FATHER’S DAY NAMES: Celebrity Dads
Posted June 17th, 2010
Once more this year we commemorate Father’s Day with a list of some notable names of the paternal parents of celebrities of various times and places, with some truly unusual examples, as in Archulus (Truman Capote) and Belmont (Humphrey Bogart). As with the moms we displayed on Mother’s Day, it turns out that quite a number of past (and a few present) notables have had Dads with interesting, and sometimes surprising, names. Here are some examples to prove the point:
ANDREJ – ANDY WARHOL
ARCHULUS — TRUMAN CAPOTE
BAILEY — RAY CHARLES, MAYA ANGELOU
CORNELIUS – TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
ELIAS – WALT DISNEY, CARY GRANT
FRANCIS – ELIZABETH TAYLOR (shown)
GUSTAV – ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
ISTVAN — BELA LUGOSI
JAKOB — SIGMUND FREUD, JOHANNES BRAHMS
KARAMCHAND — MAHATMA GANDHI
KHATSKEL – MARC CHAGALL
LEOPOLD – WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
LESLIE – VIRGINIA WOOLF, CHUCK CLOSE
SYLVIO -- MADONNA
The father of the Marx Brothers clan was born Simon, which became Sam, but was always known as Frenchy, because he was born in Alsace, France.
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