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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'': James T. Kirk's monogram would be extremely close to that of President [[John F. Kennedy]]'s, of whom series creator [[Gene Roddenberry]] was a known admirer.
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': Kathryn Janeway, the first major female Starfleet captain, has the inverted initials of Star Trek's first-ever captain.
* On ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', Gregory House shares a lot with [[Sherlock Holmes]]. House's 'sidekick' James Wilson has the same monogram as Holmes' Dr. John Watson, while House himself shares his second initial with Holmes (as well as being a pun on the name).
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* Variation: In ''[[And Then There Were None]]'', Mr./Ms. Owen gives his/her hosts various first and middle names that start with "U" and "N" respectively. Combined with the last name, they're pronounced as "unknown".
** From another Agatha Christie novel, ''The ABC Murders'', we have the unfortunately named Alexander Bonaparte Cust, the {{spoiler|red herring who was deliberately set up by the true murderer}}.
* In ''[[House of Cards (British series)]]'', the author picked the name Francis Urquhart for the protagonist from the initials, "F.U."
* In ''[[Harry Potter
* In [[Charles Stross]]'s Bob Howard series, a throw-away line reveals that geeky Bob's full initials are [[Bastard Operator From Hell|B.O.F.H.]] (another throw-away line reveals that his name is a pseudonym to protect his [[True Name]], suggesting that he picked his initials deliberately).
* In ''[[Live and Let Die (novel)|Live and Let Die]]'', the villain's name is Buonapart Ignace Gallia, which combined with his size made the nickname "Mr. Big" inevitable.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Nineteenth-century military buff Hiram U. Grant was reportedly [[Gender Blender Name|always embarrassed by the weak-sounding implications of his monogram]]. That is until his application for West Point, when his Congressman, who nominated him for acceptance, apparently mistook his middle name for his first name and his mother's maiden name for his middle initial and submitted him under the much more patriotic initials "[[Ulysses S. Grant]]," which Hiram kept throughout the remainder of his career as general and later as president.
* 1950s [[B-Movie]] director Bert I. Gordon, who specialized in [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|giant monster movies]].
* In the Netherlands, we have "Katholieke Universiteit Tilburg" (Catholic University of Tilburg), the initials of which spell out the Dutch word for cunt.
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