You might also get some sense of which sect an Iraqi belongs to from his family name.
Ford's divorce from the foundation that bears his family's name was messy and well chronicled.
Tractor tycoon Anand Mahindra was an early backer, who lent his family's name and took a 15% stake in Kotak's startup.
But the Sir always goes with his first name: never with his family or surname.
His son dropped the family name of Litvinsky for the blander one of Phillips.
Crow supports Republican causes both in his name and in the name of the family investment company, Crow Holdings.
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Emboldened by his success, last November Thapar forged a new identity for his group, dumping the family name for Avantha.
At age 16 in 1973, Son--who dropped his family's adopted Japanese name, Yasumoto, in favor of the ancestral Son--arrived in Berkeley, Calif. to study English.
His family has asked that his name not be immediately released.
Paton christened his fictional family Kumalo, a common enough name among Zulus, roughly the equivalent of Smith or Jones in America.
Reynier van Bommel, the ninth-generation CEO of a family shoe company that bears his name, says the finishing process on its shoes has benefited from training he received in Italy.
Mohammed - whom the BBC has agreed not to name fully to protect his family in Afghanistan - said he showed nine military ID cards, all genuine, as well as several references and photos of himself being treated for his injuries at Camp Bastion's field hospital.
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She called him Sean, his middle name, like Dave's family did.
"This has been my baby for two years, " says Faisal, 38, who has built Ruba (he is vague about the source of the name) on his dirt-poor family's trading origins in Pakistan's frontier provinces.
But then he heard his name called and thought about all his family has gone through to get to this moment, when the Florida State star became the first quarterback picked in this year's NFL draft.
Authorities are withholding the name of the victim pending notification of his family.
He decided to go public with his story to put a face on an issue, using his first and last name and offering to provide a family picture to accompany this story.
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Common details between the three killings, plus a lead from an email exchange between a member of Mr. Merah's family and one of the victims, brought his name to the top of a list of suspects, police said.
The name Mario Gabelli is famous not only for his family of mutual funds but also for his prowess in consistently picking stock winners.
In 1996 the Sandoz family backed Parmigiani in a venture to sell watches under his own name.
Far from discovering the Mississippi in 1542, Hernando de Soto's main claim to fame was lending his name nearly 400 years later to a now-extinct Chrysler family sedan.
He was imprisoned under a false name, as agreed to by him, his attorneys and his family.
Freeh produced the documents showing Paterno, his family and his legion of supporters lied in order to protect Paterno's name.
Instead, he lengthened his name to Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, honoring his mother's family.
In a statement, Drummer Rigby's family said: "Lee would not want people to use his name as an excuse to carry out attacks against others".
But minutes later, someone posted a document on the site Pastebin showing what appears to be White's Social Security number, cellphone number, address, legal cases and other information -- including his wife's name. (A later, edited version removed family information).
Yaghdan (who wanted his real name used) was a mild, conscientious thirty-year-old from a family of struggling businessmen.
In interviews, he has said that almost ten years after the death of his father, and with two novels to his name, he felt compelled to unburden himself of his past, of all his family stories, to get everything about his life on paper.
Spectators cheered not just for family members but for every "Dan" or "Alan" smart enough to write his name on his shirt.
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