List of people known by initials
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
- 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
- LT, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- 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
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
- ODB, U.S. rapper "Ol' Dirty Bastard"
- TAFKAP, U.S. soul singer Prince Rogers Nelson, 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
- A. J. Ayer
- J. M. Barrie
- H. E. Bates
- P. T. Barnum
- 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
- 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
- H. R. Giger
- A. A. Gill
- W. G. Grace
- J. G. Hamann
- W. C. Handy
- 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
- 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
- J. K. Rowling
- J. D. Salinger
- O. J. Simpson
- B. F. Skinner
- E. E. "Doc" Smith
- W. H. Smith
- J. I. M. Stewart
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- P. L. Travers
- H. G. Wells
- E. B. White
- T. H. White
- P. G. Wodehouse
- W. B. Yeats
Individuals known by an initial, middle name and surname
- F. Murray Abraham
- 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
Fictional Characters
- CJ, Reggie's boss in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
- C. M. Burns, Homer Simpson's boss in The Simpsons
- 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
