Repetitive Name / Real Life

• In the immediate family of Julius Caesar, there were seven women called Julia from the Julius family. Which in modern times would make their full names "Julia Julius". This wasn't unique to his family, though. That's how Roman naming conventions for women worked (except early in Roman history).
• The former king of Spain, Juan Carlos, whose full name was Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias. This was actually due to Spanish naming conventions, which incorporates the names of both parents into double-barreled last names (although the second last name, based on the mother's maiden name, is not commonly used.) This was due to the king's parents coming from two different branches of the Bourbon royal dynasty, one the Spanish branch and the other the Neapolitan (the Kingdom of Two Sicilies) branch.
• The famous 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei. This was, in fact, fairly popular in Italy in the past, especially during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Any Italian history book is a trove of repetitive names, though none quite as famous as Galileo.
• Due to Patronymics, you will sometimes run into people with the same first name and patronymic, and when you're in a country that doesn't commonly use last names this becomes very confusing. Like a Pavel Pavlovich (literally Pavel son of Pavel) whose dad was also a Pavel Pavlovich. The extensive use makes something like this possible—albeit uncommon—in Egypt, and in Arabic-speaking countries in general. It's very normal for a guy to name his first son after his own father (the son's grandfather), and so on. So having a guy named "Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed..." unto several generations is not only common, it's practically a national joke in some countries (Egypt chief among them) that if the Arabic system of nomenclature didn't allow you to pick an arbitrary nth ancestor as your last name (e.g. the random Ibrahim tossed in because you aren't the first son of the first son ad infinitum) or use an ancestral nickname keeps, practically everyone would have one and the government would have to ban them.
  • You can also get people who have the same first name, patronymic, and last name. Pavel Pavlovich Pavlov.
  • There is an Alexander Alexandrovich Alexandrov, a son of the composer of the Soviet/Russian national anthem. See below.
  • Mstislav the Bold (Mstislav Mstislavich)
  • Bulgarian patronymics can be identical to the surname, such as with Ivan Ivanov Ivanov.
• Sporty siblings Gary, Phil (football) and Tracy (netball) Neville's father was a rugby player named Neville Neville. (Sing it to the tune of David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel".)
• RFK assassin Sirhan B. Sirhan. This is on account of Arabic naming customs (Sirhan is Palestinian); his full name (Sirhan Bishara Sirhan) is entirely Patronymic: Arabs didn't get on to this whole "surname" thing until relatively recently, so it's common to have one's grandfather's name as the last name, and it's also very common to name your eldest son after your father.
• Magnus Magnusson, the original host of the BBC quiz Mastermind. Although he was Icelandic, this isn't a direct patronym, the Magnus in Magnusson was his grandfather.
• Longtime strongman champion Magnus ver Magnusson, also Icelandic.
• Professional road cyclist Robbie McEwen named his son Ewan.
• American Civil War soldier John St. John. Not to be confused with Jon St. John, who also counts.
• Aharon Aharonson, botanist and World War I spy.
• Pavel Pavel is a Czech engineer and a researcher who experimented with the Easter Island statues.
• Jindrich Jindrich was a Czech musician and a composer.
• In scientific circles, this is known as a tautonym when it applies to taxonomic classifications, where the genus and species of an animal have the same name. For example, Rattus rattus is the black rat, Bison bison is the American bison, while Puffinus puffinus is... the Manx shearwater. Minus ten points if you said Puffin. Wikipedia has an incomplete -but not small- list of tautonyms.^note Tautonyms are allowed in zoology, but are strictly prohibited in botany—although even a one-letter difference between the genus and species is acceptable.
  • One that deserves special mention is the western lowland gorilla - Gorilla gorilla gorilla!
  • Similarly, the plains bison is Bison bison bison.
  • The scientific name for modern humans, "Homo sapiens sapiens", means "wise wise human".
  • Another one is the red junglefowl, Gallus gallus. It's the primary ancestor of the domestic chicken, which is classified as G. g. domesticus.
• There are also Classic kurashikku examples:
  • Diceros bicornis, the black rhinoceros, is "two horns" in both Greek and Latin.
  • Xiphias gladius, the swordfish, is "sword" in both Greek and Latin.
  • Ursus arctos, the brown bear, is "bear" in, yes, Latin and Greek. However the Latin name comes first in this case, whereas the Greek name comes first in the other two.
    • The Eurasian brown bear is Ursus arctos arctos. As they say on Tumblr, "The most bear a bear can be."
  • Equus caballus, the horse, is two different Latin words, both meaning "horse"; however, in this case, equus is Classical Latin, while caballus is a Vulgar Latin borrowing from Gaulish. Modern taxonomy now classifies the domestic horse as Equus ferus caballus.
  • Aquila chrysaetos for the golden eagle. The first part is Latin and the second is Greek for 'eagle'.
• Guy Fawkes (he of Gunpowder Plot fame) used "John Johnson" as an alias. It wasn't very effective...
• 20th-century philosopher John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, author of The Nature of Existence.
• There's also sci-fi writer Thomas T. Thomas.
• There have been a surprising number of William Williams (or variants):
  • Billy Dee Williams was born William December Williams.
  • Poet William Carlos Williams.
  • William Williams, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
  • U2's set designer is another Willam Williams.
  • Liam Williams, William McWilliam, Liam Fitzwilliam, etc. also count. Copper Liam Williamson being a good example.
  • New York radio DJ William B. Williams.
• Writer Jerome K. Jerome.
• Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. This one came from his grandfather, Boutros Ghali, who was the first Copt named Prime Minister of Egypt. In his honor, the family changed their surname to "Boutros-Ghali". The later Secretary-General was named after his grandfather.
• Holling Clancy Holling.
• Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Madox Hueffer).
• Cool Runnings actor Doug E. Doug, which is a stage name.
• Not Cao Cao, legendary warlord of the Three Kingdoms Period and major character of Romance of the Three Kingdoms (and its various adaptations). Though the name seems repetitive when transliterated, in Chinese it is in fact composed of two different, though nearly homophonous, characters: 曹操. For that matter, homonymic names are common in Chinese culture.
  • Also these characters were most likely pronounced even more distinctly during his lifetime.
  • The name is homophonous in Japanese and Korean, but that is because they are not tonal like Chinese. In Japanese, it is "Sou Sou", while in Korean, it is "Jo Jo". By extension, translated Chinese works in both languages tend to have more homophonous names, since their languages aren't suited to convey tones that differentiate them in Chinese.
• Jack Johnson, is the name of, among others, a singer, a boxer and a hockey player (the latter two are even John "Jack" Johnson). Jack Johnson the hockey player is even technically John Johnson III, which made coverage of the dysfunctional family relations of him, his father and his paternal grandfather rather confusing.
• Author of the novel Flatland, Edwin Abbott Abbott. He originally published it under the pseudonym "A. Square" (a double pun; once on his own name and once on the characters of Flatland, whose lower-middle class were literal squares). The original additions simply refer to the author is "A Square", without the period, "A" being the indefinite article and not an initial. The narrator is literally a square.
• Space Shuttle astronaut Richard Richards. The mind boggles at the Embarrassing Nicknames that could spawn.
• Erik Erikson, the psychologist famous for coining the term "identity crisis", was born with the name Erik Salomonson. However, his father was only so in the legal sense, as his mother (also Jewish) had an extramarital affair with a Danish man (possibly) named Erik. Hence...
• A conservative political commentator Erick Erickson.
• Afghan Presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. He originally only went by "Abdullah", as it is common for Afghans to have no surname, but adopted "Abdullah" as his last name as well when Western news media kept asking him for a surname.
• Comic artist and Venture Brothers storyboarder Stephen DeStefano.
• Welsh band "The Automatic" are known as The Automatic Automatic in America due to a pre-existing act by the name of Automatic. American fans of the Welsh band commonly refer to them by their original name.
• The word "ben" is Hebrew for son, so the name Benson translates into "son son". Before anyone says, "That's funny, but Benson is an English name," Benson means "Ben's Son", i.e. "Son of Benjamin". Benjamin is of course Hebrew for "Son of my right hand", from "ben" (son) and "yamin" (right). So, by an amusing accident, English isolated the part of the name that means "son" as the nickname for Benjamin... and thus "Benson" is, in a round about way, "Son-son" (son of son).
• The name of Carthage (Karthago) is a Latinization from the Punic karti-ha-dasti, "Newtown". When the Romans conquered the Carthaginian colony of the same name in Hispania, they gave it the name Carthago Nova (New Carthage), which would mean "New Newtown". This Spanish city is known as Cartagena today.
  • There is a neighbourhood Nueva Cartagena in that particular city. It would mean "New New Newtown".
• New York, New York. "The city so nice they named it twice."^note However, to the US Postal Service, "New York, New York" refers ONLY to the borough of Manhattan.
  • This is a pretty common naming convention among US cities. There's also:
    • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
    • Kansas City, Kansas (not to be confused with the one next door in Missouri)
    • Jersey City, New Jersey
    • Iowa City, Iowa
    • Oregon City, Oregon
    • Texas City, Texas
    • Florida City, Florida
    • California City, California
    • Ohio City, Ohio... which can refer either to a small community not far from Lima, or a neighborhood in Cleveland.
    • Indianapolis' name is a portmanteau of Indiana's name and the Greek word for "city".
  • Counties that share the names of their states also aren't unheard of...
    • New York County, New York (i.e., Manhattan, made up of Manhattan Island, a few surrounding small islands, and the neighborhood of Marble Hill on the US mainland^note Marble Hill was originally part of the island, but separated from it when the Harlem River was bypassed by a shipping canal in 1895. The Harlem River was fully diverted to the canal in 1914 and the old bed was filled in, physically connecting Marble Hill to The Bronx.)
    • Oklahoma County, Oklahoma (which incidentally includes the vast majority of Oklahoma City's area and population)
    • Utah County, Utah
    • Arkansas County, Arkansas
    • Iowa County, Iowa
• Canada has a couple of examples:
  • Quebec City, Quebec. In the province's official language of French, both the city and province are Québec (with accent).
  • The name of Saskatchewan derives from a Cree term that means roughly "river flows swiftly". So, the town of Swift Current, Saskatchewan has a name that amounts to "Swift Current, Swift Current".
• Mexico has quite a few itself—not including Mexico City, which is separate from the country's system of states (in fact, there's a state of Mexico that borders but does not include Mexico City). In English, depending on context, the city may be referred to as "* City", or the state as "State of *" or "* State".
  • Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
  • Campeche, Campeche
  • Chihuahua, Chihuahua
  • Colima, Colima
  • Durango, Durango
  • Guanajuato, Guanajuato
  • Oaxaca, Oaxaca
  • Puebla, Puebla
  • Querétaro, Querétaro
  • San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
  • Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala
  • Veracruz, Veracruz
  • Zacatecas, Zacatecas
• Countries whose names are pars pro toto^note a portion represents the entirety of one of their cities:
  • Belize, Belize.
  • Djibouti, Djibouti.
  • Guatemala, Guatemala.
  • Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
  • Mexico, Mexico. Though in Spanish, the city is called "Ciudad de México" or "CDMX".
  • Kuwait, Kuwait.
  • Panama, Panama.
  • Andorra la Vella, Andorra. The "la Vella" part was added to distinguish the main settlement from the principality (just like in English all of the above are referred to as "* City").
  • Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia were all named after one of their major cities: Algiers, Marrakesh, and Tunis. In Arabic, Algeria and Tunisia have the same name as their cities (al-Jazair and Tunis, respectively). Morocco, on the other hand, doesn't have this in Arabic, where the city is called Murrakush while the country is called al-Maghrib.
• Papua New Guinea. "Papua" is the Malay name for the island the country sits on, while "New Guinea" is the European colonial name for the same island. The British later repurposed the Malay name to refer to the southern half of the country, while the European name stuck for the northern half (first colonized by Germany, then Australia after World War I). Upon independence, the country adopted both names to show that it was born from the merger of two territories.
• Not far from Papua New Guinea is East Timor. Timor is Malayan for "east". Different versions of the country's name (Timor Temur and Timor-Leste) are also this.
• This was an old stereotype of people from the Scandinavian countries (where patronymic surnames are common), especially when they emigrated to America. This inspired the rhyme "Yon Yonson" (John Johnson).
• Griffith Park and Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles are named for one Griffith J. Griffith.
• San San Te. Different parts of the same page suggest that the second "San" may be part of his last name, or it may be a middle name/part of his first name.
• There is an area in Arizona known as Table Mesa. Mesa means "table" in Spanish.
• Simone Simons, lead singer of Epica.
• Simone Simon, the French actress best known in the United States for Cat People.
• Loch Lochy
• Alexander Alexandrov, composer of the Hymn of the Soviet Union, the Soviet and later, Russian national anthem (at least the tune thereof), and the founding bandleader of the famous Alexandrov Ensenble, the military choir, band, and dance troupe of the Soviet and Russian armed forces, also known as the Red Army Choir.
  • There is another Alexander Alexandrov, a famous Soviet mathematician who made important contributions to probability theory. Both are topped by Alexander Alexandrovich Alexandrov, a son of the composer Alexander Alexandrov above (who gets patronym Alexandrovich as per Russian Naming Convention).
• Sir Isaac Isaacs, who was both the first Australian-born and first Jewish Governor-General of Australia.
• The Mexican wave (as often seen in sport stadiums) is called La Ola (Spanish for The Wave) by the Germans. Often you can hear German people talk about "die La Ola-Welle" - "The The Wave-wave"!
• In a similar vein, the La Brea Tar Pits. "La" = "The" and "Brea" = "Tar". The The Tar Tar Pits.
• Ramiro "Pedro" Gonzales-Gonzales, a popular contestant on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life who went on to become a character actor.
  Groucho: If we got together as an act, what would it be called?
  Pedro: "Gonzales-Gonzales and Marx".
  Groucho: Do you believe that? Two men in the act, and I get third billing!
• Garet Garrett. Born Edward Peter Garrett, officially changed his name to qualify for this trope. It was originally his pen name.
• Scandinavian languages has rather few "usable" first names for men, so people with names like "Sven Svensson" (Swedish), "Lars Larsen" (Danish), "Halvor Halvorsen" (Norwegian) or "Sigurbjorn Sigurbjornsson" (Icelandic) are not too uncommon.
• Author, baron, freiherr, politician etc. Yrjö Yrjö-Koskinen
• In many German dynasties and noble families it was customary to designate the different branches of one house by their residence. If the family name already was taken from a place name, this could lead to cases as the counts of Salm-Salm (as opposed to their relatives, the counts of Salm-Kyrburg) and the margraves of Baden-Baden (as opposed to those of Baden-Durlach) in the 18th century.
• The now largely forgotten German writer Ida Marie Luise Sophie Friederike Gustava Countess Hahn (1805-1880) called herself Countess Hahn-Hahn since her wedding to a distant relative, Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Count Hahn-Basedow.
• The Austrian satirist Alexander Friedrich Roda (1872-1945), who later emigrated to the US, changed his name to Alexander Roda Roda in 1908.
• Also from Austria, Field Marshal Johann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz (1766-1858), in Czech: Jan Josef Václav hrabě Radecký z Radče.
• "Sahara" translates to "Desert," so people unwittingly refer to the Sahara as "the Desert Desert".
• As history buffs of the Iberian Peninsula can attest, "medina" is simply the Arabic word for "city", so the City of Medina, Saudi Arabia (and by extension, any other city bearing the name "Medina") is extraneous. The name for the city in SA is short for al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, which means "The City of Light".
• Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018 (and briefly a candidate in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, though he dropped out fairly early in order to back eventual winner Donald Trump.)
• The large Sheftall family of Georgia were influential in founding the city of Savannah and started one of the oldest Jewish communities there. One of them was Sheftall Sheftall. At some point they must have just run out of names.
• This can happen with foreign foods that are amended with the native name for the food, such as "shrimp scampi".
• American country singer and actor (of Swedish descent) Kris Kristofferson (Kris is indeed short for Kristoffer).
• Courtney Taylor-Taylor of The Dandy Warhols, though it's a stage name, and his birth name is simply Courtney Taylor. According to him, it started as an in-joke: He had called a friend, and someone else picked up, so he had them write down a message - because he had to repeat his last name to the person on the other end, they wrote his name down as "Courtney Taylor-Taylor".
• Similarly, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, former Jethro Tull bassist. His actual name was Jeffrey Hammond, yet he added the second "Hammond" after his mother's maiden name.
• Character actor Edward Edwards.
• Arthur MacArthur (I to III), a succession of military officers during the American imperialist era. However, out of this family, the most famous member's name is Douglas.
• Happens a lot in Jewish names: Naftali Tzvi (Deer Deer), Dov Ber (Bear Bear), Aryeh Leib (Lion Lion) and Ze'ev Wolf (Wolf Wolf). Naftali Tzvi Hirsch is Deer Deer Deer.
• Lauren Bush (niece of one president of the US and granddaughter of another) married David Lauren to become Lauren Bush Lauren.
• Short-lived actor/murderer Milos Milos (real name Miloš Milošević)
  • Which still counts, the way John Johnson would, since Milošević is itself a patronymic name based on Miloš.
• In baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies land this twice. Not just because of their current name, but also because in 1883 they replaced (and took all their players and staff from) the Worcester Worcesters.
• Evans Evans was a '60s character actress who appeared in several TV shows and Bonnie and Clyde.
• American Idol contestant Phillip Phillips.
• Actress Sasha Alexander. In Russian, "Sasha" is a diminutive of Alexander (or Alexandra). It's a stage name; she was born Suzana Drobnjakovic.
• The Egyptian American stand-up comic/actor Ahmed Ahmed.
• American humorist Hugh Gallagher's alter ego is Belgian "pop star" Von Von Von.
• Nyambi Nyambi who plays Samuel on Mike & Molly.
• River Jordan (river river).
• The late chief and father of the present chief of the Scottish clan Gregor was called Sir Gregor MacGregor of MacGregor (the MacGregor of McGregor bit being his full surname and is used only by the clan chiefs, the rest of the family use MacGregor).
  • The same goes for other clan chiefs; there have been several Donalds who were MacDonald of MacDonald. Repetition is sometimes avoided by referring to the chief as "[clan name] of That Ilk".
• Lake Jaurijärviozerosee in German wartime charts in Lappland. The name means simply lake-lake-lake-lake in Sami, Finnish, Russian and German. The original Sami name is simply jauri ("lake"). Finns then named it Jaurijärvi, Russians Jaurijärviozero and Germans Jaurijärviozerosee without anyone realizing the true meaning of the original Sami name.
  • Fort Fortfortfortfort. See You Are the Translated Foreign Word for others like these.
• Dan Avidan and Dana Avidan, the children of Avi Avidan and Deb.
• Jose Chávez y Chávez, an associate of Billy the Kid.
• Fernando Fernández (example mentioned above) was actually a Spanish comic artist. Googling reveals he surely has a few namesakes...
• About *any* giant panda is named such. (Including the cartoon panda Tao Tao.)
• Croatian poet Dimitrije Demeter. (Demeter is a very common name on the Balkans, either as first name "Dimitri" or as family name, so he'll probably has a ton of namesakes.)
• The Los Angeles Angels (of Anaheim) of Major League Baseball. The name inspired jokes that it should be called Los Angeles de Los Angeles in Spanish (although Mexican media, when the team won the World Series in 2002, called it Los Serafines).
• Druze-Israeli Azzam Azzam, who was sent to prison for 15 years for espionage in Egypt but released in a prisoner exchange after 8.
• French actress Miou Miou (real name Sylvette Herry).
• German silent-era film actress Ossi Oswalda (born Oswalda Stäglich, so "Ossi" is clearly short for Oswalda).
• The town of Baden-Baden (not to be confused with the former Margravate) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
• Wagga Wagga in New South Wales.
• Several places in the United States and Australia called Walla Walla. (The prison is most well known.) Also a Native American tribe. Even better, Walla is the tribal term for "river", so the Walla Walla River is actually "River River River".
• The Hawaiian dance "Hula" often gets reduplicated to "Hula-Hula".
  • Hawaiian language reduplicates by the ton; random item: wiliwili, a balsa-like tree.
• Welsh writer Owain Owain. (Maybe indirectly known via musician Gwenno.)
• Sing Sing, derived from the Sintsink tribe. Originally both a prison and the New York town where it's located, since renamed Ossining because of the prison.
• NFL running back Joey Iosefa – "Iosefa" is the Samoan variant of "Joseph". (Though "Joey" is actually his middle name; his first name is Marvin.)
• The Mau Mau uprisal in Kenya. As you see from the link, countless spinoffs, *excluding* the card game but *including* the Maui Mau Mau ^note Back in Hawaii again. Bilingual Bonus since mau="perpetual" is a real Hawaiian word, a fictive terror organization in the SF novel Terror.
• Teri Terry, author in the Young Adult genre.
• Bora Bora, Polynesian island.
• British engineer (and pyramidologist) David Davidson.
• Animation historian and Cartoon Brew editor-in-chief Amid Amidi.
• Rapper DJ Khaled's birth name is Khaled Khaled.
• American model Amber Bernstein. Bernstein is German for "amber".
• Leon Leonwood Bean, founder of L.L. Bean.
• Europa Europa is the name of a Latin American cable channel only focused on films and series from Europe.
• Pizza Pizza is a pizza restaurant chain that has branches all over the world, more known for appearing in the Scott Pilgrim franchise.
• Dr. Robert F. Roberts, head of the food science department at Pennsylvania State University, who taught the art of making ice cream to the famous Ben and Jerry.
• Italian actor Venantino Venantini. The US release of one of his films (War Of The Robots) anglicized his name in the credits to "Vernon Vernons."
• Sofía Vergara Vergara — Colombian naming conventions give you a lot of names, though usually only the first few are mentioned. If someone's grandfathers both had the same last name, they will have a repeated last name, like Sofia Vergara Vergara.
• The above shows how the Spanish/Portuguese tradition of inheriting surnames from both parents can end up with the same one twice. Comedian Bruna Louise has, among the many jokes on her Disappeared Dad, how he made her surnames repetitive given her parents were Kissing Cousins (Bruna Louise de Castro e Castro).
• Former New Hampshire politician Dudley Dudley (maiden name Webster until marrying an attorney named Tom Dudley) used this to her advantage for much of her career as a member of the New Hampshire Executive Council^note essentially an elected advisory council to the Governor of New Hampshire, using slogans such as "Dudley Dudley: Worth Repeating", and when she ran for Congress in 1984 "Dudley Dudley: Congress, Congress". However, this backfired when her opponent for the seat, Republican candidate Bob Smith, turned the slogan on its head by running campaign ads featuring the tag "Dudley Dudley: Liberal Liberal" en route to Smith defeating Dudley for the seat.
• Actress Evans Evans.
• Morgan Morgan, early pioneer in what is now West Virginia, and the father of the founder of Morgantown (where West Virginia University is located).
• Veteran producer and writer George W. George. Actually the son of Rube Goldberg, who'd received some threats over political cartoons he'd drawn. Rube told his two sons Thomas and George to adopt new surnames for protection. Thomas decided to call himself Thomas George, and George decided to maintain the family tie by changing his last name to George as well.
• In Germany, Ph.D. titles technically are part of your name. So you can become a Doctor Doctor Foo Bar if you are scientifically inclined so. (Only a fraction of these are multiple Ph.D.s though, there are also "copies" of your Dr. by habilitation, Dr. honoris causa...) Here is an Austrian (should have the same convention) who made a Ph.D. in six different areas. Wow.
• An curious bilingual case: 13th Century Greek princess Theodora Megale Komnene was married to an Mongol Khan and became known afterwards as "Despina Khatun". Both titles translate to "lady" in both Greek and Mongol, as such her name means "Lady Lady".
• Actor Edward Woodward.
• Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan's middle name is Ann, of which Nancy is a derivation.
  • Since the name Ann (and therefore Nancy) means "grace", then Nancy Grace counts too.
• This is no ^note actually it is from a joke book but may suffer from Dude, Not Funny! joke but scientifically correct: against Beri Beri^note probably Sinhalese, "weak weak" (a Vitamin B deficiency syndrome) the Vitamin B-rich rice bran will help - for example Tiki Tiki ^note the Tagalog name.
• As in the Live-Action TV section, vanished 19th century polar explorer Commander James Fitzjames, RN. Considering his biological father was Sir James Gambier, it was probably a rather harsh pun on Gambier's part- "fitz[father's name]" has a history of being used as a naming convention for acknowledged illegitimate children, but Gambier never acknowledged Fitzjames and in fact left him to be raised by a foster family (Happily Adopted, but still a lot of baggage to give a kid in the early 19th century).
• Early radio pioneer John Stone Stone (Stone was also his mother's maiden name).
• The founder of GUCCI, Guccio Gucci.
• Carlos Carlos◊
  His Yearbook Quote: I hate my name.
• Manute Bol, the 7'7" stringbean NBA center of the 90s, had a son who now also plays in the NBA — Bol Bol.
• Basketball player Duany Duany, whose parents explain that it is a Sudanese custom to give the oldest son a "double name".
  • The NBA also has Serbian swingman Bogdan Bogdanović (who, incidentally, is not related to the similarly named Croatian swing player Bojan Bogdanović).
• Tahoe derives from the word for "lake" in the language of the Washo people. So, Lake Tahoe="Lake Lake". Same thing applies to Lake Chad in Africa.
• Phillip Phillips. Becomes even worse when you realize he's Phillip Phillips Jr.
• West Indian cricketers Richie Richardson and Pat Patterson.
• In 2018, actor Macaulay Culkin asked fans to decide on what his new legal name should be. (His birth middle name was "Carson".) In 2019, he legally became Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin as a result of the fan vote. Yes, his first and last name is his new legal middle name.
• Akbar, a 16th century-era Mughal emperor, is popularly known as "Akbar the Great" (Akbar-i-Azam). Both "Akbar" and "Azam" mean "great" in Arabic.
• Puerto Rican novelist Eduardo Lalo, the pen name of Eduardo Rodriguez. "Lalo" is a common Spanish nickname for "Eduardo" ("Edward Ned" would be a rough English equivalent to Eduardo Lalo).
• Søren Sørensen, who introduced the pH scale for measuring acidity.
• The The Band Band, a tribute act to a band called The Band.
• Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (who has stayed dead for going on 50 years). Both "Francisco" and "Franco" are analogous to the English name Francis.
• One of the unfortunate people in this article is Cameron Cameron.
• The online streamer WingsOfRedemption whose real name is "Jordie Jordan".
• Junior hockey player Ivan Ivan.
• Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.^note In Russian, the "middle name" is a patronymic. In this case, his name means "Vladimir, Son of Vladimir". The equivalent in English would be "Vladimir Putin, Jr."
• "Galaxy" derives from the ancient Greek name for the Milky Way (galaxías kyklos), so Milky Way Galaxy is basically "Milky Way Milky Way" (well, "Milky Way Milky Circle" if you want to be literal).
• Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames.
• Lebanese actor Fares Fares.
• A company example - '80s ZX Spectrum video game developers Design Design. Most of their games were as bizarre as the choice of name.
• Actress and singer Patricia Patts.
• The Albertsons supermarket chain was founded by Joseph Albert Albertson.
• Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon and the Governor-General of British India from 1931 to 1936.
• A deliberate aversion: according to some sources, part of the reason the World War II US Army rank of five-star general, created to give senior officers parity with a British field-marshal, wasn't also called a field-marshal is because they knew they'd be giving the rank to George C. Marshall.
• The late writer and film and TV producer Selig J. Seligman.
• The sportswear company Sean John. "Sean" is the Irish version of the name "John", so the company is essentially "John John".

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