It’s Father’s Day, and once more this year we commemorate the holiday with a list of some notable names of the paternal parents of celebrities of various times and places, with some truly unusual examples, as in Archulus (Truman Capote) and Belmont (Humphrey Bogart).  It turns out that quite a  number of past (and a few present) notables have had Dads with interesting, and sometimes surprising, names.  Here are some Father’s Day names to prove the point:

　　Abraham — Bob Dylan

　　Alfred (called Freddie) –  John Lennon

　　Allan – Herman Melville

　　Andrej –   Andy Warhol

　　Andrew –   Roy Rogers

　　Archulus —  Truman Capote

　　Augustine —  George Washington

　　Bailey — Ray Charles, Maya Angelou

　　Belmont –  Humphrey Bogart

　　Cassius —  Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay)

　　Clarence –   Ernest Hemingway, Billie Holiday

　　Clyde – John Wayne (born Marion)

　　Cornelius –  Tennessee Williams (born Thomas)

　　Delbert–    Gene Autry

　　Elias –   Walt Disney, Cary Grant (born Archie)

　　Emile –   Henri Matisse

　　Ernest–   Robert Rauschenberg

　　Fernando –  Luciano Pavarotti

　　Floyd—Tina Turner

　　Francis –   Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Zappa, Georgia O’Keeffe (his middle name Calyxtus)

　　Fraser–Michelle Obama

　　Gadla –   Nelson Mandela

　　Gerard –  Laurence Olivier

　　Gerrit–   Rembrandt Van Rijn

　　Gunther—Heidi Klum

　　Gustav –   Arnold Schwarzenegger

　　Herschel– Kirk Douglas

　　Homer—Johnny Carson

　　Hugh –Hillary Clinton

　　Isadore –  Arthur Miller

　　Istvan —  Bela Lugosi

　　Jakob —   Sigmund Freud, Johannes Brahms

　　Jarvis –  Norman Rockwell

　　Jonas –  Ava Gardner

　　Josiah –    Benjamin Franklin

　　Justus — Ingrid Bergman

　　Kalman– Jerry Seinfeld

　　Karamchand — Mahatma Gandhi

　　Kenneth –  David Hockney

　　Khatskel – Marc Chagall

　　Knud – Henrik Ibsen

　　Leo—Jack Kerouac

　　Leopold –  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

　　Leslie –  Virginia Woolf, Chuck Close

　　Ludovico –  Michelangelo

　　Louis–Auguste —  Paul Cezanne

　　Maximilian— Mel Brooks

　　Morris –  George Gershwin

　　Murry –   William Faulkner

　　Moses—Milton Berle

　　Newell —   Andrew Wyeth

　　Niccolo –  Marco Polo

　　Nicholas – George Clooney

　　Pavel –   Anton Chekhov

　　Peter – Thomas Jefferson

　　Ross — Elvis Costello

　　Sargent—Maria Shriver

　　Sol –   J D Salinger

　　Squire –   Daniel Boone

　　Sylvio ––  Madonna

　　Theodous –  Vincent Van Gogh

　　Vernon –  Elvis Presley

　　Walter—Julia Roberts

　　Wilhelm –   Frida Kahlo

　　Winton – James Dean