# Celebrity pairings with swapped-order names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534 "2010-10-18T05:26:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534/1 "2010-10-18T05:26:07Z")
Example: Donavan Tate and Tate Donovan are apparently two different people. Any others like that? Since exact matches are exceedingly rare, close matches are acceptable. A triple example would be Lea Michele and Michele Lee or Michelle Lea. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534/2 "2010-10-18T05:51:54Z")
There’s David Keith (Firestarter, Officer and a Gentleman)… [![](https://thedailysb.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/david-keith.jpg) ](https://thedailysb.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/david-keith.jpg) and Keith David (Platoon, Crash, The Thing)… [![](https://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/events/DGG-006806.jpg) ](https://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/events/DGG-006806.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534/3 "2010-10-18T12:55:33Z")
My favorite example – if a not-famous athelete counts – is the pair of pre-season teammates on the Celtics a couple years ago : Ray Allen Allan Ray. Sadly, Allan Ray got cut before the regular season started, so I never got to find out how announcers would distinguish them. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534/4 "2010-10-18T14:07:33Z")
Cartoonist Paul Pope and the late pontiff Pope Paul. (Kind of wish there was a King Stephen or a Grier Roosevelt I could trot out for the purpose…) ---
**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:** [October 18, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534/5 "2010-10-18T14:39:53Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Cartoonist Paul Pope and the late pontiff Pope Paul. (Kind of wish there was a King Stephen or a Grier Roosevelt I could trot out for the purpose…) [King Stephen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_of_England) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534/6 "2010-10-18T14:51:15Z")
Well, there’s Ray Stevens and the actor Stephen Rea. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534/7 "2010-10-18T15:11:34Z")
Thinking about the king theme, there’s film director [Henry King](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_King_(director)) and King Henry (any one of several). There was Queen Mary, and Mary, Queen of Scots. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534/8 "2010-10-18T16:35:32Z")
[Charles Prince](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Prince) and Prince Charles. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534/9 "2010-10-18T17:15:02Z")
In her memoir “Trust Your Heart,” Judy Couns writes about introducing her brother Denver John to John Denver. Appearently they thought the whole reverse name thing was hilarious. I guess you had to be there. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-pairings-with-swapped-order-names/557534/10 "2010-10-18T17:45:31Z")
Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was succeeded by Warren Earl (Burger).