# Celebrity or character names that sound like medical conditions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121 "2018-09-28T17:08:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/1 "2018-09-28T17:08:44Z")
I’ll start with one of each: Dick Trickle and Major Frank Burns. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/2 "2018-09-28T17:22:58Z")
Vitas Gerulaitis. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/3 "2018-09-28T17:53:49Z")
Coach Dick Crum ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/4 "2018-09-28T18:18:25Z")
Drogo Baggins. Primula Baggins. Mungo Baggins. Bungo Baggins. Basically, 80% of the Baggins family tree. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/5 "2018-09-28T18:29:17Z")
Fyvush Finkel. (But I guess if you’re Jewish, that might sound ordinary.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/6 "2018-09-28T18:43:00Z")
Wally Cox ---
**Author:** ![mind\_the\_gap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@mind\_the\_gap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mind_the_gap)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/7 "2018-09-28T20:06:27Z")
In one of Agatha Christie’s Poirot stories, with David Suchet, Poirot is visiting an old friend who’s a doctor. The office secretary, who doesn’t know Poirot and is confused by his “foreignness” walks in to the doctors office and announces that there’s a man outside suffering from “Hercule Poirot”.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/8 "2018-09-28T20:25:07Z")
Lemony Snicket. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/9 "2018-09-28T21:36:25Z")
From **The Orville** : Bortus. Don’t know what it is, but if you have it, stay near a toilet. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/10 "2018-09-28T22:01:47Z")
Foghorn Leghorn sounds like a highly exotic tumor of some sort. (I don’t think the more native-Italian-sounding Fovorno Livorno has the same problem. :)) ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/11 "2018-09-28T22:21:55Z")
I looked at a list of Dickens characters, thinking i might find some there. I didn’t, but one of them stood out for another reason: John Baptist Cavalletto is described as “a small time Italian smuggler”, and I thought “If for some reason I had to smuggle people, I would not want to have to start out by smuggling Italians.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/12 "2018-09-28T22:49:09Z")
Fanny Craddock. (She used to have a cookery show on U.K. television in the distant past) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/13 "2018-09-28T23:04:57Z")
Bioroids from the Appleseed setting. Their species name sounds like something you go to a doctor to have lanced or cut off from some sensitive area. “I can’t sit down, I have bioroids.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/14 "2018-09-28T23:10:49Z")
Phillip K. Dick(the first stage of Wally Cox). ---
**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, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/15 "2018-09-28T23:25:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Phillip K. Dick(the first stage of Wally Cox). It’s never Peter Lupus. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/16 "2018-09-29T01:15:32Z")
You’ve contracted Dinklage, you’ll be a great actor but very short. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/17 "2018-09-29T03:09:17Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > You’ve contracted Dinklage, you’ll be a great actor but very short. _Peter_ Dinklage-Much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/18 "2018-09-29T03:13:11Z")
Dick Trickle. sounds like an STI (sexually transmitted infection) but [he was a race care driver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Trickle) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/19 "2018-09-29T03:16:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > _Peter_ Dinklage-Much worse. Keeping with the show theme I would hate to contract Coster-Waldau Disease. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/20 "2018-09-29T03:17:39Z")
Going the other way, have you heard of that new Country Music star Braxton Hicks? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121.md?page=2)