# Celebrities/VIPs/Luminaries whose names phonetically join in the middle **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 16, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912 "2018-02-16T03:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/241 "2018-04-15T11:44:46Z")
Pat Toomey got elected and re-elected to the House of Representatives before he got elected and re-elected to the Senate, where he’s still serving today. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/242 "2018-04-16T09:24:59Z")
Lew Wallace was a Civil War general who sometimes gets portrayed on screen due to having presided over the Andersonville Trial, and who sometimes gets portrayed on screen due to having been governor of the New Mexico territory back when that meant dealing with Billy The Kid, but who has one other big claim to fame: [In 1900, Ben-Hur became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Amy Lifson, an editor for Humanities, identified it as the most influential Christian book of the 19th century. Others named it one of the best-selling novels of all time. At the time of Ben-Hur’s one hundredth anniversary in 1980, it had “never been out of print” and had been adapted for the stage and several motion pictures.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Wallace) (In fact, if you visit the website for the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, right at the top it of course kicks off with a [_The Home of Ben-Hur_](https://www.ben-hur.com).) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/243 "2018-04-17T09:53:44Z")
Tim Meadows spent ten years performing on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, which is why he headed up THE LADIES MAN in between getting a healthy amount of on-screen work in movies and TV shows featuring various other SNL alums. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/244 "2018-04-17T15:27:07Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > According to **The Sunday Times** , William Marshall was “the best Othello of our time” since he was “nobler than Tearle, more martial than Gielgud, more poetic than Valk…" An earlier William Marshall was a noted English knight: [William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marshal,_1st_Earl_of_Pembroke) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/245 "2018-04-17T15:38:29Z")
Interesting. Well, since you’ve now mentioned someone who fought in a rebellion, figure that brings to mind — Nat Turner? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/246 "2018-04-18T09:12:53Z")
[del]Orville and[/del] Wilbur Wright. ---
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Beach Boy Michael Love ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/248 "2018-04-18T13:56:36Z")
The title character of the Irish comedy _Waking Ned Devine_ (1998). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/249 "2018-04-19T01:12:37Z")
Earl Long was the top-billed role memorably fielded by Paul Newman in BLAZE, since he’d been a danged interesting real-life three-time Governor of Louisiana. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/250 "2018-04-19T09:25:58Z")
Tonight, you should be able to see actress Angelique Cabral once again grace the opening credits of the ensemble-cast primetime show LIFE IN PIECES. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/251 "2018-04-20T09:59:37Z")
Emeril Lagasse. (Bam!) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/252 "2018-04-21T10:12:27Z")
London’s high-profile mayor, Sadiq Khan. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/253 "2018-04-22T11:08:49Z")
Arthur Rubinstein won back-to-back Grammys for Best Chamber Music: after the documentary about him won the Oscar for, well, Best Documentary; but before the President presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, pointing out that Rubinstein was acclaimed as _“the greatest master of the piano living today”_. (Rubinstein of course then won yet more Grammys; and he was, of course, already a Grammy winner even before all of that other stuff I just mentioned.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/254 "2018-04-23T10:37:53Z")
In the headlines this week: Mike Crapo, the Senator with a name that’s fun to read. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/255 "2018-04-24T10:44:24Z")
Noted painter Andrew Wyeth. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/256 "2018-04-25T10:51:30Z")
In between getting her first and second Tony nominations, Michele Lee spent 14 years acting in 344 episodes of KNOTS LANDING — [“appearing in every single episode of the dramatic serial, setting a record for being one of the only female actresses in primetime television history to do so.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_MacKenzie) ---
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Sgt. Hans Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/258 "2018-04-25T15:26:35Z")
_The Waltons_ mom, actress Michael Learned. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/259 "2018-04-26T23:17:23Z")
Richard Denning got top-billed leading-man work in a healthy amount of stuff back when, both on television and in the movies. ---
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Formula One racer turned Indy 500 champ Alexander Rossi was a competitor on the latest iteration of _The Amazing Race_ this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=14)