Nominative determinism

ElJaguar

This caught me eye 😄

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/09/19/restaurateur-who-turned-dublin-4-childhood-home-into-pizzeria-must-pay-over-7000-for-breaking-planning-rules/

breezy1985

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/sep/17/aptronym-job-normative-determinism

From the Guardian a couple of days ago.

My favourite is the urologist Dr. Weedon.

Loafing Oaf

My favourite is this guy (RIP)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Blazer

Surely the best conceivable name for an American sports administrator

A guy whose surname was Brick was engineer at Dublin City Council's building/construction department.

A woman whose surname is House - Cork City Council housing department.

Enda Storey - journalist.

Argue and Phibbs - solicitors.

Hugh J. Ward - solicitors.

Not quite the same but I like it still - I knew two people called Stout (not related, that I know of) who grew up close to Murphys brewery in Cork.

silliussoddius

Flint Dibble - archaeologist

randd1

Anywhere there's a lad with the surname White, you can be sure at some stage he was nicknamed Chalkie.

The TG4 show about the crematorium owners, CU Burn.

thomil

I’ve got to throw Captain Manley Power, RN, into the mix. By all accounts, he was pretty aggressive, even by the already aggressive standards of destroyer captains. I mean, the guy took out the Japanese cruiser Haguro nearly on his own while he was in command of HMS Saumarez.

On the extreme other end of that spectrum would likely be Captain John Coward, also of the Royal Navy, the skipper of HMS Brilliant during the Falklands War. By all accounts, he was ready to do a solo run all the way into Buenos Aires…

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122633754#Comment_122633754

The US Navy had Captain Jesse G. Coward

Hande hoche!

Persisting with a surname of Coward, is positively uncowardly.

tayto lover

Niall HATCH - author at Birdwatch Ireland

This is it

Phil McCann, BBC journalist reporting on petrol shortages a couple years ago.

Capt'n Midnight

Cardinal Sin

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122640999#Comment_122640999

I see him and raise you Steve Wing, Cape Clear Wildlife Officer

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122641025#Comment_122641025

Fuk that's the one I was trying to think of all week.

Slightly different take to the phenomenon rather than being his job US politician Anthony Weiner lost his for sending dick pics.

PopePalpatine

Scott Speed had a short stint in F1 with Toro Rosso back in 2006 and 2007. Unfortunately for him, Helmut Marko found a young German who was speedier.

ottolwinner

even thought it was deliberate C Noland (Tom hanks character) cast away.

wanderer 22

Weedon already got a mention here, he co-authored a paper with Splatt in 1977..

silverharp

well known financial fraudster lol

Sam Bankman-Fried