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** Still another James Brown has worked as a sportscaster and pregame announcer for Fox and CBS.
** Jim Brown played American football for the Cleveland Browns before turning to acting (''[[The Dirty Dozen]]'', ''Ice Station Zebra'', ''[[The Running Man (film)|The Running Man]]''.)
* '''Joe Buck''' is the name of a baseball and football announcer for the [[
** There's also a psychobilly musician named Joe Buck.
* '''Kate Bush''': [[Kate Bush|a beautiful and amazingly talented but notoriously reclusive British singer with her own unique style of music]] [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Kate_Bush or a character who met a nasty end on Gundam].
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* Is '''Victor Hugo''' [[Victor Hugo|an author]] or [[Cars|a mean, beaten-up car]]?
* '''General Ike''', leading allied multinational forces against a destructive madman. Is this ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Path of Radiance'' or [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]?
** Ike's crowd cheer in the English version of ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' plays with this a bit. "We like Ike" indeed.
** Also, Ike was the name of a powerful hurricane, which resulted in many jokes in the Smash Bros. community during September 2008.
* '''Kanae Ito''' is a minor character in ''[[Amagami]]''. [[Kanae Ito]] is a prominent anime voice actress. The fictional one, though, is voiced by [[Yuki Matsuoka]].
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* '''Linda Park''': [[The Flash|Wally West's reporter wife]] or the actress who portrayed [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Hoshi Sato]]? Her name plays a big role in why some people want her to play the comic book Linda if they make a Flash movie.
* '''Charles Parker''': [[Charlie Parker|jazz legend]] or character in the [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] mysteries?
* ''General'' '''[[wikipedia:Nick Parker|Nick Parker]]''' is not to be confused with ''Captain'' '''[[Command
** For that matter, the International Security Assistance Force said General Parker is Deputy Commander of should not be confused with the [[Ace Combat|Independent State Allied Forces]].
* '''Peter Parker''': [[Spider-Man|Neurotic New York superhero]] or former head of British Rail? (Hint: only one of them got knighted, so far).
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* '''Jerry Robinson''': [[The Bob Newhart Show|Chicago orthodontist]], or comics artist and creator of [[Batman|The Joker]]?
** There was also an '80s NFL linebacker named Jerry Robinson.
* '''Steve Rogers''': [[Captain America (comics)|Superhero]] in a red, white, and blue uniform; or [http://www.itemsofpotentialinterest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/steve-rogers-1981-fleer-1.jpg baseball pitcher] in a red, white, and blue uniform?
* '''Marco Rossi''' is not only the name of two fictional characters (one of them being a playable character in the ''[[Metal Slug]]'' video games, the other the protagonist of the anime series ''3000LeaguesInSearchOfMother''), it is also named of several Italian people (including two football players and sexologist), since "Marco" and "Rossi" are both common Italian names.
* '''Andrew Ryan''': Objectivist [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Bioshock]]'', or [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/andrew-ryan/ a television critic for The Globe and Mail]?
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* The [[Sega]] [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]] '''Star Projector'''.
* '''Tony Stark''' is ''[[Iron Man]]''. Another Tony Stark played Chris in ''[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Night_of_Horror_1981.aspx Night of Horror]'', a movie that was so ineptly produced you'd seriously think it was made [[Memetic Mutation|in a cave! With a box of scraps!]]
* '''[[Lucky Starr]]''': Hero of a series of [[Isaac Asimov]] novels, or '60s Australian singer who recorded the original version of "[[wikipedia:
* '''[[April Stewart]]''': Character on ''[[The Funky Phantom]]'', or voice actress on ''[[South Park]]''?
* '''[[Justice League|John Stewart]]''' is a [[Green Lantern]]. [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]] hosts a comedy news show. Jonathan Stewart is a running back for the Carolina Panthers. A different John Stewart altogether wrote the song "[[The Monkees|Daydream Believer]]". None of them should be confused with '''John Stuart Mill'''.
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