A Professor of Maths at Sheff Hallam now is Richard Pitt, but he prefers Dick. The American ambassador to the UK is Woody Johnson.
friend from school had the initials Y. Y. - his nickname was Delilah. anyone else with a nickname derived from their 'real' name?
Frank Talia's wife is called Jenny. We had an American consultant come to work with us called Randy Fecke (pronounced Fe Ca) I sit near Alfred Uekerman. And one of our subsidiaries has a finance guy called Naill ****.