# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/61 "2025-05-19T22:58:52Z")
David **Canary** (_Bonanza_ actor) Dennis **Weaver** (_Gunsmoke_ and _McCloud_ actor; as an animal, a weaver is a kind of fish, a kind of spider, a kind of beetle, or a kind of bird) ---
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Frances **Fisher** (_Fargo_ TV actor), Eddie **Fisher** (singer/actor, father of Carrie **Fisher** _Star Wars actor_) [Fisher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(animal)) - _mustelid_ closely related to the Marten. ---
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John **Deer** e ---
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Leonard Whiting (who was Romeo, with Olivia Hussey as Juliet). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/65 "2025-05-20T00:57:52Z")
Tiger Woods. I don’t think its listed. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/66 "2025-05-20T00:59:13Z")
Lana Condor ---
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Dove Cameron. Kid actress ---
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Thomas Bulfinch, author (misspelling of ‘bullfinch’) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/69 "2025-05-20T01:45:52Z")
Richard Jaeckel? ---
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Mike **Gator** Greenwell or Ron **Gator** Guidry - baseball players or Harold **Gator** Hoskins - football player William Godvin **Beaver** Harris - jazz drummer Charlie **Bird** Parker - jazz saxophonist Asako **Dodo** - Japanese voice actress ---
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Ron “The Hedgehog” Jeremy ---
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Jerry Springer? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/73 "2025-05-20T02:10:07Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I’m curious why Theodore Sturgeon is listed in the OP under “Nicknames, Pen Names, Stage Names” rather than “Family Names”? It wasn’t his birth name but wasn’t a pen name either – according to Wikipedia it was legally changed at age 11 when his mother remarried. When I added it to my list, I just did a quick check on Wikipedia to see if the animal name was in their original name. I didn’t take the time to read why it might not be; I just put it under Nicknames. I suppose I could rename the group as Not-Original Name or something like that. > [@wolfpup](#): > > Does the compound name “Wolfgang” count? Don’t see why it should. > [@Chronos](#): > > I don’t know of anyone named “Dove”, but Harry Turtledove is an author of alternate-history fiction. And he’s in the OP list. > [@Chronos](#): > > Does it count if neither the person nor the animal are named after each other, and the similarity of names is pure coincidence? Sure. > [@bibliophage](#): > > Eric **Partridge** (lexicographer; if @dtilque has never consulted one of his books, I’d be surpised) I certainly have read some of his books. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Tiger Woods. > > I don’t think its listed. Another one in the OP. Although someone did submit someone with the last name of Tiger. That’s a higher spot in the hierarchy, so it displaces the golfer. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/74 "2025-05-20T02:16:26Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Only English names of actual animals. That means Dragon, Pegasus, and other fictional animals are right out. Not that I came up with any people with such names, but I’m sure there’s some out there Joaquín Phoenix. [No, not that Phoenix.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_chicken) ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/75 "2025-05-20T02:27:57Z")
“Gorilla” Monsoon - Professional wrestler Not sure if George “The Animal” Steele counts. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/76 "2025-05-20T02:31:30Z")
Sorry missed that. Are there any Lyons on the list? ---
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Bad Bunny ---
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> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > > [@dtilque](#): > > > > Only English names of actual animals. That means Dragon, Pegasus, and other fictional animals are right out. Not that I came up with any people with such names, but I’m sure there’s some out there > > Joaquín Phoenix. I thought of Merv Griffin ---
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Jeff “Skunk” Baxter ---
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How niche is famous? Would Nancy Guppy count because she was somewhat well-known in Seattle in the 1990s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555.md?page=5)