Last Names

• Cher's full name is Cherilyn Sarkisian.
• O'Hanlon was the last name of the eight-year-old girl named Virginia who wrote to the "New York Sun," asking if there really was a Santa Claus.
• Agatha Christie's last name was Mallowan. Her full name was Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie Mallowan.
• Tarzan's last name was Clayton...John Clayton, Jr., Lord Greystoke.
• Bob Dylan's real last name is Zimmerman.
• The most popular last names:
  

  CHINA: Chang	HOLLAND: De Vries
  FRANCE: Martin	RUSSIA: Ivanov
  GREAT BRITAIN: Smith	SPAIN: García
  KOREA: Kim	SWEDEN: Johannson
  GERMANY: Schultz	U.S.A.: Smith

• Li'l Abner's last name is Yokum.
• The last name of the character named Rick, played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 movie classic "Casablanca," was Blaine.
• The Lone Ranger's last name was Reid...John Reid.
• The last name of the family in the TV series "Father Knows Best," was Anderson.
• Tokyo Rose's last name was D'Aquino. Iva Ikuko Toguri d'Aquino spoke in a bright and sexy voice, broadcasting Japanese propaganda about Japan's successes in order to demoralize the Allied troops in the Pacific theater during World War II. She was an American citizen with Japanese parents. She had a degree from UCLA, and had been visiting a sick relative in Japan when war broke out. She chose to join the Japanese Broadcasting Company and was trained by an American prisoner of war. In 1948 she was tried by the U.S. and sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for treason.
• The last name of the New York financier nicknamed Diamond Jim was Brady (James Buchanan Brady).
• The last name of the Red Baron was Richthofen . . . Manfred von Richthofen. The German flying ace was credited with shooting down 80 enemy aircraft, the highest total of any flier in World War I. He was killed in action on April 21, 1918.
• In the popular TV comedy series "I Love Lucy," Lucy's last name before she married Ricky Ricardo was McGillicuddy.
• Typhoid Mary's last name was Mallon. She was the institutional and household cook who spread the disease typhoid from house to house in the early part of the 20th century. She died in 1938.
• Malcolm X's last name was Little. The black activist took the name Malik El Shabazz when he joined the Black Muslims. Later a pilgrimage to Mecca earned him the title El-Haji.
• John Wayne's real last name was Morrison . . . Marion Michael Morrison.
• Ann-Margaret's last name is Olsson. She was born in Valsjobyn, Sweden.
• Barbie (the doll) has a last name . . . it's Roberts. She was named for Barbie Handler, the daughter of the cofounders of Mattel, Ruth and Elliott Handler. They founded Mattel with Harold Mattson in 1945. Barbie was patented in 1953.
• The full name of Dorothy, the little girl swept into adventure by a Kansas tornado in "The Wizard of Oz" is Dorothy Gale.