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* In ''[[Catch-22]]'', you've got Captain Major (whose first and middle names are also Major, making his full name Major Major Major), being promoted... to Major. Thus making him Major Major Major Major. Any further attempts to promote or demote him are blocked by [[Almighty Janitor|ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen]], who finds the whole situation hilarious.

* Farmer Farmer in ''The Fox Busters'' by Dick King-Smith.

* In a variant from the world of [[Shadowrun]], an employer who hire shadowrunners is colloquially referred to as "Mr. Johnson", regardless of gender, to ensure annonymity. One of them self-[[~~Lampshades~~]] this trope in one of the Shadowrun novels, remarking on the irony that her name really ''is'' Johnson.

* In a variant from the world of [[Shadowrun]], an employer who hire shadowrunners is colloquially referred to as "Mr. Johnson", regardless of gender, to ensure annonymity. One of them self-[[lampshade]]s this trope in one of the Shadowrun novels, remarking on the irony that her name really ''is'' Johnson.

* In ''The Nanny Diaries'', the main character's name is... Nanny.

* In ''The Hundred and One Dalmatians'', Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler decide to become a cook and butler because of their names. (The only problem is, the family then has to ''stop'' calling Nanny Butler by her surname, because you just can't call a butler Butler.)