- Akihito (born 1933), Japanese emperor
- Cher (born 1946 Cherilyn Sarkisian), American singer
- Michiko (born 1934 Michiko Shōda), Japanese empress consort
- Hirohito (born 1901), Japanese emperor
- Prince (born 1958 Prince Rogers Nelson), American musician
- Sukarno (born 1901), Indonesian president
- Suharto (born 1921), Indonesian president
- Teller (born 1948 Raymond Joseph Teller), American magician
26 May 2011
Legally mononymous people
My post about Cher last week prompted Swift Loris to post a reminder comment that Cher is "mononymous." So of course I had to look up to see who else might be considered mononymous. There is a LONG list of one-word stage names at Wikipedia (most of them not from the U.S.), and a much shorter list of people who are legally mononymous, either by birth custom (Japanese and Indonesian royalty) or by court order:
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ReplyDeleteMisspellings fixed. Thanks for the heads-up.
ReplyDeleteOh, thank goodness! When this first went up, I thought I'd misspelled it and 'Stan had tactfully corrected me!
ReplyDelete--Swift Loris
No, I actually spelled it three different ways in three tries. Haste makes waste.
ReplyDeleteI know the implications of america's view on celebrity status are obvious.
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