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by **skullturfq** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:04 am

Actors Gary Coleman and Gary Cole, man!

by **skullturfq** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:06 pm

Ken Jennings wrote:DR DRE and DR DREW.

WARREN G and WARREN G. HARDING

by **geniusonwheels** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:12 pm

Athletes Keyshawn Johnson and Shawn Johnson

by **Ken Jennings** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 2:11 pm

Just noticed another one of these at a bookstore last night: bestselling author STEVE MARTIN and bestselling author STEVE MARTINI.

by **rockgolf** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:55 pm

And in a variation of the theme THE BEATLES and THE BEAT.

Yeah, I know there was a puzzle about this recently, but I was too lazy to find a picture of The Beat.

by **Trip** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:13 am

Character actor BRENDAN GLEESON and director ANG LEE.

by **Ken Jennings** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:15 am

Wow, that one's a thing of beauty.

by **skullturfq** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:45 am

That is indeed a good one, Trip; that might be impossible to improve upon.

Here's one I thought of today:

Pop music personality DJ AM and actor EDWARD JAMES OLMOS.

by **Bill** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:02 pm

How about rapper WILL.I.AM and ninth President of the United states WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

by **bwouns** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:17 pm

I thought I had one of these while watching the Emmys last night until I found out that John Hamm from Mad Men is actually Jon Hamm, while the record producer is John Hammond.

by **marpocky** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:52 pm

bwouns wrote:I thought I had one of these while watching the Emmys last night until I found out that John Hamm from Mad Men is actually Jon Hamm, while the record producer is John Hammond.

Unfortunately, I think the Jurassic Park character is also John Hammond.

by **Trip** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:14 pm

JOHN SUNUNU is such a fan of U NU that he contains him twice!

by **bwouns** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:57 pm

This one's weak but...

One might address something to Nicolette Sheridan.

Or we could call it a different category, "Celebrity name overlaps" or something like that.

by **Neel Mehta** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:49 pm

bwouns wrote:This one's weak but...

One might address something to Nicolette Sheridan.

Or we could call it a different category, "Celebrity name overlaps" or something like that.

Actually, it's Nicollette Sheridan. Fortunately, it's also Toni Collette.

Maybe tack on Talisa Soto to the front, and you have a pair of actresses with an actress in between. Not bad. Can anyone come up with an actor counterpart?

by **ArtVark** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:02 pm

Neel Mehta wrote:
bwouns wrote:This one's weak but...

One might address something to Nicolette Sheridan.

Or we could call it a different category, "Celebrity name overlaps" or something like that.

Actually, it's Nicollette Sheridan. Fortunately, it's also Toni Collette.

So how about Nicollette Sheridan and Nico?

by **frogman042** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:36 pm

Did Rip Torn ever have to visit Rip Taylor for a quick fix?

---Jay (note exactly but close enough to the puzzle's theme - for me at least)

by **bwouns** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:16 am

Nazi war criminal Joachim Peiper.

by **Ken Jennings** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:06 am

frogman042 wrote:Did Rip Torn ever have to visit Rip Taylor for a quick fix?

---Jay (note exactly but close enough to the puzzle's theme - for me at least)

They are truly the modern-day equivalent of Euripides and Eumenides.

by **skullturfq** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:33 am

Resurrecting this old thread to point out that singers STING and JUSTIN GUARINI qualify.

by **grodney** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 5:34 am

skullturfq wrote:Are there other good^H^H^H^H examples? I'd find it particularly amusing if there are any where the names are etymologically unrelated, like CHAN/CHANDLER or LI/LIEBMAN.

Jim Rome and the family-run construction company Jimenez Romero: http://www.jimenezromero.com/

by **grodney** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:03 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Na_(tennis)

I can't ever figure out the whole last-name first-name thing, so I'll pair her with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nakamura
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Lieberman

Or, you can embed her name in something like coLIN Angus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Angus_(musician)

by **marpocky** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:05 am

grodney wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Na_(tennis)

I can't ever figure out the whole last-name first-name thing, so I'll pair her with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nakamura
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Lieberman

Or, you can embed her name in something like coLIN Angus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Angus_(musician)

Li is her family name, so Nancy Lieberman would be more appropriate.

by **jbenz** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:25 am

I tried to find this thread last fall with no luck. I had forgotten that the subsets were both first AND last names. Well, going with just last names:

ELI MANNING has thrown a lot of touchdown passes to MARIO MANNINGHAM over the past few years.

by **porpoise spit** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:50 am

If only Nadal's first name were Rafaeli, then we'd have RafaeLI NAdal.

by **ArtVark** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:00 pm

If middle names are allowed there is: CoLIN Andrew Firth

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