Give me famous american names! (it's for my cat)

Manson

"Juicy's Ass"

It's a person, it's a place, and I hear a lot of people go there every year, so it counts as being famous too!

Ron Jeremy...

AG Webmaster

Chairman Meow

Wilbur

Meowzer

Honey

Pixel

Juicy D. Cat

Claude Balls

Goatse. :D

Betsey Ross

Fonzy.... or The Fonz

wich reminds me of a good cats name...Fozzy! I know a Fozzy...good cat

John.........

http://www.niaf.org/research/contribution.asp#innovate

ITALIAN AMERICAN INNOVATORS

Italian Americans created many of the familiar items we enjoy every day.

The Jacuzzi hot tub and spa were invented by the Jacuzzi family. whose family of seven sons and six daughters came to America in 1907. In 1915, they formed the Jacuzzi Brothers Incorporated, which supplied the American military with propellers. In 1926, they developed the deep well (jet) water pump that led to the famous whirlpool bath.
Mr. Coffee, the best-selling coffee maker in the world, was invented by Vince Marotta, who also developed a better way extract oil from coffee beans and invented the paper coffee filter. Since 1972, more than 50 million Mr. Coffees have been sold. An estimated 10 billion Mr. Coffee paper filters are sold annually.
The convertible sofa was invented by Bernard Castro (1904-1991) who came from Italy and opened an upholstery shop in New York in 1931. In 1945, he invented the famous space-saving sofa that even a child could open.
Chef Boyardee, the man behind the nation's leading brand of spaghetti dinners, pizza mix, sauce and pasta, was really Ettore Boiardi, an Italian immigrant from Emilia Romagna. Boiardi, who began as a chef's apprentice at age 11, eventually opened a restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio in 1924 and began packaging pasta and sauce for his customers to take home. In the 1930s, he began selling his pasta and sauce in cans. A food distributor convinced him to change the spelling of his name to make it easier for Americans to pronounce. During World War II, the company was the largest supplier of rations for the U.S. and Allied Forces.
The Big Mac, McDonald's sandwich classic, was invented by Jim Delligatti owner of a McDonald's franchise in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since its introduction in 1967, more than 14 billion Big Macs have been sold, making it the most popular sandwich in the world.
Antonio Meucci invented the telephone in 1871, five years before Alexander Graham Bell, but the impoverished inventor did not have the funds (about $25.00) to file a patent.
The popular Radio Flyer red wagon was created by Antonio Pasin, an immigrant Italian carpenter in 1917. Pasin began making the wagon he called the Liberty Coaster, after the Statue of Liberty, one of his first sights in America. Today, his grandson, Robert Pasin is the president of the Chicago-based Radio Flyer Inc, which he runs with his brothers, Antonio and Paul. The company's 100 employees manufacture about 8,000 wagons a day.
The chocolate bar exists today in part thanks to Domenico Ghirardelli. In 1867, he perfected a method to make ground chocolate. Today, Ghirardelli chocolate is sold all over the world, including the square in San Francisco named after him, where his chocolate factory - now a shopping center -- still stands.
Mr. Peanut and the Planters Peanut Company were created by Amedeo Obici and Mario Peruzzi, two Italian immigrants. Obici, who came to America from Oderzo in 1889, began selling five-cent bags of peanuts on the street. In 1897, he took Peruzzi as his partner. By 1930, the two had four huge factories, and raked in over $12 million annually. Today the Planters Peanut Company has over 5,000 employees.
The cough drop was created by Vincent R. Ciccone, who began his career in the 1930s as a janitor at the Charms Candy Co. and retired as the company's president and chief executive officer. Ciccone secured 20 patents, including the "Blow Pop," a lolly pop with a bubble gum center. He died at age 81 in 1997.
Charles Atlas, born Angelo Siciliano, invented the body-building technique called "Dynamic Tension" in 1921 and was dubbed "America's Most Perfectly Developed Man" by Physical Culture magazine. By the 1950s, the former Coney Island janitor, had over one million followers. He died in 1972 at age 79 while jogging too soon after a heart attack.
The ice cream cone was invented by an Italian immigrant to New Jersey named Italo Marcioni in 1896.
The three-way light bulb was invented by Alessandro Dandini, who patented more than 22 inventions, including the rigid retractable automobile top and the spherical system, which concentrates and extracts solar energy. Dandini came to the U.S. in 1945, and taught at the University of Nevada in Reno. He held degrees in science, languages, hydraulic engineering and classical literature. He died in 1991 at age 88.
Bernard Cousino (1902-1994) held more than 76 patents on audiovisual equipment, including the eight-track tape player and the automobile tape deck. In 1994, just days before his death, he filed a patent for a continuous loop video cassette that allows VCRs to play tapes repeatedly without rewinding.


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ITALIAN AMERICANS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT

For generations, Italian Americans have played major roles as law officers in the U.S.


The man who pursued Billy the Kid was Charlie Angelo Siringo (1855-1912), a famous Pinkerton detective, who also went after such legendary outlaws as the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy and their Hole-in-the-Wall gang, which he infiltrated "undercover." He authored several books, including A Texas Cowboy and A Cowboy Detective, that chronicle the once-wild west.


The Federal Bureau of Investigation was founded in 1908 by Charles J. Bonaparte, who was appointed attorney general by Theodore Roosevelt. Previously, he was Secretary of the Navy and the first Italian American in the U.S. Cabinet. In 1993, Louis Freeh, whose mother's name is Bernice Chinchiola, became director of the FBI.


The first Italian American detective in New York City and the first New York police officer killed abroad in the line of duty was Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino. He was shot in Palermo March 12, 1909 while investigating the Mafia. Petrosino is credited with sending over 500 criminals to prison.


John Sirica was the judge who presided over the Watergate case for five years and ordered the enforcement of the subpoena, which obliged President Richard Nixon to turn over the infamous tapes. Judge Sirica's decision ultimately led to President Nixon's resignation in 1974.


U.S. Congressman Peter Rodino chaired the House Judiciary Committee in 1974. Under his leadership, the bipartisan committee investigated President Richard Nixon's actions and recommended that he be impeached. It would have been the second impeachment trial of a sitting president in U.S. history. Instead Nixon resigned. Elected to Congress in 1948, Rodino helped introduce the law which made Columbus Day a national holiday in 1973.


Antonin Scalia is the first Italian American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. The son of Sicilian immigrants, he was appointed in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan.

Before becoming mayor of New York City in 1992, Rudolph Giuliani (b.1944) had a remarkable career as a crime-fighter in the U.S. Department of Justice for 25 years. Between 1968 and 1992, he put drug traffickers and organized crime bosses behind bars, ending his Justice career as associate deputy attorney. Since becoming mayor, he has reduced New York's crime rate, making the city one of the safest in the country.
Frank Serpico was a New York City undercover policeman whose exposure of police corruption led to the formation of the Knapp Commission. His life and work were the subject of a book by Peter Maas and a movie, starring Al Pacino.
Before becoming the first woman ever to run for national office, former U.S. Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro served as assistant district attorney in Queens, New York (1974). Four years later, in 1978, she headed the Special Victims Bureau, which she helped create. There she prosecuted cases of child abuse, domestic violence and rape.
The lead prosecutor in the government's case against crime boss John Gotti was Assistant U.S. District Attorney Diane Giacolone. She presented a strong case during the 61/2 month trial in 1987, but Gotti was acquitted. Ten years later, Gotti's henchman Sammy "The Bull" Gravano revealed that he had fixed the jury.

Richard Cheese :-)

Larry, Curley, Moe & Shemp

Figby is also popular

Anyone telling me what I have to name my cat after wouldn't be selling me a cat. Grow some balls and tell her to fuck off.

u guys are gay.

Names like Eisenhower or Newton, etc.

Jimi Hendrix

Nathan Bedford Forrest
General Robert E. Lee

Patton

Sting

OJ

Elvis

Lincoln

Washington

Sequoia

Flatbush

Roxbury

Niagara

Redrob

Gen. Custer
Uncle Tom (for a tomcat)
Geronimo
King
X
Kittyhawk
Wilbur
Orville

omg chairman Meow. That's classic!

Jefferson
Madison
Reagan
Bell
Dean
Wright
Big Foot

Alamo

Shamu (black and white)

Nantucket

Salem (meanes peaceful)

Dupont

Catrina

Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King Jr.

BTW I think this is a weird thread.

monroe ;)

Mr. Miyagi

Julius Ceasar

you said amrican places or important people, but you didnt say american important people... so I say Julius Ceasar

and then you can call him Julius or Ceasar

Zeta...

for Catherine Zeta Jones... hehe

Michael jackson--don't forget him...

Soopafly
Tookie
Debo
Kanye
Bro Man
Napolean Dynamite
LaFonda
Morris the Cat
Biggie
Poon Tang
Peyton
Don Magic Juan
Oprah

and my favorite pick for you pussy..........


Focker

more, and please read the instructions.

recognizable (sp) names of places or people only.

pathfinder ?

oops sorry , I thought you are getting a pig :/

Einstein
Kennedy
Ford
Edison
Franklin
Revere
Alamo
Lincoln
Madison
Roosevelt
Capone

hummmm...

I like Capone.

Uncle Sam. that's the great American name.