There is no other person that I know of with my whole name. Since my first name is not common anymore, and I have two official last names, both odd, that isn’t too surprising.
If I google just my first and everyday-use last name, however, it turns out I share it with one person–a prominent government fellow in a small African country. Which is interesting.
Never. And the odda are incredibly slim, whether using maiden or married name. I’ve never even met anyone with the same first OR last name!
I was born in Greenwich, CT. One town over in Riverside there was another man with my father’s name…who had a son with my name.
We used to get their phone calls. The son was several years older than me and his Scout troop would call. “Can Doug come on the hike this weekend?” they’d ask. “I don’t think so,” my dad would answer. “He’s only 3 months old.”
Flash forward to about 1992. I was at a party in NYC and met a woman who, it eventually became clear, had me mistaken for the man with my name. I learned he worked for Ethan Allen, the furniture people.
Addendum: I’d always thought my family name, which is German, was rare. However, after getting the odd email inquiry from people in Germany and elsewhere, I’ve concluded it’s merely unusual.
I am the only person in the whole world (well Google-verse at any rate) who has my name. I am unique. 
Plenty. Most famous is (was?) a designer for General Motors. There’s also a hot rod racer, and a whole mess of square dance callers, insurance salesmen, lawyers, educators, and high school and college coaches. (But I do show up second in the google search results. And I found out recently I’ve even got an imdb.com entry!)
Closest to me is some guy who worked at Adobe; there were a couple of times we forwarded mis-directed mail to each other, but it didn’t happen frequently enough to warrant more than a “huh, that’s almost interesting.”
If you use my “real” name instead of my nickname, there are tons more. Most famous there is a football player and an actor who worked around the 1950’s. I’ve got a very common name.
Unfortunately I appear to be the least unique person to post so far, a quick google search of my first and last names produces 33,200,000 sites containing my name. Fortunately if I include my middle name the number reduces to two. an organ scholar (the musical instrument) and an Irish mackerel fisherman.
People with the same first and last names as me include physicists, chemists, biologists and geologists and a carpet salesman to name but a few.
Luckily I don’t have a hangup about any of this, my name may not be unique, but I doubt if anyone else has lived an identical life to me.
A Google search for my name yields 3, 250,000 hits.
Seriously. Apparently I don’t even rate the first page. Or the second. -sniffle- I’m just another drone in the hive, despite the fact that I used to feel all special and stuff.
I wrote to one guy who shared my name, he’s in Australia. He never wrote back. Snooty bastahd.
Cartooniverse
Interestingly, I have 5, 000 + posts and yet Cartooniverse as me doesn’t hit till around page 4 on a Google search for that name. And, the hit was for a Threadspotting. Methinks our member names and activities here are cloaked from Google search engine.
:dubious:
I once ran into another guy with my first and last names online - the weirdest thing is that it was on a Depeche Mode fansite and we’re both gigantic DM fans. Also found out upon googling my name was that there was a movie filmed in this area in which the main character shares my first and last names.
I’ve got you beat – there are only 11 of us. My great-grandparents anglicized the name (which itself was an anglicization) in the early 1920’s. My grandfather further anglicized it (by one more letter) again in the '30’s, so only people down the tree from him have my name; the name my grandfather changed from, that’s one letter off from mine, only has about 7 or 8 people.
None of us share full names, but my mon and my wife have the same common form of their first name (although they spell the formal version differently and have totally different middle names).
My cousin Andy and I both have an “a” as the first letter of our first names. A few years ago there was a derby between us to collect “a[lastname]” on all the most common Internet sites – I got eBay and Hotmail; he got Yahoo.
–Cliffy
I’ve never been able to find anyone that does, and I suspect mine is unique. Since there’s only one other person with Qadgop’s name, and since my first name is much less common than his, I’d be very surprised to find someone sharing my name.
My boyfriend also seems to be unique, though his last name is much more common than ours. I suspect it’s because his first and last names come from entirely different ethnic groups.
My first and last names are very unusual, so the combination of them is even more unusual. So far, I’ve found. . .
A woman who runs a support group for meningitis sufferers,
and
A german website that’s www.my full name.de that belongs to a german fashion designer. Neat!
Nope, I’m the only one! My married last name is quite rare, although somebody makes dolls and somebody else creates fonts. Now, with my maiden name, I get 204 hits. Full “first middle maiden” gets one hit … that’s not me.
Nope, I am unique in the world. My first name isn’t particularly rare, but my last name makes up for it!
There’s a whole lot of Steve Wrights out there - I’ve even met some of them. I suspect there are fewer with my exact spelling and my middle name, but, even so, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a bunch of exact matches. Common as muck, that’s me.
If you put my abbreviated name in Google, the majority of the hits refer to a bloke who pitched for the Montreal Expos (1976-7) and the Baltimore Orioles (1978, 1980) and then coached the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies (up until last season). Oddly, I know precious little about baseball myself.
But if you filter the results with the word “closure”, it’s mostly me - referring to when I had a job…
I had been having a problem with fines at the public library. Every time I went there, I would be informed of a .10 or .25 or so cent fine. Because the fines were so small, I just tended to pay them. After a couple of times of that, I asked the librarian what book was fined and found that all the fines were not books I had been reading! The library issued me a new card with a new (and purposely incorrect) name.
Later, I had a composition one teacher who had all three of my names, but I never asked her if she had been the one who read the books.
There’s a town in Texas named after a guy with my exact name. I just found out about it a couple years ago. So far as I know, there’s no family relation whatsoever, but I can’t help but wonder if I went down there, I’d get a few free beers or something…
My husband has an Aunt who shares my first and last name. But I use my middle name.
There’s a family that lives in my town who share our last name. The son has my son’s first name and the dad has my husband’s first name.