Father’s Day Names: Dads of the rich and famous

It’s Father’s Day, and once more this year we commemorate the holiday 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).  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 Father’s Day names to prove the point:

Abraham — Bob Dylan

Alfred (called Freddie) –  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 (Cassius Clay)

Clarence –   Ernest Hemingway, Billie Holiday

Clyde – John Wayne (born Marion)

Cornelius –  Tennessee Williams (born Thomas)

Delbert–    Gene Autry

Elias –   Walt Disney, Cary Grant (born Archie)

Emile –   Henri Matisse

Ernest–   Robert Rauschenberg

Fernando –  Luciano Pavarotti

Floyd—Tina Turner

Francis –   Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Zappa, Georgia O’Keeffe (his middle name Calyxtus)

Fraser–Michelle Obama

Gadla –   Nelson Mandela

Gerard –  Laurence Olivier

Gerrit–   Rembrandt Van Rijn

Gunther—Heidi Klum

Gustav –   Arnold Schwarzenegger

Herschel– Kirk Douglas

Homer—Johnny Carson

Hugh –Hillary Clinton

Isadore –  Arthur Miller

Istvan —  Bela Lugosi

Jakob —   Sigmund Freud, Johannes Brahms

Jarvis –  Norman Rockwell

Jonas –  Ava Gardner

Josiah –    Benjamin Franklin

Justus — Ingrid Bergman

Kalman– Jerry Seinfeld

Karamchand — Mahatma Gandhi

Kenneth –  David Hockney

Khatskel – Marc Chagall

Knud – Henrik Ibsen

Leo—Jack Kerouac

Leopold –  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Leslie –  Virginia Woolf, Chuck Close

Ludovico –  Michelangelo

Louis–Auguste —  Paul Cezanne

Maximilian— Mel Brooks

Morris –  George Gershwin

Murry –   William Faulkner

Moses—Milton Berle

Newell —   Andrew Wyeth

Niccolo –  Marco Polo

Nicholas – George Clooney

Pavel –   Anton Chekhov

Peter – Thomas Jefferson

Ross — Elvis Costello

Sargent—Maria Shriver

Sol –   J D Salinger

Squire –   Daniel Boone

Sylvio ––  Madonna

Theodous –  Vincent Van Gogh

Vernon –  Elvis Presley

Walter—Julia Roberts

Wilhelm –   Frida Kahlo

Winton – James Dean