# 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:** 19
**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 20, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/361 "2018-07-20T23:31:36Z")
As per wiki, Max Stirner [“was a German philosopher who is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism.”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner) ---
**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 21, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/362 "2018-07-21T13:03:13Z")
[“The first person to successfully remove an ovarian tumor,”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_McDowell) Ephraim McDowell got commemorated with everything from statues to postage stamps, sure as his [“house, office, and apothecary in Danville are preserved as a museum and are designated a National Historic Landmark”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_McDowell), near the [Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_McDowell_Regional_Medical_Center). ---
**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 22, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/363 "2018-07-22T19:16:44Z")
Even before he was getting Oscar nominations, Anatole Litvak was making a real name for himself: directing Edward G Robinson in _Confessions Of A Nazi Spy_ and directing Barbara Stanwyck in _Sorry, Wrong Number_ and directing Tyrone Power in _This Above All_ and directing Bette Davis in _All This, And Heaven Too_ and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/364 "2018-07-22T19:23:34Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > 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? Yeah, that’s cool, along with a number of other things in this thread (since I was here last) that I’ll, just, let, go.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/365 "2018-07-22T23:22:41Z")
Roger Rees was a Welsh-born actor, mostly noted for stage work, but also appeared in _Cheers_ (Robin Colcord) and _The West Wing_ (Sir John Marbury). ---
**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 23, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/366 "2018-07-23T22:08:34Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Yeah, that’s cool, along with a number of other things in this thread (since I was here last) that I’ll, just, let, go.🙂 Well, then, I feel pretty good about mentioning [del]Quite Frankly[/del] Frank Quitely, who won an Eisner Award in ‘05, and again in ‘06, and again in ‘07, and after ‘08 did it again in ‘09. (Now, granted, on the one hand, a heck of a lot of that was on the strength of his work on ALL-STAR SUPERMAN; but on the other hand, it’s not like I can bring myself to say anything bad about ALL-STAR SUPERMAN.) ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/367 "2018-07-23T23:36:37Z")
Ned Dennehy, Irish actor. ---
**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 24, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/368 "2018-07-24T23:13:32Z")
Peter Rachman, granted, [“did not achieve general notoriety until after his death, when the Profumo Affair of 1963 hit the headlines and it emerged that both Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies had been his mistresses, and that he had owned the mews house in Marylebone where Rice-Davies and Keeler had stayed.”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rachman) Still, in time he [“became notorious for his exploitation of his tenants, with the word ‘Rachmanism’ entering the Oxford English Dictionary”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rachman). ---
**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 25, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/369 "2018-07-25T23:10:34Z")
Back in the day, Dick Kollmar and his wife Dorothy Kilgallen had their own show, and [“_Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick_ was broadcast locally throughout New York City and its suburbs, drawing an audience of 20 million listeners.”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kollmar) I’m not counting his years on radio as _Boston Blackie_, because as far as I can tell he was credited as Richard Kollmar then; but then he landed a gig on TV, as the host of _Guess What_, and as far as I can tell he was credited as Dick Kollmar there. ---
**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 26, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/370 "2018-07-26T21:35:22Z")
American playwright Elmer Rice won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. And then Marc Connelly, of Algonquin Round Table fame, won it in 1930. ---
**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 27, 2018, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/371 "2018-07-27T10:59:40Z")
Nathaniel Lyon was the first Union general killed in the American Civil War, which is why Fort Lyon got said name during said war; and the guy is likewise commemorated by the Nathaniel Lyon Memorial State Park, and by the General Lyon Cemetery, sure as thanks from Congress came in for the _“eminent and patriotic services of the late Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon. The country to whose service he devoted his life will guard and preserve his fame as a part of its own glory. That the Thanks of Congress are hereby given to the brave officers who, under the command of the late general Lyon sustained the honor of the flag and achieved victory against overwhelming numbers at the battle of Springfield, Missouri.”_ ---
**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 28, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/372 "2018-07-28T11:17:45Z")
Heavyweight boxing champ Bruce Seldon famously lost the title to Mike Tyson during a pay-per-view fight that lasted a-minute-and-change (which gained an extra dose of notoriety by dint of Tupac Shakur getting shot on the way home from it). ---
**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 28, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/373 "2018-07-28T14:07:56Z")
What about everybody’s favorite Friend, Phoebe Buffay? ---
**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 29, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/374 "2018-07-29T22:37:24Z")
Y’know, the year after Lisa Kudrow got one of her Emmy nominations for that role, Mark Consuelos got one for his soap-opera work on _All My Children_. (Routinely co-hosts _Live! With Kelly_ with his wife, Kelly Ripa? Hosted _Age Of Love_ for NBC, at that? Currently appearing on _Riverdale_, as Hiram Lodge?) ---
**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 30, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/375 "2018-07-30T23:43:06Z")
[**Florence Sabin Pioneered Her Way in Medical Science, Then Made Sure Other Women Could Do the Same**](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/medical-pioneer-who-pushed-boundaries-science-and-feminism-180969555/) is the headline of an article about [“the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine” (and, for that matter, “the first woman to become a full professor at a medical college” _period_), as well as “the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_R._Sabin) ---
**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 31, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/376 "2018-07-31T23:53:33Z")
Warren Zevon’s song, “Bill Lee”, is about Bill Lee (sorry; Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee), who pitched in the World Series and wrote lots of books and did lots of drugs; when asked about mandatory drug testing, they say he replied that _"I’ve tried just about all of them, but I wouldn’t want to make it mandatory.”_ ---
**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:** [August 1, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/377 "2018-08-01T10:16:21Z")
I see where Tad Devine is making a ton of headlines this morning. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/378 "2018-08-02T22:46:40Z")
Per wiki, Allan Nevins wrote for the _New York Evening Post_, and then [“resigned from the _Post_ to become literary editor of the _New York Sun_ and about a year later gave up that position to become an editorial writer with the _New York World_.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Nevins) And then he won a couple of Pulitzer Prizes. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/379 "2018-08-03T05:14:19Z")
Emmitt Thomas led the AFL in interceptions, and then led the NFL in interceptions, the combination of which — along with, y’know, his Super Bowl rings — goes a long way to explaining why the guy made it into the Hall of Fame. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/380 "2018-08-03T14:18:40Z")
That brings to mind Emmitt Till, a person whose story is so bad I’m putting the link in a spoiler box. Click at your own risk: [Emmett Till](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=20)