States and Names

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Dan Tilque:
> Here's a summary of the answers given in this recent thread.

You missed El Salvador. Or don't you consider that a nickname?
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Mark Brader wrote:

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> You missed El Salvador. Or don't you consider that a nickname?

Oh, I just got what you were referring to with that. It went
right by me before.

I'm not sure that would be a nickname. I'll have to think about
it. Right now, I'm inclined to reject it.

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Dan Tilque wrote:
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>
> ** I couldn't find any Internet evidence for a comedian named
> Rich Wales, but there is someone else out there with the same
> name.
>
Please don't ask me why, but when I suggested that name I was thinking of
Rich Hall.
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Dan Tilque (dtilque@nwlink.com) writes:
> ** I couldn't find any Internet evidence for a comedian named
> Rich Wales, but there is someone else out there with the same
> name.

He might not be a comedian, but he turns up on
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_uauthors=Wales&lr=&hl=sv.

(I knew that I had seen that name.)

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:47:47 -0800,
Dan Tilque put fingers to keyboard and said:

> Here's a summary of the answers given in this recent thread.
> Since I'm restricting it to one name per state/country, some
> answers suggested are not listed. Sorry I don't give credit for
> the contributions, but that was more work than I wanted to put
> into this.
>

I don't think he's "famous" (except on the comp.lang.fortran), but
there's a fellow over there named Richard Maine

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In article <110fkua7t81f7dc@corp.supernews.com>,
dtilque@nwlink.com says...
> Here's a summary of the answers given in this recent thread.
> Since I'm restricting it to one name per state/country, some
> answers suggested are not listed. Sorry I don't give credit for
> the contributions, but that was more work than I wanted to put
> into this.
>
> People named the same as US states
> ==================================
> Nathan Arizona (F "Raising Arizona")
> Sumiko California (songwriter)
> Florida Evans (F "Maude", "Good Times")
> Georgia O'Keeffe (artist)
> Duncan Idaho (F _Dune_) *
> Indiana Jones (F "Raiders of the Lost Ark") *
> Kentucky Jones (FN "Kentucky Jones", 1960s TV show)
> Russell Maryland (American football player)
> Michigan J. Frog (F "One Froggy Evening")
> Minnesota Fats (F "The Hustler") *
> Mississippi John Hurt (blues singer)
> Joe Montana (American football player) *
> Nevada Smith (F "Nevada Smith") *
> New York Fats (N pool player)
> Pennsylvania Slim (N blues player)
> Tennessee Williams (N author) *
> Doyle 'Texas Dolly' Brunson (N poker player)
> Utah Philips (folk musician)
> Virginia Woolf (author) *
> George Washington (general, president)
> Wyoming Knott (F _Moon is a Harsh Mistress_) *
>
>
> People named the same as countries
> ==================================
> Alan Brazil (footie player)
> Ben Canada (former Superintendant of Portland Public Schools) *
> Chad Curtis (baseball player)
> China Miéville (sf author)
> Cuba Gooding Jr. (actor) *
> Rob Denmark (British athlete)
> Mike England (footie player)
> France Nuyen (actress)
> Georgia O'Keeffe (artist)
> Germany Schaefer (N baseball player)
> Pat Holland (footie player)
> India (N Puerto Rican salsa singer)
> Iran Barkley (boxer)
> Jill Ireland (actress) *
> Robert Israel (infamous netizen)
> Roy Liechtenstein (artist) *
> Michael Jordan (basketball player) *
> Amol Mali (professor of computer science, UW-Milwaukee)
> Nevil Shute Norway (author (as Nevil Shute))
> Mark Portugal (baseball player)
> Panama Smith (F "The Roaring Twenties")
> Trinidad "Trini" Lopez (singer/guitarist)
> Rich Wales (comedian) **
>
> * Those on my preliminary lists. It turns out that there were
> only two that no one suggested: Wyoming Knott and Roy
> Liechtenstein. Well, no one suggested Ben Canada (which I didn't
> expect anyone to do), but Mark contributed a different Canada.
>
> ** I couldn't find any Internet evidence for a comedian named
> Rich Wales, but there is someone else out there with the same
> name.
>
> F - fictional person
> N - nickname
>
> There are 21 states and 23 countries represented. I have a
> feeling there are more out there. Any more additions?
>
> --
> Dan Tilque
>
>
>
I got one!

Rosa Luxemburg - the polish revolutionary

Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden


and another

fictional - great uncle bulgaria ( the eldest womble)

the chelsea (assoc footbal) goalkeeper is called Peter Cech
(I am not sure of either spelling)

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matthew newell

 

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"Dan Tilque" <dtilque@nwlink.com> writes:

> There are 21 states and 23 countries represented. I have a
> feeling there are more out there. Any more additions?

Apparently, there's an actress called 'Egypt'

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1737559/

and seven people with the surname 'Laos'

http://www.imdb.com/find?q=Laos;nm=on;mx=20

and six Tibets.

http://www.imdb.com/find?q=tibet;nm=on;mx=20

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Keith Willoughby wrote:

>
> Apparently, there's an actress called 'Egypt'
>
> and seven people with the surname 'Laos'
>
> and six Tibets.

Keith has found the way to do it, I guess. Do people searches on
IMDB. I thought I'd found a trivia question that computers would
not be very useful for. Or at least Google isn't much help unless
you have some other characteristic of the suspected person such
as a second name or occupation.

Anyway, there's 20+ people named Spain on IMDB (I didn't bother
to look at the entire list). But such searches are tedious to me,
since I'm still not on a broadband connection. Also, using the
computer rather than my own memory or our collective memory takes
most of the fun out of it.

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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:33:21 -0800, "Dan Tilque" <dtilque@nwlink.com>
wrote:

>Keith Willoughby wrote:
>
>>
>> Apparently, there's an actress called 'Egypt'
>>

If you're taking stage names, there's also the (in)famous exotic
dancer of the Centenial Exposition "Little Egypt" and "Tokyo Rose" of
WWII infamy.

Barb