I don’t know, I’m not familiar with the word “Dmitre” and couldn’t find it in my dictionary. Is it an English word?
The Detroit Tigers baseball team has a firstbasemen/DH named Dmitre Young.
Tailieferro, a perfectly good name, is pronounced “Tolliver” here in the South.
Again, it’s not subject to rules. However a standard Brit, unfamiliar with the name, would pronounce it, its correct pronunciation would be whatever Mr. Young says it is.
My personal favorite: Mike Krzyzewski
Pronounced sha-shef-ski
That doesn’t mean anybody has to agree with him, or pronounce it his way.
I’m from Australia. I’ve never heard of the Detroit Tigers baseball team before or Mr Young, but I’d pronounce it however Mr Young wanted it pronounced. That would simply be common courtesy.
Joe Mahma:
“That doesn’t mean anybody has to agree with him, or pronounce it his way”
Respect my friend…
I absolutely agree that it is common courtesy to pronounce a name the way its owner does.
I still remember that when Julian Javier first came up with the Cards in the early fifties (when Stan Musial was still playing, that is why his son is Stan), he was one of the very first Spanish language baseball players and the announcer obviously couldn’t believe the pronunciation he was given (roughly Hoolian Havier) but he used it anyway, since that is what he was told and he was a professional announcer.
How the hell do you get nucular out of nuclear?
My favorite of these is Cholmondeley, pronounced “Chumley.”
There was a young man named Colquhoun
Who kept as a pet a babuhoun.
His mother said, “Cholmondeley,
“I don’t think it’s quite colmondeley
“To feed your babuhoun with a spuhoun.”
I love that one myself!! Although I hate the Duke Blue Devils, pronounced “We pay our players.”
Minor correction–Mr. Young of the Tigers (Tigres?) spells his name Dmitri, with an I, not Dmitre.
I know, I just wanted to bring a little attention to my favorite sports team. 
Um, yes it does. What more basic right does a human have, than to determine what his or her name is? Why should it be up to you to be the final arbiter on how I pronounce my own name?
I guess you’re right. I retract my previous bullheaded statement.
In support of this, I know someone named Havre and he pronounces it HAV-ER. Following this model Favre should be pronounced FAV-ER.
Just curious…are there any cases of people within the same family pronouncing their (same) last name differently?
My mother’s maiden name is “Nienaber”, which she pronounces the German way, NEE-nob-er, the way her father pronouced it. But my mother’s twin brother and her sister pronounce it NEE-nay-ber. When I would ask my uncle and aunt why they say NEE-nay-ber, they would just shrug and say, “Or NEE-nob-er, whatever.”
Another family that comes to mind is the well-known Roosevelt family of New York. One branch pronounces the name ROOS-e-velt, while the other branch pronounces it ROZE-e-velt.