In western society the wife looses part of her identity through marriage as she takes on the family name of her husband. If her children get famous so the family name of the husband gets immortal. So its only equitable to emphasis on the 50% of the genes the mothers put in the mix to immortality.
Here is the list of these famous people and some of the names really sound very weird and strange as one is so used to the “right” name we all know them with.
- Albert Koch (Einstein)
- Isaac Ayscough (Newton)
- Johann Sebastian Laemmerhirt (Bach)
- William Arden (Shakespeare)
- George Ball (Washington)
- Thomas Randolph (Jefferson)
- Johan Wolfgang Textor (Goethe)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Pertl (Mozart)
- Napoleon Ramolin (Bonaparte)
- Ludwig Keverich (van Beethoven)
- Abraham Hanks (Lincoln)
- Charles Wedgwood (Darwin)
- Charles Barrow (Dickens)
- Karl Pressburg (Marx)
- Sigmund Nathanson (Freud)
- Charlie Hill (Chaplin)
- Ernest Hall (Hemingway)
Did you know that Abraham Lincon is actually related to Tom Hanks.
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The correct construction is “If 17 famous people had kept their mothers name”.
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not bad……
I think you forgot Elvis Smith.