After she married John Staff in 1951, she adopted the surname as her stage name, hence Kathy Staff.

The credits mistakenly refer to Lionel as a Cloade-however, his surname is ' Woodward ' ( as revealed by Kathy when she visits Poirot at the beginning of the adaptation ).

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

For example, Yuan Taotu took the second character of his grandfather's style name Boyuan ( 伯爰 ) as his surname.

Waylon J Smithers, Jr., usually referred to by simply his surname, is a recurring fictional character in the long-running animated series The Simpsons, who is voiced by Harry Shearer.

* Hu ( surname ), a Chinese family name represented by the character 胡

The zì given to a woman was generally composed of a character indicating her birth order among females siblings and her surname.

They include 畓 ( 논 답 ; non dap ; " paddyfield "), 乭 ( Dol, a character only used in given names ), 㸴 ( So, a rare surname from Seongju ), and 怾 ( Gi, an old name of the Kumgangsan ).

In the rare cases where a surname consists of more than one character, it too should be written as a unit: " Sima Qian ", not " Si Ma Qian " or " Si Maqian ".

Chester's character had no surname until Baer ad libbed " Proudfoot " during an early rehearsal.

Moffat had used the surname " Taylor " for Robert Bathurst's character in his earlier sitcom Joking Apart.

Allen based the character of Annie Hall loosely on Keaton (" Annie " is a nickname of hers, and " Hall " is her original surname ).

The novelization of the film, written by Iain Johnstone, begins with a letter, written by Archie Leach ( Cleese's character in Wanda ) to Rollo, revealing that they are actually twin brothers ; Rollo changed his surname from " Leach " to " Lee " in order to improve his chances of advancement within the Hong Kong police.

An episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called " The Big Goodbye " has holographic villain called Cyrus Redblock, played by Lawrence Tierney, whose surname is an obvious reference to Greenstreet's surname and whose character is a reference to Greenstreet's character Kasper Gutman ( The Fat Man ) in The Maltese Falcon.

In an example of metafiction, he named his protagonist in Shoeless Joe " Ray Kinsella ", a character from Salinger ’ s uncollected story “ A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All .” Salinger had also used the surname shared by writer and protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye ( Holden Caulfield's friend Richard Kinsella ).

Their surname Barnes was taken from a Bill Cosby comedy routine called " Revenge ", in which a character called Junior Barnes throws a snowball at Cosby as a child.

She changed her first name to " Brett " after the lead female character in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and the surname " Somers "

The surname of the character ' Daddy Warbucks ' in Little Orphan Annie carries an obvious implication.

This is possibly based on confusion with the character Judge Rico, whose surname is Rico and whose badge therefore bears that name ( see image here ).

Other hints of the autobiographical nature of the work are the protagonist's surname, ' Mandella ', which is a near-anagram of the author's surname, as well as the name of the lead female character, Marygay Potter, which is nearly identical to Haldeman's wife's maiden name.

* " viscount " zǐ 子, which is also extensively used in Chinese nicknames as the meaning of the character is " child ," as well as in courtesy names and honorific names in which context the character came to mean " master " as in Kongfuzi or Kongzi, Confucius, Master of surname Kung, or the Daoist patriarch Laozi, Old Master.

" From over two hundred suggestions and consultations with staff, students and local residents, communities and businesses, the University chose Anglia Ruskin University ( thus incorporating into the title the surname of John Ruskin, who founded the Cambridge School of Art in 1858, which eventually became the university ), with the new name taking effect following the approval of the Privy Council on 29 September 2005.

Within the United States, it is ranked as the 48th-most common surname .< ref > U. S. Census Bureau ; " Frequently Occurring First Names and Surnames From the 1990 Census, ( Table ) Name Files dist. all. last "; published May 9, 1995 ; < http :// www. census. gov / genealogy / names / dist. all. last ></ ref >

From this part of his system, Crates derived the surname of Kritikos.

From this lordship he adopted for himself and his descendants the surname Anglicised to " de Newburgh ", frequently Latinised to de Novo Burgo ( meaning " from the new borough / town ").

From 1975 Pierre Plantard used the surname Plantard de Saint-Clair, described as an epithet by Jean-Luc Chaumeil, following his interview with Plantard in the magazine l ’ Ère d ’ Aquarius.

From her time at the Slade onwards she was commonly known simply by her surname.

From 15th to 17th centuries, the formula seems to have been to copy the ancient Roman naming convention: praenomen ( or given name ), nomen gentile ( or Gens / Clan name ) and cognomen ( surname ), following the Renaissence fashion.

From the same root-the given name Andreas-derives the surname Andreasen ( cognate Andreassen ) and Andresen.

From the rarity of the surname today, one must conclude that these successive wars, particularly those in the 17th century against the English, and the subsequent savage repression, greatly diminished O ' Dowd numbers along with their power and influence.

From time to time the residents invite everyone with the surname Brinkley to come to the village fete, which is always held in July each year in the grounds of Brinkley Hall, next to the church.

From around 1907 he used the surname Chapman-Taylor.

Within the United States, it is ranked as the 441st-most common surname .< ref > U. S. Census Bureau ; " Frequently Occurring First Names and Surnames From the 1990 Census, ( Table ) Name Files dist. all. last "; published May 9, 1995 ; < http :// www. census. gov / genealogy / names / dist. all. last ></ ref >

Parodying several female villains from early James Bond films, including From Russia with Love < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Rosa Klebb and On Her Majesty's Secret Service's Irma Bunt, Farbissina's look and demeanour are homages to the female Nazi officer in the castle scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and her surname is a pun on the Yiddish word פא ַ רביסן " farbissen " (" verbissen " in German ), or " embittered "; a " farbissiner " is an angry, bitter, vocal person.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes: From 1932 Finley enjoyed a happy and mutually reinforcing marriage with his wife Mary ( née Moscowitz, who later changed to her mother's surname, Thiers ), schoolteacher.

From the book Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical of King James ’ s Irish Army List ( 1689 ) written by John D ’ Alton, Esquire & Barrister of Dublin Ireland in 1885 you are able to locate a list of important persons having bore the Quinn surname and its many variations.

From -, he went by the name Ian Oquendo, adopting the last name of his wife, and during the 2009 World Baseball Classic he went by Ian Davila-Snell, adopting his stepfather's surname.

From the 11th century, when the Norman Careys arrived, through to present day, the surname underwent a variety of changes in spelling.

From that point on, according to the story, Catherine took the surname of " Barlass ".

The story " Polywater Doodle " by Howard L. Myers using the surname Dr. Dolittle appeared in the February, 1971 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

* The second Dalmatian war ends with victory for Rome and L. Caecilius Metellus assumes the surname Delmaticus

Although the name appears to consist of a first name, a middle name and a last name, Vargas Llosa is in fact the complete surname ( Spanish-speaking countries use a paternal last name followed by a maternal last name ), and falls alphabetically under the letter V. In a library, bookstore, bibliography or similar place, it is not correct to file the works of either of these authors under the letter L or Ll.

Lord De L ' Isle and Dudley discontinued the use of the surname Shelley.

* Used twice as a surname by Dorothy L. Sayers, once in Murder Must Advertise ( Miss Ethel Vavasour, Jim Tallboy's girlfriend ), and once in Have His Carcase ( Maurice Vavasour, a pseudonym of the murderer ).

The American historian James L. Cabot has gone so far as to claim descent from the Aesti, partly on the basis of his family's origin in East Prussia, and partly the fact that his surname is part of a European pattern of names denoting " Coaster " (' One who trades along the coast ')— e. g., English Cabot, East Prussian Kabat, Italian Caboto, and Crimean Kbat.

She married, 1881, William Forsyth-Grant, Esquire, formerly Captain of H. M .' s 82nd Regiment, son of William Forsyth, Esquire, of Ecclesgreig, County Kincardine, Scotland, J. P. and D. L., who, in 1842, assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Grant ( Chad-wick ).

According to José del Rosario, the surname " Santa Cruz " was added " because of devotion " ( Astuto, Philip L., Eugenio Espejo ( 1747 – 1795 ).

Lowe had to find a new surname, and having in mind the many L-words of the title, skimmed through the ' L ' volume of an encyclopedia in order to find a suitable word or name.

The order was reversed to follow the conventional American form " Christian name-Middle name-Surname ," which in this case is actually " Christian name-Mother's surname-Father's surname " ( Juan López Agbayani or simply Juan L. Agbayani ).

He saw active service in the Anglo-French wars and probably elsewhere, winning the surname of L ' adventureux.

The second Dalmatian war was fought in 119 – 118 BC, apparently ending in Roman victory as consul L. Caecilius Metellus celebrated triumph in 117 BC and assumed his surname Delmaticus.

He started out as L. Sivaramakrishnan but, as is typical with expanding initialled south Indian names, turning the L to Laxman caused Sivaramakrishnan to appear to be his surname.