List of people known by initials
This is a list of people famous enough to be known unambiguously by their initials:
Famous people known by their initials
AI , basketball player
BB , French Actress Brigitte Bardot
BHL , French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy
DMR , computer scientist Dennis Ritchie
DSK , French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn
DNA , British author Douglas Noël Adams
E2R , Queen of the United Kingdom
ESR , Eric Steven Raymond, leading figure in the Open Source movement and maintainer of the Jargon File
FDR , U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FPA , U.S. newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams
H.D. , U.S. Imagist poet Hilda Doolittle
IDS , British politician Iain Duncan Smith
JC , Jesus Christ, for theological reasons some Jewish people refer to him simply as "J"
JFK , U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
J. Lo , U.S. pop musician Jennifer Lopez
JWZ , Free software programmer Jamie Zawinski
J2M , former CEO of Vivendi-Universal Jean-Marie Messier
LBJ , U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson (It must be noted that Johnson so liked his initials that his children and dogs all had them, and he nicknamed his wife Lady Bird so she could have them too)
LT , member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Lawrence Taylor
L , Linnaeus, founder of modern systematics , cited by biologists simply as (L) when referenced as author (first official describer) of a species. Note that (L) is truly understood to stand for the man Linnaeus himself, in contrast to an SI unit name like N, which does not stand for the man Newton, but for a physical unit spelled in lower-case that is named in honor of the man Newton.
MJ , U.S. basketball legend Michael Jordan
MLK , U.S. civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.
OJ , U.S. football player, movie actor, and murder suspect O. J. Simpson
PPDA , French journalist Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
Q , British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch
QT , American movie director/actor Quentin Tarantino
RAH , U.S. Science fiction author Robert Heinlein
RFK , U.S. politician Robert F. Kennedy
RMS , Free Software advocate Richard Stallman
TO , American football player
TR , U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
UKK , Finnish longtime president and strongman Urho Kaleva Kekkonen
W.L. , fictitious name given to real life Ugandan crime victim that journalist Caroline Moorehead wrote about
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JEB Bush , Florida Governor John Ellis Bush
BOD , Irish rugby player Brian O'Driscoll
Eminem ("M 'n' M"), U.S. Rapper Marshall Mathers
"Dubya" , U.S. President George W. Bush (based on his Texan pronunciation of the letter W , which distinguishes him from his father )
J.D. Roberts was a Canadian television host (MuchMusic , Canada AM ). When he joined CBS in 1995 he began using his full name, John Roberts .
Hergé ("R. G." in French ), Belgian comics author Georges Remi
LB , basketball legend Larry Bird, who usually gives autographs using only his initials.
ODB , U.S. rapper "Ol' Dirty Bastard"
TAFKAP , U.S. soul singer Prince, abbreviation for The Artist Formerly Known as Prince , which replaced an unpronounceable symbol as his name. He has since reverted to using his first name of Prince.
Individuals known always or for the most part by initials and surname
Individuals known by an initial, middle name and surname
Individuals known by first name and an initial as a surname
Individuals whose use of their middle initial carries special significance
Fictional characters
BA, B.A. Baracas - Mr. T 's character in The A-Team
BJ, Billie Joe from B.J. and the Bear
CJ, Reggie's boss in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
CJ, White House Press Secretary in The West Wing E.T. , alien
G.O.B., George Oscar Bluth - Arrested Development J.C., J.C. Denton - Deus Ex JJ , who coined the term "Dy-no-mite!" on Good Times JR , fictional shooting victim on television's Dallas J.R. Hartley , character in British Yellow Pages commercial that became a cult figure.
M, from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen M , from the James Bond films and books.
Q , from the James Bond films and books.
Q , from Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek universe.
RL , the barely-seen CEO in the comic strip Kevin and Kell TJ, little boy in movie The Champ
TC, usual appellation for Top Cat
V, from the V for Vendetta See also
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