FATHER’S DAY NAMES: Celebrity Dads

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:

ABRAHAM — BOB DYLAN

ALFRED —  JOHN LENNON

ALLAN — HERMAN MELVILLE

ANDREJ —   ANDY WARHOL

ANDREW —   ROY ROGERS

ARCHULUS —  TRUMAN CAPOTE

AUGUSTINE —  GEORGE WASHINGTON

BAILEY — RAY CHARLES, MAYA ANGELOU

BELMONT —  HUMPHREY BOGART

CASSIUS —  MOHAMMED ALI

CLARENCE —   ERNEST HEMINGWAY

CLYDE — JOHN WAYNE

CORNELIUS —  TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

DELBERT —    GENE AUTRY

ELIAS —   WALT DISNEY, CARY GRANT

EMILE —   HENRI MATISSE

ERNEST—   ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

FERNANDO —  LUCIANO PAVAROTTI

FRANCIS —   ELIZABETH TAYLOR (shown)

FRASER—MICHELLE OBAMA

GADLA —   NELSON MANDELA

GERARD —  LAURENCE OLIVIER

GERRIT —   REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

GUSTAV —   ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

HUGH —HILLARY CLINTON

ISADORE —  ARTHUR MILLER

ISTVAN —  BELA LUGOSI

JAKOB —   SIGMUND FREUD, JOHANNES BRAHMS

JARVIS —  NORMAN ROCKWELL

JOHANN — LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN

JONAS —  AVA GARDNER

JOSIAH —    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

JUSTUS — INGRID BERGMAN

KARAMCHAND — MAHATMA GANDHI

KENNETH —  DAVID HOCKNEY

KHATSKEL — MARC CHAGALL

KNUD — HENRIK IBSEN

LEOPOLD —  WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

LESLIE —  VIRGINIA WOOLF, CHUCK CLOSE

LUDOVICO —  MICHELANGELO

LOUIS–AUGUSTE —  PAUL CEZANNE

MORRIS —  GEORGE GERSHWIN

MURRY —   WILLIAM FAULKNER

NEWELL —   ANDREW WYETH

NICCOLO —  MARCO POLO

NICHOLAS — GEORGE CLOONEY

PAVEL —   ANTON CHEKHOV

PETER — THOMAS JEFFERSON

ROSS — Elvis Costello

SOL —   J D SALINGER

SQUIRE —   DANIEL BOONE

SYLVIO ––  MADONNA

THEODOUS —  VINCENT VAN GOGH

VERNON —  ELVIS PRESLEY

WILHELM —   FRIDA KAHLO

WINTON — JAMES DEAN

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.