Fair point about the hyphenation. OK, he’s out.
I am “happy” to come up with an 8-8-8.
Pharrell Lanscilo Williams
William Schwenk Gilbert (of “and Sullivan” fame).
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.
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.
I went to school with a kid named Bob Van den Bos.
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, 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.
Carol Bayer Sager.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr. a 6-6-6-6, counting the Senior bit.
Rachel Meghan Markle
Nancy Grace Roman
Hmm, that’s a phrase like the names we’re discussing.
Now that the thread has been revived (and I’ve been reminded):
Former NFL defensive lineman James Alfie Jones.
Ripped from the headlines (and I usually ignore the Entertainment section):
Amber Laura Heard
George Arthur Foster member of Big Red Machine and 1977 NL MVP.
George Thomas Seaver member of baseball Hall of Fame.
Ran across a 7-7-7: Vincent Kennedy McMahon
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.
To make things easier for additions, here’s a compilation of all the names so far:
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)