LIST OF PEOPLE KNOWN BY MIDDLE NAME

This is a list of famous people whose main forename is not the first. It contains real names, not stage names – unless (as in the case of Eric Morecambe) the stage name incorporates the forename used originally.
Some of the people on this list are fictional characters.

Contents

A–B

C

D–E

F–G

H–I

J-L

M

N–Q

R–T

U–Z

See also

References

A–B

★ F. Murray Abraham

★ Patrick Bartholomew "Bertie" Ahern

★ Mariah Bridgette Andersen

★ Göran Bror Benny Andersson

★ John Douglas "Doug" Anthony

★ Robert Kevin Appier

★ Maria Corazon Aquino

★ Leslie Thomas John Arlott

★ Clarence Linden Garnet Ashby 3rd (Linden Ashby)

★ Yitzak Eddie "Ed" Asner

★ Orvon Gene Autry

★ F. Lee Bailey

★ Timothy Scott Baker (baseball)

★ Gabor Paul Bako

★ James Alan Ball (football manager, and father of Alan Ball)

★ John Eric Bartholomew (Eric Morecambe)

★ John Richard Basehart

★ L. Frank Baum

★ Henry Warren Beatty

★ Eugene Hugh Beaumont

★ Sir Henry Max Beerbohm

★ Joseph Hilaire Belloc

★ Enoch Arnold Bennett

★ Ernst Ingmar Bergman

★ William Lance Berkman

★ Louis-Hector Berlioz

★ J. Stanley "Skip" Bertman

★ George Richard Beymer

★ Robert Laurence Binyon

★ William Casey Blake

★ Kimberly Alexis Bledel

★ Rik Aalbert "Bert" Blyleven

★ Charles Eugene Patrick Boone

★ Rebecca Sean Borgstrom

★ L. Paul Bremer

★ Edward Benjamin Britten

★ Archibald Fenner Brockway

★ Troyal Garth Brooks

★ James Gordon Brown

★ James Kevin Brown

★ Charles Victor Buono

★ Charles Montgomery Burns

★ William Gareth "Gary" Jacob Busey, Sr.

★ William Gareth Jacob "Jake" Busey, Jr.

C

★ L. Scott Caldwell

★ Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell

★ Leonard James Callaghan

★ L. Sprague de Camp

★ Edward Macdonald Carey

★ Edith Madeleine Carroll

★ Eleanor Rosalynn Carter

★ Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland

★ S. Truett Cathy

★ Argeo Paul Celucci

★ Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain

★ Arthur Neville Chamberlain

★ George Richard Chamberlain

★ Carroll Christopher "Chris" Chambliss

★ William Roger Clemens

★ Stephen Grover Cleveland

★ Edward Montgomery Clift

★ Sir Thomas Sean Connery

★ Charles Peter "Pete" Conrad, Jr.

★ Alfred Alistair Cooke

★ John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

★ Michael Colin Cowdrey

★ José Alexander "Alex" Cora

★ Harold Hart Crane

★ William Broderick Crawford

★ John Michael Crichton

★ Charles Anthony Raven Crosland

D–E

★ Ellen Tyne Daly

★ Edward Hunter Davies

★ Hiram Kyle Davies

★ Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis

★ Jonathan Roger Davis

★ Stephen Zachary "Zach" Day

★ George Warwick Deeping

★ Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

★ Courken George Deukmejian, Jr.

★ Andre Brandon De Wilde

★ Vassiriki Abou Diaby

★ George Michael "Micky" Dolenz, Jr.

★ Charles William Donaldson

★ B. Alvin Drew

★ Roger Luke DuBois

★ Dorothy Faye Dunaway

★ David Shelley Duncan

★ George Iain Duncan Smith

★ Ralph Dale Earnhardt

★ Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

★ Jacinto Damion Easley

★ Robert Anthony Eden

★ Victoria Samantha Eggar

★ Vincent Scott Elarton

★ Henry Havelock Ellis

★ Theodore Ernest "Ernie" Els

★ Ivan Simon Cary Elwes

★ Ronald Lee Ermey

★ Aaron Shawn Estes

★ Richard Gwynfor Evans

★ Jeffery Adam Everett

F–G

★ Hannah Dakota Fanning

★ Mary Elle Fanning

★ John Jeffery Farnol

★ W. Mark Felt

★ John William "Will" Ferrell

★ Robyn Rihanna Fenty

★ Sir Samuel Luke Fildes

★ Albert Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

★ F. Scott Fitzgerald

★ Cornelius Clifford "Cliff" Floyd

★ Peter Norman Fowler

★ John Malcolm Fraser

★ David Travis Fryman

★ R. Buckminster Fuller

★ Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes, Jr.

★ Richard Aaron Fultz

★ Willam Clark Gable

★ Gustavo Karim García

★ Anthony Nomar Garciaparra

★ David Graeme Garden

★ Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig

★ King Albert Frederick Arthur George VI

★ J. Paul Getty

★ Sir Arthur John Gielgud

★ Irwin Allen Ginsberg

★ Paul Joseph Goebbels

★ E. Urner Goodman

★ William Gilbert Grace ("W. G." to cricket historians, "Gilbert" to his mother)

★ William Franklin Graham, III

★ Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham

★ Boadicea Geraldine Granger

★ Felix Gary Gray

★ Michael Thomas Green (Tom Green)

★ Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley

★ George Kenneth "Ken" Griffey, Jr.

★ George Kenneth "Ken" Griffey, Sr.

★ Delorez Florence Griffith-Joyner

★ J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock

★ Sir William Tyrone Guthrie

★ Ernest Gary Gygax

H–I

★ Sir Henry Rider Haggard

★ Harry Leroy "Roy" Halladay

★ William Bradford "Brad" Hall

★ William Peter Ham

★ James Neil Hamilton (actor)

★ Mostyn Neil Hamilton (politician)

★ Samuel Dashiell Hammett

★ Clarke Isaac Hanson

★ Jordan Taylor Hanson

★ James Richard "Rich" Harden

★ James Keir Hardie

★ M. John Harrison

★ B. H. Liddell Hart

★ Francis Bret Harte

★ Johann Michael Haydn

★ George Richard Haydn

★ William Leland Hayward

★ Anna Eileen Heckart

★ Walter Richard Rudolf Hess

★ Edwin DuBose Heyward

★ Henry Earl Holliman

★ Richard Shannon Hoon

★ J. Edgar Hoover

★ Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins

★ Charles Kenneth Horne

★ James Gerald Howarth

★ Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe

★ Christopher Thomas Howell

★ Dewey LaMarr Hoyt

★ Lafayette Ronald Hubbard

★ Bishop Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston

★ James Langston Hughes

★ Cardinal George Basil Hume

★ John Barry Humphries

★ G. John Ikenberry

★ Jon Donald "Don" Imus, Jr.

★ Charles Brandon Inge

J-L

★ John Fredrick Thomas Jane (Fred T. Jane)

★ John Richard Jefferies

★ Arthur Stanley Jefferson (Stan Laurel)

★ Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones

★ John Howard Jones

★ Mary Anissa Jones

★ I. King Jordan

★ Enid Francesca Katzenjammer (Fran, in ''Black Books'')

★ Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Jr.

★ Walter Stacy Keach, Jr.

★ Joseph Kevin Keegan

★ Alfred Joyce Kilmer

★ Robert Francis Kilvert

★ Joseph Rudyard Kipling

★ C. Everett Koop

★ Christopher Ashton Kutcher

★ Kevin James LaBrie

★ David Adam LaRoche

★ Michael Jason LaRue

★ James Hugh Calum Laurie

★ Andrew Bonar Law

★ Nelle Harper Lee

★ Heidi Hudson Leick

★ John Charles Julian Lennon

★ John Dhani Lennevald

★ Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis

★ G. Gordon Liddy

★ Nicole Evangeline Lilly

★ Chester Trent Lott, Jr.

★ Augusta Ada Lovelace

★ Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell

★ G. David Low

★ D. Wayne Lukas

★ Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens

M

★ Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe

★ Joseph Macay McBride

★ James Paul McCartney

★ Larry Bernard "Ben" McDonald

★ James Ramsay MacDonald

★ Robert Meiklejohn "Mike" MacDougal

★ Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell

★ R Fergus McGhee

★ Herbert Marshall McLuhan

★ Maurice Harold Macmillan

★ Terence Steven "Steve" McQueen

★ Walter Kevin McReynolds

★ Alan Ross McWhirter

★ Thomas Robert Malthus

★ Raimondas Šarūnas Marčiulionis

★ Everett Gunnar Marshall

★ E. Pierce Marshall

★ J. Howard Marshall

★ José Dennis Martínez

★ W. Somerset Maugham

★ Alan George Melly

★ Oliver Burgess Meredith

★ S. Epatha Merkerson

★ Harold Warren Moon

★ J. Pierpont Morgan (a.k.a. J. P. Morgan)

★ Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge

★ K. Alex Müller

★ Charles William "Bill" Mumy, Jr.

★ Keith Rupert Murdoch

N–Q

★ Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr.

★ Marvin John "Jack" Nance

★ William John Terence "Terry" Neill

★ Robert Michael Nesmith

★ George Robert "Bob" Newhart

★ Judy Newton (Juice Newton)

★ Sir James David Niven

★ Christopher Trotman "Trot" Nixon

★ Thomas Tertius Noble

★ G. David Nordley

★ Mary Flannery O'Connor

★ Evelyn Renee O'Connor

★ J. Pat O'Malley

★ Abraham de Lacy Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley

★ Patrick Ryan O'Neal

★ J. Robert Oppenheimer

★ Olive Marie Osmond

★ Melvin Wayne Osmond

★ Donald Corey Patterson

★ Margaret Jane Pauley

★ Eldred Gregory Peck

★ David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah

★ William John Peel (politician)

★ H. Ross Perot

★ Coy Luther "Luke" Perry III

★ Robert Storm Petersen (Storm P.)

★ Petrus Lewi Pethrus

★ William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins

★ Matthew Ryan Phillippe

★ Laura Mackenzie Phillips

★ H. Beam Piper

★ Mary Myfanwy Piper

★ William Bradley "Brad" Pitt

★ Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer

★ Jules Henri Poincaré

★ Helen Beatrix Potter

★ John Enoch Powell

★ Keith Harvey Proctor

★ José Alberto "Albert" Pujols

★ James Danforth "Dan" Quayle

R–T

★ A. Philip Randolph

★ J. Arthur Rank

★ Charles Robert Redford

★ Robert Oliver Reed

★ M. Jodi Rell

★ William James Remar

★ Richard Shane Reynolds

★ Michael Trent Reznor

★ Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards (Viv Richards)

★ Margaret LeAnn Rimes

★ Roger Royce Ring

★ William Heath Robinson

★ Albert Dwayne Roloson

★ Willard Mitt Romney

★ Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

★ Robert Kevin Rose

★ George Ryan Ross

★ Alfred Damon Runyon

★ David Dean Rusk

★ Ernestine Jane Russell

★ Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr.

★ Richard Sean Salisbury

★ Anna Eleanor Seagraves

★ Olga Maria Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

★ George Thomas "Tom" Seaver

★ Edith Norma Shearer

★ Christa Brooke Camille Shields

★ M. Night Shyamalan

★ Marvin Neil Simon

★ T. Dan Smith

★ David Shepard Smith, Jr.

★ James Cory Snyder

★ Edward Lee Spence

★ William Michael "Mike" Stanton

★ Michael Gary Stevens

★ William Payne Stewart

★ John Michael Stipe

★ Giles Lytton Strachey

★ Christopher Ruben Studdard

★ William Scott Sullivan

★ Howard Bruce Sutter

★ Renee Kristen "Kristy" Swanson

★ James Hudson Taylor

★ Charles Walter "Walt" Terrell

★ James Strom Thurmond

★ Preston Robert Tisch

★ Thomas Bubba Trammell

★ Georgi Suka-Alex Trebek

★ William David Trimble

★ Mary Margaret Truman Daniel

★ Robert Edward "Ted" Turner, III

U–Z

★ Pinderos Roy Vagelos

★ Clarence Leroy "Lee" Van Cleef, Jr.

★ Queen Alexandrina Victoria

★ Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

★ M. Emmet Walsh

★ Aaron Montgomery Ward

★ Graeme Murray Walker

★ Marie Dionne Warwick

★ George Roger Waters

★ John David Weathers

★ Mayce Edward Christopher "Chris" Webber, III

★ Peter John "Johnny" Weismuller

★ George Orson Welles

★ Robert Kip Wells

★ Mary Jessamyn West

★ Constance Mary Whitehouse

★ John Richard Whiteley

★ Edward Gough Whitlam

★ Lawrence Douglas Wilder

★ James Hoyt Wilhelm

★ Stephen Bradley "Brad" Wilkerson

★ Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams

★ Walter Bruce Willis

★ James Harold Wilson

★ Thomas Woodrow Wilson

★ Mary Debra Winger

★ Dwight Randolph "Randy" Winn

★ Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon

★ Michael Terence "Terry" Wogan

★ Adeline Virginia Woolf

★ Vina Fay Wray

★ Efraym Elliott Yamin

★ Brett Ace Young

★ Mary Sean Young

★ Jon Steven "Steve" Young

See also

★ List of one-word stage names

★ List of people known by initials

References

★ 'Lucaire, Ed.' ''The Celebrity Almanac.'' Published in 1992 by Prentice Hall, New York.