# Google Yourself: How Many You's Are There? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302 "2004-07-22T04:01:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/41 "2004-07-22T15:13:10Z")
I am unique. Googling my full real name yields only references to myself (and an on-line obit for my wife), mostly on staff lists for SF conventions that I work. Of course, that’s not too surprising since I had my name legally changed when I was thirty and AFAIK I’m the only person with that name. My last name by itself shows up as a character/screenname on several sites, is the name of a gourmet meat store/elk farm in Idaho, and a rock band. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/42 "2004-07-22T15:53:57Z")
No pretenders for me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/43 "2004-07-22T15:56:40Z")
I met me once. I was at an awards conference, and they kept calling out my name as someone who had participated and given so much to the organization…etc, etc… When in reality, though I belonged to the organization, I never did anything. I really was just at the conference because someone my friend thought was cute was going to be there. She was really nice. But on google - I’m an admin assistant at a school, a graphic artist/designer, and a professor. But most of the mes out there are me. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/44 "2004-07-22T16:14:54Z")
Although if you change the spelling of my first name to the more common spelling there are a few interesting near misses: a dean’s assistant at Harvard University a native american and instructor and weaver of mats and rushes to make a specific kind of teepee a Chamber of Commerce Liason a controller for a marketing and business strategy company an 8th grader at Hershey Middle School a bead work artist and on the honor roll at Appleton East ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/45 "2004-07-22T16:24:38Z")
Alas, I am the one and only me. But I was suprised to see how much of me was there! Including the college message board responses that were required coursework, and were supposed to be barred from public viewing - anyone care to see my thesis about amazon women in Renaissance lit? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![BrattiAtti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BrattiAtti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrattiAtti)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/46 "2004-07-22T16:55:42Z")
I am: a supermodel (“My Little… Shrine” amongst the thousands of other sites about that particular alter ego) a sophomore varsity volleyball player at SMS (I played, but not at that level) an Irish Lit in the 19th century professor at .upenn (that sounds like a very cool job) a doctor of some sort (osteoblastoma… _whoosh_…) a male instructor of a bunch of sciences at Allan Hancock College (some very cool pics of their field trips are posted; it would almost make me interested in taking a science course). I haven’t seen a site about me by page four, so I think I’ll stop now. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/47 "2004-07-22T17:18:50Z")
My screen-name’s alter-ego is a well-known minister, and we have a long-standing and bitter rivalry. (Of which he is no doubt completely unaware.) My real name is, well, as common as dirt, and strangely enough a disproportionate number of “mes” are also ministers/evangelists/cult leaders/etc. Overlooking them, I’m: An NFL player. A famous bassist. An obscure pianist. A dead percussionist. A British character actor. A professor of Economics. A professor of Planetary Geosciences. A stage magician/magic store proprietor. A ballroom DJ in Las Vegas. (Only in Vegas.) A currently incarcerated bank robber looking for love. An ex-convict and motivational speaker for prison inmates. A co-defendant in a murder case, who turned State’s evidence. The owner of an eponymous photo-finishing place in Las Vegas. A Republican member of the House of Representatives. _aaand…_ An NDP candidate for Parliament. A UFO nut who claims his photos prove that UFOs are actually “Satan’s Minions.” An embalmer who was sued for “mutilating” the corpse of someone’s father. (“They even took his ‘private parts’.”) A film producer. (I think this might be a fellow I’ve received a couple of “wrong numbers” for, about a porn-shoot.) A guy who pissed off cat-fanciers by setting cage-traps for stray cats in his yard and taking the strays to the ASPCA. ---
**Author:** ![zahara2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/53a042/32.png) [@zahara2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zahara2)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/48 "2004-07-22T17:39:04Z")
Only one. That’s me. My first and last name together are very uncommon. Wouldn’t be surprised if I were the only one out of 6billion :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/49 "2004-07-22T17:49:20Z")
I could be mistaken for: a State Senator in the Midwest; a MLB pitcher; a UK Cold Fusion know-it-all; a guy with a PhD in Nano-engineering and a degree in patent law; a '50s Hollywood gossip writer who “had a finger on the pulse of gay Tinseltown”; a 1961 Golden Globe nominee (presumably the finger-y writer); a MA Secretary of State in the '70s; a pretty good high school marathon runner; a veterinarian in TX; a member of the Irish Parliment in the '20s; an RV park owner in ID; a guy who got a thank you in some wacko’s anti-Supreme Court screed - said screed written by someone with my sister’s name; a history instructor at the community college right down the road from where I work; and oddly, a 1/6 scale action figure of a soldier in the D-Day invasion of Omaha Beach - but it does let me figure out what my value is ($64.95 x 6) :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/50 "2004-07-22T19:12:05Z")
My last name is fairly unique, being that it started as a Greek name and had a few letters chopped off the front at Ellis Island (Americans can’t pronounce that many consonants all together, so off you go!). As a result, I am related to every single person in the US with my last name. Add into this the fact that I’ve been on the net since the early days, and have written several technical articles which I threw up on my web pages, which were then copied all over the net. The end result is that if I search on my own name, I get about 500 hits, most of which are copies of articles I’ve written or links to my web pages. The real oddball is that my last name just happens to be the same as a hotel chain in Finland. Obviously the hotel name, being Finnish, and my name, being modified Greek, come from different derivations, and just happened to end up with the same letter combination. I’ve always wondered if I made a hotel reservation there if I would end up with a free room. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/51 "2004-07-22T19:47:25Z")
I am not me: I am a Stanford Professor A prolific writer of fishing books A mayor ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/52 "2004-07-22T20:14:53Z")
Most of the 68,000 hits suggest that “I’m a gay man, poofter, faggot, queen, queer studying religion” in Australia. I’m even identified as a scholar doing work in Queer Theory. Succinctly, I’m a Sodomologist. _Yea!_ Also: Instructor of Percussion Ensemble, The Commission requests any person who has had investment dealings with Mr “lieu” since 30th June 1999 to contact the Commission, An owner of XXX Corporation, Birmingham, AL and former chairman of the Remodelor’s Council, Liverpool Dock Striker, and Thirty Year Music Industry Veteran, President of Eagle Records to name a few. ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/53 "2004-07-22T21:37:58Z")
I am: - The Chairman of the Military Liaison Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission (in the 50’s I think…maybe under Truman?) - A California POW/MIA (could be a reletive) - Director of Engineering at CCSU (no idea what that is…) - A participating High School in VH1’s “Save the Music” campaign. - A plumber from the central coast California area (perhaps another relative) - And a gaggle of Frenchmen… ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/54 "2004-07-22T21:44:40Z")
There’s only one other me, and she lives in the UK. Plus, she doesn’t have the same middle name All the hits except that one are me. My sisters are the only hits of themselves in the world. Our last name is extraordinarily unusual and uncommon. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/55 "2004-07-22T22:09:50Z")
I’m unique, according to both Google and online phone books. So is my sister, **Zahava424**. My brother, on the other hand, has apparently been using his time off from his freshman year of college to become a well-known genticist on the other side of the country. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/56 "2004-07-22T22:47:25Z")
Hmm… I 1. am the president of a catering company 2. Came in third in a sailing race 3. am not Opal 4. was a “second rate Puritan preacher in London” who got involved in a bizzare theological dispute and vendetta 5. am a representative on a Utah water commission board 6. owned some land outside Wichita 7. know a cheap and fast pizza recipe 8. died at the Alamo 9. Fought in the War of 1812, had a dozen children, and was a “lifelong Whig” in Tennesee until my death in 1865. 10. was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon for stabbing someone, and lost my appeal 11. was head prefect in an Australian school in 1973 12. am a Newcastle United fan quoted by the BBC ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/57 "2004-07-22T23:42:08Z")
I Google out as An eye doctor An arborist Sergeant in the US Army President of a mutual funds brokerage Class president at a Colorado high school Loudspeaker designer A “Mama’s boy” Seen digging for a time capsule Yet another cranky person writing letters to the editor Had an accident while in the USAF Needed (and received approval for) a sewage module An occasional participant in foot races Making a dollhouse in Georgia An “electronics wizard” involved with a crackpot pain relief scheme involving special CDs. I need to get out more… Only two of these are actually me. Googling “gotpasswords” reveals only my stats with seti@home, and a porn site (parked to another domain) ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/58 "2004-07-22T23:47:58Z")
I’m the only me, middle initial or not, nickname or not. Whee! ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/59 "2004-07-22T23:50:46Z")
I am only me, and my uncle. We have an extremely common first name, and an extremely uncommon last name. I once came across a reference online to an unpublished novel someone had with a character with the same name as me, though. He (the character) was a retired CIA Ops guy, or something. It all sounded kinda Tom Clancy-ish. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302/60 "2004-07-23T00:01:41Z")
All hits are me. There’s only one other that I know of; he’s three and his father is my brother. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-yourself-how-many-yous-are-there/256302.md?page=4)