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** Speaking of astronauts, "Ride, Sally, Ride!"
* John Candy. The name of this late great funnyman from Canada says a lot about his personality. Plus, he was born on Halloween (candy is given out on that holiday), was hugely overweight and had a very sweet personality.
* [[wikipedia:William Shockley|William Shockley]], an appropriate name for the head of an electronics (solid state physics) laboratory. Two people under him (John Bardeen and Walter Brattain) invented the transistor. Shockley got to share credit because he was their boss and went on to [[Start My Own|start his own]] semiconductor company. He was also an incredible asshole.
* There's a Finnish Meteorologist named Pekka Pouta, which would translate as Peter Fair Weather.
* Thomas Crapper, popularizer of the flush toilet.
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* Thorton Hee, a Disney story man from the forties, had his name listed as T. Hee.
* Real life [[Inverted Trope|Inversion]]: The 2000 US Presidential Election. The Democratic candidate Al Gore is now mostly known for his dedication to stopping global warming, while the Republican candidate George Bush is now known (among other things) for involvement in the war on terrorism. One would think that the man who promoted the environment would be named Bush (you know, a plant) and that the man who promoted defense would be named Gore, but that isn't the case.
* The leader of the Ontario Conservative Party from 2004-2009 is named John Tory. (As of 2014, he's mayor of [[Toronto]]. For those who don't know, "tory" is common slang for "conservative" in Canada and the UK.)
* Roger Tory Peterson is best known for his popular field guides to birds. Tori is the Japanese word for bird.
* Bernie Madoff (pronounced '[[Ponzi|made-off]]') with your money.
* The original promoter of the (entirely discredited) Oxfordian theory of Shakespearean authorship was one J. Thomas Looney, [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"|prounounced "Low-ney"]].
* [[Infomercial]] pitchman [[Vince Offer]] (real name 'Offer Shlomi').
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* One of the most famous architects of the late 19th/early 20th centuries: Antoni Gaudi.
** Gaudi's vibrant, colorful, not-very-well-liked-at-the-time designs actually inspired the word gaudy.
* The Supreme Court case that ended the ban on mixed-race marriages was ''Loving v. Virginia
** There was also a ''Brown vs. Board of Education'', which ruled that brown people should be edumacated.
* One of the main military leaders that led the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état (which led to an oppressive dictatorship) was Gen. Amaury '''Kruel'''.
* Mathematicians Mitchell Feigenbaum ("fig tree"), discoverer of the [[wikipedia:File:LogisticMap BifurcationDiagram.png|bifurcation constant]] named after him; and Benoit Mandelbrot ("almond bread"), though [[wikipedia:File:Mandel zoom 00 mandelbrot set.jpg|his set]] is more likely to be described as a ''ginger''bread man.
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* Creflo Dollar, pastor with a prosperity theology.
* An Atlanta man is being sought (as of March 2010) for child porn and attempting to buy a child. His name? Patrick '''Molesti'''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100325211707/http://wsbradio.com/localnews/2010/03/manhunt-underway-for-attempter.html Seriously].
* Doctor Richard (Dick) Chopp, urologist. "There are more vasectomies to be done" [https://web.archive.org/web/20131125061723/http://www.urologyteam.com/?q=dr-richard-chopp Richard Chopp's profile on urologyteam.com].
* Though he is apparently named after a relative, former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's youngest child Trig, who suffers from Down's Syndrome, also shares his name with a common abbreviation for the disease ('''Tri'''somy '''G'''), causing some pundits to accuse Palin of having a very sick sense of humor.
** Bristol Palin shares her first name with a kind of screw.
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* '''J'''ohn '''F'''orbes '''K'''erry tried to play this with his initials. Nice try. He may have been a Senator from Massachusetts and quite wealthy (due to his wife though), but he was no Jack Kennedy.
* Josh '''Outman''', currently a pitcher for the Oakland Athletics.
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* [[Japanese Pop Music|Toma Ikuta's]] parents were either big on astronomy or they wanted their children to become [[Stellar Name|"stars"]]. Toma's name is written with the Kanji for Big Dipper and True. His little brother, Ryuusei, who is trying to break into the business, writes his name with the kanji for Dragon and Star which also means "shooting star".
* French football (soccer) manager '''Arsen'''e Wenger went on to manage English club '''Arsen'''al FC.
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* E. G. Booz, a 19th century American distiller.
* This is the whole point of binomial nomenclature. For example, ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' means, "tyrant lizard king."
* Max Schreck, a
* There is a weather presenter on one of the regional new programmes in England by the name of Sara Blizzard
* Dick Hickock who murdered the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas was not only something of a dick/cock, he also largely did as that part of his body dictated, attempting to rape the sixteen year old Nancy Clutter. His partner in crime, [[Gentleman Thief|Perry Smith]] managed to stop him, saying "[[Even Evil Has Standards|If there's anything I can't stand, it's a man who can't control what's in his pants!]]. The murders were dramatised by Truman Capote in his novel, ''In Cold Blood''.
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* The use of semen as an invisible ink came from a spy by the name of Mansfield Cumming.
* Rich Richie and Mr. Diamond were involved in the Libor financial scandal.
* The Mexican mining town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacozari_de_Garc%C3%ADa#History Nacozari] was saved in 1907 by a badass brakeman who noticed a train was on fire and filled with dynamite, then drove it 6
* In December of 2016 a jobless Korean man was arrested for destroyed several ancient religious statues in Japan. The anti-Korean sentiment flared up by his actions was not diminished when his name was revealed to be Chon Seung-ho (Chon is a common Japanese slur for Koreans).
* The romantic age writer Sir Walter Scot who among other things wrote about Highland adventure.
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* The [[Bandit Clan]] Armstrong, was known for stealing people's cattle, engaging in feuds, and getting to the moon. All of which activities require strong arms.
* Richard King of King Ranch. He was one of the premier [[Cattle Baron]]s in Texas (where else) and ruled the place as what amounted to a "kingdom". He first crewed it from a Mexican village that was dying of thirst and thus perfectly willing to move to his spread and set up as a company town. As he was a better boss than most local Hildagos they worked hard for him and even fought for him. They also adored his wife Henrietta, who devoted herself to [[Schoolmarm|teaching their children.]] Richard himself remained a down-to-Earth sort that could converse with cowboys.
** A legend says that once he was visiting a slaughterhouse and quarreled with a cowboy for some reason or other. The cowboy said, "If you weren't the richest man in Texas I'd fight you." Whereupon King said, "Forget that I am the richest man in Texas and let's fight." So they had a big fight which included rolling around in [[Blood-Splattered Warrior|slaughterhouse gunk.]] At the end they parted in mutual respect. No doubt it, [[John Wayne]] would have thought Richard King a man after his own heart.
* In 1874, a female prospector hit it big in the Cassiar gold rush, and spent most of the money on a relief effort to save the lives of other miners in the area. She hit it even bigger in the Klondike a few years later, and gave much of the money to charity. This miner who made fortunes and gave the money away was named Nellie Cashman.
* [[Amelia Earhart]]: Who had a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|heart]] for the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|air.]] Ok, hart is a deer and ear is a sound detection organ. But that's what it sounds like.
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