With google.com, I got 5,260 hits. Number one on the list is some woman (or man?) who belongs to the Sussex County Contract Bridge Association. (I typed in “Fran [insert my last name here]” not “Frannie,” so I’m not certain about this person’s sex.)
It has been a while since I looked but I actually got quite a few results, all of them point back to me and my website.
I had a lady contact me thinking I was really a Mr. Feynn the other day, seems she doing a search for other people with that last name.
When I searched my real name I got a site devoted to sexual abstinence… funny…
I went ahead and tried it anyway, even though I knew I would not find anything.
The best I could find was some Nenno living in Bear Creek. ::sigh:: oh well, I like being unique anyway.
There’s only me!
Lemme see, I race a yacht named “South Pacific” out of Newport, CA. I’m a senior project manager for a construction company in Boulder, CO, so I guess I can’t chase after TechChick without the phone book getting confusing. Hmmm, I apparently don’t have a web page in England anymore, but there is still a link to it. I race bicycles in Minnesota, but I sorta know that avatar.
However, with a name like Mike Warns, I find that I mostly warn other people, especially on soap operas. But you people already knew that I tend to stick my nose in where my advice is not wanted.
The search for my namesake proved to be very sad for me.
Well, first off, there is a famous opera singer with the same name, but I couldn’t care less about her.
One time when going through old Social Security records for fun, I stumbled across a young woman who had died that had shared my name. She died at age 20 in 1999. The page didn’t give me any information on what she had died of or anything, so I was left wondering about this girl. So I see this thread and decide to put my name on a search. I ended up finding the obituary of this same girl. A biology major at Penn State, she died in a car accident. It turns out that I had “known” this girl. Actually, she had lived only an hour or so away in Mars, PA when in high school. A relative had mailed me a newspaper article with a picture of this girl playing volleyball. I would show people the picture and say, “Look! I am athletic after all!” and of course it was funny at the time because everyone that knows me well enough knows that I don’t even go near sports if I can help it, and this Erin didn’t look anything like me. I just always felt a special bond with this girl who I had never met.
sheds a few tears I’m okay now. I get so emotional over things like that…
My most famous namesake seems to be some guy who is a big authority on massages. It would appear that he’s written countless books on the matter, and that masseurs/euses around the World proudly claim that they studied with him.
He apparently does everything from therapeutic to erotic massages. Hmmmm… maybe this knowledge could come in handy the next time I meet a beautiful woman. Oh, did I just type that?
Under my married name I can only find some junior high school girl in Idaho who was in a bus crash!
Under my maiden name I found several entries for me and most of them really were me! Apparently, there is a paper of mine on file in the archives of my university! I never knew! My high school’s website of alumni shows up under almost every search engine!
Sadly, I could find no one famous with my name.
The only things under my own real name were me. Mainly a lot of archived Usenet posts and ASCII art I did in college and the odd guest book signing or something.
Using simply my last name, I got quite a few hits on some Czech scientist (who appears to work in biology) and a young lass who plays for the Anderson Thunderbolts, number 22, Freshman team. Good for her, I say!
I am not only the only person with my name, but one of six people in the entire world who are alive and have my last name.
So I think I may have all of you beat in terms of individuality.
I searched under several different engines and the only hit I could find with my married name was a guy who is the Recreation and Park gardener for The National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco. Of course, I’m female. I have met a number of other people over the years with the same first name as mine, and they have almost always been men. I also tried searching using my maiden name, but there were too many to count (I have an extremely common maiden last name). Again, most of those listed are men. Since I was the second born child, and the oldest is a girl, I’m beginning to wonder if my parents were trying to tell me something by giving me this name.
Having a fairly common monicker, I already know about a few “other me’s” out there: a former Team Canada hockey coach, a fairly well-known UK photographer, and the author of a book on Soviet airbrushed photos.
A new search on Google turned up the fact(s) that:
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I am an EMS supervisor in Waco, TX;
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I acted in the movies Revolution (1985), The Long Good Friday (cool!) (1980) and Go to Blazes (1961);
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I am a NASA Launch Director for the Space Shuttle (Houston, we have a problem…);
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I am Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, England;
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I am also the Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard;
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also Professor in the History of Science Department at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. My specialty is “the application of folk astronomy and mathematical astronomy to specific religious needs of the Muslim community from the 8th to the 19th century, namely, the regulation of the lunar calendar, the determination of the sacred direction (qibla), and the organization of the astronomically-defined times of prayer.” So there.
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and, apparently, I married Abigail Sackett in Hampden, Mass in 1700, and had children named Thankful, Moses, Aaron, Asafel, Eldad (wasn’t he Superman’s father?)
and Gideon.
Personally, I can’t wait for the triple-dip pension from those three universities to start…
As I suspected, my last name is fairly common (although many of the pages that turned up were in french), but absolutely no one has the combination of my first and last name. Not surprisingly. In my whole life I’ve only met 2 other people with my first name, and both of them spelled theirs differently.
Well, there’s a Boston obituary on me, so apparently I’m a zombie now (Sure feels that way).
I’m also a psychitrist.
And a proponent for free speech for the NEA.
I’m also a champion squash player.
(Wow. My namesakes kickass! I feel inadequate)
Sorry, iampunha, but I can beat you on that count. A web search shows nobody else with my name, and only a handful of people with my surname. My dad once investigated our genealogical line and as far as the agency he hired could trace it appears that our surname appears unique in the world.
mattk, I’m not sure how you have me beat. My name is unique. Period. Nobody else in the world with it. And the only reason there are six living people in the world with my last name is because I have three siblings and two parents.
Before 1979 my last name did not exist.
Ah, you should have said that in your first post, iampunha. You may well be correct, then. Have you tried hiring any genealogical agencies to investigate further?
Mattk:
Such efforts, I think, would be futile. My parents, you see, were married in 1979. My last name is hyphenated. I’ve done searches on multiple internet engines for my last name and generally come up with pages belonging to or concerning my family.
Besides that, I have an aunt who is so into genealogy it might well scare you. If anyone other than myself, my three siblings and my parents existed with my last name, she would have found them long ago
Yeah, maybe I’m cheating because I have a hyphenated last name, but who cares? I am the only one with my name in the world. Pretty cool, though if someone by my name ever F’s up, nobody to carry the blame but me
I just did a search, and while I didn’t find anyone else with my username, I did find that three of my posts on alt.tv.simpsons were added to the episode guide comments section! Woohoo!
I used http://www.egosurf.com and all I found was me. The only hit that was even a surprise (ie, not something I’d posted myself) was at http://searchpdf.adobe.com/proxies/1/87/28/15.html – it’s the minutes from a 1998 Board meeting where the my name was mentioned. It figures it hasn’t been mentioned in the two years since (but, then again, maybe that’s a good thing ;)).