I don’t recall seeing you around before, so welcome to the SDMB! My father’s mother’s mother was named Antonia – she was born in 1882 in what is now the Czech Republic, immigrated to the USA in the first decade of the twentieth century, and lived until 1971 (when I was twelve years old).
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Thank you for the nice welcome! Yes, I am new here although I’ve been lurking for some time. I’ve always liked this forum, so I decided to give it a try.
About my name: I’m Dutch and over here Antonia is quite a common name albeit a bit old fasioned. I was named after my paternal grandmother and one of my aunts is also an Antonia.
BTW, your username also sounds Dutch – stern means tern (the seabird) and vogel means bird – a ‘double bird bill’ so to speak
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DW, and I’m stuck, although I know y’all will come up with half a dozen obvious choices and I’ll have to do the facesmack smiley. There’s a famous local philanthropist, Diana Wortham; there’s Dana Worthington from Batman (the name sounded familiar and I googled it; I have no idea how I knew that!). Let’s see. Dana, Diana, Dan, David, Duke, Damien, Drew, Darla, Danielle, Dick, Dizzy, Draco–I’m tapped out.
Daniel
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David (Mark) Winfield, Hall of Fame Outfielder.
Antonia: Actually, I have no known Dutch ancestry, but I’m part German. I’m also a fan of women’s basketball, and one of my favorite players was Kate Starbird, so I Germanized her surname (stern meaning “star”, and vogel, as you mentioned, “bird”).
If middle initials don’t count, probably Alex Rodriguez is the most famous.
Adrienne Cecile Rich and Archie Clyde Roller both have the full match, but all I know about their actual fame-levels is that they are notable enough to be on Wikipedia.
I don’t care if it’s supposed to be one word. I like it.
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Spider-Man is a hyphenate.
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JJJ
I cannot think of anyone famous with 3 J’s at all. With two J’s, there’s probably a few guys out there referred to as “JJ” but I can’t think of any off-hand.
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And speaking of Peter Parker, his boss at the Daily Bugle is J. Jonah Jameson.
