Famous People Name Game

Keith Jarrett, pianist extraordinaire

Marty Feldman

Martin Guerre (a name from the sixteenth century)

Martin Barre - decades long lead guitarist for Jethro Tull
For osso: (whose Keith Jarret post was hidden by the software because it was the last post on the page):
Valerie Jarret, Senior Advisor to Pres. Obama and frequent right wing target.

Martin Luther King

Luther George Simjian, creator of the ATM

Luther Vandross

Luther Adler

Alfred Adler - Psychiatrist; developer of theory of 'inferiority complex'.

Lou Adler - famous record exec, discovered the Mama and Papas, produced them and Carole King's albums, along with many others. Also produced the Rocky Horror film.

lou gehrig

Lou Christie - The Gypsy Cried, Lightning Striking Again, Two Faces Have I

Luella Parsons (gossip columnist)

Bet 80%+ of a2kers don't even know who she is.

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

Talcott Parsons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talcott_Parsons

Quote cicerone imposter:

The only reason I knew who she was was references in the articles aimed at grownups in the Readers's Digest and Saturday Evening Post that my parents subscribed to when I was a kid. I would read whatever was around. Her era had passed, (though fairly recently), by the sixties.


Now there's an oldie but goodie from my college sociology days. He was considered foremost in his field in the fifties. I remember thinking just a couple of weeks ago, does anybody ever mention him anymore?

Alan Parsons
Abbey Road sound engineer, plus his own group, the Alan Parsons Project. Remember this? I loved it.

Wow that's a memory jogging tid bit. My parents also subscribed to Readers Digest, Saturday Evening Post, Life and Look. I loved those old mags.

Alan Funt (candid camera, the original)

Alan Paton

General George Patton

George Kennedy

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy