# A List of Middle-initialed Entertainers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383 "2013-03-19T18:40:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/21 "2013-03-19T21:25:54Z")
Michael K. Williams (aka Omar Little) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/22 "2013-03-19T21:33:50Z")
J.R.R. Tolkien George R. R. Martin Billy Dee Williams (His real name is William December Williams) Angus T. Jones ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/23 "2013-03-19T22:32:06Z")
If authors are fair game: JK Rowling EM Forster TS Eliot EL James ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/24 "2013-03-19T22:41:53Z")
e.e. cummings W.H. Auden ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/25 "2013-03-19T23:22:03Z")
CCH Pounder Bagdad Cafe (my favorite of hers) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/26 "2013-03-20T00:04:31Z")
A.C. Newman KT Tunstall JC Chasez ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/27 "2013-03-20T07:16:05Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Yngwie Malmsteen’s early albums had him billed as Yngwie J. Malmsteen. Flo & Eddie remarked at the time that this was to distinguish him from all the other Yngwie Malmsteens in the music business. Didn’t he do it as a tribute to the Canadian character guitarist Yngwie J. Pollard? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/28 "2013-03-20T08:48:42Z")
Humphrey B Bear! Nope, I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/29 "2013-03-20T10:40:33Z")
A lot of SF authors do this: Kevin J. Anderson Iain M. Banks Peter S. Beagle Tobias S. Buckell Michael A. Burstein Octavia E. Butler John W. Campbell Arthur C. Clarke Joseph H. Delaney Samuel R. Delany Philip K. Dick Gordon R. Dickson Thomas M. Disch Michael F. Flynn Charles L. Grant Jack C. Haldeman Charles L. Harness Robert A. Heinlein Michael P. Kube-McDowell Geoffrey A. Landis Ursula K. Le Guin David D. Levine Barry B. Longyear Richard A. Lupoff Ian R. MacLeod Barry N. Malzberg Maureen F. McHugh Vonda N. McIntyre Patricia A. McKillip Walter M. Miller Thomas F. Monteleone James K. Morrow David R. Palmer Robert J. Sawyer James H. Schmitz Clifford D. Simak John E. Stith Sheri S. Tepper Joan D. Vinge Stanley G. Weinbaum William F. Wu ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/30 "2013-03-20T11:29:42Z")
**Bunsen E. Honeydew** , famous (if rather spongy) experimental scientist Also, Johnny Q. – what’s a “character guitarist,” if you don’t mind the hijack? One with mad skills who shows up in the sessions of other musicians, like, say, Roy Cooder, or Jimmy Page pre-Zep? ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/31 "2013-03-20T14:20:01Z")
John D. Loudermilk, singer/songwriter (“Abilene”, “Break My Mind”, “Tobacco Road”, “Indian Reservation”, etc.) Tom T. Hall, country singer/songwriter (wrote “Harper Valley P.T.A.”, a hit for another middle-initialed singer, Jeannie C. Riley) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/32 "2013-03-20T15:19:49Z")
> [@enomaj](#): > > Vivica A. Fox:D That’s to differentiate her from all of the other Yngwie Malmsteens. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/33 "2013-03-21T15:11:28Z")
L.L. Cool J? Nope? Not even a titter? How about A. Martinez A. Whitney Brown J.J. Cale C.C. deville ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/34 "2013-03-21T15:20:07Z")
Back in the late 1980’s there was a female country singer named K.T. Oslin. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and her always!!! Holly P.S. To me all of her songs on the radio were good and the videos made for them songs that had a video only made them songs even better! 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/35 "2013-03-21T17:08:48Z")
PJ Harvey (yeah, she doesn’t use initials, but then, unlike most of the other names listed in this thread, it isn’t a stage name – she really was born Polly Jean Harvey) [J. J. Johnson,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Johnson) jazz trombonist ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383/36 "2013-03-21T23:25:24Z")
The Yankee Doodle Dandy, George M Cohan. my father thanks you my mother thanks you my sister thanks you and I thank you Donald S Davis from “Stargate SG-1” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-middle-initialed-entertainers/653383.md?page=1)