# 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:** 8
**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 22, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/141 "2025-05-22T16:53:19Z")
Angela Bassett ---
**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 22, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/142 "2025-05-22T19:36:10Z")
Victor Borge had a nickname of The **Great Dane**. ---
**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 22, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/143 "2025-05-22T23:03:26Z")
Savannah Guthrie ---
**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 23, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/144 "2025-05-23T12:26:51Z")
Christopher Cockerell ---
**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 24, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/145 "2025-05-24T09:06:44Z")
For a long while, the only psychiatrist who could deal with Adrian Monk was played by Stanley Kamel. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/146 "2025-05-24T21:05:41Z")
If Mutt is the name of an animal then “Mutt” Lange is another. He’s a music producer, writer and husband of Shania Twain, (I searched for “mutt” in the thread and there is “burpo the wonder mutt”, but famous here probably doesn’t count) ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/147 "2025-05-25T10:20:41Z")
Award-winning actress **Coral** Browne was in THEATRE OF BLOOD with — well, yes, her future husband Vincent Price, but also with Robert **Coote**. ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/148 "2025-05-25T14:11:05Z")
Famous? You’re too kind. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/149 "2025-05-25T19:52:06Z")
Tom Llamas, TV journalist ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/150 "2025-05-25T20:07:58Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Catfish Hunter 95 posts? About Damn Time! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/151 "2025-05-25T20:30:46Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > > [@Jackmannii](#): > > > > Catfish Hunter > > 95 posts? About Damn Time! - Did you notice that Catfish is not his real name? :flees: ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/152 "2025-05-25T21:56:53Z")
Charlie **Tuna** (pseudonym of TV and radio announcer Arthur W. Ferguson) David, Arthur, and Mindy **Elk** (attorneys with the Elk + Elk law firm) Chappell **Roan** (stage name of singer Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, whose hits include _Pink Pony Club)_ Elwin “Preacher” **Roe** (Major League Baseball pitcher) ---
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> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Elwin “Preacher” **Roe** (Major League Baseball pitcher) Isn’t roe pre-animal? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/154 "2025-05-25T22:09:00Z")
never mind ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/155 "2025-05-26T02:35:58Z")
Hamilton Fish Dick Tiger (boxer) Japanese Lady wrestler Bull Nakano ---
**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 26, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/156 "2025-05-26T09:29:28Z")
CNN anchor and bestselling author Nicole **Lapin** ---
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There are a jillion famoua people named Jack; dunno if it was a person’s name or fish name first. Edit: it was named by Linnaeus, so certainly the person’s name came first. ---
**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 26, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/158 "2025-05-26T19:37:41Z")
Lots of people have had the nickname **Possum** or **The Possum** ; probably the most famous of them is country music star George Jones. ---
**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 26, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555/159 "2025-05-26T19:42:12Z")
Roe or roe deer is a small deer of Europe and Asia. The word has a different etymology from roe, the fish eggs. ---
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> [@bibliophage](#): > > Roe or roe deer is a small deer of Europe and Asia. The word has a different etymology from roe, the fish eggs. - > **[Definition of JOKE](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joke)** > > something said or done to provoke laughter; especially : a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist; the humorous or ridiculous element in something; an instance of jesting : kidding… See the full definition 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-animal-names/1018555.md?page=9)