Famous Namesakes XI

With apologies for slight spelling variations...

1. Will Young (New Zealand & music)
2. Matt Horne (New Zealand & acting/comedy)
3. James Taylor (England & music)
4. Alistair Campbell (Zimbabwe & UK politics)
5. Steve Davi(e)s (England & snooker)
6. Rod Marsh (Australia & football)
7. Chris Morris (South Africa & comedy)
8. Julius Caesar (Surrey & Roman politics)*
9. Jo(h)n Snow (England & newsreading/Westerosi royalty)
10. Yasir Arafat (Pakistan & Palestinian politics)
11. Chris Martin (New Zealand & music)

*The cricketing Julius Caesar was a round-arm fast bowler of the mid-19th century, due to unfortunately early birth he's the only non-international in my XI. A bit of a long tail here as well... any alternative/better ones?

Actually, I guess Will Smith (Durham and acting/music/martial arts) might add a bit of punch to the top order…

Alan Jones (multiple choice opening batsmen/F1 racing champion)

David Steele (1975 'Grey Eminence' omni-presence at #3 for England/UK Liberal politician

Steve Smith (one of two Oz Test cricketers/Rugby international or Rudd/Gillard's foreign minister)

Wayne Clark (Oz medium 1st year WSC/Arsenal footballer, brother of Allan of Leeds, scored winning goal v Liverpool late 80s that preserved a record held by his brother's team, exact details sketchy)

Andrew Hill (SAf 75% of both all-rounder/English record producer and songwriter most notorious for Bucks Fizz but many other credits, former school-mate of mine)

Shane Watson (Oz 75% etc etc/Collingwood footballer 90s who made Gilly look like Chopper Read, Jimmy 'Ghost' Jess like Majak Daw)

Trevor Chappell (career as bowler never got off ground/3am ABC774 radio announcer)

Dennis Lillie - Billy leggie / bloke with half a stand at the WACA

Damien Martin - Wildcats basketballer / sydney scapegoat

Michael Clark --- Son of Dunny and AFL player and FC Cricketer / Toxic Piece of shit

Chris Lewis (talented but bone-headed England all-rounder/talented but hot-headed WCE, or Kiwi surprise Wimbledon finalist 1983)

Kevin Curran (Zimbabwe, sometime Tasmania/Sith Eff tennis player who Lewis beat to set up Wimbledon final cited above). Also KC Sr played for the Zimbos when they were Rhodesia and part of the SA set-up. (Two more KCs (possibly cousins) played AFL simultaneously in the 60s for Richmond and Hawthorn.)

embee wrote:Michael Clark --- Son of Dunny and AFL player and FC Cricketer / Toxic Piece of shit  

Also Melb Cup winning jockey (Al Talaq)

James Langridge, Mike Smith, and surely one of the multiple Paul Kellys must have played a big of cricket

Glenn Turner - Kiwi opener, Aus hockey player

Wayne Bloody and Friggin Phillips

Jeff Thomson and Geoff Thomson Q and WA

Glenn Hughes (mostly Tasmania, lil bro of Kim/Village Person, Deep Purple bassist)

Shaun Young and Sean Young ... sound the same, but didn’t look the same!

Various Michael Johnsons including a former WA player

Imran Khsn and Imraan Khan

Andy Roberts (kiwi bat) and the other one

Gary Gilmour, Gary Gilmore. Both dead, one by state-sanctioned electrocution.

(with apologies - spamming provoked by pre-operative anxiety and intrusive memories)

Ashley Woodcock, Australian cricketer (one Test) and Professor of Medicine in Manchester.

Couple of Abid Ali in my time, too.

Mark Atkinson of WA and one from Tasmania

lardbucket wrote:Gary Gilmour, Gary Gilmore. Both dead, one by state-sanctioned electrocution.

Wasn't he shot? (They said the other one should have been after his Centenary Test efforts)

Kevin Roberts, Sainter, and Kevin Roberts, Dubber and CA Qunt.

They’re everywhere!!

Still find it hard to imagine there ever being more than one famous Jhye Richardson or Caleb Daniel or whatever the hell his first name is Shitmeyer

Tommy Cooper, Phil H's last batting partner/Brit 'just like that' comedian

beamer wrote:With apologies for slight spelling variations...

1. Will Young (New Zealand & music)
2. Matt Horne (New Zealand & acting/comedy)
3. James Taylor (England & music)
4. Alistair Campbell (Zimbabwe & UK politics)
5. Steve Davi(e)s (England & snooker)
6. Rod Marsh (Australia & football)
7. Chris Morris (South Africa & comedy)
8. Julius Caesar (Surrey & Roman politics)*
9. Jo(h)n Snow (England & newsreading/Westerosi royalty)
10. Yasir Arafat (Pakistan & Palestinian politics)
11. Chris Martin (New Zealand & music)

*The cricketing Julius Caesar was a round-arm fast bowler of the mid-19th century, due to unfortunately early birth he's the only non-international in my XI. A bit of a long tail here as well... any alternative/better ones?

Forget the Jon Snow of fiction. The John Snow of early 19th Century England and the cholera map, the saviour of thousands from the consequences of the unsanitary Broad Street pump deserves a guernsey.

Dave Warner - The Suburban Boy (and cricket enthusiast) and the GCS