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People with unique forenames
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Bamber Gascoigne
What I liked about Griff Rhys Jones in The Young Ones was that he not only looked more like Gascoigne than the real one does, but he also has an even more uniquely daft forename. |
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Finetime Fontayne.
Played Hilda's lodger, Henry Wakefield, in Corrie iirc. |
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Booker Newberry III
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Used to come across some strange Chinese names in Asia. A memorable couple are;
Miaow Miaow Heidi Ho |
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On that theme what about Ping Pong Polly.
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Heid ^ How
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Boyle Degg
Milton Obote also known as Apollo Milton Obote. Perhaps he was born in a cinema. |
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Andy Carroll just another baby with TOWIE reality start Billie Mucklow.
It's called Wolf Nine. |
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The stupidity of fame.
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Leland Sklar
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Goodluck (Jonathan)
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I know and have known people named Frith , Westmoreland , Tawny and Lincoln.
Lincoln's surname was Green. Most unfortunate! |
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Dusty Springfield
Rip Torn |
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Always quite liked the name Mercedes McCambridge (she of the voice of the devil in The Exorcist). Unusual, but it's got a good ring to it.
(and extending it to surnames as well, what about Stirling Silliphant !) |
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The author of Mathematics For The Million had a great name , Lancelot Hogben.
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According to QI, the name 'Gary' didn't exist until Gary Cooper, who was named after the city of Gary in Indiana.
May I add 'Rolf' to the list? I have never met one and I can't really see the name becoming fashionable.... Victoria Derbyshire did a feature on unusual forenames and a chap called 'Tennis' called in, ever so nice he was. |
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Isambard?
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Way back in my family tree there is a Lancelot Turtle.
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Rudyard Kipling
By amazing coincidence, one evening twenty years ago Rolf Johnson, at that time the Racing Correspondent of the Daily Express, gave a lecture to the Kipling Society in London on "Kipling, Horses, and Horse-Racing". |
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Mardy Fish
the single daftest name from this planet |
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Haha Clinton-Dix
NFL player |
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Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe.
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Andy Carroll seems to have cursed his new kiddie with the christian name of Wolf Nine ???
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American golfer
Gaylord Burrows |
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Tory Sh*t
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Sherlock Holmes
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I was at school with a boy whose forename was (still is, afaik) Widgery.
Haven't seen that name anywhere since. |
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Milton isn't unique as there is Milton Jones the comedian.
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And Milton Keynes, who I think is an economist.
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Shirley Sterling can't be allowed if Rolf isn't - Sterling Morrison guitarist/bassist for The Velvet Underground as well as some scottish writer I met once; I think you'll find loads of Lembits in Estonia; am I allowed Siouxsie or even her ex-husband and percussionist Budgie or are deed pole names off limits?
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Stirling Moss - Fartsdemon
Sterling Morrison - (Venus In) Fursdemon Completely different. Siouxsie out of Siouxsie & The Banshees is a difficult one. My late mother constantly confused her with Suzi Quatro, refused point-blank to acknowledge that they were in fact two different people, or that Siouxsie was an acceptable spelling. Back in 1982, when I was living in W Germany, she sent me a copy of the NME with a photo of a topless Siouxsie on the cover with her back to the camera, together with a note saying she'd seen it in the newsagent's and thought I'd like it on account of being a fan of Suzi Quatro. Adam Faith was, of course, Budgie long before Budgie was Budgie. |
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Popeye his forearns we're impressive but also Magnus Samuelson in his day and Geoff capes
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Petula Clark a shocking omission imo
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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RIP Windsor Davies. Unique name, unique man.
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Stratford Johns
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Robert Swan Mueller III
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