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* Although his gangster pursuers refer to him as "[[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|The Stooge]]", the protagonist of Paul Pope's graphic novel, ''[[Heavy Liquid]]'', is generally known as "S". "[[One-Letter Name|Why have a name when a letter will do?]]"
* [[Tintin]]. BTW, in the German translation his name becomes Tim. Which is a first name in Germany too, but people still call him "Herr Tim". [[Two First Names]]?
* Lyra and Skaar, from ''[[
* Marvel also gives us Thundra, Lyra's mother.
* When the [[Metal Men]] got human [[Secret Identity|secret identities]] towards the end of their original run, Tin and Mercury's identities were known only as "Tinker" and "Mercurio".
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* Most pets and named livestock have only one name, although vets sometimes append the human owner's surname for ease of record-keeping.
* Two Disney actresses, Lalaine Vergara-Paras and [[Zendaya Coleman]], are credited as just Lalaine and Zendaya respectively.
* In French-speaking countries it is a quite common phenomenon for people working in the arts and literature to use made-up names of this type, e. g. playwright [[Moliere]] (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), writer and philosopher [[Voltaire (
* Before people started making proper armies and the urbanization everyone where [[Only One Name]]. Last names where pretty much invented to stop fifteen people show up whenever someone screamed 'Tom'; wich gives us the poor imagination when it comes to some of the more common last names (Tom the Baker = Tom Baker; John the Smith = John Smith etcetera.)
* And now the Welsh, due to a shortage of distinct surnames, are repeating the process, to distinguish, e.g., Tom Jones the baker from Tom Jones the singer.
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