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* '''[[Lucky Starr]]''': Hero of a series of [[Isaac Asimov]] novels, or '60s Australian singer who recorded the original version of "[[wikipedia:I've Been Everywhere|I've Been Everywhere]]"?
* '''[[April Stewart]]''': Character on ''[[The Funky Phantom]]'', or voice actress on ''[[South Park]]''?
* '''[[Justice League (animation)|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'''.
** Green Lantern is good for this, actually. There's also an astronaut named '''Guy Gardner'''. And, had an editor at National not thought it was a bit too on-the-nose, Alan Scott would have been named '''Alan Ladd''' (in reference to Aladdin, not to the actor who would debut a few years later. It's a good thing they decided against this, because at the end of the decade the real Alan Ladd got [[wikipedia:The Adventures of Alan Ladd|his own comic]].).
*** Bill Finger, the in-house co-creator of the Golden Age Green Lantern, used to tell the story that way. But after he died, Martin Nodell, who came up with the idea freelance and pitched it to DC, said he just flipped through the New York phone book with a pin that landed on "Alan" and "Scott". It's possible Finger tried to talk him into changing it (and was talked out of the change by the editor). All the same, Alan Scott ended up with ''two'' middle names: "Wellington", from a Golden Age story in which he thwarts a latter-day Napoleon, and "Ladd", because Roy Thomas forgot the first story and remembered the Finger anecdote.
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