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An individual has a perfectly unremarkable name, until someone unrelated, yet happening to share the same name, becomes well known. This can lead to the namesake basking in reflected glory or plunging into Embarrassing Middle Name territory. Naturally averts the One-Steve Limit. A subtrope of Significant Name Overlap. Doing this deliberately, In-Universe, is Named After Somebody Famous. Examples |
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Cult Podcast is co-hosted by Armando Torres, who shares the name with the player character from Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony | |
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Speaking of Marvel, Shadowcat was named "Kitty Pryde" after a real life person who, underestimating the popularity the character would have, authorized it. To avoid being compared to the character, she officially changed her name to "K.P." | |
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Channel Awesome has brought up several times in his Critic videos that he hates the cartoon series Doug with a passion because he was tormented endlessly in school for having the same name. When it's brought up, bad things happen. It's almost as bad as the "Bat credit card". | |
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The creator of the cochlear implant was Dr. House, though his first name was William, not Gregory. He also performed ear surgery on astronaut Alan Shepard which allowed him to fly again and command Apollo 14. Google shows there are a few other doctors named House out there as well. | |
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Cheers: In "Bar Bet" Sam discovers that, while drunk, he had bet a stranger that he could marry Jacqueline Bisset within a year. On learning that the other party plans to hold him to that bet (and has a binding contract), he reads over the terms of the bet and realises that it doesn't specify Jacqueline Bisset the actress. He immediately sets out to find another woman of the same name to marry him. | |
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We finally discover Mac's real name on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia when he's handed a name badge at the gang's high school reunion: It's Ronald McDonald. | |
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In one episode of The Vicar of Dibley, the vicar gets Alice's cousin Reg Dwight, who she's not seen for years, but thinks became some sort of musician, to open the village fete. He turns out, of course, not to be that Reg Dwight. | |
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Tom Brady had over a decade working on TV, including gigs in The Simpsons and The Critic, before, as he said on an interview, "I heard about this young back-up guy at Michigan and I thought, 'Oh, no one will ever hear of this guy.' Now, I [seem] to be the other Tom Brady." | |
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In Cellular, Jessica Martin asks Ryan to protect her son Ricky. | |
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The Big Lebowski: Jeffrey Lebowski, known to everyone as The Dude, is an unemployed stoner who likes White Russians. The plot of the film kicks off when he is mistaken for another man with the same name, the titular Big Lebowski, an insanely rich paraplegic. | |
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Black Widowers: The mystery in "Second Best" involves a dying soldier who had the same name as a US President, but died before he could tell the guest what it was. The Widowers attempt to figure out which president from the cryptic clues the soldier dropped. It was Grover Cleveland. | |
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In Office Space, one of the protagonist's buddies is named... Michael Bolton, complete with Lampshade Hanging. "There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent ass-clown started winning Grammys." | |
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Arrested Development gave us George Michael, whose name is perfectly logical (he's named for his grandfather and his father respectively). Almost looks like it could be an Averted Trope because it's only mentioned once in the whole series ("Are you sure it wasn't the other George Michael? You know; the singer songwriter?") but it's clear that the idea of a nerdy, self-conscious teenage kid who questions almost everything he does and thinks being lumbered with George Michael as a name is an intentional layer. He's also never called simply "George". Season 4 finds him getting very tired of sharing a name with a man arrested for lewd acts in a public restroom and deciding to adopt the pseudonym "George Maharis." Too bad he didn't know something about his new namesake. |
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A comic of Bob the Angry Flower has Bob warning Osama bin Laden that he's been placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The punchline is that he then exclaims "But I am not that Osama bin Laden!" (Note this was written in 1998.) | |
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A variation in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: In the half-issue that started the comic, the titular doctor gets furious at McDonald's after they release "the McNinja Burger". His lawyer tells him that this isn't an unusual case, bringing up a huge protest made up of hundreds of people with the last name McDonald claiming their name was stolen (as well "one Robert Pizzahut"). | |
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Philippine Wrestling Revolution wrestler John Sebastian. You know, like the guy who sang for the Lovin' Spoonful and did the theme to Welcome Back, Kotter and the Care Bears cartoon. | |
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Kevin and Ryan of Guaranteed* Video share their first and last names with Kevin James and Ryan Murphy, respectively. Lampshaded in “The Money Tree�: if you look closely at the first newspaper, Ryan is listed as “Glee creator�. Justified in that these are their actual, real life names. | |
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Terra Ignota: It's mentioned generally that Mycroft (after Mycroft Holmes) used to be one of the more popular names of the time, up until the protagonist Mycroft Canner did something so awful it stained the name forever, which was an inconvenience for all the other Mycrofts in the world. Being the most heinous serial killer in modern history will do that. One of the main characters is technically named Mycroft Guildbreaker, but prefers to go by Martin as a result. | |
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One Not Always Right story tells the tale of a young Caucasian woman named Morgan Freeman. Her customers can't seem to grasp that she's not actually the actor or even claiming to be him, and eventually refuse to do business with her because of this "dishonesty". | |
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One of the producers on The Price Is Right is Adam Sandler. No, not that Adam Sandler, though it's hilarious considering his onscreen brawl with Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore. | |
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Jennifer Lopez in John Dies at the End. | |
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The name "Harry Palmer" is not all that rare, even with the presence of a certain actor named Michael Caine. | |
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On Facebook, there can only be one user named Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the site. One lawyer got banned from Facebook because he was apparently trying to impersonate the founder. There's a man in Florida named Justin Bieber. No, not the Justin Bieber, just some guy who happens to have the same name. He actually had his Facebook account shut down on accusations of being an impostor. To say nothing of the fangirls. (He even appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman to read a list, "Top 10 Reasons It's Great to Be Named Justin Bieber".) Much like that, there's a British office worker who shares a name with Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. She got kicked off Facebook, too. There's a Michigan college student named Ashley Tisdale who had two accounts shut down for "impersonating a celebrity." |
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Everyone with the last name "Stark" risks getting a chuckle from those who are comic-book fans or fantasy fans. | |
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Really, though, how many people have been embarrassed or received 15 minutes of fame because they were named Harry Potter, Homer Simpson or Jennifer Lopez? Especially true of Spanish names, as there are 10 extremely common surnames and a lot of chances for redundancy. Several stories involved Jennifer Lopezes having to prove they weren't identity thieves. There is a newscaster in the Dallas area named Jennifer Lopez, and the network even ran advertisements talking about how they had their "own star" in her. The Weather Channel also had a reporter named Jennifer Lopez. There is an Australian news reporter named Harry Potter. You can almost feel his "What did I do to deserve this?" when he signs off with "Harry Potter, 10 News." |
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One episode of Arthur involved a European pop band being promoted across Elwood City named "Binky". Naturally, Binky Barnes gets accused of spreading graffiti until the situation is eventually cleared up. | |
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Elaine's boyfriend Joel Rifkin on Seinfeld, whose name she tries to get him to change because it's the same as the serial killer's. Eventually she breaks up with him over it. (In a Hilarious in Hindsight moment, one of the names she suggests, while desperately flipping through Sports Illustrated, is O.J. If you forget that there was a time before O.J. was a suspected murderer, this comes off as an intentional joke, and you wonder why the audience isn't laughing.) | |
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A couple of examples in the Adrian Mole books: In True Confessions, the student living with Adrian's mother is Martin Muffet; and adds "and spare the jokes about tuffets and spiders, will you?" In Prostate Years, Adrian's consultant is Dr Rubik, who sighs "yes, as in the damn cube". |
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There are probably lots of real people named Michael Scott. God help any of them who are office managers. One of them is the author of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. And yes, there's a The Office joke on the book series' page about that. |
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When Skinless announced that they had added a guitarist named Dave Matthews to their line-up shortly after re-forming in 2013, it caused more than a few jokes from people who wanted to have a laugh at the new guy sharing a name with the namesake of Dave Matthews Band. Too bad for them that this Dave quickly stopped being amused by the joking comparisons to the leader of a jam band, and that his long ties to the upstate New York Death Metal community, and Skinless specifically,note he'd been in and out of various projects in the region over the previous 20 years, and had a strong friendship with Skinless front man Noah Carpenter going at least that far back; Noah had even previously recruited Dave to play for him in his Power/Thrash side project Armor Column before Skinless reformed caused the other members to side with him. This led to a bit of Trolling Creator by the group until most of the fanbase got the message and laid off the jokes. | |
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In Green Lantern: The Animated Series, when Hal Jordan hears about Guy Gardner's replacement on Earth, John Stewart, Hal's first reaction is "The fake news guy?" (This was spoken, so he couldn't tell that they were spelled differently). | |
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You're Wrong About is hosted by Sarah Marshall, who goes on twitter by the handle @Remember_Sarah | |
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On 30 Rock, Liz's "future husband" Wesley Snipes doesn't like that to be pointed out. | |
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Stella: Stella's new neighbour is called Michael Jackson. He will point this out on your first meeting "just to get it out of the way". | |
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Behind the Bastards is hosted by Robert Evans, namesake of a famous Hollywood producer. Before the death of the producer Evans, the podcaster Evans had "the other Rober Evans" in his twitter bio, and "the only Robert Evans" after. | |
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NCIS episode "SWAK" has a Dr. Brad Pitt treating Tony for the pneumonic plague. | |
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One of them is the author of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. And yes, there's a The Office joke on the book series' page about that. | |
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In 2010, an Indo-American lawyer named Kamala Harris was elected Attorney General of California. This may have caused some confusion/amusement to Professional Wrestling fans, as 400-pound wrestler James Harris is best known for having used the gimmick of a "Ugandan Headhunter" named Kamala. In another Kamala Harris example, Marvel Comics introduced a new version of Ms. Marvel in 2013, a Pakistani-American girl named Kamala Khan. At that time Harris was Attorney General of California but the names caught attention when Harris became the nominee for Vice President in 2020. Although it’s a coincidence and the names come from two different languages. According to Khan’s creator, G. Willow Wilson, she created the name as a feminization of “Kamal� (meaning “perfection� in Arabic) since it’s not actually a girl’s name. It’s pronounced “Camel-a�. Harris’s maternal family is from south India and it means “lotus� in Sanskrit. Her name is also pronounced “Comma-la�. |
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This can happen in Pharaoh: At high popularity levels, one of the ratings is "Mothers name their children after you." At low levels, "Mothers use your name to frighten their children". And it's much easier to lose popularity than regain it... | |
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Another variation in Concerned, a comic set in and around the events of Half-Life 2, starring Gordon Frohman. Conversely, when Freeman actually does show up late in the comic, the first reaction to him shown in-comic includes someone mistaking him for Frohman. Other strips also have a man mistaking Frohman for the Sausage King of Chicago and Frohman recounting the death of his World War II veteran grandfather, Morgan Frohman. | |
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The Incredible Jessica James: Boone's ex-wife is named Mandy Moore. He has to clarify that she's not the Mandy Moore, and it's actually a fairly common name. | |
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The plot of Saving Private Ryan revolves around finding Private James Ryan and bringing him home to his mother. Midway through the movie, they find James Ryan... but it turns out he's a different James Ryan. | |
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In Consolers, Tiger Telematics (who usually just goes by Tiger) gets mistaken for Tiger Electronics, another "Tiger" company who's more well-known. He's not happy about this. | |
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It's pretty tough to have two such "not unusual" names as "Thomas" and "Jones". | |
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If you run into a YouTube video with a title promising Simon Cowell's struggle with a wild animal, it's probably the first Simon Cowell, the one who runs a wildlife aid station in Surrey. | |
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Boardwalk Empire: Late in season 2, Nucky Thompson travels to Ireland to make a deal with the IRA to sell surplus Thompson submachine guns to them in exchange for importing Irish whiskey for him to sell in Atlantic City. After a shooting demonstration, one of the IRA members asks Nucky if he invented the gun, and he answers, "No. It's just a happy coincidence." | |
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Richard Tracy would have been fine, if he hadn't gone into police work, eventually working his way up to Detective. | |
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On JAG, Harm persuades a witness to talk by offering to set him up for a date with Jennifer Lopez, not mentioning that he means his dental hygienist. | |
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Like a Fish Understands a Tree has British teenager Susan Sarandon, who is embarrassed by the coincidence and annoyed that her parents didn't realize they'd named her after a movie star. | |
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Óscar de León, the main character in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, has the name of a famous salsa singer. This is, though, never mentioned in the book. | |
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Musician Gordon "Sting" Sumner asked to meet professional wrestler Steve "Sting" Borden in the early '90s. Sumner told Borden the reason why at the meeting: He'd discovered his young son had a poster of the wrestler Sting on his wall, and he wondered who this other Sting was and wanted to meet him. There's a long-running rumor in the wrestling world that Sting the wrestler owns the trademark on the name Sting, and Sting the musician has to pay him to use it - albeit only a token fee of just $1 a year, since the situation is an unintended side-effect of the trademark. | |
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The wrestling booking simulator Total Extreme Wrestling has a fictional wrestler named Jack Bruce who works a rock star gimmick and shares a name with the late Cream bassist. | |
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The name "Ralph Macchio" is shared by the lead actor from The Karate Kid and a long-time editor at Marvel Comics. | |
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A sketch on an early episode of All That had people making wishes before taking shots at a basketball hoop, and having them granted if they make the basket. Kenan Thompson then says, "If I make this shot, I'm gonna meet Michael Jordan!" He makes it, and in walks a very white plumber named Michael Jordan. | |
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Jonathan L. Woodward, co-author of GURPS Banestorm, shares his name with Jonathan M. Woodward, frequent guest star in Joss Whedon projects. | |
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Or, if you live in California, "JOAQUIIIIIIIIIIN!" | |
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Basically the whole point of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, where two teenagers in Chicago who share a name meet and then find their lives start to clash. | |
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Midnight Caller: The father of Devon's child is named Richard Clark. He insists on being called Richard and not Dick. | |
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You, Me And The Apocalypse: one of the characters, a thirtysomething male, is called Ariel. "Like the Little F**king mermaid." | |
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