The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #106692   Message #2212044
Posted By: PoppaGator
09-Dec-07 - 03:30 PM
Thread Name: Single Name Basis
Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
A lot of famous people become recognizable by their last names only (Shakespeare, Einstein), but we generally know them by first-and-last name ~ not quite the same thing as first-names-onlies like Cher or Madonna, whose last names were never part of their public personna, or even like Beyonce or Kobe or Kareem, each of whom gradually came to the point where their last names were no longer necessary to identify them.