Ball player Quote by Harrison Barnes

My mom raised me on her own, so I decided to take her name 'cause she was my mom and my dad.

— Kaya Scodelario

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around…

— George Burns

I am much closer to the Butler side of the family, which is on mother's side, from where I get my middle name. My…

— Jason Butler Harner

A lot of NBA GMs have asked me about me why I changed my middle name to Trill. Actually, the reason why I filed…

— Willie Cauley-Stein

Named after my mother.

— Bonnie Raitt

My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be…

— Joel Grey

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

— Sprague Grayden

My son's name is Dirk - I named Dirk Pitt after him when he was about three years old.

— Clive Cussler

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

— Lisa Leslie

My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures…

— Loretta Lynn

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

— Mat Kearney

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my…

— Ariel Winter