Chris Pincher. You may think of him as the man whose singular commitment to nominative determinism provided the final straw that brought down the UK Prime Minister. I think of him as my flimsy excuse to republish my paean to nominative determinism!
I’ve also taken the opportunity to top it up with some of the best tips you guys sent after the original post. Please keep sending.
Today’s runner-up is Mr. Rich Nephew, the new anti-corruption czar at the Biden administration. ER doctor Hans Hurt follows in the footsteps of the many nominative determinism acolytes in medicine. We also have Julian Crimes, recently dismissed from the Cambridgeshire Police Department – I like to think it was for rejecting his nominative predestination. Nominative determinisms in history edition: Sidney Vines, botanist.
And finally, a big shout out to Hans Clevers, a pioneering organoid researcher whose foundational work is enabling other researchers to grow their own (mini)brains in their own Petri dishes.
But what if you reject the premise of your name? Read on.
My urologist back in NJ was Dr. Wiener. A Goldfinger I know claims he missed his calling as a proctologist.