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3 unusual facts about married and maiden names


Frederic Hill

Frederic Hill was born at Hilltop, a house at the summit of Gough Street, Birmingham, the sixth child of Thomas Wright Hill and Sarah, his wife, whose maiden name was Lea.

James Sikking

His mother, Sue Sikking (née Paxton), was a founder of Santa Monica's Unity-by-the-Sea Church.

Ole Søltoft

Ole Søltoft was born in Kolding and was the son of engineer Svend Aage Sølvtoft and his wife Maria Rita Viola Sølvtoft (née Kristensen).


Anica Kovač

Anica Kovač (née Martinović) (born 3 March 1976 in West Berlin, West Germany) is a Croatian former model best known for being the First Runner-up in the Miss World 1995 competition and for her marriage to the Croatian football player Robert Kovač.

Arthur Lithgow

Lithgow was born in Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic, the son of Ina Berenice (née Robinson), a nurse, and Arthur Washington Lithgow II, an entrepreneur.

Coralie Blythe

Born in Bow in London, she was the eldest of three children of William Thomas Blyth (born 1857), a publican, and his wife Jane (née Finley) (1862–1897), an actress.

Emily Deschanel

Deschanel was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Academy Award–nominated cinematographer and director Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir).

Frank Saldo

Born in Holloway in London, the son of George Frederick Woollaston (1828–1896), a shoe manufacturer, Methodist preacher and faith healer, and Adelaide Mary (née Green) (1849–1923), like his older brother Monte, Frank Saldo developed an interest in Physical Culture at a young age and with his brother travelled in the stage act of Eugen Sandow in the late 1890s.

John Sandon

The son of Barbara (neé Starkey) and Henry Sandon, a notable authority on Royal Worcester porcelain, John Sandon left school aged 16 and went to work at Phillips in London in 1975 where he quickly established himself as a porcelain specialist.

Josh Pais

Pais was born in New York City, New York, and is the son of Lila Lee (née Atwill) and Dutch-born physicist, professor, and writer Abraham Pais.

Julian Beck

Beck was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City, the son of Mabel Lucille (née Blum), a teacher, and Irving Beck, a businessman.

Lindsey Stagg

The daughter of Barbara A. (née Leney) (born 1945) and Terence F. Stagg (born 1943), who married in 1966 at Rochford in Essex, she was discovered by Michael Napier Brown, the artistic director at the Royal Theatre in Northampton (who also discovered her co-star in the series, Gian Sammarco), who recommended her to Thames Television for the role of Pandora Braithwaite.

Lynne Adams

Adams is the daughter of Rosalind (née Gould), an actress, and Robert K. Adams, who was a producer, actor (noted for his appearances on The Goldbergs and Your Family and Mine), and former vice president of CBS, as well as a relative of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

Marie Marguerite, Duchess of Anjou

Marie Marguerite of Bourbon, Duchess of Anjou (née María Margarita Vargas Santaella; born 21 October 1983, Caracas) is a Venezuelan heiress and wife of Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, who is considered by Legitimists to be the head of the French Royal House making Marie Marguerite the Legitimist titular queen consort of France.

Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id

He was born in Cairo, the grandson of King Farouk of Egypt and Queen Narriman, and the elder son of Fuad II (last King of Egypt) by his former wife, Fadila (née Dominique-France Loeb-Picard).

Nola Fraser

Nola Therese Fraser (née Chalhoub) is an Australian small business owner, former nurse and former Liberal candidate on two occasions for the seat of Macquarie Fields.

Perry-Payne Building

Begun in 1888 and completed in the following year, the Perry-Payne Building was named for its owner and his family: it was erected for politician Henry B. Payne, and "Perry" was his wife's maiden name.

Peter Donat

Donat was born Pierre Collingwood Donat in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Marie (née Bardet) and Philip Ernst Donat, a landscape gardener.

Prince Fakhruddin of Egypt

Prince Fakhruddin of Egypt was born in Rabat on 25 August 1987, and he is the son of the last King of Egypt and Sudan, Fuad II, by his wife, Fadila (née Dominique-France Picard).

Richard Marquand

Marquand was born in Llanishen, Cardiff, Wales, the younger brother of the political writer and academic David Marquand and the son of Rachel E. (née Rees) and Hilary Marquand, who was a Labour member of Parliament and Minister in the Post Second World War Labour Government.

Steve Vinovich

Vinovich was born in Peoria, Illinois, the son of Jennie J. (née Kuhel), a secretary, and Stephen J. Vinovich, an insurance salesman.

Teresa Cheatham

Teresa Ann Cheatham-Stricklin (née Cheatham) is a vocal instructor from Wellington, Alabama who was named Miss Alabama 1978 and finished first runner-up at Miss America 1979.

Terry Wiles

He met Hazel (neé Brooker) (1931-2013) and Leonard George Wiles (1911–1995) at Chailey Hospital in Sussex in October 1967, and after initial opposition from his birth mother and Social Services, Leonard and Hazel were able to adopt the young Andrew.

Tricia Brock

Patricia Elaine "Tricia" Baumhardt (born July 7, 1979, née, Brock) is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter raised in Dillsboro, Indiana.

Tyra Turner

Tyra Turner (née Harper) (born July 21, 1976) is a professional beach volleyball player from the United States who plays on the AVP Tour.

Veda Brown

He won her a contract with Stax Records in 1971, and she took the stage name of Veda Brown — Brown being her mother's maiden name, and Veda being picked at random in a sweepstake organised by the Stax office secretaries.


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