# People you've known whose names are oddly apt **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434 "2015-06-02T12:33:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/1 "2015-06-02T12:33:02Z")
We like to play the “User/post synchronicity” game here a lot…and a [Calvin and Hobbes](http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes#mutable_1305669) strip today reminded me-his substitute teacher is named “Mr. Kneecapper”-and someone thought that would be on par with say Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe if he were a loan shark… So, known any people with oddly apt names? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/2 "2015-06-02T12:44:49Z")
I once lived near a gynecologist named Dr. Seymour Kuntz. I don’t know which came first, his name or his profession. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/3 "2015-06-02T13:12:29Z")
Can’t say I know him, but I have met him a few time. [Igor Judge, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Judge,_Baron_Judge) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/4 "2015-06-02T13:37:31Z")
I once did a project at the Pentagon, the [COTaR](http://www.abbreviations.com/term/18212) for which was one “Major Payne.” And he was; he really was. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/5 "2015-06-02T13:41:16Z")
My former optometrist was named Dr. Spector. I knew a girl who played the French horn and her last name was Horner. There’s a local wildlife biologist here who specializes in birds, and his name is David Bird. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/6 "2015-06-02T15:01:55Z")
There’s a urologist near here named Dr. Stoneking. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/7 "2015-06-02T15:05:33Z")
In college, we had a cheerleader whose last name was Bumpass. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/8 "2015-06-02T15:09:29Z")
My driver’s ed teacher in high school was named Mr. Karr. He was a jovial guy and I remember one time him saying something like “Come on, what are the chances of that happening–it’s like what are the chances of having a driver’s ed instructor named Mr. Karr.” ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/9 "2015-06-02T15:15:27Z")
Not quite the same thing but my old GP was Doctor Frankenstein - Hubert Frankenstein, MD. I often joked him that the MD stood for “Mad Doctor”. (And it didn’t help things that he was old school with a skeleton in the room where he examined patients.) ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/10 "2015-06-02T15:52:04Z")
I know a black guy with the last name Blackman. He doesn’t really know where it came from but I like to think his ancestor was a freed slave who changed his name to Blackman just to piss off whitey. I also imagine, like Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, he had a wallet that said “Blackman” and when people asked which was his… “It’s the one that says Blackman MFer!” ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/11 "2015-06-02T15:57:44Z")
There’s a researcher named Ferric Fang who studies iron regulation in bacteria. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/12 "2015-06-02T16:02:19Z")
I had two patients with the last name of Outlaw. Quite appropriate, considering I work in a prison. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/13 "2015-06-02T16:27:53Z")
> [@USCDiver](#): > > There’s a urologist near here named Dr. Stoneking. A urologist in the practice I use is named Krumholtz. Which is German for “crooked wood.” ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/14 "2015-06-02T16:33:54Z")
My orthodontist as a kid was Dr. Hollar. The veterinarian that used to make farm calls was Dr. Katz. ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/15 "2015-06-02T16:35:16Z")
When I lived in Kentucky, I knew a woman named Billie Hill. Looking her name up in the phone book was fun. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/16 "2015-06-02T16:35:42Z")
Not known personally, but the story of Nintendo hiring a guy who’s last name is Bowser ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/17 "2015-06-02T16:37:53Z")
Dr. Telesco. An astronomer. Also a licensed Professional Engineer, which usually is abbreviated as P.E. He found planets aka Planetary Explorer I suppose. The second part I’m not totally positive about. Note, the pe part of telescope wasn’t dropped, just moved. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/18 "2015-06-02T17:44:34Z")
My grade school gym teacher was a lovely English lady named Anne Ramsbottom. My oral surgeon back home was named Gordon Toothaker. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/19 "2015-06-02T17:48:52Z")
Around here there’s another physician named Dr Frankenstein. There was a now-retired pilot at my company whose last name was Pilot. When I was in the service I knew a Lieutenant Marvel. I moved to a different base before he was promoted to Captain Marvel, but given promotion rates in those days it’s all but inevitable he was in fact Captain Marvel for a few years. I also knew a Major Minor. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434/20 "2015-06-02T17:53:30Z")
I am pretty sure at one time there was a Colonel Sanders in the Air Force. He was in charge of firing chickens into aircraft canopies to test air worthiness. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youve-known-whose-names-are-oddly-apt/721434.md?page=2)