# Celebrity name overlaps **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240 "2012-11-16T20:54:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/1 "2012-11-16T20:54:39Z")
Examples: Steven Tyler; Joe Perry (both of Aerosmith) --\> Steve Perry (formerly of Journey) William Hurt, John Hurt, John Heard - actors I just found a new one for me: So Claire Dunphy is played by Julie Bowen on Modern Family. But on Nashville, a show broadcast on the same channel 30 minutes later, the character Scarlett is played by Aussie singer/actress Clare Bowen. Sorry if this has been a recent thread - when I found this new one, I thought I would toss it out there… ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/2 "2012-11-16T21:03:14Z")
Authors: Upton Sinclair, CS Lewis, Sinclair Lewis ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/3 "2012-11-17T01:04:16Z")
Prog rock division: Tony Kaye & Peter Banks of Yes -\> Tony Banks of Genesis. A lot of people get those names mixed up. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/4 "2012-11-17T04:25:47Z")
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Roscoe Lee Jones ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/5 "2012-11-17T05:27:48Z")
Boy George, George Michael, Michael Jackson, Jackson Browne. ---
**Author:** ![Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lo-Slung_Denim)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/6 "2012-11-17T09:44:53Z")
Stockard Channing, Channing Tatum, Tatum O’Neal. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/7 "2012-11-17T16:19:41Z")
Brian Keith, Keith David, David Keith ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/8 "2012-11-17T17:18:39Z")
Ronald McDonald, Don Ho, Kim Kardashian ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/9 "2012-11-17T18:04:23Z")
I found a box of old Playboys in the basement, so I’ve been flipping through them. It’s hilarious to read questions in the Playboy Advisor that are essentially identical to ones still asked in advice columns today. (Will aspirin in Coca-Cola knock out the drinker?) It’s wild to think that the Playmate never showed as much a a nipple in any of the pictures that surrounded her centerfold. Anyway, the December 1963 Playboy After Hours column talked about a game called Unlikely Couples. > [@](#): > > Santa Claus Fuchs, Billie Sol Estes Kefauver, Danny Thomas a Becket, Bruno Walter Winchell, T. S. Eliot Ness. When you’ve whipped up a few of these elementary dual combinations, you’ll be ready to try your hand at something a bit more ambitious: trios (Meg Myles Davis Grubb), quartets (John Vivyan Leigh Hunt Hartford), quintets (Malcom X-Ray Anthony George Montgomery), sextets (Beau Jack Barry Nelson Eddy Albert Schweitzer), and so on ad absurdum. When you’ve gone as far as you want to go with this gambit, you may want to add the refinement of a word-play capper, as in Ann-Marget Truman Doctrine and Steve Allen Dulles Dishwasher. Then you’ll be qualified to graduate to the big leagues with such freight train appellations as Harold Lloyd George Washington Irving Berlin Airlift, Benjamin Franklin Roosevelt Grier Carson Kanin Able and the mouth-filling Little Eva Marie Saint Paul Douglas Dillon Thomas Mann Ray Charles Atlas Shrugged. I don’t know which I should admit: that I’m old enough to heard of most of them or that there were so many that stumped me. (I wasn’t buying Playboy in 1963, though. I don’t know where some of these issues came from.) ---
**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:** [November 18, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/10 "2012-11-18T19:21:09Z")
I so want Ben Elton & Elton John to write a musical together, just to see their names on the theatre marquee ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/11 "2012-11-18T20:30:12Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I so want Ben Elton & Elton John to write a musical together, just to see their names on the theatre marquee Elton Dean should join them. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-name-overlaps/641240/12 "2012-11-18T20:36:27Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Elton Dean should join them. Not much chance of that; he died in 2006.