Very few gals have my name, but I did find one that helped to found a metropolitan art gallery. There’s also one who is an alumna of UNCW, wherever that is; one is a ferret owner; one was a hat maker long ago;one married somebody in Lafayette in the 50s; another one married a notable in South Dakota in the 19th century.
The rest of the returns were people with a different first name, or…me.
Most cites are for a man who was molested as a child and is now an advocacy group leader on the topic. Then there is the priest accused of child molestation, the murdered police officer, the coporate officer, the poet, the philosopher, the Irish football player, the stop loss consultant, and a whole bunch of others.
University of North Carolina-Wilmington, on the Atlantic coast (the school’s nickname is the Seahawks).
As for me, I’m a technical analyst and commodity trading advisor; a commercial realtor; a bassist/guitarist in the Buffalo (NY) area; a newspaper editor in Pennsylvania; a concerned citizen attending a town meeting in Wisconsin; the author of a letter Salon printed about the failure of Howard Dean’s campaign; a Vancouver (BC) resident who wrote a guestbook entry in Polish; and a veteran of the US Army’s 9th Infantry Division. I even score a hit or two as my actual self!
There is exactly one of me. I have also checked phone book listings in the US, Europre, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa.
I seem to be unique.
In fact there are only two people with this last name in the US, and I am married to the other one
All of the Google hits go to the motorcycle racer, not the airline pilot…
Disappointing, I know.
However, as the airline guy I try to keep my name OUT of the news. If I can retire (in 24 years) with no Google hits, I will consider my airline career a success!
There are only about 30 people on Earth with my last name. None of them have my first name. As far as I know, I am the only person ever to have my name.
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[li]I’m a hair stylist to the stars… of B grade movies in the 60’s and 70’s.[/li][li]I’m the production assistant for a bulletin on the beef industry.[/li][li]I’m a teacher.[/li][li]I’m a member of the Northern Australian Canine Association.[/li][li]I’m the owner of a dog called Abby.[/li][li]I’m searching for my Irish relatives to inform them of my father’s death.[/li][li]I visited a B&B with my husband Mick and enjoyed it enough to sign their guestbook.[/li][li]I’m researching my family tree (there’s two of me doing this, and one of them is the real me).[/li][li]I died at the age of 61.[/li][li]I run a scrapbooking for beginners class.[/li][li]I’m the director of one hospital’s community health education department.[/li][/ul]
And there were a few more entries that actually referred to the real me.
a graduate student at the University of Maine, a public relations consultant in Australia, an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Illinois, a lesbian swing dancing instructor in San Francisco, an insurance manager in California, a real estate agent in Nebraska, a soccer player in Maryland, a travel agent in Ontario, a Milwaukee sex toy party entrepreneur, and I am the subject of a book written by my parents that says I died in 1989 and communicate with them from beyond the grave.
That’s just the first two pages of Google hits! At least the real me shows up on the first page, that sneaky U of Maine student has three entries in the first 10!
My soon to be married name results in two hits for the same person, a high school student in New Hampshire. Not very surprising, as NH is the only state with more than two or three people with my fiance’s last name.
I was:
Drafted by the New York Mets in 1993!
I am apparently causing trouble for a campus rebuilding project in Canada.
I am president of a “supplier of cargo security products, including plastic, electronic, bolt, and cable seals.”
I am also vice-president and general manager of a printing company.
I participated in a 'Mini Marathon" …whatever that is.
My name is pretty common considering I can trace an ancestor in this country to 1669. But oddly enough I know none of these people, despite their having the same name.
I was born in 1847 and died in 1876 (which is creepy because I am 28 now).
When I enter my full name, my middle and last name make me a Brazilian guitar player (?)
my grandfather
my uncle
an industrial engineer
a German mayor
a Theology professor(!)
an avid cyclist
a number of immigrants (some of them relatives)
a Civil War veteran
a lawyer in Georgia
a health professional
a rural development commissioner
another freaking lawyer
still another freaking lawyer
(and here I thought I had a relatively unusual last name!)
Captain of the “Silvery Wave” out of Sydney, 1877
and several who seem to also be teachers, and in my subject area too!
I’m the only one. The majority of hits are sites reprinting articles I wrote. But I hadn’t done a search like this in a while, so I was happy to find this picture I took is online.