Your first name. It’s yours. But it also belongs to millions of other people. Who is the most famous person with your first name? Here’s how to find out.
You could just google your name, but then you get a ton of results and it doesn’t really tell you who the most famous PERSON is. It tells you the most famous WEBPAGE with your name. You want to know a person with your name, not a webpage. To force Google to search for actual people, add “site:wikipedia.org” into your search. For example, here’s how to do the google search for matt: matt site:wikipedia.org.
Here’s the results for Matt:
Matt Hardy: Matthew Moore Hardy (born September 23, 1974) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on their …
Matt Harding: Matthew “Matt” Harding, (born September 27, 1976) is an American video game designer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that …
Matt Groening: Matthew Abram “Matt” Groening (pronounced /ˈɡreɪnɪŋ/ GRAY-ning; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer. …
Matt Mullenweg: Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas) is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. He is the founding developer of …
In the comments below, please post who is the most famous person with your first name.
Andr the Giant. Who else?! 🙂 Then Andr 3000.
Toms shoes Tom Brady Tom Sizemore Tom Cruise Tommy Hilfiger Tom Hanks TomTom Tom Ford Tom Waits Tom Petty
Tom, that’s interesting. Your list is different than what I get when I do a google search for tom site:wikipedia.org http://bit.ly/tomwikipedia here’s what I get: Tom Anderson (MySpace) Tom Cruise Tom Waits Tom Hanks Tom Daschle Tom Stoppard Tom Clancy Tom Robbins Tom Swift
Wow, not what I expected! Usually Becky Thatcher (from Tom Sawyer) is the usual go-to reference, or the movie Becky Sharp. Becky (ベッキー, Bekkī, born March 6, 1984 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a popular tarento in Japan Rebecca Lynn “Becky” Hammon (Russian: Ребекка Линн Хаммон; born March 11, 1977) is a professional basketball player Becky Fischer (born 1951) is a Pentecostal children’s pastor best known for her role in the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp. Becky Hogge is a UK-based music and technology writer and the first full-time executive director of the Open Rights Group Becky Stark is an artist, singer, songwriter and entertainer from Los Angeles, California.
awesome post, Matt. I hope it catches on. Erik Erikson – psychoanalyst Erik Spiekermann – German typographer Erik Satie – French composer Erik Prince – owner of evil military manufacturer Erik the Red – Greenland settler Erik Estrada – awesome actor
I share my name with… Erin (Ireland. Yes, the country) and Erin Brockovich (whose married named is now Ellis which, oddly, is my last name, too. creepy.)
I share my name with… Erin (Ireland. Yes, the country) and Erin Brockovich (whose married named is now Ellis which, oddly, is my last name, too. creepy.)
Wow. so you are like, THE Erin Ellis! The original.