# Famous people we don't know the identities of **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386 "2013-03-08T15:18:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/81 "2013-03-09T18:10:30Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > [Subcomandante Marcos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcomandante_Marcos), the masked leader / spokesperson of the Zapatistas. He has never revealed his true identity, although _some say…_ > > [SPOILER]…that he’s the Stig. > > (No, actually, the Mexican government claims to know that he’s a dude named Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente.)[/SPOILER] I would have said him, but I could have sworn he went public with his identity a few years back. Guess I’m misremembering. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/82 "2013-03-09T18:49:22Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > Target identified… relay firing solution to predator drone… Uh oh! I guess the mods are going to be giving me a free custom title, soon: [Cheshire Human](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) DRONED ---
**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:** [March 9, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/83 "2013-03-09T18:55:52Z")
The guy in the costume in Roger Patterson’s \*“Bigfoot” footage. Bob Hieronimus claims it was he, and may well be. But I don’t think it’s been proved either way. \*Or maybe that should just be “Bigfootage”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/84 "2013-03-09T19:02:14Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Who was that man? It might be a woman. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/85 "2013-03-09T19:14:12Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > The Shotgun Man: [Shotgun Man - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_Man) May not have existed. The Shotgun Man story appears to be an urban legend. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/86 "2013-03-09T19:21:53Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > I’ll nominate the perpetrators of the “Max Headroom” video hijacking, who have remained unknown despite every reason to come forward by now. A documentary maker and I have a theory about why they have not, but it’s his to tell. My guess: They’re dead (possible, but not probable) or successful and/or famous in a way that they feel this would not reflect well on them. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/87 "2013-03-09T20:19:36Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Huh! I was born and raised in Minneapolis (and in junior high when MTM debuted) and never heard of Hazel Frederick! > > Ignorance fought! She died a few years ago and it warranted a small article in the local section. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelQReilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@MichaelQReilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelQReilly)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/88 "2013-03-09T22:14:50Z")
> [@Tess](#): > > The dead man in the [Taman Shud Case](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_case) That’s the one I was going to say. [This](http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/the-body-on-somerton-beach/#blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/12/the-body-on-somerton-beach/) is a fascinating article on the mystery. My guess is that \*somebody \*must know who he was as it seems pretty likely that he was a spy. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/89 "2013-03-09T23:04:08Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Whoever fired the Shot Heard 'Round the World. [Gavrilo Princip](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip) -the Black Dahlia’s killer -the Boston Strangler Whoever actually started the fire at the Hartford Circus, as well as that of Our Lady of the Angels. (In the latter case, a student initially confessed then recanted, apparently afraid of his parents. Some of the details he gave were ones that weren’t made public that he couldn’t have known otherwise.) ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/90 "2013-03-09T23:13:44Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [Gavrilo Princip](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip) For an American that phrase seems to refer to the unknown person who fired the first shot in the American War of Independence, on hearing it I immediately thought of Gavrilo Princip as well. > **[Shot heard round the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_heard_%27round_the_world)** > > The "shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which sparked the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States. It originates from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 poem "Concord Hymn". The phrase has subsequently been applied to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, a catalyst event for World War I, and hyperbolically applied to feats in sports. > By... Edited to add that Guinastasia is apparently American as well, thought maybe it was a European/American thing. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/91 "2013-03-09T23:20:14Z")
Yep, I’m an American, and I know its origins, but it still makes me think of WWI, since that’s how most people seem to use it. (As the Revolutionary War was a local thing, while WWI was, well, a world war.) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/92 "2013-03-09T23:26:17Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Yep, I’m an American, and I know its origins, but it still makes me think of WWI, since that’s how most people seem to use it. (As the Revolutionary War was a local thing, while WWI was, well, a world war.) 🙂 I momentarily considered starting a thread on the topic _(what incident you think of when hearing that phrase)_ but quickly realised the apocalyptic fireball of misunderstanding and patriotic chest-beating it would inevitably turn into… 😉 ---
**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:** [March 9, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/93 "2013-03-09T23:31:36Z")
The pilot who blasted a hole in the [USS Stark](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_incident). ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/94 "2013-03-10T03:31:27Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > [Leon Redbone - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Redbone) (but it’s wikipedia) Hey, we try. I added the bit about John Hammond identifying him as a “kid from Philadelphia” (that is also my photograph). Dude does NOT drop character. I shot his show at that venue and was adjusting lights, and he was in character during the sound-check. And he visited the Kansas City Public Library when he was here and a friend of mine who works there said he _looked through the newspaper microfilms in character._ Ain’t nobody getting a straight answer out of the guy. Mine is “the person who set up the camera to capture the 47% video that tanked Mitt Romney’s Presidential ambitions”. Is it possible for a Pulitizer to be awarded anonymously? ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/95 "2013-03-10T03:48:23Z")
> [@MichaelQReilly](#): > > That’s the one I was going to say. [This](http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/the-body-on-somerton-beach/#blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/12/the-body-on-somerton-beach/) is a fascinating article on the mystery. My guess is that \*somebody \*must know who he was as it seems pretty likely that he was a spy. I don’t know how conclusive it was, but there was [this development](http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/is-british-seamans-identity-card-clue-to-solving-63-year-old-beach-body-mystery/story-e6frea6u-1226200076344) a couple of years ago. I never heard anything else about it, however. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/96 "2013-03-10T06:04:53Z")
Rollo Tomasi ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/97 "2013-03-10T17:18:02Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Well, what’s his name and what are the good reasons? Grafitti is illegal is the reason, so people tend not to spread it around too much. The name, that is. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/98 "2013-03-11T07:34:45Z")
I didn’t see anyone mention L’Inconnue de la Seine - the girl the CPR doll was based on. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/99 "2013-03-11T09:48:10Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The unknown Boy Scout in London in 1910. > > . ???😕??? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386/100 "2013-03-11T10:06:55Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > ???😕??? Yeah I found it a bit hard to figure out too: [Unknown Scout - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Scout) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-we-dont-know-the-identities-of/652386.md?page=6)