How many famous people have my name

Her parents named her after a character from an ABC sitcom. But they never called me it. Kaling acknowledged the series' impact on her life after Robin Williams' death in , confirming she was named after one of the show's characters. That's right. Fey shares the name of her "30 Rock" Liz Lemon character. Her stage name is just a shortened version of her middle name.

When Pedro Pascal's mother died suddenly, the actor told Variety he decided to change his last name to hers as a tribute. The other reason for the chance was because Americans had a tough time pronouncing his father's last name, Balmaceda. Pascal also tried changing his first name to Alexander — a reference to "Fanny and Alexander," a film he loved growing up — but that didn't pan out.

It didn't work. Cage wanted to get rid of any association to his famous uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, after spending a year living with him and his wife, Eleanor, when he was in ninth grade. According to a profile of the actor in The New York Times , the actor was in ninth grade and he was "frustrated beyond belief" there as his grades took a tumble from straight A's to F's and he went from being "the cool guy to the geek.

The change in name was both a way for Cage to make it on his own, but also revenge, he told the NYT. The name itself was inspired both by composer and artist John Cage and the Marvel character Luke Cage. From The New York Times :.

Once his foot was in the door, he decided to shed his family name, so that he would be judged on his merits rather than his relatives. He chose Cage because he liked its simplicity and its associations both to John Cage and to the gritty comic book superhero Luke Cage. Makkonen is The Weeknd's father's name, who, according to Rolling Stone, left when he was just 1 or 2 years old.

In a Reddit AMA , the singer said he disliked his name, and, after dropping out of school, and leaving home one weekend, he tried out the moniker. I took out the 'e' because there was already a Canadian band named the weekend copyright issues ," he said.

The Oscar-nominated actress told The New York Times in she decided to take up acting after a suggestion by her drama teacher. Moore didn't want to change her name but said it was too popular to stand out.

So I just slammed the Anne onto the Julie. That way, I could use both of their names and not hurt anyone's feelings. But it's horrible to change your name. I'd been Julie Smith my whole life, and I didn't want to change it. It was just Lil Nas," he continued. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. Instead, he insisted he go by his first and middle initials, G. It grew into G-Eazy when he started rapping, but he said he wouldn't mind transitioning to G.

So people used to say to me, 'You are like a whoopee cushion. The singer changed his name to Elton Hercules John. In the movie "Rocketman," John takes his name from one of his friends and "Beatles" singer John Lennon after spotting a photo on the wall during a record label meeting. That's not completely accurate. In a interview with Rowan Atkinson , the singer explained how he came up with the first name.

He said he never considered having the name the other way around. As for his last name, according to TheWrap , the singer explained his stage name in an interview for a box set of 's "To Be Continued After writing a song, the singer was told in passing he was like the "Neo" of the music industry. At first, the singer tried to push back because he didn't want that to catch on and become a nickname. He eventually relented.

You can still find early interviews and performances of her on YouTube with the name. After her first album failed, The Guardian reported that her stage name, Lana, was chosen for her by management. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue. The "Arrested Development" actress told The Advocate in that she changed her name legally at the age of 15 to reinvent herself after coming out as gay. According to a Salon article from , Walken was originally named after actor Ronald Colman.

The change in name came about after singer Monique Van Vooren , whom Walken worked for at the time, renamed him Christopher for no real apparent reason. The name stuck, though his friends still call him Ronnie. Lorde's lengthy name comes from her Irish and Croatian descent. When Lorde's hanging out with her friends she goes by Ella. The singer told Interview Magazine Lorde's just a theatrical stage name that's not supposed to have any religious connotations.

It was inspired by royalty. Some people think it's religious, but it's not. The Oscar-winning actress's mother and grandmother were also both named Meryl. According to Michael Schulman's biography " Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep ," Streep's mother started calling her Meryl before she "had learned to speak her name" because three Marys were a lot to have in one family.

Haggerty came up with the name Macklemore for a high school art project where he had to come up with the name of a superhero. Kingsley revealed on " Inside the Actors Studio " he feared a foreign name could hurt his career. Foster's estranged brother Buddy claims her name change to "Jodie" came as the result of a nickname, the code, "Jo D" for their mother's partner, Josephina Dominguez, in his book, " Foster Child: A Biography of Jodie Foster.

With his paternal grandparents originally immigrants from Spain and Ireland, Sheen wanted to take on a more American name. His children share the Sheen surname. Sheen, whom he thought was a great actor. Unlike his son Charlie, Martin never legally changed his name. The U2 front man and humanitarian we all know as Bono wasn't actually born with just one name.

Before he became world famous, the Irish musician was known by the name Paul David Hewson. But his wife still reminds Bono of his roots, going by the name Ali Hewson. The name Bono was originally a nickname, short for "Bono Vox" meaning "good voice" in Latin, said to be given by his friend Gavin Friday. The director of critically acclaimed "Her" got his pseudonym from co-workers of a Rockville BMX store because "he'd come to work without showering, and his hair was usually sticking straight up," according to New York Magazine.

The youngest nominee ever for a Screen Actors Guild Award, Hannah Dakota Fanning goes by her middle name professionally instead of her legal first name. Fanning, whose mother Heather Arrington played professional tennis her father, Dakota's grandfather, was NFL player Rick Arrington and father, Steven Fanning, a former minor league baseball player, is of Irish and German ancestry. According to " Snoop Dogg - Biography of Calvin Cordozar Broadus, " the rapper's mother joked he looked like the classic "Peanuts" dog while growing up.

Years later, when Aday was in eighth grade, the rest of his famous name was indirectly given to him by a football coach after he stepped on his foot. According to Aday, the coach wasn't too pleased, yelling, "Get off my foot, you hunk of meat loaf.

The "Booksmart" director comes from a family of journalists who, Wilde told the Observer , often went by pen names. I've been online dating lately and I don't go out on second dates with the people who comment on my name on the first date.

There was this one guy who told me he needed to keep dating me so he could tell everyone he was dating Jennifer Lawrence. I never went out with him again. My account then got deactivated and I was told I was an "impersonator" even though there was literally nothing on my page to suggest I was interested in, or trying to be, [the other] Kate Middleton.

When I discovered the message requests tab on messenger, I had hundreds. There was an offer to make my wedding dress, an offer to make my wedding cake, a message from my supposed "third cousin" who wanted a wedding invite, a message slandering the royal family and subsequently offering me protection services, a message detailing all the comparisons of Kate Middleton to Princess Diana….

It's a great ice-breaker and great for networking in my job. It really hasn't negatively affected me that much though; I'm lucky the person I share a name with is generally well-liked. Ben Cumberbatch, 33, London Real estate agents always think I'm winding them up.

Sinead O'Connor, 28, London I once tried to order a pizza and they kept putting the phone down on me because they thought I was pranking them. Most people I meet for the first time think they're the first person to ever tell me that nothing compares to me. There's nothing worse than having your name called out in a waiting room and everyone turns around to see where the bald Irish singer is, just to be disappointed.

Jaime Oliver, 37, Nottingham female I work as a blogger and chased one company for weeks for payment. It turns out they had paid the Jamie Oliver my money months ago, having worked with him on other campaigns previously. A pre-booked taxi driver in London also refused to let me in as his cab as it was booked for Jamie Oliver.

He just kept inching the car forward every time I went to get in. Simpson trial about 40 years later. After nearly a decade in prison he was retried and acquitted. Spike Jonze born Adam Spiegel in is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor who directed the current film Her as well as the cult classic Being John Malkovich which gave him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Director.

He was also a co-creator of MTV's Jackass. Apparently his eccentricity began early; when he was growing up in Bethesda, Maryland, a local store owner dubbed him "Spike Jonze" after the bandleader.

Sir Francis Bacon, — was an English philosopher, statesman, and scientist best known for establishing and promoting inductive methods of scientific inquiry that became known as the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method. While driving in March of , he was struck with an idea for an experiment concerning the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat.

He stopped the carriage, bought a fowl and stuffed it with snow. He caught a chill and died the next month of a lung infection, but no one has put the cause of his death to fowl play.

Francis Bacon — also experimented with meats—as a subject for his painting. One of the most famous works by the Irish-born British expressionist painter, "Figure with Meat," shows a ghoulish Pope Innocent X framed by two hanging sides of beef.

Although some viewers find Bacon's raw, aggressive style unsettling, many critics consider him one of the major painters of the 20th century.