Three name people

[Author_Balk]

How about Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan?
Seriously… I don’t see Nicole Brown Simpson. Does that count?

[Author_Balk]

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.

[Teuton]

@dtilque

But George Washington is not the guy who didn’t invent peanut butter.

Ah, different dude. I knew I should have checked!

[kitap]

Roy Chapman Andrews.

James Henry Breasted

Katherine Ann Porter

William Flinders Petrie

[Valentine_Smith]

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

[Author_Balk]

Would Cedric the Entertainer count?

[Keeve]

two three-part names for the same person:
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Jackie Kennedy Onassis

[dtilque]

@Author_Balk

Would Cedric the Entertainer count?

Definitely not.

[bibliophage]

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.

[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

[dtilque]

@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.

[bump]

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”.

[Son_of_a_Rich]

Mary Miles Minter

[jrbor76]

@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?

[Acsenray]

@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.