# Three name people **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310 "2020-01-31T20:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/101 "2020-02-03T20:25:45Z")
How about Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan? Seriously… I don’t see Nicole Brown Simpson. Does that count? ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/102 "2020-02-03T20:42:25Z")
Hmm… does ninja’d mean that someone posted something similar to yours as you writing a post (fairly new)? If so, I guess I was. Anyway… Daniel Day Lewis. Someone mentioned Joseph Fielding Smith (I know who he is), which made me think of Mary Baker Eddy. ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/103 "2020-02-04T12:26:34Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > But George Washington is not the guy who didn’t invent peanut butter. Ah, different dude. I knew I should have checked! ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/104 "2020-02-04T12:58:09Z")
Roy Chapman Andrews. James Henry Breasted Katherine Ann Porter William Flinders Petrie ---
**Author:** ![Valentine\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/76d3ee/32.png) [@Valentine\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valentine_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/105 "2020-02-04T16:45:05Z")
This was addressed nicely here (skip pass the commercial) : [http://www.cc.com/video-clips/j4mvqb/comedy-central-presents-the-land-of-the-three-name-people](http://www.cc.com/video-clips/j4mvqb/comedy-central-presents-the-land-of-the-three-name-people) ---
**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:** [February 4, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/106 "2020-02-04T17:04:59Z")
Would Cedric the Entertainer count? ---
**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/107 "2020-02-04T18:56:56Z")
two three-part names for the same person: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Jackie Kennedy Onassis ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/108 "2020-02-04T20:47:06Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Would Cedric the Entertainer count? Definitely not. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/109 "2020-02-04T21:22:10Z")
Assassins have been mentioned, but I thought of a would-be assassin that I don’t think has been mentioned yet: Sara Jane Moore. Most of the whippersnappers here probably have no idea who she is. I’m 50 and I’m barely old enough to remember her attempt to assassinate Gerald Ford. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/110 "2020-02-06T12:17:43Z")
How about the Bachs, whose middle names distinguish them from each other Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Christoph Bach Johann Christian Bach I usually see Johann Sebastian’s 2 wives referred to as Maria Barbara Bach Anna Magdalena Bach and of course there’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/111 "2020-02-06T18:31:52Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > How about the Bachs, whose middle names distinguish them from each other > Johann Sebastian Bach > Johann Christoph Bach > Johann Christian Bach > > I usually see Johann Sebastian’s 2 wives referred to as > Maria Barbara Bach > Anna Magdalena Bach > > and of course there’s > Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Saying ‘Bach’ without modification always means JS Bach, so I’m going to say he’s a one-name person. Mozart is indisputably a one-name person. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/112 "2020-02-07T14:56:59Z")
Isn’t a lot of that SAG name rules w.r.t. same-named performers? I.e. there can’t be another John Goodman, but there could be another “John Aloysius Goodman”. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/113 "2020-02-07T16:35:15Z")
Mary Miles Minter ---
**Author:** ![jrbor76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jrbor76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrbor76)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/114 "2020-02-08T17:49:51Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > No, it’s a common prefix for Dutch and Belgian surnames. Dick Van Dyke is Richard Wayne Van Dyke, and Dick Van Patten is Richard Vincent Van Patten. I remember once as a kid hearing something about the '80s country singer Ricky Van Shelton (apologize if I’m screwing up his name, I haven’t actively listened to country in decades) that “Van” actually was his middle name and “Shelton” actually was his last name. Can anybody confirm? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310/115 "2020-02-08T18:07:44Z")
> [@jrbor76](#): > > I remember once as a kid hearing something about the '80s country singer Ricky Van Shelton (apologize if I’m screwing up his name, I haven’t actively listened to country in decades) that “Van” actually was his middle name and “Shelton” actually was his last name. Can anybody confirm? Wikipedia says: > [@](#): > > He was born at Danville Regional Medical Center in Danville, Virginia, United States, to Jenks and Eloise Shelton in 1952,[1] but was raised in Grit, Virginia,[2] and went to High school in Gretna, Virginia. Although “Van” is a common portion of surnames derived from people of Dutch origin, “Van” in this case is Ricky’s middle name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-name-people/847310.md?page=5)