Need last names that are synonyms for goodbye.

November 11, 2006 11:16 AM

I need famous people whose last names are synonyms of "goodbye."

Examples:
Evin Bayh (bye)
Jerry Garcia (see ya)
Christian Slater (later)
Mahatma Gandhi (gone)

.... ok the last one is a stretch, but that's why I need you hivemind

posted by matkline to Writing & Language (32 answers total)

Lea Salonga (no worse than Ghandi!)

I can't think of a famous person named Chow...
posted by wryly at 11:24 AM on November 11, 2006

/PedanicFilter
By "synonyms", I think you must mean "rhymes".
posted by nakedcodemonkey at 11:39 AM on November 11, 2006

Richard Gere was here.
posted by LoriFLA at 11:40 AM on November 11, 2006

...er, "pedantic". I suck.
posted by nakedcodemonkey at 11:41 AM on November 11, 2006

(homophones of synonyms!)
posted by soma lkzx at 11:41 AM on November 11, 2006

Response by poster: soma lkzx has it actually, "homophones of synonyms" indeed
posted by matkline at 11:43 AM on November 11, 2006

Grant Goodeve?
posted by Opposite George at 11:45 AM on November 11, 2006

August Horch?

No? How about the Latin version of his name: Audi!

Outta here like Vladimir...
posted by bink at 11:56 AM on November 11, 2006

I don't know how "famous" he is, but there's a comics artist named Steve Leialoha.
posted by divka at 12:00 PM on November 11, 2006

Oh, and there's a bunch of people in IMDB with the last name Chao.....

(We have a friend whose brother is not-so-famous actor with that last name, but I can't remember for the life of me what his first name is. He's in that list somewhere, I'd bet!)
posted by divka at 12:05 PM on November 11, 2006

Chow Yun Fat
posted by MsMolly at 12:05 PM on November 11, 2006

Only moderately famous, and not a homophone (well, an identity homophone, I suppose ), but Ed Bye?
posted by Jon Mitchell at 12:11 PM on November 11, 2006

Maud Gonne
posted by pracowity at 12:15 PM on November 11, 2006

(Lil') Bow Wow
Zadora, Pia (or Karmann Ghia)
Simone de Beauvoir
Diamonds by De Beers
posted by rob511 at 12:24 PM on November 11, 2006

George Wendt
posted by gfrobe at 12:38 PM on November 11, 2006

Freddy Adu
posted by Robert Angelo at 12:44 PM on November 11, 2006

The last name of the singer Sade is also Adu, though she is generally known just by her first name
posted by Robert Angelo at 12:46 PM on November 11, 2006

Elaine Chao's pretty famous.
posted by box at 1:07 PM on November 11, 2006

Manu Chao.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 1:14 PM on November 11, 2006

Best answer: Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer / Kung Fu Hustle)
posted by blag at 1:37 PM on November 11, 2006

My understanding is that Maud Gonne pronounced her name "gun".
posted by Phlogiston at 1:41 PM on November 11, 2006

Yeah, like Donne. I was just going on the spelling, trying to improve on the Gandhi of the question.
posted by pracowity at 1:55 PM on November 11, 2006

What about Lee Ving?
posted by jozxyqk at 1:59 PM on November 11, 2006

John Donne
posted by alms at 2:01 PM on November 11, 2006

Josh Peace
posted by nitsuj at 2:40 PM on November 11, 2006

Maud Gonne, beloved of WB Yeats
posted by londongeezer at 4:04 PM on November 11, 2006

Michael Vale.
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 6:11 PM on November 11, 2006

Best answer: Simone de Beauvoir and Freddy Adu are great answers.

Robert Goulet (Good Day)
Phil Knight ('Night)
Sir Gawain the Good Knight (Goodnight)
Flea?
posted by Rock Steady at 6:41 PM on November 11, 2006

Cyrano (like sayonara?)
posted by Citizen Premier at 7:47 PM on November 11, 2006

Will Ferrell?
posted by washburn at 12:08 AM on November 12, 2006

Deng Xiaoping (ciao)?
Jim Hoffa, Barry Imhoff (i'm off)?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (toodle-oo)?
posted by progosk at 3:50 AM on November 12, 2006

May I ask WHY you need this?
posted by jlowen at 11:36 AM on November 12, 2006