Fact Players Who Share Their Names With Famous People or Fictional Charcters

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This is CNN reporter Campbell Brown:

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Danny Minougue debuted in 1911. Player for three clubs, coach at five.

Russell Morris - pop star, big hit with "The Real Thing". Hawthorn/St Kilda player.
 

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Robert Harvey combines a successful career singing and playing guitar for Leeds alternative band The Music with a little coaching at Carlton.
 
Gordon Ramsay played a handful of games for the Saints in the 40s.

And I am pretty sure there was a James Bond who played briefly in the early 90s, I think for Footscray or Fitzroy.
 
Sam Mitchell is an NBA Coach
Jim Plunkett was a former Carlton and Bulldogs player and also a famous NFL quarterback probably in the 60s/70s
Michael Turner was a long serving Geelong player and is now one of the best running backs in the NFL
 
How about Steven Johnson (Stephen/Steve)

Steve Johnson (rugby player) former Leicester Tigers and England blindside flanker
Steve Johnson (American football), wide receiver playing for the Buffalo Bills
Steve Johnson (footballer), Australian Football League player
Steve Johnson (basketball), former National Basketball Association player
Steve Johnson (English footballer), former professional footballer
Steve Johnson (illustrator), children's book illustrator, most notably on Jon Scieszka's book The Frog Prince, Continued
Steve Johnson (Colorado legislator), member of the Colorado State Senate
Steve Johnson (Days of our Lives), character on Days of our Lives
Sideshow Raheem (aka Steve Johnson), Simpsons character
Steve Johnston, (born 1971), Australian international motorcycle speedway rider
Steven Berlin Johnson, American popular science author, books include Everything Bad Is Good For You and Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Steven Johnson (motor racing), Australian V8 Supercar racing driver
Stephen C. Johnson, computer scientist, mathematician and Unix specialist
Stephen L. Johnson, career civil servant and U.S. Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Stephen R. Johnson, animator and music video director who has worked with Peter Gabriel and Talking Heads
Stephen Johnson (missionary), first Protestant missionary to Foochow

(found on Wikipedia)
 
Generalissimo said:
And I am pretty sure there was a James Bond who played briefly in the early 90s, I think for Footscray or Fitzroy.
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Yes, i believe his nickname was 'Goalfinger'.


Chris Lewis found the time to run around for West Coast and perform all-rounder duties for the English cricket team back in the nineties. very clever.
 

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hendo8888 said:
How about Steven Johnson (Stephen/Steve)

Steve Johnson (rugby player) former Leicester Tigers and England blindside flanker
Steve Johnson (American football), wide receiver playing for the Buffalo Bills
Steve Johnson (footballer), Australian Football League player
Steve Johnson (basketball), former National Basketball Association player
Steve Johnson (English footballer), former professional footballer
Steve Johnson (illustrator), children's book illustrator, most notably on Jon Scieszka's book The Frog Prince, Continued
Steve Johnson (Colorado legislator), member of the Colorado State Senate
Steve Johnson (Days of our Lives), character on Days of our Lives
Sideshow Raheem (aka Steve Johnson), Simpsons character
Steve Johnston, (born 1971), Australian international motorcycle speedway rider
Steven Berlin Johnson, American popular science author, books include Everything Bad Is Good For You and Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Steven Johnson (motor racing), Australian V8 Supercar racing driver
Stephen C. Johnson, computer scientist, mathematician and Unix specialist
Stephen L. Johnson, career civil servant and U.S. Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Stephen R. Johnson, animator and music video director who has worked with Peter Gabriel and Talking Heads
Stephen Johnson (missionary), first Protestant missionary to Foochow

(found on Wikipedia)
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lol

Why not just chuck the name into google, you'll come up with thousands of hits? :p

I'm sure you could find a list at least as long for Smiths/Jones/etc. that have played footy. Hardly an interesting read though.
 
RUNVS said:
Not a footballer but there is some unfortunate reporter for channel 10 with the name Harry Potter.
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his sons play for pennant hills
and one has a scholarship (cant remember if its sydney or hawthorn)

plus a son of one of the other 10 news guys was in my team (Sydney Sport, Perth anchor (at the time (2007)))
cant remember who it was though
 

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Fact Players Who Share Their Names With Famous People or Fictional Charcters

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