SHARED FIRST NAMES
Dern and Willis
Bruce
Broadway Joe
Joe Namath
On January 1, 2004, the name of Montreal’s Dorval airport was changed to honor this late prime minister and Montreal native.
Trudeau (Pierre Elliott)
These toy blocks were invented in 1934 by a Danish carpenter.
Lego
Mrs. Humphrey Bogart
Lauren Bacall
Baryshnikov and Gorbachev
Mikhail
Satchmo
Louis Armstrong
The airport in Jamaica is named for this British author of the James Bond novels, who spent most of his time in Jamaica after WWII.
Ian Fleming
This brand of luggage was named after a Biblical strongman.
Samsonite
Mrs. Johnny Cash
June Carter
Webster and Boone
Daniel
The Wizard of Menlo Park
Thomas Edison
The Odense, Denmark airport was named after this Danish author, who was born in Odense in 1805 and is best remembered for his children’s fairy tales, including The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, and The Ugly Duckling.
Hans Christian Andersen
This brand of frozen potatoes was named for two neighboring Pacific Northwest states, the region where most commercial potato production occurs in the US.
Ore-Ida. (Thirty percent of America’s potatoes are grown in Idaho.)
Mrs. Harry Windsor
Meghan Markle
Carey and Barrymore
Drew
The Bard of Avon
William Shakespeare
This city’s Logan airport was named after Edward Lawrence Logan, a WWI war hero, lawyer, judge, and politician.
Boston
This company introduced self-rising pancake flour in 1890. One-hundred and thirty-years later, its name was changed to the Pearl Milling Company.
Aunt Jemima
Mrs. Matthew Broderick
Sarah Jessica Parker
Winkler and Mancini
Henry
The Last of the Red Hot Mamas
Sophie Tucker
The airport in Salzburg, Austria is named after this favorite son, an 18thcentury classical composer widely considered to be one of the greatest composers in Western music, even though he died at the tender age of 35.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This candy-coated gum brand is named for one of the substances used to make gum.
Chiclets
Mrs. Mel Brooks
Anne Bancroft