Apparently there are at least two Mike Wallaces

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I’ve been trying to get my 16 year old more interested in news/current events/etc. So this weekend I was happy to hear him talking about how great Mike Wallace is. I figured he watched 60 minutes for school, or just by coincidence, and now he is hooked.

So I take out my phone and head to Amazon. I find Wallace’s book (Close Encounters) and prepare to buy it for him. Then he mentions how fast he does the forty yard dash in. Huh? I didn’t know he was an athlete in college.

My gf sat listening and realized the entire time that my kid meant Mike Wallace the football player and I meant the journalist. I found a current pic of my Mike Wallace and showed my son. He is probably still laughing.:smiley:

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There’s also a Mike Wallace who wrote the excellent Gotham: A History of New York City.

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Ok, 3.

:d

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Mike Wallace on the Bucs or Mike Wallace on the Seahawks?

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Those are both Mike Williams. Mike Wallace plays for the Steelers.

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Yep. My son is a big Steeler fan.

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There are lots of these.
Who woulda thunk there’d be two Harrison Fords that were both action heros in the movies? (How many “Harrisons” are you familiar with as a first name?)

Or that there were two authors named Winston Churchill. Neither of those is exactly a common name.
Not surprising that there’s a whole stack of Michael Jacksons, besides the famous one without a glove or most of a nose.

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Readers Digest recently ran an article about ordinary people who have famous namesakes.

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Don’t forget Mike Wallace the NASCAR driver.

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When I was an RA in college (late 80s) Michael Jordan was on my floor. Scrawny white kid.

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To be fair, his nickname is 60 Minutes!

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When I was a kid, my best friend was a scrawny white kid named Bill Russell.

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That was who I thought the topic was going to refer to.

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When the famous Michael Jackson died in 2009 some fans went to the wrong star in Hollywood to pay tribute. There are 2 stars for that name. The other guy was a radio host.

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Whenever somebody mentions British supergroup The Dave Clark Five, I like to point out that I have known at least five Dave Clarks in my lifetime and probably more.