Wolf Blitzer has been mentioned. Another of my favorites is Vermont Connecticut Royster, longtime editor of The Wall Street Journal.
Your Johnny Vegas isn’t going to have a career under that name in the UK…
You rang, Sir?
Weber State University basketball team had two players on the early 70’s named Willie Sojourner and Justus Thigpen.
My favorite sports name is former Ohio Sate University running back Hiawatha Francisco Jr.
Hercules Mulligan was an early New York friend of Alexander Hamilton.
That name was one reason that Lin-Manuel Miranda* really* wanted him in his play…
Daryl Dragon…aka The Captain.
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=captain+and+tenille&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002
We could mine the history of major league baseball for fabulous names. One of the best recent ones was Wonderful Terrific Monds III of the New Haven Ravens.
Alas, he never made the majors.
Given a recent thread and me doing a “clean this shit up” weekend… I found Richard Fenymans second book and read the first 60 pages or so…
One name mentioned by Richard was Nick Metropolis.
If that isn’t some comic book super hero name I don’t know what is.
Back in the day I worked graveyard shift at a hotline and we passed the time finding odd names in the phone book (they were on paper at the time). We found not one, but two "Wilbur J Zott"s
I imagined someone calling
“May I speak to Mr Zott?”
“Which Mr Zott?”
“Mr Wilbur Zott.”
“Which Mr Wilbur Zott?”
“Mr Wilbur J Zott.”
“Which Mr Wilbur J Zott?”
A woman who was a doctor back in the 1910s had the even better superhero name of Lunette Powers.
Precious Blueeyes Jones
Cleanng out an old file box at work, I found a copy of a letter from the company to Mike Venus and Dick Dood.
I have it pinned to the wall.