There’s a pitcher for the Colorado Rockies named Josh Outman.
The head of the English judiciary is Igor Judge. His full title is the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge.
My favorite is the Jamaican drug dealer Christopher Coke.
There’s a DC-area doctor (long since retired), whose last name was Beaver.
Yeah, he was a gynecologist.
And of course the famous Cardinal Sin.
Andy Dick.
There is a chocolatier in Madison, WI named Gail Ambrosius. And yes, that’s the name she was born with.
Ha!
I have a professor at law school named Judge! There’s also a former British judge we had to read in casebooks: Justice Law. Googling him for a link has proven difficult.
It’s yet to be seen if this guys name is appropriate, but the University of Pittsburg just signed a kicker whose name is Blewitt.
I once went to a orthopedic clinic whose doctors were Pillow and Paine
Sometimes these are called aptronyms.
Thomas Crapper, although not the originator of the slang term, nevertheless *was *a toilet manufacturer.
So glad you shared that.
The director of the new Spiderman movie is Marc Webb.
My wife used to have a dentist named Dr. Drilling. This was in Tulare or Visalia, CA.
Joe
Let’s not forget Bob Walk.
Joe
I know him. Uhhh, personally, not professionally.
Dr. Guttman, Gastroenterology
A local optometrist’s last name is Gazaway.
Many years ago, I took a basic PC class from Ms. Dos. I can’t remember the last time I used a DOS command.
Dr. Payne is a liver transplant surgeon.
Dr. White is a dentist.
Mr. Shepard runs a goat-dairy farm.
There is an ornithologist and professor in the biology dept at McGill named David Bird.
But the best example I know of is a book called The Imperial Animal by Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox. See http://www.amazon.com/The-Imperial-Animal-Robin-Fox/dp/1560009624%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIRKJRCRZW3TANMSA%26tag%3Dpsychologytod-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1560009624
My friend (no, really) went to a doctor to get okayed for medical marijuana. He went to see Dr. Toke. I am not sure how that is supposed to pronounced though.