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George V of the U.K.

to which I add

George Lazenby

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George Bernard Shaw

Craig Ferguson

Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson - Manchester United Football Club manager.

Alexander Dumas (pere)

Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton Jordan

Barbara Jordan

Thanks for giving me the stimulus to remember a wonderfully inspirational woman!

Nathaniel Parker

Nathaniel Hawthorne

ntha

Nathaniel Harris

Richard Harris

Rolf Harris

Pawxatawney Phil

not a person, sorry I couldn't help myself...you can just skip me.

Phil Silver

#10 Always happy to oblige, Maggie!

Phil Collins

Judy Collins

Judy Garland

Dame Judy Dench

Dame Edna Everage

Dame Diana Rigg

Diana Spenser

Diana Ross

Ross MacDonald

Ronald McDonald

Donald MacDonald

Donald Trump

Donald Sutherland

Alfred E. Neuman

Maria Von Trapp

Maria Callas

Jose mMaria de Valle-Inclan

Jose Canseco

Jose Feliciano

Jose Maria Regidor

Jose Cuervo (hic) I mean , the person of course.

José Julián Martí Pérez

Julian Bream, lutenist

Gore Vidal's (Emperor) Julian

Saint Julian of Norwich

Julian Bond

Bond. James Bond.

Jesse James

Henry James

(stupid touchstone won't load.)

Bill Clinton

George Clinton (of the Funkadelics)

Elizabeth Peters

James Taylor

General Richard Taylor

General Louis Botha

+ Louis Auchincloss +

George Burns

George Clooney

Rosemary Boxer (in "Rosemary and Thyme")

Barbara Boxer

Barbara Streisand

Barbara Hambly

Barbara Bush

Guy de Maupassant

Family Guy

Guy Lombardo

Buddy Guy

Buddy Holly

Buddy Ebsen

Ondaatje's "Buddy Bolden"

Buddy Rich

Edward "Buddy" Leroux}

note on 87: I mistakenly made Buddy Bolden look like a fictional character. Of course he's real. (I'm not an expert on music history). But ok for
this thread, fictional or r eal.

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Edward Kennedy

King Edward IV

Edward Windsor

Edward Scissorhands

Edward O. Wilson

Charles "Electric Charley" Wilson

Ed Charles

Mr. Ed, The Talking Horse

Ed Asner

Ed(ward) R. Murrow

David Bowie

Stevenson's "David Balfour"

David Hasselhoff

darn....I've spent the last few moments wracking my elderly brain to remember Peter....Sellers name. Too late.

King David

David Copperfield

David Beckham

Charles Wallace Murry

from A Wrinkle in Time

Henry Winkler

Harrison Ford

Ford Prefect (in HHGTG)

Ford Madox Ford

Henry Ford

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*waves at Jan*

Edsel Ford

*waving wildly back at you*

Gerald R. Ford

Betty Ford

Bette Davis

Gina Davis

Gina Lollabrigida

Gina Torres

Bartolome de Torres-Naharro

Bartolomeu Dias

Gary Larson

Sarah Larson

Patrick Stewart

Stewart Granger

Hermione Granger

Mayhar's "Hermione the Spy"

spy getting warm*

*as in: LeCarre's The Spy who Came in from the Cld

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Beecher Stowe

*Hi, Karen! (#144)*

Judith B. Jones

*waves happily back at Jan* (#145)

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Lisa Marie Presley

Michael Moore

Vladimir Horowitz, pianist

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Ivan Ilyich

[Jay Brandon]

Jay Silverheels

John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, (D W VA)

John D. MacDonald

Ramsay MacDonald

Gordon Ramsay

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Gen. Charles Gordon
aka "Gordon of Khartoum"

Ray Charles

Charles II of Scotland
and England

Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales

George Forman, Prince of the Grill and father of several George Formans

Henry Hudson

Sid Hudson

Sid Caesar

Caesar Romero*

*Oddly what Touchstones picks up from
"Caesar Romero" is Courtney's memorable(?)
critique: Shakespeare's World of death: the early Tragedies And S.'s King Lear
"Caesar" was a tragedy, but was it "early"? and "Lear" definitely wasn't early.

Oscar Romero

Oscar de la Renta

Oscar the Grouch

Oscar Mayer

( Oh, I wish I was a ...)

John Mayer

John Major

former PM of Great Britain

John Jakes

John Calvin Coolidge

John Lennon

Mamie Eisenhower

Mamie van Doren

Mark van Doren

Mark Wahlberg

Marky Mark

Stephen G. Mark

Stephen Foster (Sing-a-long)

Francis Bacon

Roger Moore

Alec Baldwin

Stephen Baldwin

Steve McQueen

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar A. Guest

Bob Barker

Len Barker

Lennie Bruce

King Robert "the" Bruce

"Robert Rabbits"*

*minor character in Caradoc Evans's
great Nothing to Pay

Robert Langdon
from the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons

"Moses Herzog" *

*from Bellow's classic Herzog

Moshe Dayan

Joan Baez

Joan Jett

Joan Fontaine

Joan Audrey Kerry

Audrey Hepburn

Catherine Parr

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Jack Johnson

Go Kings!

Jack Kennedy

Jack The Ripper

(mwehhhh)

Desmond Morris

William Penn

Sean Penn

Sean Lennon

Richard Dreyfuss

Marni Nixon

Otis Redding

Milo and Otis

Otis Taylor

Taylor Caldwell

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel L. Jackson

Bo Diddley

John Derek

John Edwards

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon

The Lennon Sisters

The Twisted Sisters

Dominican Sisters

The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Mary Quant

Owen Tudor

Henry VII aka "Richmond", aka Henry Tudor

Shucks!! I missed a chance for Owen Wister!!

Henry Fonda

Peter Fonda

Peter O'Toole

Hermes Pan

Hermes Trismegistus

>279 To quote Obi Wan, "There's a name I've not heard in many a year . . . "

Charles-Emile Hermes

N.O. Brown's Hermes the thief

Father Brown

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Conrad's Lord Jim

Jim Henson

Matthew Broderick

Broderick Crawford

Joan Crawford

Joan Baez

Joan Bennett

Elizabeth Bennett

Mary Bennett

Mary Landrieu

Mary of "William & Mary", co (?)-ruler of
England and Scotland, 17th c.

William III of England - co-ruler with his wife, Mary II (I'm not sure if his last name would be considered Nassau or Orange-Nassau).

William Monk (Anne Perry's detective)

"Mr. Monk" ( Lee Goldberg's
detective)

I think Monk's first name is Adrian, so...

Adrian Mole

Doctor Faustus: the Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn
by Thomas Mann

Thomas Woodrow Wilson*

*I didn't quite follow the rules in 304, by posting a bookk title instead of a person;
but it was a title featuring a person. 305 may be slightly wrong by playing on an author who isn't the "person" of 304 but I'm accepting it.

Sir Thomas More

Harold LLoyd

David Lloyd George

Jacques-Louis David

Donald Trump

Donald Duck (?)

Donald Sutherland

Kiefer Sutherland

Joan Sutherland (thinks: I wonder how many steps it would take to get from her to Kiri te Kanawa?)

Ivan Sutherland

Ivan the Terrible

Ivan Vorpatril in Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series.

Ivan Rodriguez

Alex Rodriquez

Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez

Carmen San Diego

Carmen Jones

Lisa Simpson

Jessica Simpson

Wallis Simpson

Ernest Hemingway

J. P. Patches

Robin Morgan

Robin Williams

Ted Kennedy

Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick Stewart

Kristen Stewart

Stewart Brand

Dollar Brand, now known as Abdullah Ebrahim

Max Headroom

Rosemary Wellsʻs "Max"

H.G. Wells

Caroline Alexander

Author touchstone not working

Caroline Keene

Johnny Keene

Johnny Quest

Gibsonʻs Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Depp

Gun-securing Johnny*

*as in Trumboʻs Johnny Got his Gun}

Johnny Cash

Roseanne Cash

Roseanne Barr

Bob Barr

Bob Hope

Anthony Perkins

Roland Perkins!

Howard K. Smith

E.E. 'Doc' Smith

e. e. cummings

E.E. Bell
or Walt Cummings - Character out of 24 Season 5

Walter Cronkite

Benjamin Franklin

Eleanor Roosevelt

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

(I love Alice Roosevelt Longworth)

Alice Cooper

Alice Liddell

Alice B. Toklas

Alice B. Toklas

Philip Glass

Phil Silvers

Dr. Phil McGraw

Tim McGraw

Tim Allen

Tim Conway

just as a derailment, I've found myself playing this game in my head on my commute to/from work, lol. The radio will play a song, I think of the artist's name and I immediately start doing name associations. Then the next thing I know, I'm pulling into the driveway w/no memory of my trip home...scary!!

Cardinal Willliam Conway

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

Thomas the Tank Engine

#396 HAHA derailment haha Guess it is lucky you drove into your own driveway

Thomas Hardy

The Scottsboro Boys

Beastie Boys

Boy George

Elizabeth George

George Lucas

Gorgeous George

George Clooney

Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Wells

Orson Welles

Orson Bean

Freebie and the Bean

Jack and the Bean stalk

Mr Bean, aka Rowan Atkinson

L.L. Bean , I don't know any more beans, How about bananas?

heehee

I'm switching this to

Kate Atkinson

Kate Hudson

Henry Hudson

The Hudson Brothers (Bill, Brett, Mark)

ok, just picking one at random....

Bill Murray

Bill Clinton

Bill Cosby

Bill Evans

Dale Evans

Dan Evans (former governor of Washington State)

Dan Blocker

I know these don't count, but can't resist: Daniel Boone, and BETA BLOCKER

Pat Boone

Pat Robertson

Robbie Benson