"Help - translating Foreign names into English" Topic

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Last Hussar	05 Dec 2015 2:53 a.m. PST
I am looking for famous people whose names have an direct English translation. For example Joe Green = Giuseppi Verdi. Any ideas?
Doms Decals	05 Dec 2015 3:25 a.m. PST
Henry and Julian Churches (Enrico and Julio Iglesias) Michael Cooper (Fassbender) Any number of Masons (Kardashian – literally stone-carver.) Alfred Little-Peace (Al Pacino) Tony Flags (Antonio Banderas) Justin Beaver, obviously…. ;-) Thanks to a pointless internet quiz that popped up a few weeks ago for these – I can't remember the rest that were on it, sorry.
Cerdic	05 Dec 2015 10:04 a.m. PST
The ex-boss of the Ferrari Formula 1 team, Stefano Domenicali. Loosely translates as Steve Sunday.
enfant perdus	05 Dec 2015 11:02 a.m. PST
Mikhail Gorbachev is Michael Hunchback.