INTERESTING
NAMES AND PROFESSIONS
- Bankers, Wallowa County, Oregon: Cheatham & Steele
- Chorister, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey: Justin Tune
- Gynaecologist, New York Hospital, New York City: Dr Zoltan Ovary
- Chairman, Tetley Tea Company, London: Tetley Ironsides Tetley Jones
- Dentist, Roslyn Heights, New York: Dr. E. Z. Filler
- Phlebotomist, St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, UK: Lavinia Blood
- The national Director of Surgery at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C. Dr Blades
- Plumber Worcester UK: Mr Turner-Heaton
- Lloyds/TSB Bank Manager, Waterlooville, UK: Mr F. Knox
- Mr. Vice, Malefactor, New Orleans, Louisiana. Arrested 890 times and convicted 421, probably a record (International Herald Tribune)
- Interior decorator, Reading, UK: Derek Paynter
- Municipal Tax Collector, Brazil (Financial Times): Cardiac Arrest da Silva
- Funeral Director, Sydney, Australia: C. D' Eath and Sons
[Will once knew a Mrs Pine-Coffin from Devon, UK but she was an owner of holiday cottages not an undertaker] - Landscape Gardeners from Salisbury, UK called: Budd and Bush
- Silent Movie Organist, Rochester, New York: C. Sharp Minor
- Central City, Kentucky automobile salesman: Henry Ford Carr
- Never Fail is a builder in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Mr Robbins is a renowned ornithologist (bird scientist and bird-bander) at a Federal wildlife research center in Maryland, USA. He is co-author of the guidebook "Birds of North America".
- This one does fit in at all with the others but we couldn't resist it: Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet, Commissaire de Police, Paris, France in the 1930's
- David Bird is an ornithologist.
- Scott Constable is, of course, a policemen.
- Helen Painter is an artist.
- Raymond Strike has to be a Trades Union leader.
- Shona Shears cuts people's hair.
- Steve Adore is a dock worker.
- Dr Joseph Babey is a paediatrician.
- Dr Djerk works as a psychiatrist.
- Bertha de Bleus is a jazz singer [sounds suspicious to me says Will].
- And yes, Dr D'Eath is a surgeon.
- Alan Ball, English footballer who played in England's 1966 World Cup winning team.
- Anna Smashnova, tennis player.
- Billy Drummond, American jazz drummer.
- Bob Flowerdew, gardener and Gardeners' Question Time panellist.
- Bob Rock, rock music producer, including Metallica and Bon Jovi.
- Brenda Song, singer.
- Cecil Fielder and his son Prince Fielder, baseball players.
- Jaime Gold winner of 2006 World Series of Poker
- Chuck Long, former NFL quarterback for the Detroit Lions and the Los Angeles Rams.
- Henry Head, an English neurologist.
- Igor Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales .
- Learned Hand, judge.
- Lord Brain, neurologist.
- Marc Rich, billionaire financier.
- Margaret Court, tennis player.
- Margaret Spellings, Education Secretary under George W. Bush.
- Peter Bowler, cricketer who was, in fact, primarily a batsman.
- Pippa Greenwood, plant pathologist and "Gardeners' Question Time" panellist in the UK.
- Scott Free a defence attorney.
- Thomas Crapper, manufacturer of Victorian toilets. Please note that the word "crap" predates Mr Crapper.] .
- Tiger Woods, golfer [A wood is a type of golf club].
- Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter, Olympic Gold medalist, 100m and 200m world record holder.
- William Wordsworth, poet.
- Larry Speakes - Ronald Regan's Whitehouse spokesman.
- Lord Judge - Chief justice in England.
- Chris Moneymaker - Poker player.
- Stephen Rowbotham - British Olympic oarsman.
- And last but not least Usain Bolt.
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