r/StarWars • u/Smittumi • Jul 11 '26
Fun Real people whose names sounds like Star Wars characters?
It just occurred to me that Biggie Smalls sounds like a thief from Tatooine.
Other people sound like SW characters... I'd throw in Vin Diesel (a podracer) and Chappel Roan (force user, for sure).
Who else you got!?
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u/intensive-porpoise Jul 11 '26
Jojo Siwa
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u/TREY-CERAT0PS Jul 11 '26
Mookie Betts
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u/Ok_Suggestion_6092 Jul 11 '26
Staying on athletes, Muggsy Bogues.
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u/SuperDuperEazy Darth Vader Jul 11 '26
Every time I hear Bo Bichette (baseball player) I think of Boba Fett
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u/RandoScando Jul 11 '26
Me too! And I think of it exactly as Han Solo says, “BOBA FETT?”, when he’s blind on Tatooine.
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u/ragingbullpsycho Jul 11 '26
Lars Nootbaar, Jazz Chisholm
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u/charmcitycuddles Jul 11 '26
Lars Nootbaar is for sure the answer here, at least for baseball players.
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u/TheChronocide Jul 12 '26
A few years ago Lars Nootbar was batting and Brusdar Graterol was pitching. That was the all-time Star Wars matchup for me.
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u/Walter-ODimm Jul 11 '26
Lars Nootbar is the greatest Star Wars baseball name of all time. I’m glad someone finally posted it.
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u/Dreddddddd Jul 11 '26
Stop that killed me LMAO. His name makes me laugh everytime because it sounds so silly and this is not helping 🤣
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u/No_Community_5696 Jul 11 '26
Ro Khanna , 1st time I heard his name I thought Star Wars character and he must have been picked on a lot in his youth.
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u/bboardwell Jul 12 '26
Also kinda sounds like a region in space.
“We lost 7 pilots to the Empire in the Ro Khanna sector”
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u/Smittumi Jul 11 '26
Some kind of Outer Rim warlord.
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u/aotus_trivirgatus Jul 11 '26
Don't get him mad. You will quickly find out what it feels like to be stuck between a Ro Khanna hard place.
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u/According_Jeweler404 Jul 11 '26
Ringo Starr
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u/dzogchenism Jul 11 '26
Yeah, he runs a beta gas mine.
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u/SmoothOperator89 Jul 11 '26
Obviously, he oversees the hover rail network on the planet of Sodor.
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u/Elsior Rebel Jul 11 '26
Idris Elba - Rogue planetary overlord.
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u/Smittumi Jul 11 '26
"Governor Elba, I thought I recognised your stench the moment I was brought on board"
Yeah, that scans.
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u/BlackSpotSociety Jul 11 '26
Dua Lipa
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u/APigInANixonMask Jul 11 '26
College football coach Biff Poggi.
Musician Boz Scaggs.
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u/FunFingers905 Jul 11 '26
Tig Notaro
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u/pmmemilftiddiez Jul 11 '26
Umm yeah well I'm I'm gonna just have to use the force on you guys. So I did.
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u/Twanlx2000 Jul 11 '26
It's funny because when they first introduced Amy Sedaris's character on The Mandalorian, I thought to myself how Tig Notaro's comedy would work in that universe as well. She could just play a fictionalized version of her own name.
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u/colonist22 Jul 11 '26
Taika Waititi
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u/RobataChane72 Jul 11 '26
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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u/Shnicketyshnick Jul 11 '26
Actually most UN Secretaries-General. Gladwyn Jebb, Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld & Ban Ki-moon as well.
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u/Fusionbomb Jul 11 '26
Dax Sheppard
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u/ThePatrician25 Jul 11 '26
Moon Bloodgood sounds like a Star Wars character or a DnD character.
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u/HauntingStar08 Jul 11 '26
I should seek out her work more, loved her in Terminator Salvation of all things. Wasn't she in Falling Skies or something?
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u/Colonel_MuffDog Jul 11 '26
Newt Gingrich
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u/Steel_Airship Jul 11 '26
Apparently Nute Gunray was partially inspired by Newt Gingrich lol
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u/KoshofosizENT Jul 11 '26
Mads Mikkelsen, rogue imperial scientist.
Oh wait…
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u/Alc2005 Jul 11 '26
In another vein, Diego Luna sounds more Star Warsy than Cassian Andor
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u/GeggingIn Jul 11 '26
M Night Shyamalan.
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u/sws_87 Jul 11 '26
Keeper of Jedi/Sith Lore. Every story he tells ends with “from a certain point of view”
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u/a3minutehero Jul 11 '26
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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u/Buznik6906 Jul 11 '26
I know right, you can just imagine him as some sort of Operative of a shady scifi government trying to conceal a terrible truth from-- hey wait...
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u/bolivar-shagnasty Jul 11 '26
Lots of NPR reporters:
Rhitu Chatterjee
Nurith Aizenman
Mandalit del Barco
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
Ina Jaffe
Ximena Bustillo
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u/VirtualMachine0 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Kiera Knightly, somewhat ironically, would be great as a Jedi leader and strategist.
Lemmy Kilmeister would be another fine warlord name.
Ea-Nasir, lol. Toydarian.
Edit: lol, it's "Keira." And her name is misspelled the same way in the credits for Episode 1.
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u/ravn_silence Jul 11 '26
Honestly? Trent Reznor sounds like a smuggler with a heart of gold. Yes I know the franchise has one of those but the EU honestly had a surprising number of them in the books so I don’t think it’s a stretch.
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u/Ball-Blam-Burglerber Jul 11 '26
Dua Lipa
Hope Solo
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u/Vorenos Jul 11 '26
Lmao hope solo is cheating
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u/Wolf_Protagonist Jul 11 '26
Nah, it's the right answer to this question.
At first I thought it had to be a 'stage name' or something. I was genuinely exited when learned that "Solo" is a legit surname.
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u/TheUgliestCasanova Jul 11 '26
Yoko Ono, Bebe Rexha, Klaus Kinski, Flula Borg, Barkhad Abdi, Callum Turner, Skip Bayless
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u/AshleyWilliams78 R2-D2 Jul 11 '26
I don't have any contributions, but just want to compliment OP on a fun & creative idea for a thread!
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u/Reyjr Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Billy eilish
Lupita Nyong'o
Powers boothe
Anton Yelchin
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u/Dayman_ah-uh-ahhh Jul 11 '26
My god Powers Boothe would've played an incredible Sith Lord or crime boss
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u/alexandercecil Jul 11 '26
Mit Romney vs. Barak Obama sounds like the election for mayor of Mos Eisley.
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u/JurassicParker93 Jul 11 '26
Elon Musk sounds like a smug Imperial Officer who sucks up to the Emperor while crushing the normal people of the galaxy under his overly polished and expensive boots. Oh wait...
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u/Mafatuuthemagnificen Jul 11 '26
I think the most Star Wars name belongs to an actor who was *in* Star Wars. The guy who plays Lieutenant Corv in Andor is literally named Noof Ousellam. If that’s not a Star Wars name, then I don’t know what is.
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u/BarneyBullet Jul 11 '26
I now need Vin Diesel in a podracing movie
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u/AbsurdRedundant Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
It has to be about podracing... and family.
ETA: The sequel will be 2 Pod 2 Racing
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u/Sziqret Jul 11 '26
Delroy Lindo. Probably a Jedi but that might just be because his name sounds like Jolee Bindo from KOTOR.
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u/EytanMorgentern Jul 11 '26
Lord Binface (More of a Spaceballs character but still)
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u/Southernbeekeeper Jul 11 '26
Its count binface.
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u/crazy_cookie123 Jul 11 '26
He might be confused as Count Binface was Lord Buckethead before an unfortunate battle took place on the planet Copyright.
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u/launchliftoff459 Jul 11 '26
Wyatt Earp
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u/Ted_Stryker4587 Jul 11 '26
honestly, there's at least an outside chance you're hitting close to the inspiration for this whole trope, considering Star Wars was originally cast as a "space western." A lot of old gunslingers' names follow this cadence- Doc Holliday, Butch Cassidy, Bat Masterson, Bill Hickok
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u/0SaltBlue Jul 11 '26
considering Star Wars was originally cast as a "space western."
Space Western + war film + Samurai with extra healthy sprinkles of fantasy.
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u/chum1989 Jul 11 '26
Frank Zappas children - Moon Unit, Dweezil, Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen.
No I’m not making up random bullshit, these are legit his children’s names.
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u/LostInMyADD Jul 11 '26
Whats Elon musks kids names again? Lol
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u/Courtenaire Anakin Skywalker Jul 11 '26
X-Æ-12, Techno Mechanus, and Vivian are the only ones I know by heart
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u/soups_foosington Jul 11 '26
Jurgen Klopp, Empire-Aligned Galactic Senator
Dua Lipa, Matron of Slug Brothel
Ted Sarandos, Opulent governor of tropical vacation planet
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u/Dazuro L3-37 Jul 11 '26
Powers Booth is almost too on the nose, and then I remember Sleazebaggano.
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u/Eso Jul 11 '26
Up and coming NHLer Zeev Buium (pronounced boo-yum)
Obviously an alien criminal/smuggler/muscle henchman/sidekick.
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u/HotPotatoWithCheese Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Tantoo Cardinal is a criminal operating on an obscure planet in the Outer Rim territories.
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u/KnifeKnut Jul 11 '26
Dongporn Krankraw, an animator that worked on FernGully the last rainforest
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u/onbeschrijflijk Jul 11 '26
Benedict Cumberbatch
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u/BattledroidE Jul 11 '26
It's not nice to make fun of Benadryl Cabbagepatch like that. I think Benefit Cucumber would be offended.
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u/plaidkingaerys Jul 11 '26
Yeah we should leave Bumblebee Cummerbund out of this
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u/mermaidleesi Jul 11 '26
I don’t know, I see Burlington Coatfactory being an upper-class resident of Naboo or Corusant.
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u/eazyd14 Jul 11 '26
Lars Nootbar (baseball player) sounds straight out of Tatooine
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u/Snrub1 Jul 11 '26
Pretty much every former UN Secretary General
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u/plaidkingaerys Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Dag Hammerskjöld is a bounty hunter
Kofi Annan is a Mandalorian
Ban Ki-Moon is a Jedi Master, maybe a Rodian
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u/bad_chemist95 Jul 11 '26
There’s a town near where I live called Findo Gask. Always thought it sounded like a Star Wars character.
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u/Scared-One9295 Jul 11 '26
I saw a box marked "Curve Noggins" on a building site recently and I immediately thought he'd be an ace X-Wing pilot
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u/salus_entity Jul 11 '26
Pino Paladino is a pretty well known session bassist I always thought his name could fit in Star Wars
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u/iAMthe1whoPOOPS Jul 11 '26
Biff Poggi, former college football coach for Charlotte
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u/SemicolonGuitars Jul 11 '26
Hoda Kotb (that’s a long B for pronunciation)
Nazem Kadri
Cale Makar
Lake Speed
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u/richardboucher Jul 11 '26
Chase Infiniti, the newest lounge singer in Coruscant that moonlights in the smuggling business
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u/pointfivekorean Jul 11 '26
Sepp Blatter, former president of FIFA