# Most Famous Person With Your Family Name **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604 "2010-11-23T01:14:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/61 "2010-11-23T11:59:55Z")
The most famous person with my last name is fictional–a ship’s captain in a series of nautical tales. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/62 "2010-11-23T12:32:18Z")
Judging by Wikipedia, no one of especial note. Add on ‘-son’ and you get some very famous people indeed. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/63 "2010-11-23T12:59:33Z")
A first lady and cartoon wife. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/64 "2010-11-23T15:19:05Z")
An American country piano player and a Swiss mathematician (there’s a rule discovered by and named after him that I learned in college). ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/65 "2010-11-23T15:20:05Z")
Hidalgo. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/66 "2010-11-23T15:42:15Z")
A former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback. From Wikipedia, an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker and author who has hosted a number of PBS television … Fictional: One of the ladies of “Sex And The City.” Geographical: A small mountain range in Arizona No known relation of any of the above------ ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/67 "2010-11-23T15:47:34Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > A first lady and cartoon wife. Well, now we know the origin of your screen name. ---
**Author:** ![geneb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@geneb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geneb)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/68 "2010-11-23T15:48:24Z")
Mel Gibson. Or Joshua Gibson (my first name is also Joshua). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/69 "2010-11-23T15:49:10Z")
Is anybody else trying to figure out the last names from the hints given? **LouisB** I think I’ve got. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/70 "2010-11-23T15:52:03Z")
I have a pretty unusual last name. I’ve never even met anyone I wasn’t related to who had the same last name as me, much less heard of anybody famous with it. I was surprised recently to find out that the main character in a popular video game has my last name, so I guess that would be it. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/71 "2010-11-23T15:55:40Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Is anybody else trying to figure out the last names from the hints given? > > **LouisB** I think I’ve got. Which hint gave it away? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/72 "2010-11-23T15:56:41Z")
An Olympic gold medalist is about it. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/73 "2010-11-23T16:01:10Z")
One of my relatives is a stand-up comedian who’s enjoyed a moderate degree of professional success - he gets on Comedy Central occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/74 "2010-11-23T16:23:34Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Which hint gave it away? The first suggested it, the third clinched it, and then “oh cool, there’s a mountain range, too.” ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/75 "2010-11-23T16:26:59Z")
Mine is a pretty famous singer/songwriter but not sure if he really counts because he changed his last name. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/76 "2010-11-23T17:31:12Z")
I share my last name with a pretty significant figure of the American revolution. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/77 "2010-11-23T17:38:36Z")
The leader of a failed revolution in Hungary during the Cold War. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/78 "2010-11-23T17:39:58Z")
A comedian/TV host whom I don’t like at all. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/79 "2010-11-23T18:46:02Z")
A Nobel Prize winner in economics and a columnist for the New York Times. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604/80 "2010-11-23T18:50:19Z")
The first American to orbit the earth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-person-with-your-family-name/561604.md?page=5)