It’s a pretty common name, you can take it from me. It used to be in the top 10 (number 9, if I remember correctly), but a recent influx of Rodriguezes, Martinezes, et al. have crowded it out.
At the same time, though, there simply are no famous
Andersons. No presidents or vice presidents. No Nobel Prize winners. No major
business types. No great sports figures.
How obscure are they? Well, a search of the Interwebs gives
me only about 15 I’ve ever heard of. Here they are, in increasing order of
“fame”:
Louie Anderson – fat, baby-faced comedic has-been
Bill Anderson – C&W singer from way back when country wasn’t cool
Gary Anderson – chubby South African football player (if you
can call a placekicker a football player)
John Anderson – obscure 3rd party presidential
candidate from 50 years ago
With charming wife Keke
Pamela Anderson – blonde bimbo with sex tape history
With fellow sex-tape star, ex Tommy Lee
Loni Anderson – blonde bimbo who married male bimbo Burt
Reynolds
Gillian Anderson – WASPy actress famous for a TV show that
combined the paranormal with “the domestic intelligence and security service of
the United States”
Laurie Anderson – avant-garde musical & artistic weirdo
Ian Anderson – balding flutist (yes, flutist!) for the
obscure & strangely-named band Jethro Tull
Paul Thomas Anderson – director of a bunch of movies I’ve
never seen
Sparky Anderson – baseball manager & Hall of Famer who
was once confused with my dad
Marian Anderson – African-American signer who was once
confused with my mom (Marion Anderson)
Wes Anderson – director of a bunch of movies I’ve seen, but
that didn’t make much sense
Sherwood Anderson – author of Winesburg, Ohio, which
everyone had to read in high school
