# 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:** 22
**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:** [September 11, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/421 "2018-09-11T15:14:04Z")
Jacob Bernoulli: not the “Bernoulli Principle” Bernoulli, that’s his nephew; but the one who [“discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e. However, his most important contribution was in the field of probability, where he derived the first version of the law of large numbers in his work _Ars Conjectandi_.”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bernoulli) ---
**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:** [September 12, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/422 "2018-09-12T10:52:24Z")
Award-winning writer of bestsellers, Alastair Reynolds. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/423 "2018-09-14T01:16:48Z")
Record-breaking Olympic champ William McMillan, as in [The McMillan Trophy](http://www.wwmcmillan.info/mcmillanTrophy-CMP.html). ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/424 "2018-09-15T00:14:48Z")
Frank Converse may have only been third-billed in season after season of NYPD with Jack Warden — and then second-billed, after Claude Akins, in season after season of MOVIN’ ON — but he managed to star of his own primetime TV series, back when CORONET BLUE was up against THE BIG VALLEY and RUN FOR YOUR LIFE. (And he was C.K. Dexter Haven on Broadway, to Blythe Danner as Tracy Lord.) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/425 "2018-09-15T11:07:18Z")
[Paul Lauterbur won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering MRI work](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lauterbur). > [@](#): > > Controversy occurred when Raymond Damadian took out full-page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times headlined “The Shameful Wrong That Must Be Righted” saying that the Nobel committee had not included him as a Prize winner alongside Lauterbur and Mansfield for his early work on the MRI. Damadian claimed that he discovered MRI and the two Nobel-winning scientists refined his technology. > > The New York Times published an editorial saying that while scientists credit Damadian for holding an early patent in MRI technology, Lauterbur and Mansfield expanded upon Herman Carr’s technique in order to produce first 2D and then 3D MR images. The editorial deems this to be worthy of a Nobel prize even though it states clearly in Alfred Nobel’s will that prizes are not to be given out solely on the basis of improving an existing technology for commercial use. Damadian and Lauterbur both got the National Medal of Technology — for [“their independent contributions in conceiving and developing the application of magnetic resonance technology to medical uses including whole body scanning and diagnostic imaging”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Medal_of_Technology_and_Innovation) — so I’d argue that anyone who wants to make a case that one should qualify for this thread, to the point of excluding the other, (a) has an uphill battle; but even so, I reckon that (b) would still make this post relevant. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/426 "2018-09-16T11:25:28Z")
Jack Kramer, who won at Wimbledon and at the US Open and who otherwise earned his spot in the tennis Hall of Fame as the #1 player in the world year after year after year after year after year after year: he managed it in a year when Pancho Gonzales was the runner-up, and in a year when Bobby Riggs was the runner-up, and, well, [see for yourself,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_number_1_ranked_male_tennis_players) if you like; he was a busy guy, is my point. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/427 "2018-09-18T00:47:21Z")
Even a glance at the movie posters dotting his IMDB entry shows how [Tom Moore](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0601962/) was top-billed in dozens of silent films before he (a) got leading-man roles in talkies, and before he (b) wound up with that star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/428 "2018-09-18T12:23:42Z")
Baby Doc himself, Jean-Claude Duvalier, grabbed headlines as a head of state in his teens and kept right at it through his twenties and into his thirties. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/429 "2018-09-20T00:49:49Z")
In ‘77, the James E. Sullivan Award went to John Naber, who won four gold medals by setting four world records at the ‘76 Olympics. (He also earned a _silver,_ which is why the bronze in _that_ event went to a teammate who likewise parlayed gold medals and world records into a Hall of Fame career: Jim Montgomery.) ---
**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:** [September 20, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/430 "2018-09-20T15:37:47Z")
Award-winning Broadway star Richard Derr was second-billed on TV to Grace Kelly in **The Big Build-Up** in between being top-billed in the **When Worlds Collide** movie and being top-billed in **Invisible Avenger** as Lamont Cranston. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2018, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/431 "2018-09-21T11:19:48Z")
Champion golfer Curtis Strange. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/432 "2018-09-22T11:16:51Z")
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville won the Oscar (and, at that, the Grammy; and a lot of _other_ accolades) for **20 Feet From Stardom** — and, here and now, his latest effort, **Won’t You Be My Neighbor?** , has just become [“the highest-grossing biographical documentary of all time”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Neville) in the run-up to awards season, so expect to hear the guy’s name again and again and again soon. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2018, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/433 "2018-09-23T13:47:55Z")
Paul Langton got small roles in big films (TO HELL AND BACK, with Audie Murphy; THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO, with Spencer Tracy; THEY WERE EXPENDABLE, with John Wayne; and so on) and likewise got leading-man roles in a number of movies (MURDER IS MY BEAT, and FIGHTING BACK, and THE SNOW CREATURE, and so on), which presumably explains why he became a prime-time television fixture due to hundreds of episodes of PEYTON PLACE. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/434 "2018-09-24T21:55:54Z")
Joe Frazier won Olympic gold as a heavyweight boxer in 1964, and then went pro. George Foreman did the same in 1968, and then went pro likewise. Félix Savón, though, won Olympic gold as a heavyweight boxer in 1992, and then did it again in 1996, and then did it again in 2000. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/435 "2018-09-25T11:58:30Z")
THE GIFTED is back for its second-season premiere in prime time tonight, complete with experienced soap-opera actor Blair Redford back in his opening-credits role as bulletproof superhero John Proudstar. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/436 "2018-09-26T10:46:21Z")
Nursultan Nazarbayev has been the President of Kazakhstan for decades, ever since that became a thing in the wake of the Soviet Union no longer being a thing. (And didja know Kazakhstan is on the Top Ten list of biggest countries?) ---
**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:** [September 27, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/437 "2018-09-27T14:55:41Z")
Earl Landgrebe seems worth mentioning today, since his service in Congress during the Watergate hearings is what drew a famous comment from the guy. _“Don’t confuse me with the facts,”_ he said; _“I’ve got a closed mind.”_ (Oh, and to quote wiki for a slightly less-well-known remark: [“When Landgrebe was asked on August 7 about the apparently unanimous support for impeachment of Nixon among his Republican colleagues following this disclosure, he said: _“I’m going to stick with my President even if he and I have to be taken out of this building and shot.”_ The next day, Richard Nixon announced his resignation.”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Landgrebe)) ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/438 "2018-09-28T10:50:10Z")
Jeff Feagles has the all-time NFL record for consecutive games played. (Holds a number of other position-specific records, but that’s the _general_ one.) ---
**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:** [September 29, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/439 "2018-09-29T20:18:38Z")
Anne Nagel (Casey in _The Green Hornet_ and _The Green Hornet Strikes Again!_) was a leading lady in the movies — by which I mean she not only got billed second to the leading man a bunch of times, but got top billing a bunch of others. (I mean, if it’s a western like _Guns of the Pecos_ or _The Devil’s Saddle Legion_ in the ‘30s, then we can maybe grant that second-billing after the hero is about as good as it’d get for an actress — and in the ‘40s, if our hero is foiling Nazi operatives in the like of _The Dawn Express_ or _The Secret Code_ — but _A Bride For Henry_ or _Saleslady_, that’s her being top-billed per the titles. So, second billing under Mickey Rooney in _Hoosier Schoolboy_ one year, but top billing in _Gang Bullets_ the next — and then top billing in _Should A Girl Marry?_ — and then second billing in _Winners of the West_, because just like that we’re back to westerns again; and so on…) ---
**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:** [September 30, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/440 "2018-09-30T13:06:29Z")
Edmund Duffy, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=23)