# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/21 "2021-11-02T14:47:39Z")
I’ve always assumed [Linton Kwesi Johnson](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linton_Kwesi_Johnson) was named for LBJ (or at least was a stage name that was a play on LBJ’s name) but googling shows no evidence for the that. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/22 "2021-11-02T14:49:28Z")
There’s also this: > **[ToniBler and Klinton: Gratitude for West lives on in Kosovar names - France 24](https://www.france24.com/en/20190321-tonibler-klinton-gratitude-west-lives-kosovar-names)** > > ToniBler and Klinton: Gratitude for West lives on in Kosovar names ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/23 "2021-11-02T14:54:15Z")
There was apparently a trend in the Dominican Republic (and perhaps other nearby countries) for a while, during which boys were given the names of American presidents and other historical figures. My barber is names Franklin, and he’s got friends and cousins with names such as Jefferson, Washington and Roosevelt. And slightly off-topic, but there is a baseball player from Costa Rica whose name is Yeltsin Tejeda - named after the Russian Premier. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/24 "2021-11-02T15:06:27Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > I think the hermit who died in the Mount St Helens’ blast was named Harry Truman. Mr. Truman was far from a hermit. He owned a lodge and campground on Spirit Lake. My wife and her parents were regular visitors at the lodge and have pictures of themselves taken with Harry. ---
**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, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/25 "2021-11-02T15:11:17Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > Mr. Truman was far from a hermit. He owned a lodge and campground on Spirit Lake. My wife and her parents were regular visitors at the lodge and have pictures of themselves taken with Harry. Sorry, I didn’t mean any offence. I remember hearing that Mr. Truman was warned about the approaching blast, but chose to remain at his residence. The media portrayed him as an old man set in his ways, too stubborn for his own good. Of course, he may not have been like that at all. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/26 "2021-11-02T15:20:40Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > How about Muppets? Roosevelt Franklin attended - or worked at - ROO-SE-VELT FRANK-LIN (baaaaaaah) E-LE-MEN-TA-RY SCHOOOL. What are the odds? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/27 "2021-11-10T13:27:54Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Fictitious people probably don’t count, but there is. Benjamin Franklin (Hawkeye) Pierce. Oddly enough, there really was a Benjamin Franklin Pierce. Sanders Theater at Harvard University is part of a Memorial Hall, and one of the names carved into the wall (in what is the waiting area for the theater) is **Benjamin Franklin Pierce**. Hiester Richard Hornberger\*, who wrote the novel M_A_S\*H under the pseudonym “Richard Hooker”, wasn’t connected with Harvard in any way, and doesn’t seem to have spent any time there. It’s possible that he saw the inscription, or it might just be a coincidence. - really – [Richard Hooker (author) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker_(author)) Corroboration – [The Philosopher's Stone: TRIOS](https://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2013/12/trios.html?m=0) By the way, since I’ve already commented on one fictional person here, I’d like to note that Robert Heinlein had a soft spot in his heart for people incorporating presidential names into those of their kids. More than one Heinlein hero has such a name. (Andrew Jackson Libby, Woodrow Wilson Smith, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/28 "2021-11-10T13:39:18Z")
Uruguay’s football national team manager George Washington Tabarez. (if you ask around here (Argentina) we would tell you than half the male uruguayan population has names like “Franklin” or “Washington”, wereas 3/4 of the Paraguayan male population is called “Nelson”, I wonder what names they sterotype us with? “Juan Carlos” or something like that probably) ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/29 "2021-11-10T13:59:10Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > 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? Alexander was mostly addressed as “Pete” during his playing career. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/30 "2021-11-11T22:36:38Z")
James Garfield Davis, grandfather of Jim Davis (creator of Garfield). ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/31 "2021-11-12T20:13:19Z")
I once worked with a John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Born several years after the president’s death, his parents gave him that name because they admired the late president. He told me that a few times when the police stopped him and asked his name they would not believe him until he showed his ID. Then there is also this John F. Kennedy who received the death penalty for participating in a really terrible murder: [https://www.ocregister.com/2009/05/01/conspirator-kennedy-receives-death-sentence-in-yacht-murders](https://www.ocregister.com/2009/05/01/conspirator-kennedy-receives-death-sentence-in-yacht-murders) ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/32 "2021-11-12T21:53:38Z")
His name is Oscar Tabarez, but his middle name is Washington. And he’s got a big game coming up in about an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/33 "2021-11-13T19:42:17Z")
My great grandfather was James Monroe Hightower, born in 1879. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/34 "2021-11-14T22:06:26Z")
True that, I was going by memory and it failed me. But we won the big game anyway 😃 ---
**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:** [November 14, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658/35 "2021-11-14T22:31:38Z")
My great great grandfather was George Washington Lastname [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-named-after-us-presidents/953658.md?page=1)