G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.

The ending credits of the show start with thanks to the colorfully nicknamed actual staffers: producer Doug " the subway fugitive, not a slave to fashion, bongo boy frogman " Berman ; " John ' Bugsy ' Lawlor, just back from the ..." every week a different eating event with rhyming foodstuff names ; David " Calves of Belleville " Greene ; Catherine " Frau Blücher " Fenollosa, whose name causes a horse to neigh and gallop ( an allusion to a running gag in the movie Young Frankenstein ); and Carly " High Voltage " Nix, among others.

His mother originally named him David Dwight but reversed the two names after his birth to avoid the confusion of having two Davids in the family.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

In a 1995 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman ( which is filmed in Ed Sullivan Theater ), Ross stated, " he could never remember our names.

The magazine publishes fiction by emerging writers alongside more recognizable names, such as Woody Allen, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Alice Munro, Don DeLillo, Mary Gaitskill, and Edward Albee ; as well as essays, including ones from Mario Vargas Llosa, David Mamet, Steven Spielberg, and Salman Rushdie.

After the Los Angeles Kings won the 2012 Stanley Cup, David Krasne, a Kings fan in New York City, placed a Stanley Cup champions hat on Mark Bavis and Bailey's names at the Memorial.

Kahane also used the pen names Benyac and David Sinai and the pseudonyms Michael King, David Borac, and Martin Keene.

The name Tamar is of Hebrew origin and, like other biblical names, was favored by the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty because of their claim to be descended from David, the second king of Israel.

On the checkout slip, he found the names of his Wisconsin colleagues, Joan Hinton, David Frisch, and Joseph McKibben, who had mysteriously disappeared from Madison to secret war work.

Instead of numbering the chimpanzees she observed, she gave them names such as Fifi and David Greybeard, and observed them to have unique and individual personalities, an unconventional idea at the time.

and 70 CE, David picks up seven stones and writes on them the names of his fathers, his own name, and the name of God, one name per stone ; then, speaking to Goliath, he says " Hear this word before you die: were not the two woman from whom you and I were born, sisters?

) Members of these organizations are entitled to put designatory letters after their names ( e. g., M. David Mullen, ASC ).

To inform an audience or readership of a person's nickname without actually calling them by their nickname, English nicknames are generally represented in quotes between the bearer's first and last names ( e. g., Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower, Daniel Lamont " Bubba " Franks, etc.

Akkerman's " House of the King " ( from the Focus Plays Focus album ) was the title theme of Don't Ask Me, a science-based British TV show of the 1970s that made household names of Dr. Magnus Pyke and Professor David Bellamy.

Animation historian David Gerstein has noted that although the characters will appear in different settings and sometimes even change their names ( Mickey's Christmas Carol ), the characters are still themselves and behave in a way consistent with their natures.

" Gobel and his business manager David P. O ' Malley formed a production company, Gomalco, a composite of their last names Gobel and O ' Malley.

Detectives Ned Broy and David Nelligan, Michael Collins was able to learn the names and lodgings of the MI5 agents of the Cairo Gang.

Along with Nathaniel Rust, the names of some of the earliest settlers were David Lee, Thomas Root, Samuel Gurley, Ebenezer Searl, Joseph Petty, Benjamin James and Benjamin Carpenter.

Later, his son-in-law David Herrin arrived and the similarity in names led to the eventual shortening of the name to just Herrin's Prairie.

Great names in the history of dummy making include Frank Marshall ( the Chicago creator of Bergen's Charlie McCarthy, Nelson's Danny O ' Day, and Winchell's Jerry Mahoney ), Theo Mack and Son ( Mack carved Charlie McCarthy's head ), Revello Petee, Kenneth Spencer, David Strassman, Cecil Gough, Jeff Dunham, and Glen & George McElroy.

Monson is also referenced in the book The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau wherein a drawing of moose antlers depicting the direction and names of both Blanchard and Monson, and the town is mentioned in other sections of the book.

John Crook, John Clapper, Henry Coons, John Warner, Major Thomas Frothingham, who was an officer in the Continental army during the War of the Revolution ; N. Smith, Reuben Underwood, David Arnold, and families bearing the names of Fethers, Ford, Davis, Cook, Emmons, Culver, Farrell, Pratt, Lewis, Wells, Huntley, Wickham, Fuller, Strope, Hegeman, Sheppard, Higgenbottom, De Freest, Rykert, Woodworth, Hayes, Townsend, Richmond, Cornwell, Carmichael, Stone, Russell, Frear ( probably Frere ), Guyot, Kelly, Kerner, Jacobs, Simmons, Comb, Calkins, Kilmer and others.

Along with announcing its new name, Order of Angell announced in February 2007 that it would register as an official University student group and that it would institute a policy of releasing the names of all new members in the future.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

Muslim tradition, however, fleshes out the details regarding Benjamin and refers to him as being born from Jacob's wife Rachel, and further links a connection, as does Jewish tradition, between the names of Benjamin's children and Joseph.

21-25 ; 39 ) names Job's first wife ( cf.

He names the princess who adopted Moses as Merris, wife of Pharaoh Chenephres.

* The tales of King Midas have been told by many with some variations: by John Dryden ; by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Wife of Bath's Tale ; making Midas ' queen the betrayer of the secret ( as Midas ' wife, Aristotle names Demodike ( or Hermodike ) of Kyme ; Eudemus fr.

Wang Mang names his wife Empress Wang ( Xin Dynasty ) and his son Wang Lin Crown Prince and heir to the throne.

Back in port, the consultant meets his reclusive boss who helped design the ship – he and his wife are the pilot and the senator's secretary who assumed false names during the war.

* The names of Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzanne were erased from all Egyptian monuments after they were deposed in 2011.

Ovid in Book 14, lines 812-828, of the Metamorphoses gives a description of the deification of Romulus and his wife Hersilia, who are given the new names of Quirinus and Hora respectively.

Even historical names from these peoples have been used in drafts or the final concept of the internal history of Gondor, such as Vidumavi, wife of king Valacar ( Gothic language ).

Pete's wife Peg is a play on " Peg Leg Pete ," one of Pete's names in the classic Disney shorts.

The names themselves come from Edmondson's and Mayall's own nicknames for each other ; many of Mayall's characters are referred to by some variation of the name " Richard " and " Eddie " is taken from " Eddie Monsoon ", Edmondson's nickname since University, which is a play on his then stage name, Ade Edmondson ( compare Edina Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous, who is called " Eddie " by her friend Patsy, and is played by Edmondson's Comic Strip fellow and wife Jennifer Saunders ).

He renamed it Nicaea ( Greek:, also transliterated as Nikaia or Nicæa ; see also List of traditional Greek place names ), in tribute to his wife Nicaea, a daughter of Antipater.

There is disagreement as to the name of Ajax's mother: Homer names Eriopis as the legal wife of Oileus, but scholiasts cite other authors, some of whom agreed with Homer in considering Eriopis ( or Eriope ) the mother of Ajax, but others stated that the mother of Ajax by Oileus was Alcimache, and yet others asserted that Alcimache was simply another name for Eriopis.

Sam Houston names the town for his future wife Margaret Lea Houston.

On 15 August 1502, Isaac wrote his first will which included names of his proprietors, alluding to the fact that he was doing well to care for his wife and property should anything happen to him.

" Yvette Blais was Ellis ' wife, while " Jeff " and " Michael " were the names of producer Norm Prescott's two sons.

Though the school died in 1883, the town streets still bear the names of several well-known 19th-century Baptists: Judson and Hasseltine ( after Adoniram Judson and his wife, Ann Hasseltine Judson ), Wayland ( after Francis Wayland, president of Brown University in Rhode Island ), Wade ( after missionary Jonathan Wade ) and Boardman ( after missionary George Boardman, whose widow, Sarah Hall Boardman became Judson's second wife ).

Subsequent investigation indicates instead that the town was in fact named for Selma Michelsen ( 1853 – 1910 ), wife of a railroad employee who had submitted her name for inclusion on a list of candidate names prepared by his supervisor.

The name “ Wildomar ” was derived by combining the names of the new town ’ s founders, “ WIL ” for William Collier, “ DO ” for Donald Graham, and “ MAR ” for Margaret Collier Graham, wife of Donald Graham and sister of William Collier.

A likely one is that it is the combination of two names: Wood, for a Dr. Wood who was once prominent in the area, and Esther, for the wife of a railroad executive.

It is named for a combination of the first names of Richardson and his wife, Mary Isabelle, or Belle.

John of Worcester names his wife Wulfrun, but it is possible that he had her confused with the Wulfrun who was Ælfhelm's mother and possibly patron of the community at Wolverhampton.