his life in Providence and didn't socialise much, he did often travel to meet his friends in other parts of the country). He also wrote the comic short story [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sweet_Ermengarde Sweet Ermengarde], a parody of romantic melodrama, and [http://lovecraftlibrary.org/hpl/waste/ Waste Paper], a painfully spot-on parody of "[[The Waste Land]]." In a vaguely related vein, he responded to a friend's teasing about his teetotaling by writing "Old Bugs", a parodically exaggerated [[Scare'Em Straight]] story about alcohol.

* Vladimir Mayakovskiy, a famous Soviet poet, was also a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism futuristic] artist when he was young.

* R.L. Stine, well known for his horror books such as the ''[[Fear Street]]'' and ''[[Goosebumps]]'' series, also published various humor books (such as the [[Novelization]] of ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'') and was the creator and writer for [[Nickelodeon]] show ''[[Eureekas Castle]]''.

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* James Lipton of ''Inside the Actor's Studio'' wrote the opening theme for ''[[Thunder Cats]]''.

* [[Shigesato Itoi]], the man responsible for the ''[[MOTHER]]''/''[[Earthbound]]'' series, is ridiculously versatile and has dabbled in pretty much everything in the past thirty years, ''MOTHER'' being just another dabbling. He's also known for his fishing games, doing guest-judging on ''[[Iron Chef]]'', and for voicing the father on ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]''. His actual profession is writing essays and copywriting, in his signature writing style and idiosyncrasies. In Japan, that's what you think when you hear the name [[Shigesato Itoi]], but in America, ([[Needs More Love|if at all]]), it's ''[[Earthbound]]''. ''[[MOTHER]]'' was just Itoi experimenting into a new medium after being inspired by playing [[Dragon Quest]], and its sales in Japan [[Celebrity Endorsement|are largely based on the fact that he made it]], and it and its sequels' slogans were also a factor, of course. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQUN7QAnMp0 TV commercial] even specifically says that it was by him, invoking [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]] without actually using it. Its sequels' sales were also boosted by the fact that they were sequels to the games before them.

* Louis Farrakhan: leader of the Nation of Islam religious group, political activist...[[Arson Murder and Jaywalking|former calypso singer?]]

* Louis Farrakhan: leader of the Nation of Islam religious group, political activist...[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|former calypso singer?]]

* Herb Kohl (D-WI)is not only a respected long serving United States Senator, and before that president of the retail chain Kohl’s, he is also the owner of an NBA [[Basketball]] team the Milwaukie Bucks.

* Former United States Senate Majority Leader and current special envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell (D-ME), between holding those jobs he became the Chairman of [[Walt Disney]], Chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast [[Northern Ireland]], lead the Baseball steroid investigation, was president of the international law firm DLA Piper, helped negotiate peace in Ireland, and was a board member of several companies including the Boston Red Sox, and held several diplomatic post.

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* Henry Agard Wallace was FDR's Agriculture Secretary, Vice President and Commerce Secretary, in that order. While he is remembered more for his political work, he was among the first to breed hybrid corn (and other things from strawberries to chickens), and wrote a number of works on agriculture. In addition, he edited both The New Republic (after he left government) and Wallaces' Farmer (before he went into government).

* [[Audie Murphy]] is probably best known as a highly decorated WWII veteran who earned most of his medals by doing [[Crazy Awesome]] things in combat. But he also cowrote (with the help of an uncredited journalist friend) a best-selling war memoir, ''To Hell And Back'', which he parlayed into an acting career that spanned 44 movies in 20 years, mostly lead roles in b-westerns. During the [[Korean War]], he served stateside as a training instructor in the Texas National Guard. He also became a breeder of racing Quarter Horses, and contributed significantly to the development of the breed. He ''also'' occasionally rode as a jockey and won two novelty races. He sought catharsis for his war experiences by writing poetry, and from there he branched out into writing lyrics for [[Country Music]] songs. In addition, he occasionally worked as an undercover agent for the police, investigating drug dealers and possibly the mafia. And this was a guy who didn't live to see retirement age!

* Both World Wars pretty much ensured that a large number of famous people from two generations [[He Also Did|also served in the military or related fields]] in addition to the main source of their fame. Among these can be cited of note (takes breath) [[Christopher Lee]] (Commando in WWII), [[Kurt Vonnegut]] (WWII private and Dresden flattening survivor), [[William Butler Yeats]] (volunteer in WWI), [[Ernest Hemingway]] (volunteered as paramedic in WWI and spy in WWII), bogus director and crossdresser extraordinaire [[Ed Wood (Creator)|Ed Wood]] (war hero in Guadalcanal... [[What the Hell Hero|in panties]]), [[Ian Fleming]] (WWII), painters Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and lots of other Germans/Austrian young poor artists (drafted in WWI), Russian writer [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] (tank commander in the [[Great Patriotic War]], decorated twice), B-25 bomber gunner [[Charlton Heston]] (WWII) a whole lot of French enlisted in [[La Résistance]] (mime [[Marcel Marceau]], philosopher Simone Weil, writers [[Marguerite Duras]], [[Albert Camus]], [[Samuel Beckett]], [[Paul Eluard]], [[Louis Aragon]], [[André Malraux]], [[Tristan Tzara]] etc). Technically, Queen Elizabeth II also served in WWII, though not in a fighting capacity - she volunteered for the British women's auxiliary force, thus making her the only current head of state who's a veteran of that war. (A fact which caused some controversy when she wasn't invited to the D-Day commemoration in 2010.)

* Both World Wars pretty much ensured that a large number of famous people from two generations [[He Also Did|also served in the military or related fields]] in addition to the main source of their fame. Among these can be cited of note (takes breath) [[Christopher Lee]] (Commando in WWII), [[Kurt Vonnegut]] (WWII private and Dresden flattening survivor), [[William Butler Yeats]] (volunteer in WWI), [[Ernest Hemingway]] (volunteered as paramedic in WWI and spy in WWII), bogus director and crossdresser extraordinaire [[Ed Wood (Creator)|Ed Wood]] (war hero in Guadalcanal... [[What the Hell, Hero?|in panties]]), [[Ian Fleming]] (WWII), painters Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and lots of other Germans/Austrian young poor artists (drafted in WWI), Russian writer [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] (tank commander in the [[Great Patriotic War]], decorated twice), B-25 bomber gunner [[Charlton Heston]] (WWII) a whole lot of French enlisted in [[La Résistance]] (mime [[Marcel Marceau]], philosopher Simone Weil, writers [[Marguerite Duras]], [[Albert Camus]], [[Samuel Beckett]], [[Paul Eluard]], [[Louis Aragon]], [[André Malraux]], [[Tristan Tzara]] etc). Technically, Queen Elizabeth II also served in WWII, though not in a fighting capacity - she volunteered for the British women's auxiliary force, thus making her the only current head of state who's a veteran of that war. (A fact which caused some controversy when she wasn't invited to the D-Day commemoration in 2010.)

* History has seen a lot of [[Warrior Poets]], along with Warrior Philophers, and Warrior Artists.[[Older Than Feudalism|Socrates]] fought against the invading Persians, Xenophon was a Greek mercenary, Thucydides experienced first-handedly the Peloponnesian Wars, Horace fought in the Roman Civil Wars, a sharp decrease can be seen during the Dark Ages (where the ruling caste were often barbarian invaders) and the Middle Ages (where the feudal lords were sometimes literate and sometimes not and usually had enough on their plates politically to keep them busy). Things go booming during the last years of the High Middle Ages, where knights were supposed to be poets as well, while still being actually efficient and ruthless iron-clad warriors. The heyday of the [[Warrior Poet]], some examples includes Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Mallory, and very notably [[Dante Alighieri]], who incidentally had to exiled from Florence and became a [[Hired Guns|rogue knight]] who fought for many different lords, [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] was contracted as a military engineer in Venice, [[Miguel De Cervantes]] was a young officer and war hero at Lepanto and so it goes.

* probably half of the United States Presidents fought in some war. Even if one limited it to the ones who held the rank of general it would take some time to list them all. The most famous are, of course, Washington, Jackson and Grant, whose pictures appear on the currency. But Taylor, Eisenhower and Harrison (the one who died of pneumonia) also had very successful military careers before going into politics.