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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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* Economist [[wikipedia:Richard Thaler|Richard Thaler]]'s last name is the German root word for "Dollar."
** Which also qualifies German poker player Katja Thaler.
* Double-subverted by Dan Schneider ("tailor" or "cutter" in German) who named his business Schneider's Bakery ([[Zoey 101|it's]] a [[Drake and Josh|TV]] [[
* Melinda Loveless, who infamously tortured a young girl to death.
* In London, there's a veterinary surgery in '''''Mayow''''' Road, near '''''Cat'''''ford.
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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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* The fact that [[Amy Winehouse]] was known for her heavy drinking and drug use and her biggest hit was about refusing to go back to rehab [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|isn't as funny as it used to be]].
* [[Rufus Wainwright|Rufus (Latin for "red") Wainwright]] tended to wear a lot of red early in his career.
* In the Ukrainian elections, one candidate has changed his surname to "Protyvsikh" - Proty vsikh is a Ukrainian phrase which translates to "Against everyone", something which sums up his political position. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171020154106/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8391317.stm
* Indonesian ace football player Bambang Pamungkas. Pamungkas means "finisher," in a battle or duel context.
* Awful but true: Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche, (deceased) leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging white-supremacist group. His surname means "white land" or "white earth" in French.
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** In fairness to the man, "Sin" is [[Why Mao Changed His Name|an older transcription of a name rendered as "Xin" in Pinyin]].
* 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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** John ''Fish'', Marine Biologist at Aberystwyth University
* Former White House spokesman Larry Speakes.
* One of the Linux kernel developers is called '[https://web.archive.org/web/20111115101327/http://kerneltrap.org/taxonomy/term/993 Pierre Ossman]'. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Open-source software is known as 'OSS' in the computing circles]].
* The element phosphorus was first discovered in 1669 by Hennig Brand, an apothecary and alchemist searching for the Philosopher's Stone. "Brand" is a German word meaning "blaze" or "fire", especially that of a house, forest or city. The name became not only meaningful, but prophetic even after Brand's home town Hamburg was destroyed in a firestorm caused by the RAF dropping phosphorous bombs on it in 1943.
* Canadian distiller Samuel Bronfman's name means "liquor man" in Yiddish.
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** [http://failblog.org/2010/01/26/name-fail-or-wonderfully-appropriate-win/ Seymour Bum, gastroenterologist]
** [http://failblog.org/2010/03/10/sex-offender-name-fail/ Mister Love, sex offender]
* Subverted with Ian ''Pratt'', A member of the [http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/people/ipratt.php artificial intelligence group]{{Dead link}} at the School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester.
* '''Dick''' Masterson, the (in)famous male chauvinist [[Poe's Law|(or troll]] who founded and maintained the site: http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com/
* General Dwight Eisenhower ("Iron Hewer"), once associated with a really big army.
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* In 1995, a virtual reality researcher developed algorithms to simulate the evolution of living beings and a 3D environment in which virtual creatures evolve. His name: Karl ''Sims''.
* Mark ''Webb'' is set to direct the [[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]] [[Continuity Reboot|reboot film]].
* And there's [[The Brothers Grimm (
* [[Mark Hamill|M]]'''[[Mark Hamill|ark Ham]]'''[[Mark Hamill|ill]] plays [[The Joker]] in many animated Batman works.
* '''Martin Luther''' King was a Protestant minister who fought the establishment.
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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.
*
* [[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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* On IMDB, when multiple people have the same name, Roman numerals are attached to the end, so Jim Troper the actor would be "Jim Troper (I)" and Jim Troper the producer would be "Jim Troper (II)." Why is this relevant, you ask? Let's ask [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1741002/ Matt Smith] [[Doctor Who|(XI)]]...
* Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is both highly gentrified and overrun with deer.
* [
* Chuck is short for Charles, which means manly. [[Chuck Norris]]....
* Karl Schwarzschild ("black shield"), black hole physicist. Doubly apt.
* Mikhail Botwinnik, world chess champion. Also pioneer on chess computers. Today the "bot" wins all the time...
* 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 Kilometers before the explosion only killed him. The guy’s named happens to be “'''Jesus'''” Garcia.
* 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.
* General George C Marshal who was the Army Chief of Staff in World War II. By coincidence his rank(General of the Army) was roughly the same as what other countries would call a "field-marshal". In other words he was "Marshal Marshal."
* 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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