# Famous people with constant name-lengths **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2021, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251 "2021-02-05T08:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/21 "2021-02-18T05:25:03Z")
Fair point about the hyphenation. OK, he’s out. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/22 "2021-02-19T15:14:49Z")
I am “happy” to come up with an 8-8-8. Pharrell Lanscilo Williams ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/23 "2021-02-19T17:57:33Z")
William Schwenk Gilbert (of “and Sullivan” fame). ---
**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:** [February 21, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/24 "2021-02-21T13:48:44Z")
I know that this thread is for real people, but I’m throwing in a fictional character. From Catch-22 there is Major Major Major Major. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/25 "2021-02-22T02:16:50Z")
Similarly, but real, there was a cricketer called Neville Neville. I don’t know his middle name (if he had one), but I like to think it was. > **[Neville Neville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Neville)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Neville Neville (26 September 1949 – 7 August 2015) was a British league cricketer, football agent and director. His sons are the former professional association football players Gary Neville and Phil Neville and his daughter is the professional netball player and coach Tracey Neville. > Neville played cricket for Greenmount Cricket Club in the Bolton Cricket League during the 1980s. His daughter Tracey cites this as her earliest sporting memory.... ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/26 "2021-02-22T05:18:52Z")
I went to school with a kid named Bob Van den Bos. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/27 "2021-02-22T05:28:53Z")
I looked up James Brown (the singer) and James Brown (the football player) to see if either of them had five-letter middle names (they don’t). But, while doing so, I discovered **[James Cooke Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cooke_Brown)**, a 5-5-5, who was a bit of a polymath: he was a sociologist, science fiction author, creator of an artificial language (Loglan), a boat designer (he developed a particular design for a trimaran (three-hulled sailboat)), and creator of the board game _Careers_. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/28 "2021-03-12T20:49:06Z")
Carol Bayer Sager. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/29 "2021-03-15T01:05:32Z")
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr. a 6-6-6-6, counting the Senior bit. > **[Marcus Garvey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, his ideas came to be ... ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/30 "2021-03-15T01:57:18Z")
> **[Charles Stewart Parnell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stewart_Parnell)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891, also acting as Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882 and then Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891. His party held the balance of power in the House of Commons during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1886. > Born into a powerful Anglo-Irish Protestant landowning fami... ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/31 "2021-03-15T02:14:15Z")
Rachel Meghan Markle ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/32 "2022-06-18T21:47:46Z")
Nancy Grace Roman > **[Nancy Roman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Roman)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > NASA Outstanding Scientific Leadership Award > Fellow, American Astronautical Society > William Randolph Lovelace II Award, American Astronautical Association > Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science > Nancy Grace Roman (May 16, 1925 – December 25, 2018) was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first Chief o... ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/33 "2022-06-18T22:16:56Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Frank Zappa album cover Hmm, that’s a phrase like the names we’re discussing. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/34 "2022-06-18T22:20:35Z")
Now that the thread has been revived (and I’ve been reminded): Former NFL defensive lineman [James Alfie Jones](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JoneJa20.htm). ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/35 "2022-06-19T02:24:19Z")
Ripped from the headlines (and I usually ignore the Entertainment section): Amber Laura Heard ---
**Author:** ![DoubleG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DoubleG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoubleG)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/36 "2022-06-19T04:17:29Z")
George Arthur Foster member of Big Red Machine and 1977 NL MVP. ---
**Author:** ![DoubleG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DoubleG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoubleG)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/37 "2022-06-19T04:20:15Z")
George Thomas Seaver member of baseball Hall of Fame. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/38 "2022-07-15T01:14:46Z")
Ran across a 7-7-7: **Vincent Kennedy McMahon** > **[Vince McMahon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_McMahon)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Vincent Kennedy McMahon (/məkˈmæn/; born August 24, 1945) is an American business executive, media proprietor, and professional wrestling promoter. He is the majority owner and executive chairman of WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling company, having previously served as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) for 40 years. He is also the founder and owner of Alpha Entertainment. > Born in Pinehurst, North Carolina, McMahon gradua... ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/39 "2022-07-29T23:11:39Z")
A 7-7-7 spotted in a differnt thread: William Moulton Marston – creator of Wonder Woman; inventor of the lie detector BTW, while compiling the following post, I found that Carol Bayer Sager has a double barrel last name, so she’s out. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251/40 "2022-07-29T23:14:21Z")
To make things easier for additions, here’s a compilation of all the names so far: ```auto 5-5-5 Henry Louis Aaron (baseball player - Hank Aaron) Barry Lamar Bonds (baseball player) James Cooke Brown (sociologist) Miles Dewey Davis (musician) Henry Louis Gates (professor, historian) Amber Laura Heard (actress) James Alfie Jones (American football player) David Keith Lynch (filmmaker) Joyce Carol Oates (author) Nancy Grace Roman (astronomer) David Wayne Spade (actor, comedian) 6-6-6 Helena Bonham Carter (actress) Donald Jerome Driver (American football player) George Arthur Foster (baseball player) Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Senior (6-6-6-6) (political activist) Seamus Justin Heaney (poet, playwright) Rachel Meghan Markle (actress) Prince Rogers Nelson (musician) Ronald Wilson Reagan (actor, politician) George Thomas Seaver (baseball player - Tom Seaver) Donald Roller Wilson (artist) 7-7-7 Charles Spencer Chaplin (actor, director) William Schwenk Gilbert (dramatist, librettist) William Moulton Marston (psychologist, comic book writer -- Charles Moulton) Vincent Kennedy McMahon (wrestling promoter) Charles Stewart Parnell (Irish politician) 8-8-8 Pharrell Lanscilo Williams (musician) ``` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-with-constant-name-lengths/932251.md?page=3)