Asklemmy

I share a first name with a pretty popular fictional character. I tend to enjoy the attention when people don't believe me or ask if it's like that one show/book. Fun stuff I gotta say. (thank fuck it's not a real person that could become racist/transphobic/worse)

I have the same surname as one of the most important composers in music history from the 1500-1600. It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't a musician, and a composer specifically, myself.

Every people I've interacted with in my trade has made some remarks on it, and if someone searches "[name] composer" they obviously won't get to my music!

There is nothing you can say about it that is funny or clever. We have heard it all before. Just don’t.

This applies to so many things. For the one person it's a spontaneous one-time joke, for the other it's every time they meet someone new.

Been there. Idk it doesn't bother me, it bothers more when try sort of apologize mentioning that it probably bothers me.

"Oh sorry everybody must tell you that" Like yeah... and that too 😅.

I don't use it a lot as it's not that famous unless you are into that sport but sometimes when meeting new people I say jokingly (this not the name or the sport but as an example) "Hi, I am Roger Federer but I don't play tennis".

• There is nothing you can say about it that is funny or clever. We have heard it all before. Just don't.
• If you do have something to say about it that is truly original and absolutely hilarious, see the previous rule.

What if I am said celebrity though? 🤔

I share my name with a former baseball catcher that is most noted for an incident at home plate where he punched a guy that probably deserved it. I rarely get called on it though, he was not that well known, and he has been retired more than a decade.

The names are both common enough that there have been a few other notables with it as well, like the cinematographer that married a fairly high profile Hollywood actress a few years back.

OP is named Michael Jordan

Not much, people always ask me if I'm named after the celebrity.

I assume I am because there's very few other people with my name except him so I guess so.

Only did was climb down a ladder. Which I have also do not many occasions or I guess I'm living up to the name.

I'm lucky I don't have a common last name and that nobody cares that I share a very common first name with famous people.

I tried looking up famous people with my last name and the results showed variations of my last name for a while before finally showing mine. Most I've found is some obscure Swedish actress who's probably well known and loved in Europe and someone who apparently got inducted into the motorcycle hall of fame in 2005.

I share a name with a cultural icon from the 90's. As time goes by, younger people don't notice. It was annoying having to say "yeah, I know, I was born before she was famous.." all the time. Older people still make the same tired jokes, over, and over, and over...

I shared a name with a character on 90210. It was pretty annoying for a decade but it's been awhile since anyone has made that comment

My partner's name is also the name of a very famous (mostly to boomers) multi-grammy award winner. He works in finance and he's gotten the Michael Bolton experience many, many, multiple times. He says its always super awkward, with really bad jokes or people thinking they're being clever with quips like Are you related or Do you have a new album coming out? hurr durr. But he's also never experienced anyone under 50 noticing his name, so its slowly happening less often

My brother shares a first and last name with a semi famous person that is mentioned rarely. Maybe once a year I see a post about him. Whenever I see my brother's name on the internet, it always creeps me out.

Wow, is that your real name?

I have the same name as a Hollywood writer/director. But he's not crazy popular/notable except maybe in horror circles, and also our name is common enough that there is no worry about people making weird comments to me. Additionally I enjoy his movies and joke that "I made this" when his name shows in the credits.