# People named after US Presidents **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658 "2021-11-01T23:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/1 "2021-11-01T23:23:08Z")
Not just the first name; not just the last name - but both names. e.g. George Washington Carver (agricultural scientist) Grover Cleveland Alexander (baseball pitcher) and another baseball pitcher: Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish (usually called simply “Cal McLish”). Any others? Were the first two listed above ever addressed without the “middle” name? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/2 "2021-11-01T23:32:37Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > Not just the first name; not just the last name - but both names. > > e.g. George Washington Carver (agricultural scientist) > Grover Cleveland Alexander (baseball pitcher) > and another baseball pitcher: Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish (usually called simply “Cal McLish”). > > Any others? Woody Guthrie? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/3 "2021-11-01T23:35:11Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Woody Guthrie? Just to expand on this: his birth name was Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, though, at the time of Guthrie’s birth in July 1912, Wilson was not President – he was, at that time, the governor of New Jersey, and had just been nominated by the Democratic Party as their presidential candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/4 "2021-11-01T23:38:53Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Just to expand on this: his birth name was Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, though, at the time of Guthrie’s birth in July 1912, Wilson was not President And his first name was actually Thomas. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/5 "2021-11-01T23:42:31Z")
(I removed some cites about Guthrie’s name, as I had misread Procrustus’s comment; Woodrow Wilson’s first name was indeed Thomas.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/6 "2021-11-01T23:44:13Z")
(I removed my reply to kenobi\_65’s reply, so it’s all a hall of mirrors now.) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/7 "2021-11-01T23:50:52Z")
[Thomas Jefferson Byrd](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126070/) was an actor who appeared in several of Spike Lee’s films, and was a Tony nominee in 2003. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/8 "2021-11-02T00:40:19Z")
I think the hermit who died in the Mount St Helens’ blast was named Harry Truman. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/9 "2021-11-02T00:45:59Z")
He was, though he was [Harry R. Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman) (not Harry S Truman). He was born in 1896, when the future President Truman was only 12 years old, so it’s a case of two apparently-unrelated men sharing a name, rather than one being named after the other. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/10 "2021-11-02T00:57:32Z")
Okay, how about Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, who was an Illinois judge during Daley the Elder’s reign? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/11 "2021-11-02T01:04:18Z")
He totally counts! ---
**Author:** ![DoubleG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DoubleG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoubleG)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/12 "2021-11-02T05:47:14Z")
Grover Cleveland’s first name is actually Stephen. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/13 "2021-11-02T11:09:34Z")
My grandfather, Theodore Roosevelt Goldhammer, b. 1905. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/14 "2021-11-02T11:19:16Z")
Donald Trump Junior? ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/15 "2021-11-02T11:20:53Z")
Fictitious people probably don’t count, but there is. Benjamin Franklin (Hawkeye) Pierce. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/16 "2021-11-02T12:18:21Z")
[Cristiano Ronaldo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Ronaldo), born 1985, was named after [Ronald Reagan](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/jun/08/manchesterunited.portugal), **his father’s favourite actor** , so I don’t know if that counts. Curiously the German Wikipedia mentions this with a footnote referring to the Guardian’s article, the English Wikipedia does not. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/17 "2021-11-02T13:15:57Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Fictitious people probably don’t count, but there is. Benjamin Franklin (Hawkeye) Pierce. Note that Benjamin Franklin was never President, but Franklin Pierce was. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/18 "2021-11-02T13:26:19Z")
There must be thousands of John Adamses…but the composer [John Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_(composer))\* deserves mention in this thread, because his middle name is “Coolidge.” (And Calvin Coolidge’s first name at birth was “John.”) \*not to be confused with [John Luther Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Luther_Adams) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/19 "2021-11-02T13:28:00Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Fictitious people probably don’t count How about Muppets? > **[Roosevelt Franklin](https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Roosevelt_Franklin)** > > Roosevelt Franklin appeared on Sesame Street from Season 1 (1970) to Season 7 (1975). It goes without saying that his name is simply a reversal of that of president Franklin D. Roosevelt. The precocious Roosevelt Franklin attended Roosevelt Franklin... ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/20 "2021-11-02T14:21:33Z")
Went to high school with a dude named Warren Harding. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658.md?page=2)