# Famous couples with the same first name **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 10, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266 "2020-09-10T15:39:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/1 "2020-09-10T15:39:03Z")
British writer Evelyn Waugh was (briefly) married to a socialite named Evelyn Gardner. Are there any other famous couples with the same first name? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/2 "2020-09-10T15:41:07Z")
Can’t think of any notable ones, but my mother knew a Terry/Terri. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/3 "2020-09-10T17:01:43Z")
Here’s a few, though not all of them married. > **[Same-Name Celebrity Couples](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jamie-lynn-spears-jamie-watson_n_2829373)** > > Same-Name Celebrity Couples ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/4 "2020-09-10T18:31:02Z")
Not celebrities, but I know a male/female couple both named Luca. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/5 "2020-09-10T18:35:23Z")
Do they live on the second floor? …sorry, could not help myself. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/6 "2020-09-10T18:38:07Z")
😆 I don’t know which floor they live on, but it’s perfectly possible that both were named after the song. They are in the right age bracket. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/7 "2020-09-10T18:41:59Z")
I hope they weren’t named after the song, considering what it’s about. Anyway, the kid’s name in the song is actually spelled Luka. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/8 "2020-09-10T18:42:47Z")
I’m not sure about the spelling, might as well be Luka. ETA: and as for being named after the song: this is in Germany where many people don’t know English well enough to understand what a song like “Luka” is about and just consider it as a harmless pop song. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/9 "2020-09-10T23:19:26Z")
Well, the couple I know of are famous in the fairly niche world of horse sports, specifically Eventing. They are Leslie and Lesley Law. When they compete at the same show she generally goes by Lesley Grant Law. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/10 "2020-09-11T16:47:08Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Do they live on the second floor? > > …sorry, could not help myself. Tcha. If they’re BOTH named “Luca”, surely they’d now live on the FOURTH floor! ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/11 "2020-09-11T20:42:20Z")
Not a current couple, but Taylor Swift dated Taylor Lautner for a while, during her run-in with Kanye West. And a quick look at [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Lautner#Personal_life) tells me Taylor Lautner is now dating a different woman named Taylor ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/12 "2020-09-12T16:22:12Z")
My grandparents, Harry and Harriet. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/13 "2020-09-13T01:03:18Z")
I wondered if the female writer George Eliot ever had a famous partner called George, and she did. Famous enough for url=“[George Henry Lewes - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Lewes)”] his own Wikipedia entry, anyway. [/url] That was before she was known as George Eliot, though, and she chose her first name due to him. ---
**Author:** ![Weirofhermiston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e274bd/32.png) [@Weirofhermiston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirofhermiston)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/14 "2020-09-13T11:24:34Z")
In 1927 [Evelyn Waugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh) married Evelyn Gardner. Their friends referred to then as He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/15 "2020-09-13T11:51:21Z")
> [@Weirofhermiston](#): > > In 1927 [Evelyn Waugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh) married Evelyn Gardner. And today’s award in the category “Posted after reading only the thread title but not the OP” goes to… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/16 "2020-09-14T15:33:39Z")
I have married friends who both answer to Jo(e). Presumably it’s also not that uncommon for same sex couples to have the same first name? Sandwich ---
**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 14, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/17 "2020-09-14T17:07:56Z")
I’ve known two Paul and Paula couples, which is a lot, considering I don’t know that many people. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/18 "2020-09-14T17:15:24Z")
On one reality show I watched, I was amused when Aaron was dating Erin. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/19 "2020-09-14T21:53:38Z")
I wonder whether there are any English dialects in which those two names are pronounced distinctly. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266/20 "2020-09-15T03:27:24Z")
I knew a Yusaf and a Josephine…does that count? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-couples-with-the-same-first-name/920266.md?page=2)