More confusables

[dr_whom]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a poet.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a composer.

Claude Lévi-Strauss was an anthropologist.
Levi Strauss sold blue jeans.

Simon Baron-Cohen is a psychologist.
Sacha Baron Cohen is an actor.

Gordon Sumner is Sting.
Gordon Shumway is ALF.

…Okay, that makes five in the category; can I be a Jeopardy! writer yet?

(The Baron-Cohens are cousins. The composer Coleridge-Taylor was named after the poet Coleridge. I know of no relationship between the Levi Strausses or between Sting and ALF.)

Comments

[q10.livejournal.com]

my understanding is that the two Baron-Cohens are cousins, which makes them a different kind of case from the others (at least most of them?).

[dr_whom]

(I was aware of that.)