User:AaronSw/Confusingly-similar names

• Mary Matalin, republican strategist
• Marlee Matlin, actress
• Mary Magdalene

• Ken MacLeod, sci-fi author
• Ken MacLeod, programmer
• Kembrew McLeod, academic

• Robert Greenwald, documentary filmaker
• Robert Greenblatt, television producer
• David Greenwalt, Buffy writer

• Lili Taylor, Six Feet Under actress
• Lily Tomlin, The West Wing actress

• Ward Christensen, BBS
• Ward Cunningham, Wiki

• Bob Cialdini, persuasion psychologist
• Bernie Carducci, shyness psychologist

Tough journalists (all white women):

• Sarah McClendon
• Helen Thomas
• Amy Goodman

Daughters of politicians named Alexandra making documentaries about the Democratic primary in 2004:

• Alexandra Kerry
• Alexandra Pelosi
• Alexandra Tanner

Red-headed female leads:

• Willow, BtVS
• Claire, Six Feet Under
• Angela, My So-Called Life
• Reggie, Dead Like Me
• Nip/Tuck daughter?

Similar-sounding words:

• decent
• descent
• dissent
• docent

• The Sea Inside
• Beyond the Sea
• The Life Aquatic

(all released week of December 24)

Lisp fans, web startup millionaires, writers, art fans, Cambridge residents, PG initials:

• Philip Greenspun
• Paul Graham

Early sociologists:

• William Foote Whyte
• William H. Whyte

Acronym games

• David Chaum
• digital cash
  • DigiCash
• Dining cryptographers protocol

Borrowed names

• Nobel Prize in Economics
• Stanford Research Institute
• Harvard Book Store
• Princeton Center for Risk Analysis (sp?)
• Princeton Review