People with silly and / or stupid names

They share a very similar name to Conservative idiot and cat food fetishist, Lee Anderson.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserved_Fish

Back in the day, Freddie Starr's gardener was charged with stealing loads of jewellery from the house. He told the police Starr gave him the jewellery as a reward because he had been giving Starr oral sex for five years.

Guy's name was Robin Coxhead.

Context: bit of insomnia last night and ended up in a Wiki rabbithole reading about Freddie Starr at 3am. Not entirely sure how.

Ok it’s not a person, but: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite

That is hilarious, they must’ve known, yeah?

John Wayne joined my company recently.

Cannot yet confirm if he has a hat and a swagger.

Real name Marion?

This couple separated because he left his shoes all over the place

Eventful quad skating facilitates

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Isn't there a word for that? Where your name dictates somewhat what you end up doing?

Yes, hippy, you are quite correct... nominative determinism

Probably mentioned it before, but I was friends with a Dr Dark who swore blind that there was a surgeon/anaesthetist who worked together in London called Dr De'Athe and Dr Coffin.

nominative determinism

Which should really be the name of this thread - are you still able to change thread titles @hippy?

I could, but I'd have to change my name to Title Changer and it doesn't quite have the same ring to it as Oi Cunt.

Check out the newly elected MP for Somerton and Frome

Not silly individually, but I recall 2 junior Doctors (twins) who were called Mohammed Asher Khan and Mohammed Azher Khan. Both worked in the same directorate too.
Obviously submitted every document with M.A.Khan and no payroll number to make my life much trickier.

Similar, not silly/stupid but we had identical twins in my daughter's U12 cricket team last year that had very similar first names that both started with the same initial, both their names had lots of vowels in them (they were Kazakh) and sounded very similar.

By default Play Cricket helpfully showed them both as "D <surname>" so when they batted together you couldn't get who was on strike correct, or select the right one when they bowled. Even if you selected the right option (before the game started) to show the full name I had no chance working out which was which when they were wearing helmet/pads/gloves/etc. I think I finally picked up on one difference in their stance and trigger movement that I could spot from 35 yards away, but only in the last game of the season.

The other pair of twins we have aren't so identical, and one is our usual wicket keeper so they trouble me as a scorer much less.

I had a guitar teacher called Jack Twanger

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX

I recently had to do a practical exam and the assessor was Mr B. E. Early, needless to say the day was running late.

Not a person but I am off to Pegwell Avenue, Ramsgate this morning.

The president of the royal horticultural society is called Keith Weed.

Never met him, but there was a chap in our outlook directory at an old place of work called Fuk Wing

Sure I've mentioned before, but worth repeating - ours had an Anal Ram.

There’s a Fu Kin house and a Wan Kin road in Hong Kong