I remember when I first worked in a bank we had a couple of old people with the names Maurice Minor and Mini Minor... they were not related though! :)

Odd you should say that. A Maurice Minor used to work at British Leyland:

www.guardian.co.uk/money/2006/apr/26/motoring.work...s.

And there is the actress called Minnie Driver which always makes me smile.

My half sister was taught by a Dr. Death. Except is was written De'ath, and pronounced 'day-arth'.

An academic paper entitled The urethral syndrome: experience with the Richardson urethroplasty, Br J Urol. 1977 Apr;49(2):173–176, was a learned study of the human urinary tract. The authors were Splatt and Weedon. I kid you not.

In the 1970's McLaren had John Watson and Bruno Giacomelli as drivers. The mechanics had some fun with their names on the tubs. On occasion John Watson became John What's Wrong (presumably never fully happy with the car) and Bruno became the Irish driver Bruno Jack O'Malley.

Stefan Johannson's dad was named Leif, so Stefan was known as Little Leif, and had a helmet design incorporating small leaves.

In cricket Geoff Marsh the Australian opening bat was nick-named Swampy, while his son is known as SOS, son of Swampy.

While on cricket I always thought Kent's Robert Key was an ideal opener.