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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Middle Names
Gandhi. Gandhi's real name was 'Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi'. He was called 'Mahatma' which means 'great soul'.
| Booker Washington, a famous African-American educator and speechmaker, had a middle name that began with T. What did the 'T' stand for? | Famous People's Middle Names
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Taliaferro. Like many former American slaves, Booker chose his own middle name, Taliaferro.
| Robert Warren, U.S. poet and writer of such novels as 'All the King's Men', had a fitting middle name. What was it? | Famous People's Middle Names
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Penn. The book, 'All the King's Men', was based on the career of the Louisiana politician, Huey Long. Warren won pulitzer prizes in both poetry and prose, the only author to receive such an honor.
Warren Harding. Warren Harding served a corruption filled couple years in office before his tragic death, one of the several presidents to die in office.
Campbell. You might have heard of his son, Campbell Scott, who is also a Hollywood actor, and obviously named after his father.
| U.S. admiral David Farragut had an unusual middle name, the name of a Scottish city. Which city's name also served as his middle name? | Famous People's Middle Names
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Glasgow. Admiral Farragut was a naval hero of the U.S. civil war, and his parents were obviously fond of Scotland.
Amadeus. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, or 'Wolfie' if you're someone close.
Sergeyevich. If you take a look, you'll notice that lots of Russian male middle names end in '-vich' or '-vitch'. The '-vich' or '-vitch' denotes 'son of...'. Thus both Gorbachev and Khrushchev were sons of Sergei.
| The 16th-17th century Flemish painter Peter Rubens seems to have had parents that were fond of apostles. What was his middle name? | Famous People's Middle Names
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Paul. Peter Paul ... also the name of a candy company, go figure.
Rosalyn . She spelled her name Rosalynn, but Rosalyn is also accepted in this question.
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