I like the "inaptonym" section on the Wikipedia page about them. Mr Bowler played cricket but was, in fact, a batsman. (For the Americans, imagine a "Mr Pitcher" who played baseball, but was a specialist batter and not, in fact, a pitcher.)

[–] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Haha, I just looked a this list a couple of months ago (which is why I knew it had a name).

But I forgot about "Rob Banks, British police officer". Brilliant.

And I remember that "Don Black, white supremacist" also cracked me up, last time.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It really amused me to know there is an American football player named Jake Butt who played a position called "tight end". Glad to see he's made the list.

Edit: Wow, reading through that list....Someone out there really went and named their child "Marijuana Pepsi". And her siblings and parents all have normal names...

[–] weew@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Karpathy used to be the lead engineer for Tesla's self-driving software development. I thought that was funny.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Oddly enough, Hugh Panelgappy ran the assembly line too

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Gwen Shotwell - SpaceX CEO