List of people known by initials

This is a list of people famous enough to be known unambiguously by their initials:

• BB, French Actress Brigitte Bardot
• FDR, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• H.D., U.S. Imagist poet Hilda Doolittle
• IDS, British politician Iain Duncan Smith
• JFK, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• J2M[?], former CEO of Vivendi-Universal Jean-Marie Messier
• LBJ, U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson
• 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
• RFK, U.S. politician Robert F. Kennedy
• RMS, Free Software advocate Richard Stallman
• TR, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
• RAH, U.S. Science fiction author Robert Heinlein
• UKK, Finnish longtime president and strongman Urho Kaleva Kekkonen

Table of contents 1 Borderline Cases 2 Individuals known always or for the most part by initials and surname 3 Individuals known by an initial, middle name and surname 4 Individuals known by first name and an initial as a surname 5 Individuals whose use of their middle initial carries special significance 6 Fictional Characters

Borderline Cases

• ALF, extraterrestrial TV character Alien Life-Form [sic]
• 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. Lo, U.S. pop musician Jennifer Lopez
• Herge ("R. G." in French), Belgian comics author Georges Remi
• ODB, U.S. rapper "Ol' Dirty Bastard"
• TAFKAP, U.S. soul singer Prince Rogers Nelson, abbreviation for The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, which replaces an unpronounceable symbol as his name

Individuals known always or for the most part by initials and surname

• W. H. Auden
• A. J. Ayer
• J. M. Barrie
• H. E. Bates
• P. T. Barnum
• E. C. Bentley
• T. C. Boyle
• A. S. Byatt[?]
• J. J. Cale
• G. K. Chesterton
• D. B. Cooper
• E. E. Cummings
• E. L. Doctorow[?]
• W. E. B. Du Bois
• T. S. Eliot
• A. A. Fair
• W. C. Fields
• C. S. Forester
• E. M. Forster
• A. A. Gill[?]
• W. G. Grace
• J. G. Hamann
• W. C. Handy
• A. E. Housman
• E. F. Hutton
• P. D. James
• C. E. M. Joad[?]
• C. G. Jung
• B. B. King
• H. H. Kung
• k.d. lang
• D. H. Lawrence
• T. E. Lawrence
• C. S. Lewis
• C. I. Lewis[?]
• H. P. Lovecraft
• P. J. O'Rourke
• E. G. Marshall[?]
• A. A. Milne
• V. S. Naipaul
• bpNichol
• I. M. Pei
• E. J. Pratt[?]
• J. B. Priestley
• W. V. (O.) Quine
• B. A. Robertson[?]
• J. K. Rowling
• J. D. Salinger
• O. J. Simpson
• B. F. Skinner
• E. E. "Doc" Smith
• W. H. Smith
• J. I. M. Stewart
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• P. L. Travers
• H. G. Wells
• E. B. White
• T. H. White
• P. G. Wodehouse
• W. B. Yeats

Individuals known by an initial, middle name and surname

• F. Murray Abraham
• H. Rider Haggard
• J. Edgar Hoover
• L. Ron Hubbard
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• W. Somerset Maugham
• J. Arthur Rank[?]
• M. Night Shyamalan

Individuals known by first name and an initial as a surname

• Andrea F.[?], Slovene TV narrator.
• Christiane F.[?]
• Jonas *.[?], Slovene actor and TV journalist.
• Malcolm X

Individuals whose use of their middle initial carries special significance

• Iain M. Banks

Fictional Characters

• CJ[?], Reggie's boss in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• C. M. Burns, Homer Simpson's boss in The Simpsons
• E.T., alien
• JR[?], fictional shooting victim on television's Dallas
• J.R. Hartley, character in British Yellow Pages[?] commercial that became a cult figure.
• TJ, little boy in movie The Champ
• TC, usual appellation for Top Cat

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See also:

• List of People Known as The Great