There is a Calvary Baptist church two blocks from my office headed by Pastor Looney. 
Alexander Graham Bell: I mean really?
No. There’s a difference between a stage name and a birth name, and Trump’s birth name is Trump. His father’s birth name was Trump. His grandfather’s birth name was Trump.
Grant Balfour was a major-league relief pitcher. He did, indeed, issue 252 walks in 539 2/3 career innings.
The Browns (the team) were, in fact, named for Paul Brown.
There was (maybe still is?) a gynaecologist in Omaha called Dr. Beaver.
There is an orthopaedic surgeon at my local hospital called Mr. Chisel.
But he wasn’t a star when he first picked his name. He was just a drummer for a local band.
Is this really true ? if so, you just made my day…month…year !!!
Thanks !
In the 1960s, there was a running back in the NFL named Joe Don Looney, whose talent was overshadowed by his strange behavior.
When I was in college in Madison, WI in the 1980s, there was an orthopedic surgeon at a local hospital (who was regularly featured in TV ads for the hospital) named Dr. Bonebreak.
He was the official orthopedic surgeon for the UW football team at the time.
My dentists name is Dr. Payne. My son had a sergeant in the corps whose last name was Major… So Sergeant Major. But, Ringo Starr was a small town star before he was asked to join the Beatles, His last name was Starkey, so I think it qualifies. I wonder if he legally changed it to Starr?
My daughter has an orthodontist named Payne. We had a Dr. Slaughter here. I used to go to Dr. Hitchcock.
There’s a well- known studio sax player named Jim Horn.
Perhaps one only for the computer scientists amongst us…
I once met a German CS professor Doctor Hash. He said he got tired every year explaining to the freshman data structures class that no, he didn’t invent the hash table and no, it wasn’t named after him.
And as an example of the exact opposite, the new Chief of the Police Bureau in Portland is an Outlaw.
From what I can tell, his legal name is still Richard Starkey. And apparently his family and friends normally call him Richard.
Only one source says he ever legally changed his name and that’s his bio at IMDB. But nothing else corroborates this and several sources dispute it. So I’m going to assume the IMDB bio is mistaken.
Here’s an image of his 1965 marriage certificate and abank document he signed in 1974.
As a side note, his full name is Richard Starkey. He has no middle name. There are sources which claim that his middle initial is D. but apparently this was based on a misunderstood joke. Starr used to say Drumming was his middle name and on a few occasions referred to himself as Richard D. Starkey or Ringo D. Starr.
Interesting!
Magnus ver Magnusson is an awfully good name for the world’s strongest man.
I know you Americans don’t pronounce French names like we do in Canada, but the name Jeter, as in Derek Jeter is the French verb for “throw” and pronounce something like zsaytay.
You owe me a laptop.
Except he stole that patent.
My father had a childhood dentist named Dr. Toothaker.
And I new a guy named Winzer who ran a liquor store (I had to think about it too).
There is a little kid whose parents hyphenated their names when they married: one was Cohen, and one was Gadol, so she is “Cohen-Gadol.” That translates to “High Priest” in Hebrew. She is so NOT a Cohen-Gadol type.
I know two other people who were Brun and Goldman, and decided to be “Sienna,” you know, brown and gold mixed. I joked that it was good they weren’t Erdman and Wasserman-- they’d be “Mud.” It did not go over well.