It’s Famous Dad Names time!  For Mother’s Day we took a look at some of the more interesting names of the mothers of distinguished people, and now we do the same for the paternal parent.  Once more,  it turns out that an unusual 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:

Famous Dad Names

　　ALFRED (called Freddie) — John Lennon

　　ALLAN — Herman Melville

　　ALLESSANDRO — Maria Montessori

　　ANDREJ — Andy Warhol

　　ARCHULUS — Truman Capote

　　AUGUSTINE —  George Washington

　　BAILEY —  Ray Charles, Maya Angelou

　　BELMONT — Humphrey Bogart

　　CASSIUS —  Mohammed Ali (pictured)

　　CLARENCE —  Ernest Hemingway, Billie Holiday

　　CLYDE  —  John Wayne

　　CORNELIUS —  Tennessee Williams

　　DELBERT  — Gene Autry

　　DOMENICO —  Christopher Columbus

　　ELIAS —  Walt Disney, Cary Grant

　　EMILE —  Henri Matisse

　　FERNANDO  — Luciano Pavarotti

　　FLOYD — Tina Turner

　　FRANCIS  —  Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Zappa, Georgia O’Keeffe (his middle name Calyxtus)

　　GARRETT —  Edward Hopper

　　GERRIT —  Rembrandt van Rijn

　　GUSTAV — Arnold Schwarzenegger

　　HOMER —  Johnny Carson

　　ISTVAN  — Bela Lugosi

　　JAKOB  —  Sigmund Freud, Johannes Brahms

　　JONAS —  Ava Gardner

　　JOSIAH —  Benjamin Franklin

　　JUDAH  —  Isaac Asimov

　　JUSTUS  —  Ingrid Bergman

　　KNUD  —  Henrik Ibsen

　　LEO —  Jack Kerouac

　　LESLIE  —  Virginia Woolf

　　LUDOVICO — Michelangelo

　　MORRIS —  George Gershwin

　　MOSES  — Milton Berle

　　MURRY —  William Faulkner

　　NEWELL  —  Andrew Wyeth

　　NICCOLO  —  Marco Polo

　　PAVEL —  Anton Chekhov

　　SOL —  J. D. Salinger

　　SQUIRE —  Daniel Boone

　　SYLVIO —  Madonna

　　THEODOUS  —  Vincent Van Gogh

　　VERNON  —  Elvis Presley

　　WINTON  —  James Dean

　　Last time many of you shared the names of your own wonderful parents–and we hope you’ll do so again!