[Closed] Sharing a name with someone (in)famous....

We've got an Andy Murray in work, and we used to have a Russel Hobbs.

I used to know an incredibly intelligent, softly spoken bloke with a full head of hair. Called Grant Mitchell.

I share the name of a fairly famous Fashion Designer/Shoe Designer who was mentioned in "The Wolf of wall Street"....I get that scene repeated to me on a regular basis...

We have an Andy Williams at work. He's just too good to be true.

My wife used to work with Batman, and I'm not even taking the piss.

Alright thats just his surname, but!!!

When I worked for Coca-Cola we had an account manager working permanently at McDonalds HQ. I'm sure that was in Slough at the time. Anyways, the Account Manager was called Ronald McDonald.

Not name related but, as a kid, my home phone number was only 1 digit out from the family switchboard at Windsor Castle. We used to have fun with that.

When I lived in Switzerland we had a US compliance manager hosting a meeting to my Swiss colleagues called Heidi Swiss.

We've got Jean Luc Picard on the corporate email. Apparently he works in the "Enterprise Team"

We’ve got Jean Luc Picard on the corporate email. Apparently he works in the “Enterprise Team”

Nominative determinism in action?

I share a name with a not very famous former Changing Rooms designer. I have had a few weird enquiries from places like Japan asking if I'm him.

I have a Tom Jones working for me, its not unusual though.

Back in the 90s when Red Dwarf was on telly my sister knew someone whose surname was Rimmer. Hilarity ensued. I also worked with someone called Rimmer much later, and whilst he was a nice bloke you just couldn't engage him in that kind of banter so jokes were met with puzzled looks. Calling him 'Ace' for example just felt mean.

Back in the late 70's we had a male Lesley Judd in our scout troup..

Back in the late 70’s we had a male Lesley Judd in our scout troup..

A challenging ****.....

Used to work with both a James Hendrix and a David Bowie. Always hilarious

I used to know a girl whose brother was called Mike Tyson. He was almost arrested once after being pulled over for speeding because the police thought he was just taking the piss out of them when they asked his name.

Used to work with a James Bond. Smashing guy, rarely did anyone mention the connection as he was great at work and we all just got on with things. Bizarrely just never really came up, as he was our James Bond, not James Bond. Weird.

however once was running a big meeting in Vienna, I was on stage presenting, and James was late to the audience. When I saw him arriving through a door at the back of the meeting hall, I just couldn't help myself...

 its not unusual though.

🙂

. When I saw him arriving through a door at the back of the meeting hall, I just couldn’t help myself…

Please tell me you were stroking a white cat....

Some of my customers and colleagues over the years.

Mark Hamill
Ian Watkins
Dane Bowers
Mohammed Ali
Jed Ward
Shannon Matthews

Oh, and apparently I share my name with a professional wrestler.

The Undertaker?

Not me

Not famous, but see 'Man Down'. 😀

I used to work with  James Brown in a warehouse. He had a high vis that had "Yeah, I did,right up until you asked"

I'm to be doing some work for a Mike Caine.
Not a lot of people know that.

Have a 2nd cousin in South Africa. Bartholomew Simpson.

My Nan and my aunt were both called Elizabeth Hurley.

My father was Steve Austin. And no, sadly they could not put him back together again after his accident. Not a great reminder during my childhood.

My Nan and my aunt were both called Elizabeth Hurley.

I refer you to morecashthandash’s post.

I work with a Robert Brown but he just goes by Bobby Brown, I suppose that's his perogative .

I used to work with a plumber called Mike Hunt

More infamous than famous

I refer you to morecashthandash’s post.

🤣🤣

Fame at last!

I had a colleague who shared a name and birthday with a notorious Yardie gangster, he was a white Yorkshireman but would still get pulled by the Feds at US immigration - much hilarity (not).

We had a managing director called Chris Boardman - I once got my meeting room booking cancelled at the last minute because of “Chris Boardman” and I was quietly cursing as I packed up my stuff because I couldn’t understand why the MD couldn’t use the boardroom outside his office - when I walked out the door and bumped in to Chris Boardman OBE and Olympic Gold medalist - he was doing his Secret Squirrel stuff for the Olympics.

We've a trustee who has the name of someone famous.

As he is the famous one.

Sir David Attenborough.

😃

I worked with a Michael Bolton once....The Office Space character didn't help him either!

Having my first name and being a reasonably practical bloke who likes helping mend and sort things……
Oh, if I only had a pound for every time I heard that one, and of course it’s not very helpful these days.

If you google my name (shared with actors and an animal trainer) over 16 million results appear. I haven't bothered to go through them all to see where I rank but it's not in the first 20 pages 🙂

I've worked with a Helen Bells and I once interviewed a Heath Robinson.  🤷‍♂️

Keith Richards is our Facilities Manager; he doesn't like to Paint it Black.

Share my name with one of Britain's biggest drug dealers, not someone who is generally known to the public but has come up in a job interview after someone in HR googled my name

I used to work with a Mike Christmas, who apparently had a wife called Mary.

I share my name (not spelt the same) with famous but not that famous snooker player and friend of racist comedians, John Virgo

Cue the gags.

One of my clients is called Steffi Graf.

Cue the gags.

Well played.

I'm Stephen Lawrence.

Just remembered my Dad shared his name with a Sunderland football player from the 50s & 60s.

AT one time I had Tom Jones,Andy Williams and David Bowie on same shift.
Im John Madden unfortunately no relation to the NFL guy.

There's only 200ish people in the whole country with my surname, so not really. There's a boxer in Dundee with my name and a book illustrator in Canada but I come up before both on google😁
My father shares his name with the guy who used to run Toyota's F1 team

I’m Mr Darcy. 😃

I went to school with a James Cameron and when I was on holiday once a friend hurt themselves and was treated by Dr Donald Duck.

My father was Steve Austin.

Stone Cold?

Looks like my name-sake fits the infamous bit- a convicted murderer from South Wales.
Given he’s from a couple of valleys along from where my Dad grew up and we don’t have a Welsh surname I wonder if we’re related?

David Bowie's wife was originally given my mother's name, but then used her middle name and now shares that name with my wife.

Used to have a bloke come into work called Mark Lawrenson. He was an arsehole.

Used to have a bloke come into work called Mark Lawrenson. He was an arsehole.

You are Gary Lineker and I claim my £5

I have a mate called Jamie Saville 🙁

Went to uni with a guy called Keith Jones ... the weird bit being the VC of the uni that signed his degree certificates was also called Keith Jones. It looked like he was writing his own certificates.

My name is Edson Arantes do Nascemento, and people are constantly mistaking me for Pele. And then I point out that Pele's name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento and we all laugh.

I used to know a girl whose brother was called Mike Tyson. He was almost arrested once after being pulled over for speeding because the police thought he was just taking the piss out of them when they asked his name.

I had a school mate whose surname was Semens. He got pulled by the police as a teenager and had to give his address... which, no word of a lie, was 1 Tinkle Street. It didn't go down well.
(He later did a stretch for glassing someone though 🙁 )

We have an engineer at work called Ian Brown.
I had a teams meeting a few months ago with an architect called John Holt.

Thing is that neither of these gents have a clue who their namesakes are!!

My mate is Mark Owen. Got loads of calls from young women when he was at uni in Manchester in the 90's

I share with the worlds best handball player.
This always makes my handball coaching colleague want me to join his team just so he can add me to the player list.

Stone Cold?

No, the bionic one. Hence the irony. I’m a child of the 70’s. “I bet your dad was the bionic man!” tends to wear a bit thin after a while. Given what happened to my dad, VERY thin.

Got/had loads of them at work.

Will(iam) Young
Jim Davidson
James Brown (2 of)
Colin Wier (2 of, none related)
Barry Scott (does he still shout adverts?)

Plus more I've forgotten through time. Only claim to fame anyone had was being the keyboardist in H2O (nope, me neither but it cracked me up to think of the old Billy Connelly sketch where he talked about wanting to have a hit record with his face on the cover just so he could "accidentally" leave it places and wondered if there was a bit of that going on).

There’s only 200ish people in the whole country with my surname, so not really.

I'd be astonished if occurrences of my surname broke double figures across the whole country. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the same didn't hold true globally. Outside of direct relations, I'm down to the fingers of one hand.

My mother is Joan Collins......

I’ve worked with two Peter Jackson’s, had a supplier called James Brown (I used to sneak James Brown’s lyrics in to mails I sent him) and used to have a customer called Bruce Wayne.

The closest I get is sharing a forename with a screwdriver and surname with a town. Even then they’re variations on those names.

I've the same name as a famous Aussie test cricketer, about my age too.

When I worked in India about 15 years ago I arrived in Hyderabad on a flight from Dehli very late one night to find a welcoming 'committee'.

Turns out, in Delhi I'd been out the evening before with a rep of our supplier (who I was auditing) and we'd had a conversation about cricket as it was on in the bar. I use to play and did say I was a bowler (RH fast). Next day when he spoke with their Hyderabad office it seems that he mentioned my name (the other guy was a big cricket fan) and apparently also said that I use to play cricket.

When I'd picked up my luggage and walked out into the Terminal looking for my driver, there were about two dozen employee's waiting...

One of my lecturers on my 1st degree was called Peter Sutcliffe.
Weirdly I don't remember anyone ever discussing it at all (perhaps because he was a really nice guy) but still seems weird noone ever made a bad joke etc.

He only had one remaining lung and smoked cigarillo's but still managed on field trips.

I was in a Teams training session at work a couple of days ago, and noticed a Michael Jordan was also getting introduced to the finer points of NEC and contracts 🏀

Just remembered my Dad shared his name with a Sunderland football player from the 50s & 60s.

I'm Hatfield. The Metallica singer is Hetfield. Germans tend to pronounce my name Hetfield and also like their rock, so if it wasn't James Bond, it was Metallica when I spent time in that there Germany.

When I worked at the University of Stirling, I used to walk past Rowdy Yates office. I think he might even still work there.

The closest I get is sharing a forename with a screwdriver

Slotted?
Unusual name.

How did that work then? Was he not allowed to use it on game days?

Taking the 'one shoe 'tween ten 'o us' joke to the limit there.

At school I had a friend Glenn Miller, a work colleague is Mark Morrison and I have a customer called Elvis.
I’m still waiting for for the golden opportunity at work to arrange a meeting with both Elvis and Mark Morrison in attendance.

I worked with a Dave Pearce for a while, he even dabbled on the ones and twos.

I share my name with an American country singer that I've never heard off.

Edit: just checked Spotify, his number one song has less than a 1000 plays..

I once booked Elvis Aaron Presley, who lived at Gracelands, ****** Lane, Halifax, into custody.

I was scowled at when I told the gaoler to keep an eye on him if he ordered burgers for dinner...........

Just noticed a Giles Farmer on LinkedIn

The closest I get is sharing a forename with a screwdriver

Stanley?

Barry Scott

Not sure I'd be able to resist that.

HI!

My Wife is called Mo Johnson, slightly different spelling to the famous one.

We live in Glasgow. Apparently it always gets someone commenting.

I haven't got a clue, being English, and not a football follower.