And how about Apollo Creed himself, Carl Weathers?
“Goose” has already been used, but there’s also Geese Ausbie of the Harlem Globetrotters. Can a plural form be counted seperately?
I think Koi works as a singular and a plural, so — Jo Koy?
A misspelling of a nickname?
Did I miss someone mention Teri Garr?
Oh, well, then: Bronko Nagurski!
At the time, BEN-HUR, starring Charlton Heston, was, what, second only to GONE WITH THE WIND at the box office, and unparalleled when it came to Academy Award wins?
Anyway, third billing in that one went to Haya Harareet.
Can we count Angus T. Jones, of TWO AND A HALF MEN?
Sure, why not.
Whether from history or from the award-winning musical, I figure that folks would know the six wives of Henry VIII were Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and, well, Catherine Parr.
As a teen, Virginia “Ginny” Thrasher won a gold medal for the United States at the 2016 Olympics — which maybe wouldn’t be especially memorable, except that she won the first gold medal there. Which means that, for a good long stretch right at the outset, the wall-to-wall coverage for Americans glued to their TVs had no other champions to showcase: just the girl who just outshot the Chinese silver medalist and the Chinese bronze medalist…
Just winning a gold in the Olympics is famous enough for this thread.
Well, then: Cosimo Pinto!
At that, I guess there’s also Ryan Fry…
And, for a change of pace: Whistler’s Mother was famously painted by James McNeill Whistler, right?
I know the OP says no fictional characters, but I need to post Don Quixote.
And Don Keefer (posted earlier) was Mike the janitor in Creepshow. He got real friendly with “Fluffy.”
Peter Cushing was of course Dr Frankenstein in The Evil Of Frankenstein, and of course doesn’t count for this thread — but Frankenstein’s Monster in that one was played by towering wrestler Kiwi Kingston.
And, for the other side of the camera, how about Malia Obama?
Ani DiFranco?
Today I learned that a Loris is an animal in South Asia. So, Lori Loughlin and another famous Lori (I can’t think of one right now) would be Loris.