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Indiana Jones

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BarryBarryTaylor · 07/06/2019 07:39

Just watching Milkshake with my dd and the presenter was reading out the birthday cards and one of them was for a girl called Indiana Jones, even the presenter giggled. I think it’s a great name.
Unfortunately we have a really long unusual surname, but has anyone else known or named their dc after someone famous?
I would love to hear!!

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BobbyBrewstersMagicTorch · 08/06/2019 14:09

I know a Paul Hiscock.

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BarryBarryTaylor · 08/06/2019 14:02

Beverly Hills 😮

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pikapikachu · 08/06/2019 13:30

I worked with a Christian Slater. He hated having the same name as a celeb.

OldAndWornOut · 08/06/2019 12:57

I had a friend called Beverly Hills.

ChanandlerBongsNeighbour · 08/06/2019 12:56

I'm related to Bruce Lee

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BarryBarryTaylor · 08/06/2019 12:22

I’m a bit T-Rex fan, Marc Bolan named his son Rolan Bolan
I believe David Bowie named his son Zowie, but he changed his name to Duncan Jones...I think.

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SCST01 · 08/06/2019 00:17

Lived with bloke at uni called Julian Lennon 😊

shewhocan · 08/06/2019 00:05

All my DCs are named after a famous person as their second name (favourite artist, playwright). We moved to films for DC three... and yes his middle name is Indiana. DC2 is also named after a famous politician I admired (long dead...not the current shambles!).

Berrylin · 07/06/2019 23:53

There’s a lawyer called Harry Potter who presents quite a lot of law-related documentaries for the BBC.

He’s at least 60 so he definitely had the name before the imaginary wizard, but it still makes me laugh!

Mof3K · 07/06/2019 23:50

I went to school with Wayne King.
It seems so unlikely but its honestly true
I randomly think about him sometimes as an adult with that name. How does he cope ?
I've tried to find him on Facebook but he's disappeared so i wonder if he's changed his name!

I remember our science teacher used to call him by his full name with great glee.
Poor Wayne

Pleasebequietnow · 07/06/2019 23:44

I know a Janet who married a Mr Jackson.

AlliKaneErikson · 07/06/2019 23:42

I taught a Mariah Carey!

itssquidstella · 07/06/2019 21:39

I went to school with a Jenna Taylor.

TurquoiseAndPurple · 07/06/2019 21:34

@ILoveDaveGrohl haha no way!

@Sophronia Tom Jones is quite common. I know a few!

There was a girl names Snow White the year I was born. My Mum read it in the paper

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 07/06/2019 20:33

The deputy head of my secondry school was a Phil Collins and one of the DT teachers was Dave Allen

OKBobble · 07/06/2019 20:24

Another friend liked Isla too - surname Mann

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BarryBarryTaylor · 07/06/2019 20:06

Haha Nat West- well spotted okbobble that didn’t occur to me immediately!

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OKBobble · 07/06/2019 20:02

Ben was the rat in the MJ song!

Friend's husband liked the name Natalie she did not. Surname was West when I pointed out she'd be called Nat West she got her choice!

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BarryBarryTaylor · 07/06/2019 19:59

I didn’t expect so many great replies, this has made my dreary Friday not so crap!

I love hearing about other people’s names.

My husband shares his name (first name and middle name) with a footballer who has recently signed for Manchester. Dd wants the football shirt with his name on the back, which would be quite sweet

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marywinchester · 07/06/2019 19:19

i know a peter parker and this week have done work on a suit belonging to a steve rogers

ConstanzaAndSalieri · 07/06/2019 19:12

I went to school with Lewis Carroll. Which seemed a little unfair although it’s a nice name.

First choice boys name + DH’a surname would have led my son to share the name with a moderately famous sportsman (DH often gets asked “any relation?”). So it didn’t happen.

IHeartKingThistle · 07/06/2019 19:11

I taught an Indiana Jones years ago. Also a Jack Sparrow, a Phil Collins and a Penny Lane (who, unbelievably, was not named after the song I know this because I set an entire class a homework on how they got their name to find out)

PurpleCrowbar · 07/06/2019 19:07

I taught a Luke Walker. Perfectly unremarkable except his parents had thought it bloody hilarious to give him Sky as a middle name.

A friend attended an all boys' school with the Ness twins, Andrew & Peter. Again, fine, except the register was called by surname unless there were two Smiths or whatever, in which case the convention was initial + surname.

Apparently waiting for a new/supply teacher to innocently call out 'A Ness, P Ness' never got old...unless you were Andy or Pete Ness, of course

Malyshek · 07/06/2019 19:01

It was obviously on purpose because Dobrinya isn't exactly a common name in Russia (or anywhere that I know of).
And that's my cat's name, after the same folk tale hero...

Malyshek · 07/06/2019 19:00

In Russia I ran into a guy named Nikita, who called his son Dobrinya - thus making the poor kid's full name and patronym "Dobrinya Nikitich" (an extremely well-known folk tale hero in Russia)

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