It really amused me to know there is an American football player named Jake Butt who played a position called “tight end”. Glad to see he’s made the list.
Edit: Wow, reading through that list…Someone out there really went and named their child “Marijuana Pepsi”. And her siblings and parents all have normal names…
Haha, definitly one of the better aptronyms.
For the curious and lazy.
Aptronym
a person’s name that is regarded as amusingly appropriate to their occupation
Of course there’s a word for that…
Margaret Court and Usain Bolt are the first two that come to mind for me.
I like the “inaptonym” section on the Wikipedia page about them. Mr Bowler played cricket but was, in fact, a batsman. (For the Americans, imagine a “Mr Pitcher” who played baseball, but was a specialist batter and not, in fact, a pitcher.)
Haha, I just looked a this list a couple of months ago (which is why I knew it had a name).
But I forgot about “Rob Banks, British police officer”. Brilliant.
And I remember that “Don Black, white supremacist” also cracked me up, last time.
It really amused me to know there is an American football player named Jake Butt who played a position called “tight end”. Glad to see he’s made the list.
Edit: Wow, reading through that list…Someone out there really went and named their child “Marijuana Pepsi”. And her siblings and parents all have normal names…
Karpathy used to be the lead engineer for Tesla’s self-driving software development. I thought that was funny.
Gwen Shotwell - SpaceX CEO
Oddly enough, Hugh Panelgappy ran the assembly line too