# 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:** 18
**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:** [July 4, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/341 "2018-07-04T14:15:03Z")
In honor of the 4th of July: [John Nixon,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nixon_(financier)) who before the American Revolution was a militia officer and who during the American Revolution was with George Washington at Valley Forge; and who, in July of 1776, “made the first public proclamation of the Declaration of Independence from the steps of the Pennsylvania State House.” (After the war? President of the country’s first national bank.) ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/342 "2018-07-05T15:29:58Z")
Oscar Wilde doesn’t have a name that counts. Lord Alfred Douglas, though, does. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/343 "2018-07-05T20:05:31Z")
Speaking of Douglas’s, what about Richard Douglas (Chip’s real name) of My Three Songs. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/344 "2018-07-06T15:29:24Z")
At that, I figure Doris Singleton was juuust barely ‘celebrity’ enough to qualify. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/345 "2018-07-07T12:05:27Z")
On what’s maybe the other side of the line, though, I’m not a hundred percent sure whether David Dastmalchian counts. I mean, yes, right now he’s reprising his minor role from ANT-MAN in what’s sure to be this week’s #1 movie; and, yes, in between Dastmalchian picked up recurring ‘villain’ roles on primetime TV — as MACGYVER’s brainy nemesis Murdoc, and as a deranged cultist on GOTHAM — when he wasn’t appearing on THE FLASH, as Abra Kadabra; and, yes, before that he’d written and starred in an independent picture that won him various film-festival awards; and, yes, next up seems to be work in a Kevin-Smith-And-Jason-Mewes flick. And so on. But does all of that _get there yet?_ Is he at Hey It’s That Guy status? Because I feel like I should instead take care to bump the thread with, say, Sol Lesser: he got an Oscar and a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and a classic ‘retirement’ line about how “I had reached the age that one either finishes on top or far below. I decided I would end on top, and I was satisfied.” And that’s, y’know, _solid_. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/346 "2018-07-08T17:58:19Z")
Theodore Roethke passed away in the 1960s. [“In 1967 Roethke’s Collected Poems topped the lists of two of the three Pulitzer Prize poetry voters; Phyllis McGinley and Louis Simpson. However the group’s chairman, Richard Eberhart, lobbied against Roethke on the grounds that the award should go to a living poet. It would have been Roethke’s second Pulitzer Prize.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roethke) (That didn’t stop him from posthumously winning a second _National Book Award,_ you understand; some of his stuff made an impact when he was alive, and some his other stuff did likewise later.) ---
**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:** [July 9, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/347 "2018-07-09T11:05:12Z")
Bob Bartlett, US Senator: [“The Library of Congress estimates that he had more bills passed into law than any other member in congressional history.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bartlett) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/348 "2018-07-09T20:26:30Z")
When a little baby boy was brought to an orphanage, the head nun named him Delaney after the police officer who brought him there, and since he was the fifth baby brought to the orphanage that month, she gave him a name being with “E”–Elwood. Elwood Delaney. Elwood would later change his last name to Blues and form a band with Joilet Jake Blues called The Blues Brothers. The fact that my brain remembered this with no computer help is frightening. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/349 "2018-07-10T22:51:17Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > When a little baby boy was brought to an orphanage, the head nun named him Delaney after the police officer who brought him there, and since he was the fifth baby brought to the orphanage that month, she gave him a name being with “E”–Elwood. Elwood Delaney. > > Elwood would later change his last name to Blues and form a band with Joilet Jake Blues called The Blues Brothers. > > The fact that my brain remembered this with no computer help is frightening. I’m not sure whether the OP is 100% cool with fictional characters — and, if so, I’m not 100% sure whether names they _aren’t_ known by fit — but in that spirit, and since you mentioned Jake Blues, figure I’ll bump the thread with the borderline example of Jacob Batalon: he’s recognizable, and he’s in the top-grossing movie of the year, and all of that arguably adds up to _something,_ right? ---
**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:** [July 11, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/350 "2018-07-11T21:52:55Z")
Chris Sale, the MLB’s career leader in strikeout-to-walk ratio, got 1500 strikeouts in the fewest innings pitched: he led the league in strikeouts in 2015, missed it close in 2016, led it in 2017, and is in front to do it again right here in 2018. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/351 "2018-07-11T22:41:50Z")
Mike Krukow, former starting pitcher for the Cubs, Phillies, and Giants. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/352 "2018-07-12T15:36:04Z")
Jean-Luc Crétier, Olympic gold medalist for France. (Same event won at the _following_ Olympics by Fritz Strobl, for Austria!) ---
**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:** [July 13, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/353 "2018-07-13T16:47:55Z")
Brad Delson, lead guitarist for Linkin Park ---
**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:** [July 14, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/354 "2018-07-14T11:37:23Z")
This weekend brings to mind Jack Crawford, who earned his Hall of Fame spot by winning the singles title at Wimbledon — and at the French Open, and four times at the Australian Open. And he also got the doubles title at Wimbledon — and at the French Open, and four times at the Australian Open. And also in _mixed_ doubles at Wimbledon — and at the French Open, and three times at the Australian Open. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2018, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/355 "2018-07-15T12:01:30Z")
At that, there’s Olympic medalist Angelique Kerber — who, in between that last post and this one, won the championship at Wimbledon after having done likewise at the Australian Open and the US Open. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2018, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/356 "2018-07-16T10:17:42Z")
Kyle Long is a three-time Pro Bowl player — and, sure, the brother of Chris Long, and the son of Howie Long; but I think he’s made enough of a name for himself to qualify, having signed a $40 million contract extension not too long ago. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/357 "2018-07-17T22:55:21Z")
Performing tonight on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT: Luke Combs, who’s had a number of Top 40 hits that went gold or platinum — which seems like a solid enough start, since he only just won a New Country Artist of the Year award. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/358 "2018-07-18T23:42:34Z")
Ted Demme never got as famous as his uncle Jonathan Demme; but after directing Dennis Leary in _The Ref_ he directed Timothy Hutton in _Beautiful Girls_ — before he directed Eddie Murphy in _Life_, and before he directed Johnny Depp in _Blow_. And along the way, he picked up an Emmy for _A Lesson Before Dying_. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/359 "2018-07-19T20:37:49Z")
Milo O’Shea played Dr. Durand Durand in _Barbarella_ (1968); in a particular scene his character tried to kill Jane Fonda’s title character with “pleasure”. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/360 "2018-07-19T22:58:56Z")
That’s the movie with Claude Dauphin as the President of Earth! And, man, did that guy rack up lots of name-on-the-movie-poster credits: sometimes getting second-billed to Bing Crosby, or to Karl Malden; and sometimes getting billed third, after Audie Murphy and Michael Rennie or Doris Day and Ray Bolger; but, yeah, sometimes getting top billing, even. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=19)