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I realize this is off topic, but I just have to say… that is a pretty awesome name.

One joke we had in grad school is great roboticists had interesting names… one of my favorite examples was Howie Choset (How he choose it). One of the many interesting/colorful folk I have met on my journey.

I sometimes wonder that by having an “unusual name”, by making you “stand out”, further promotes you to deliberately stand out.

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Doug Bowser is the president of Nintendo of America. Surname usually isn't exercised as a choice... but he probably got slightly more attention for it at Nintendo. Maybe that was enough!

I think there's something to the name theory, though it's probably ~1% of the equation. Someone with a colorful name probably has colorful parents, which would be the other ~99%.

Somewhat related, check out Nominative Determinism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

These is, inevitably, a subreddit devoted to it as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/NominativeDeterminism/

You mean like the Austin urologist named Dick Chopp, who specializes in vasectomies? He even offers a t-shirt to his patients that reads "I was 'chopped' at the Urology Team."

(all of this is true)

There is a urologist at my local hospital by the name of Dr Hardon

Not going to Google for this.

I've also had a doctor and surgeon with the last name Slaughter, but that's a much more common surname.

There was a cardio surgeon in the 70s in Las Vegas named Slaughter.

He retired last November. I had a coworker who used his services (but never wore the t-shirt to work)

My urologist in Colorado was Dr Peter Standard. https://www.md.com/doctor/peter-standard-md

My wife's urologist in Berkeley was Dr. Piser: http://www.goldengateurology.com/md-joel-piser.html

I don't get this one.

Piser > Pisser

It's close to "pisser" which would be another slang term for male genitalia.

Why is this comment being downvoted? It seems in good faith to me.

I was convinced for the longest time that her name was just an alias investigators used, but I agree, great name.

I randomly encountered one of the works of Kelly Kosmo O'Neil, an astrophysicist: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Kelly-... :)

The Philadelphia police commissioner's name is Danielle Outlaw.

Sounds like an instance of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

When I was in astronomy one of the authors on a seminal paper in my subfield was named Aristotle Socrates.

I think he left astronomy, but he had a number of well cited papers: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3...

Many HN readers aspire to someday be Zeus Engineer:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeus-engineer-83b4111b/?original...

I still think Ransom Love is the strangest name in tech, but this one's a close second.

I legally changed my name to Peacefully Revoking Consent To Be Governed/ For You/ And For/ All (/'s indicate name breaks). It definitely encourages me to deliberately stand out.

I'll let you incur the wrath of the desk name placard makers and business card printers.

Reminds me of a race horse lol

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