# Who's Kermit Love? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 25, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-kermit-love/397446 "2007-03-25T19:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-kermit-love/397446/1 "2007-03-25T19:27:16Z")
[Speaking of Seasame Street](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=413763), who’s Kermit Love. The name appears in the closing credits as “Dedicated to”, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-kermit-love/397446/2 "2007-03-25T19:49:56Z")
Taken from [here](http://www.lyonpuppets.com/kermitlove.html): > [@](#): > > If you don’t know who Kermit Love is, you are at least familiar with some of his work. For many years he worked with the Muppets, and is largely responsible for the look of some of SESAME STREET"S best-known characters. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-kermit-love/397446/3 "2007-03-25T20:39:15Z")
Now that **Adam Yax** has given a “straight” answer to the question, may I respectfully and tongue-in-cheek suggest that the proper answer to the topic title question is “Miss Piggy”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ShiefferSaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@ShiefferSaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShiefferSaw)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-kermit-love/397446/4 "2007-03-25T20:41:47Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] Now that **Adam Yax** has given a “straight” answer to the question, may I respectfully and tongue-in-cheek suggest that the proper answer to the topic title question is “Miss Piggy”? 😉 [/QUOTE] Thats what I was going to say, and I honestly thought it was the “straight” answer too… haha. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-kermit-love/397446/5 "2007-03-25T20:43:28Z")
So is Miss Piggy’s Kermit named after Mr. Love? Seems an unusual name ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-kermit-love/397446/6 "2007-03-25T22:15:45Z")
[QUOTE=Malodorous] So is Miss Piggy’s Kermit named after Mr. Love? Seems an unusual name [/QUOTE] According to Mr. Love’s [Wikipedia Bio](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Love#Trivia), the names are simply coincidental. This is confirmed (if vaguely) by noting that Mr. Love’s bio says he met Jim Henson in the early '60s while [Jim Henson 's bio](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson#Early_work) says that Kermit was created in the previous decade. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-kermit-love/397446/7 "2007-03-25T22:36:00Z")
Kermit is not a totally unusual name in some parts - I used to know two Kermits - both gentlemen in their 60’s. Thy’s be in their 70’s now. Maybe it is scandanavian… this is Minnesota, after all!