# Famous people with animal names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555 "2025-05-19T19:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/41 "2025-05-19T21:47:04Z")
Wolfgang Van Halen (Eddie’s son)? ---
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Gil Scott-Heron ---
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Julian Bream, a British guitarist with gills ---
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Hamilton Fish. The name of a series of Congressmen from the same district for at three generations. They named a bridge for one of them. ---
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Longtime Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon (born Meadow Lemon III, legally changed in his 20s) ---
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John Pomfret, a _Washington Post_ journalist with gills ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/47 "2025-05-19T21:58:14Z")
Samuel Colt - gun maker or Colt McCoy - football player ---
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Merlin Olsen ---
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Catherine Susan “ **Kitty** ” Genovese (murder victim) or Katharine **“Kitty”** Dickson Dukakis (former first lady of Massachusetts) Robert **Falcon** Scott (polar explorer) Lance **Bass** (NSYNC singer) **Buck** Taylor (_Gunsmoke_ actor, born Walter Clarence Taylor III) Samuel **Colt** (firearms manufacturer) Peter S. **Beagle** (novelist) Jean Baptiste Point du **Sable** (founder of Chicago) **Mare** Winningham (actress, born Mary Megan Winningham) Johanna “ **Jenny** ” Lind (singer) or Jennifer “Jenny” Agutter (actress) ---
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I know Snake was already mentioned above, but drag racers Don “ **The Snake** ” Prudhomme and Tom “ **The Mongoose** ” McEwen are forever connected. Granted, both of those nicknames include the article so it may not match the criteria exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/51 "2025-05-19T22:15:25Z")
Ken **Loach** film director. Not who I’m named after BTW. ---
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**Buffalo** Bill Cody - entertainer Tom **Kite** - pro golfer Laura **Harrier** - actress Joe **Stork** - political activist ---
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Sable Starr, baby groupie from the 70s. ---
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More baseball players: Robin Roberts Sid Bream ---
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Ryan **Gosling** Richard **“Goose”** Gosage ---
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> [@dtilque](#): > > There are other animal names that are also family names. Here’s a list of some of them that have Wikipedia lists. (This is not an exhaustive list; I’m sure there are others.) I looked over these lists, but didn’t see any names I recognized. Perhaps someone out there will recognize someone on one of them. Let me know. > > … > [Dove](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_(surname)) I don’t know of anyone named “Dove”, but Harry Turtledove is an author of alternate-history fiction. Does it count if neither the person nor the animal are named after each other, and the similarity of names is pure coincidence? ---
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Christopher **“Kit”** Carson (frontiersman) Eric **Partridge** (lexicographer; if @dtilque has never consulted one of his books, I’d be surpised) Mia **Farrow** (actress) William **Hare** (of the notorious serial killer duo Burke and Hare) Walter **Pidgeon** (actor) Armando **“Chick”** Corea (musician) **Chicken** George (ancestor of Alex Haley) **Joey** Ramone (musician, born Jeffrey Ross Hyman) **Raven** -Symoné (actress) Robert **“Bobcat”** Goldthwait (comedian) **Ram** Dass (guru, born Richard Alpert) ---
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Unless I missed it Eagle hasn’t been mentioned yet: Angela **Eagle** (British Poltician) ---
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For American sports enthusiasts announcer Ian Eagle might be better known. ---
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He was believed to have lived under the name Saul Bass at one time. Not sure if anyone other than Cosmo Kramer believed that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555.md?page=4)