How many people can you name who you know who they are when someone just says their last name?

drygongivic, yelpsinski, smith, delonfant, stroonzino, mc blarney, just to name a few.

WHO?

zacktly.

everybody in my class.

Too many to count

may be 70 odd numbers??? what is big deal

Chapman, Cleese, Palin, Idle, Jones (lots), Gillam, Depp, Clooney, Manson, Washington, Lincoln, Riordan, Lambert, Bloom, Mortenson, Estevez, Sheen, Downey, Stiller, Cumberbatch, Holmes, and lots of others.
Yay for the first six!

This doesn't make any sense???

Yes it does; you know, Rembrandt, Churchill, Hitler, etc,

Ahhhh...I see!!!

Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Lee, Grant, Stalin, all of the above

Lennon, Obama, Washington, Hoover, Hamilton, Jefferson, Reagan, Clinton, Nixon, Carter, Bush Sr, Bush Jr, Bach, Mozart, Monet, Da Vinci, Galilei, Van Gogh, Picasso, Bethoveen, Austen, Dante, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickens, Bronte, Frost, Middleton, Lovato, Minnelli, Shwartz, Sondheim, Rodgers, Hammerstein, Streisand, Hepburn, Goldberg, Winslet, Pitt, Jolie, Dyke, Plummer, Garland, Disney, Jagger, Aniston, Degeneres, Jonas, Jenner, Kardashian, Hutcherson, Bogart, Dean, Bond, Grant, Davis, Crawford, Bieber, Levine, Aguilera, Spears, Sanger (don't know how she popped in my head), Timberlake, Kutcher, and so many others but I feel like my brain is about to explode.

i dunnoo D:

Bradbury, Heinlein, Asimov, delRey, for starters.

a lot ..

too many to count

ten

to many to count

Way to many to list.

I would never really try to count them all.

About 7-8

5 or 6

Ailey, Bach, Beethoven, Brahams, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Hayden, Mozart, Van Gogh, Haley, Debussy...

1

Lennon, Lenin, McCartney, Jagger, Bowie, Trotsky, Stalin, Mussolini, Himmler, Goering, Hesse, Goebbels, Netanyahu, Einstein, Gandhi, Nehru, Nasser, Washington, Jefferson, Hoover, Coolidge, Reagan, Clinton, Sudat, Weisenthal, Bach, Brahms, Hadyn, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokiev, Vivaldi, Handel, Beethoven, Debussy, Stravinsky, Nijinski, Nureyev, Diaghilev, Baryshnikov, Shostakovich, Hindenberg, Niemoeller, Quisling, Dracula, Hawas, Putin, Kruschev, Gorbachev, Rommel, Ravel, Marx, Hemmingway, Kipling, Patton, Gable & Lombard, Bogart, Bacall, Streisand, Manson, Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy, Winchester, Olivier, Karloff, Lugosi, Brando, Colt, Chaney -- brain dead now -- oh, forgot Poe, Bronte, Austen, Shelley, Frost, Browning, Thoreau, Whitman, da Vinci, Dante, Boccacio, Rembrandt, Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Holbein, Cicero, Warhol, Degas, Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Rambeau, Korsakov, Eichmann, Mengele ...

Eisenhower, Manson, Berle, Picasso, da Vinci, Rembrant, Renoir, Mantle, Elway, Csonka, & Ditka

Just about every Classical and Broadway composer. People rarely know their first names.

too many really. Tudor, and so forth. Yea a bit tired to put others lol

The presidents come to mind and the county commisioners in my county.

Washington, Carver, Edison, Bush, Obama, Roosevelt, King, X, Parks, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Hitler, Gacy, Kennedy, Rockefeller, Franklin, Smith, Columbus, and more. :D

Smith, Jones, Brown, Adams, Johnson, White, Anderson . . .

Bach.

Madona (damn it that's her first name)

Stalin, Lenin, Gandhi, Mozart

Ok my brain hurts. I can't think of more and I don't want to cheat and look online.

All of the Presidents. Cool question, btw ;D...

Quite a few including the ones you mentioned like Caesar, Einstein, Nelson, Montgomery, Patton, lister, Faraday, Stalin, and so on.

Almost all the presidents :)

quite a few....

1000 I taught 40 yrs

Care to be even a touch specific, either of you? That was the point.