Remarkable names of real people

For many years I have collected remarkable names of real people.  The highlight of my name-loving life came one day while I was sitting in a doctor's office:  the nurse emerged from the inner sanctum to call in the next two patients, Florence Dorence and Tilly Dilly.

Here are some more names:

Ole Roley

Forest Green

W. C. Dampier-Whetham

Hatherly Cumberbatch

Dr. Barney Softness

Betty Moist

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Academic Freedom

As a fifty-something scholar I'm continually amazed by the vast amount of info available at my fingertips, through the wonderful world of the internets.  But sometimes there's TMI -- tonight I was looking for a 1931 book by the costume historian Carlos Fischer but was first confronted by a list of six-hundred eight-three publications by people named  Carlos Fischer, and the first on this list was about BARN-OWL PELLETS!


A contribution from Barn Owl pellets analysis to known micromammalian distributions in Buenos Aires province, Argentina


Remarkable names of real people du jour:  Treon Spletstoesser, Ethel Crummy

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