"Say, are you related to [this somewhat esoterically notable person]?"

My cousin knows someone with Stalin’s real last name. And my HS crush shares(d) a (relatively) common Irish last name with a late Senator. Unlikely either related.

A few years back, when I was on the road selling advertising, I sold an ad to the marketing manager for a local car dealership with the last name of Drusky. As someone who listens to some retro country music, I immediately asked if he was related to the singer from the fifties, Roy Drusky. He was his son.