Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This is a list of people famous enough to be known unambiguously by their initials: BB, French Actress Brigitte Bardot BHL, French philosopher DSK, French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn E2R, Queen of the United Kingdom FDR, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt H.D, U.S. Imagist poet Hilda Doolittle IDS, British politician Iain Duncan Smith JFK, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy JWZ, Free software programmer Jamie Zawinski J2M, former CEO of Vivendi-Universal Jean-Marie Messier LBJ, U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson (It must be noted that Johnson so liked his initials that his children and dogs all had them, and he nicknamed his wife Lady Bird so she could have them too) LT, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Lawrence Taylor MJ, U.S. basketball legend Michael Jordan MLK, U.S. civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. OJ, U.S. football player, movie actor, and murder suspect O. J. Simpson PPDA, French journalist Patrick Poivre d'Arvor Q, British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch RAH, U.S. Science fiction author Robert Heinlein RFK, U.S. politician Robert F. Kennedy RMS, Free Software advocate Richard Stallman TR, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt UKK, Finnish longtime president and strongman Urho Kaleva Kekkonen W.L, ficticious name given to real life Ugandan crime victim that journalist Caroline Moorehead wrote about Borderline Cases ALF, extraterrestrial TV character Alien Life-Form [sic] BOD, Irish rugby player Brian O'Driscoll Eminem ("M 'n' M"), U.S. Rapper Marshall Mathers "Dubya, U.S. President George W. Bush (based on his Texan pronunciation of the letter W, which distinguishes him from his father) J. Lo, U.S. pop musician Jennifer Lopez J.D, Canadian-born journalist John Roberts was known as J.D. when host of The New Music on City TV Hergé ("R. G." in French), Belgian comics author Georges Remi LB, basketball legend Larry Bird, who usually gives autographs using only his initials. ODB, U.S. rapper "Ol' Dirty Bastard" TAFKAP, U.S. soul singer Prince, abbreviation for The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, which replaced an unpronounceable symbol as his name. He has since reverted to using his first name of Prince. Individuals known always or for the most part by initials and surname W. H. Auden J. L. Austin A. J. Ayer J. M. Barrie H. E. Bates P. T. Barnum L.L. Bean W. A. C. Bennett E. C. Bentley T. C. Boyle A. S. Byatt J. J. Cale G. K. Chesterton D. B. Cooper e. e. cummings F. W. de Klerk E. L. Doctorow W. E. B. Du Bois T. S. Eliot M. C. Escher A. A. Fair W. C. Fields C. S. Forester E. M. Forster T. G. I. Friday H. R. Giger W. S. Gilbert A. A. Gill W. G. Grace J. G. Hamann W. C. Handy L. P. Hartley P. J. Harvey P. J. Hogan A. E. Housman E. F. Hutton A. Y. Jackson P. D. James C. E. M. Joad C. G. Jung B. B. King H. H. Kung k.d. lang D. H. Lawrence T. E. Lawrence C. S. Lewis C. I. Lewis H. P. Lovecraft P. J. O'Rourke D. B. C. Pierre E. G. Marshall A. A. Milne J. P. Morgan V. S. Naipaul bpNichol I. M. Pei E. J. Pratt J. B. Priestley W. V. (O.) Quine B. A. Robertson L. T. C. Rolt J. K. Rowling A. L. Rowse J. D. Salinger O. J. Simpson B. F. Skinner E. E. "Doc" Smith W. H. Smith C. P. Snow J. I. M. Stewart A. J. P. Taylor J. R. R. Tolkien P. L. Travers J. M. W. Turner H. G. Wells E. B. White T. H. White J. C. Williamson P. G. Wodehouse W. B. Yeats P.G.T. Beauregard Individuals known by an initial, middle name and surname F. Murray Abraham L. Frank Baum R. Lee Ermey H. Rider Haggard J. Edgar Hoover L. Ron Hubbard F. Scott Fitzgerald W. Somerset Maugham K. Alex Müller (born 1927), 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics J. Arthur Rank M. Night Shyamalan Individuals known by first name and an initial as a surname Andrea F, Slovene TV narrator. Christiane F Jonas *, Slovene actor and TV journalist. Malcolm X Individuals whose use of their middle initial carries special significance Iain M. Banks World B. Free, basketball player Fictional Characters CJ, Reggie's boss in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin E.T, alien JR, fictional shooting victim on television's Dallas J.R. Hartley, character in British Yellow Pages commercial that became a cult figure. TJ, little boy in movie The Champ TC, usual appellation for Top Cat See also: List of people known by one name, List of People Known as The Great This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.