Adult males are all called bulls.
Yes! Though it’s funny that I was thinking of all the adult females being called cows. 
Heh. Figured that was also the case, though I couldn’t remember for sure (I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard anyone refer to a seal or rhinoceros cow), and since I knew baby seals are pups, not calves, I figured it was best not to assume. >_>
Yes on the surnames – may I infer my “Olympic runner” feint was no good?
Right. Nothing to do with the Olympics or athletics at all.
Okay – it turns out the “C” in “C.S. Lewis” is for Clive – so is it that they are all famous men with the same first name, Clive?
Yes!
It’s funny in this game. The ones I think are easy when I think of them aren’t the ones that end up being the easiest. I think this reveals how idiosyncratic all of our brains are.
Very true. And sometimes it’s just a matter of knowing something about at least one, preferably two of the entries, so you can be looking for a specific fact on the third.
We still have a bunch left, most of them from that cluster that astorian dropped:
Harvard dropouts.
Yes! Bill Gates, Matt Damon and Robert Frost were all Harvard dropouts.
They were all battleships, and all served as flagships.
To make things a BIT easier, I’ll expand my lists.
- Cy Young Award winner Jim Lonborg
- Western gunfighter Doc Holliday
- Edgar Buchanan, who played Uncle Joe on “Petticoat Junction.”
- Yankees manager Casey Stengel
- Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon
- Western novelist Zane Grey
- Jarvik’s artificial heart recipient, Barney Clark
- Ugandan dictator Idi Amin
- British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
- Chemist Louis Pasteur
- Novelist Truman Capote
- Boxer Jake LaMotta
- Saint Thomas More
- Songwriter George M. Cohan
- Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos
- England’s Queen Elizabeth II
- New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani
- King Edward the 8th’s lover/wife, Wallis Simpson
- U2 singer Bono
- Aviator Charles Lindbergh
- Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner
- Comedian Ernie Kovacs
- Oscar-winning actor Jose Ferrer
- Home run hitter/Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt
- Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro
- “L.A. Law” co-star Jimmy Smits
- “Streetcar Named Desire” villain Stanley Kowalski
- National League Rookie of the Year Jim Lefebvre
Eh? Don’t think so. Salisbury steak was named after American physician James Salisbury.
ETA: Whoa. I totally didn’t realize this was a 4-page thread. I’m sure someone’s already corrected that. I feel sheepish.
Famous dentists!
- Western gunfighter Doc Holliday
- Pulp author Dashiell Hammet
- Lexicographer Samuel Johnson
Well, whaddya expect, with a username like that?
We’ve still got a bunch of groups pending, if you want to jump in now …
YEs- Lonborg, Holliday et al. were dentists, either before or after becoming famous.
Since people seem to be losing interest in this thread entirely, I’ll just give the answers, on the off chance that somebody still cares:
- Ugandan dictator Idi Amin
- British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
- Chemist Louis Pasteur
- Novelist Truman Capote
- Boxer Jake LaMotta
- Saint Thomas More
- Songwriter George M. Cohan
Common bond: All roles for which someone won the Oscar as Best Actor
- Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos
- England’s Queen Elizabeth II
- New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani
- King Edward the 8th’s lover/wife, Wallis Simpson
- U2 singer Bono
- Aviator Charles Lindbergh
- Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner
**
Common bond: All were Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year”**
- Comedian Ernie Kovacs
- Oscar-winning actor Jose Ferrer
- Home run hitter/Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt
- Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro
- “L.A. Law” co-star Jimmy Smits
- “Streetcar Named Desire” villain Stanley Kowalski
- National League Rookie of the Year Jim Lefebvre
**
Common bond: All have last names that, translated, mean “Smith”**
No, not quite.
astorian – those are all excellent. Well, the first and the third are, the second is merely good I was actually looking at the movie bio list thinking vague thoughts along those lines – well, that Amin and LaMotta both had movies about them, at least – but hadn’t gone the extra two or three steps to get to your category.
Okay, here’s a new one:
- Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin
- William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound
- Marlon Brando and Wally Cox
- Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones