There are a couple of athletes (no one particularly famous) with the last name Gnat.
Stephen Goldfinch is a state senator from South Carolina.
Felix Mallard is an actor with many TV roles in the past 10 years.
For some reason I felt like I needed to show up in this thread.
Thats funny.
We have a few Dopers with animal names.
Dopers being what we are, I figure it’s a toss-up as to whether folks would first recognize Len Birman from SILVER STREAK with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, or from the 1970s CAPTAIN AMERICA made-for-TV movie pitting Reb Brown against Christopher Lee.
(Or, y’know, from any one of half-a-hundred other things.)
Great voice. Plus, he got to shoot McGoohan.
Dick Wolf
Pearl S. Buck
Robin Fox and Lionel Tiger are coauthors of a book called The Imperial Animal.
There is a fairly well-known mathematician named Hyman Bass.
There is a well-known Sci-Fi writer named Harry Turtledove.
Who was, incidently, listed in the OP.
I was planning on compiling a master list with all the contributions from this thread. But you guys have produced so many possible additions that I’m not sure I have the time to do that. Anyway, thanks to everyone for their contributions.
Does that mean I missed my chance to make a case for Don Keefer?
Of course not. What’s a keefer?
Opening doors, I guess.
But I’m talking about the alternative-spelling category for a guy who soubds like he would’ve qualified as Donkey Fur.
That’s way too far out in left field.
Oh. Well, then: Moss Hart?
There’s a former snooker player called John Parrot.
Rhino Neil.
Ray Lee Otter.
Mako?
I mentioned them WAY upthread
Clyde Barrow!
Max Baer, Jr. (Jethro Bodine)
Giacobbe “Jake” LaMotta, boxer (jake = a young male turkey)
Queen Latifah, singer, born Dana Elaine Owens (queen = an adult female cat)
Billy Joel, singer (billy = a male goat)
Jill Biden, former First Lady (jill = a female ferret)