Did you know that the police lead on knife crime at the National Police Chiefs' Council in the UK …. Is a 'Alfred Hitchcock' (apparently known as ‘Alf’) .…. So the namesake of the director of many films involving blades - famously 'psycho' with its frenzied knife killings - ends up in that particular job.
This little news snippet made me wonder if there are any other ironically suitable job holders out there.
Well, there are a lot .... and just for starters.
This phenomena is apparently called an aptronym, aptonym or euonym. Which as you might have guessed, is when a personal name, is aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner or their occupation. The Psychologist Carl Jung, in his book 'Synchronicity' wrote that there was a "sometimes quite grotesque coincidence between a man's name and his peculiarities".
This little news snippet made me wonder if there are any other ironically suitable job holders out there.
Well, there are a lot .... and just for starters.
- Professor 'Jules Angst', a German professor of psychiatry, who has published works about anxiety.
- 'Colin Bass', British bassist in the rock band 'Camel'.
- 'Sara Blizzard', meteorologist (television weather presenter) for the BBC.
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This phenomena is apparently called an aptronym, aptonym or euonym. Which as you might have guessed, is when a personal name, is aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner or their occupation. The Psychologist Carl Jung, in his book 'Synchronicity' wrote that there was a "sometimes quite grotesque coincidence between a man's name and his peculiarities".
