Um… why?
Because it sounds like the name of a snooty frat guy from a John Hughes movie and not that of a respected physicist?
If you ever run into him, you may want to mention this company.
Hm. Just sounds like a Swedish guy to me.
William Fold. Minor league baseball player.
Thought of a few more:
Charley Pride, black country singer. (I always just kind of thought it was a reference to “Black Pride”.)
Phil Ramone, record producer. (But he never produced the Ramones.)
Johnny Cash (but not Johnny Paycheck!).
And, if I may partially derail my own thread, I might mention Brian Eno. It doesn’t really sound like a pseudonym, but it is such a distinctive-sounding name (as well as being an anagram for “one brain”.) His birth name really is …
…Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno.
There’s a TV producer named Bud Wiser who doesn’t have enough biographical info on IMDb to tell me for sure if that’s his real name. I mean, I doubt “Bud” is on his birth certificate, but that doesn’t really make it a pseudonym.
Science fiction/fantasy writer
L. Sprague de Camp
Yes, that’s his real name.
You should give the whole name. The “L” stands for Lyon.
Lyon Sprague deCamp
And what’s so weird about that? I still think Christian Christiansen is weirder.
Character actor and star of 70s daytime action show Emergency!, Randolph Mantooth.
Obscure unless you just happen to live in 17th century England, but one of my favorite names of any historical figure: Praise-God Barebone.
The current President of Nigeria is named Goodluck Jonathan - and he’ll need it.
Not coincidentally, they named a street in a ski town after her.
Frasier’s Peri Gilpin. Yep, that’s her real name.
NJ Governor Chris Christie’s real first name is Christopher. Christopher Christie. Did his parents hate him?
Kristian Kristiansen (the Scandic spelling of the same name), is a renowned Danish professor of Archeology in Sweden.
Also, a famous Norwegian writer had the same name.
Given these two public figures, there must be dozens if not hundreds of Kristian Kristiansens in the Nordic countries as well as loads of Christian Christiansens in America.
I first thought ‘January Jones’ sounded like an assumed name.
How fortunate that such a small proportion of them are famous. It saves the rest of us from saying “Which one?” all the time.
“With a name like that she 's either going to be very famous or end up in porn.” - quote from unnamed Hollywood agent in an Esquire article on January Jones.
Seriously? Who could forget Sgt. Max Fightmaster?
I’ve always thought author Clive Cussler’s name sounded made up. But it’s not.