# Who is the first person we know as FI - Middle Name - Last Name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 7, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226 "2024-05-07T13:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/21 "2024-05-08T06:05:33Z")
T.S. Elliot ,the poet. Born 1888 ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/22 "2024-05-08T10:21:54Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > E. Pluribus Unum We have a winner! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/23 "2024-05-08T12:01:23Z")
Jesus H. Christ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/24 "2024-05-08T12:44:59Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > F Scott Fitzgerald b.1896 Fun fact: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s full name was **Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald**. His parents must really have liked _The Star Spangled Banner_. If I were him, I’d have used “F. Scott Fitzgerald”, too. Or maybe “John Smith” More names to fit the OP: H. Allen Smith – American humorist (1907-1976). Almost forgotten today, but popular in his heyday. Wrote “The Year of the Tail” , a fantasy about how humans suddenly acquiring cat-like tails changes culture. H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) adventure author, wrote _King Solomon’s Mines_ and _She_ ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/25 "2024-05-08T12:45:16Z")
> [@MikeG](#): > > Jesus H. Christ. Surely you mean H. Jesus Christ
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/26 "2024-05-08T12:47:15Z")
J. Wellington Wimpy ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/27 "2024-05-08T12:50:04Z")
Author P. Schuyler Miller ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/28 "2024-05-08T14:22:43Z")
A. A. Milne b. 1882 (author “Winnie the Pooh”) Q.Q. Switcheroo b. ? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/29 "2024-05-08T15:10:14Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Q.Q. Switcheroo b. ? đŸ€ (FTR, my username is from _Gödel, Escher, Bach_: “The Switcheroo Rule is named after Q. Q. Switcheroo, an Albanian railroad engineer who worked in logic on the siding.”) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/30 "2024-05-08T15:24:48Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > > [@MikeG](#): > > > > Jesus H. Christ. > > Surely you mean H. Jesus Christ
 Or rather, J. Harold Christ (I know it stands for Harold because of the hymn, “Hark, the Harold, Angels Sing”) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/31 "2024-05-08T15:25:48Z")
I _knew_ it! đŸ€Ș ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/32 "2024-05-08T15:27:24Z")
H. Ross Perot. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/33 "2024-05-08T16:01:53Z")
I was wondering how long it would take before ol’ H. Ross was mentioned. Currently, the earliest names are L. Frank Baum 1856 H. Rider Haggard 1856 W. Somerset Maugham 1874 A. Philip Randolph 1889 J. Paul Getty 1892 J. Edgar Hoover 1895 F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896 T. Rowe Price 1898 I limited the list to 19th century birth years. Extending it by even 10 years would double or more the length. For the double initial list, I extended it a bit because these names are less common: J.P. Morgan 1837 A.A. Milne 1882 T.S. Eliot 1888 E.E. Smith 1890 E.E. Cummings 1894 Y.A. Tittle 1926 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/34 "2024-05-08T16:19:22Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > (I know it stands for Harold because of the hymn, “Hark, the Harold, Angels Sing”) It’s made even more clear in the Lord’s Prayer. > Our Father, Who art in heaven, Harold be thy name ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/35 "2024-05-08T16:29:02Z")
i always thought that H stood for haploid. 🙂 can’t think of any new ones, (of course) but i think a number of these came about because the person was a junior or even in a line of people with the same FN. LN. so always went by a middle name which was different. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/36 "2024-05-08T16:31:22Z")
W.S. Gilbert 1836 has one year on J.P. Morgan. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/37 "2024-05-08T16:49:01Z")
L. El Cooljay T. Herman Zweibel founded The Onion, America’s Finest Newsource, in 1756 so he was probably born before, say, 1730. > **[About The Onion](https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-is-the-world-s-leading-news-publication-offe-1819653457)** > > The Onion is the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events. Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1756, The Onion now... ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/38 "2024-05-08T16:52:56Z")
W. C. Fields born 1880 H. P. Lovecraft born 1890 ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/39 "2024-05-08T16:56:17Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > W.S. Gilbert 1836 has one year on J.P. Morgan Excellent. I’m surprised there aren’t some F.I. people from these earlier years. > [@furryman](#): > > W. C. Fields born 1880 > H. P. Lovecraft born 1890 Also excellent. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226/40 "2024-05-08T17:04:59Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > L. El Cooljay That’s not his name. It’s not even his stage name. > [@jnglmassiv](#): > > T. Herman Zweibel founded The Onion, America’s Finest Newsource, in 1756 so he was probably born before, say, 1730. Yeah, in case you haven’t noticed, I’ve ignored fictional people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-first-person-we-know-as-fi-middle-name-last-name/1001226.md?page=3)