Who is the most famous person whose name is routinely misspelled?

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Oh, well, then: Jesus?

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I don’t think it makes sense to talk of the correct spelling of Jesus’s name. The name he used existed a long time before him, and there are many people today who use a version of that name. The most common version in the U.S. is Joshua.

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Willem Dafoe.

mmm

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Andruw Jones.

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Note that he changed his name (informally) from William to Willem.

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The Berenstain Bears are fictional, but sort of counts since they are named after their writer/illustrators Stan and Jan Berenstain.

I had never heard about them until the Mandela effect went viral on the internet, so I’m not sure they are that famous. But apparently a lot of people who cared a lot about the books when they were kids thought they were the Berenstein Bears.

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I got Asimov to autograph the Galaxy (November 1952) with The Martian Way on the cover. His name was spelled Issaac Asimov. He was still pissed at Gold for this. (This was at the 1972 Worldcon, IIRC.)

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Too many people named Steven and Stephen to count…

Not mention the confusion between Sean, Shawn, and Shaun…

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Yeah. I’m going with Ceasar or is it Caesar or Cesar or Cesare?

I just don’t know.

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And he pronounced his name Day-foe until he started getting acting credits.

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Even she “misspells” her own name - she was named “Barbara” but decided she wanted to stand out.
(Although of course whatever spelling she decided on is the correct spelling)

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Hari Seldon was spelled Hari Sheldon on the flaps of the first volume of the first printing of the Foundation Trilogy. Then it was spelled Hari Sheldon again on the second volume. There are no words, although I’m sure Asimov thought of some.

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I guess this excludes Jesus :wink:

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Wasn’t the bible written in American?

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"It’s HEDLEY!!!

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Jesus H Christ?

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Edgar Allan Poe. His middle name is Allan not Allen. It’s not a first name. He took the name to honor John and Frances Allan, who raised him after his mother died.

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Also Philip/Phillip.

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  1. Montezuma: (spaketh somebody online) “He held the title of Huetlatoani, which in the Nahuatl language means “Great Ruler.” The name Montezuma II is commonly used by English sources and literature. However, the most correct approximation from Spanish to Nahuatl is Moctezuma II.”

I’ve read many times that his name was never pronounced “Monte Zuma”

  1. Sacajawea is properly pronounced with a hard “g”. There is no “j” sound in her name.
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There’s the three members of The Who: Roger Daltry, John Entwhistle ant Pete Townsend.