Help us choose and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: Single Names [closed]

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Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, passed away this week. We're featuring him next week (January 26) in the Connection Finder along with others who are known by a single name.

Here's who we're getting started on:

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eleven per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

To help us plan future themes, see the 2022 Example Profile Plans post here.

WikiTree profile: Michael Aday
closed with the note: Feature: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1363751/which-mononymous-notable-are-you-most-closely-connected-to
in The Tree House by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (731k points)
closed by Abby Glann
Meat Loaf is two words.
However, Loaf is not a surname. Meat Loaf functions as a single unitary name.
It is pronounced as a single word, as are some others who are classified as mononymous (especially hyphenated names).

17 Answers

+12 votes

Cher -- Living (so profile is not visible, but I believe she qualifies as a Living Notable (she has 96 language pages on Wikipedia) and could have the profile opened -- although the three visible children on Sonny's profile probably should not be). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher  As Sonny is Connected, Cher would be also.

by Melanie Paul G2G6 Pilot (422k points)
Her profile is at Yellow privacy, so she's as visible as we can get it at the moment:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sarkisian-2
I have an image for her (public domain), but cannot place it on the profile.
Give it another shot now.
Seems now I can.  Uploading.
Thank you, Melanie and Scott.
I've given her a biography of sorts.  (As in, I do not claim it is in any way a great feat of writing, but it's better than an empty profile.)
+13 votes

Liberace - has pic, has bio, NOT NOW Connected.

edited in an update on status

by Melanie Paul G2G6 Pilot (422k points)
edited by Melanie Paul
I should have Liberace Connected by some time tomorrow.  (I've a bunch of profiles to create to get there, and I have no idea how many degrees that'll make, but Connected he will be.)

I missed the last system update by about 15 minutes (because I stopped along the way to write a biography instead of just adding the profiles and going back later), but as of a few minutes ago Liberace is now Connected!  And much better than I had thought it might be!

Melanie Paul is 26 Degrees from Liberace

Thanks, Melanie.
+10 votes

Lemmy - English, has pic, is Connected, needs bio.

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Lulu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu_(singer)) - Scottish - Living (is probably the hidden profile attached to Maurice Gibb, but could be opened as a Living Notable, as she has 36 language pages on Wikipedia).  She would be Connected, as Maurice is.

edited to correct nationality

by Melanie Paul G2G6 Pilot (422k points)
edited by Melanie Paul
I think actually Lulu is Scottish.

Ooops.  blush blush

Thanks, Melanie and Ros. That profile connected to Maurice is Lulu. I've opened her up to yellow privacy.
+12 votes
by Peggy Watkins G2G6 Pilot (836k points)

She is most likely this one -- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hornby-198

Twiggy has 41 language pages on Wikipedia, so would qualify for Living Notable open status.  I can't tell if she is attached to husband Michael Armstrong, but if she isn't it'd be easy to do -- and he is Connected, so Twiggy would also be Connected.

I'm working on her, getting her opened, and then I can write a bio.
I'd bet money that's her.
All in progress - it involves a UPM.  I'll let you know when I hear back.
Yes, that's her.  I will be working on her profile today, and then she will be revealed as a Living Notable by the England Project.
Nice work, Ros.
Revealed! Phew - that was some *hard* work to do in a day!

I've got plenty of her ancestors waiting in the wings - still hoping for a quick opening of her parents' profile locked by a UPM.
Thanks, Peggy, Melanie, Ros, and Scott.
+11 votes

What about the singer Adele?

I've only ever heard of her as Adele.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele

And even her wikipedia page shows only a single name!!

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Adkins-7060

She has a profile (needs to be open - ask Scott) and is UNCONNECTED

by Robynne Lozier G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
She's still living, so she's set as open as we can manage at Yellow privacy.
Thanks, Scott and Robynne.
+12 votes

No visual artists have been suggested yet. Of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, there doesn't seem to be a profile for the former, but there is one for Jeanne-Claude, and it's connected with a biography. A CC-BY photo is available at Wikimedia.

by Jim Richardson G2G Astronaut (1.0m points)

I've added the photo to the profile for Jeanne-Claude.

Thanks, Jim.
+17 votes

Fabian

Geronimo

Molière (can't find a profile sad )

Nostradamus

Cantinflas

Oops, those are not connected.

Voltaire

El Cid (really one word because Spanish)

Student

Charlemagne

by Living Tardy G2G6 Pilot (765k points)
edited by Living Tardy
Thank you, Herb.
+10 votes

I'd suggest Banksy, but technically that's his pseudonym and no one is 100% sure of his real name.

Elvis

Eminem

Sting

Pink - unconnected

Rihanna - unconnected

by Scott Fulkerson G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)

Another one-name rapper: Common

I think he is in WikiTree as unlisted profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lynn-3484

Based on his Wikipedia content, he meets the Living Notables criteria

Thanks, Scott and Ellen. I've reduced Common's privacy settings a bit.
+9 votes

Beyonce

Shakira - no profile - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakira

Sade - no profile - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_(singer)

Selena - no profile - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena

Usher

Sia - possibly this profile? https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Furler-17

Tupac - unconnected

Ice-T - possibly this profile? https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marrow-324

by Scott Fulkerson G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
Thanks, Scott. I changed the privacy on the couple that were in question.
+9 votes

Slash - unconnected

Pitbull (rapper) - no profile - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitbull_(rapper)

Bono - unconnected

by Scott Fulkerson G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)

I thought about Bono, but I'd already suggested one not Connected, and I don't like throwing so much work out for others to do.  sad

Thanks, Scott and Melanie.
+10 votes
Surrealist artist Man Ray.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Radnitzky-1

Not connected yet.
by Mark Burch G2G6 Pilot (218k points)
Technically, two words.
Thanks, Mark.
+13 votes
Wikipedia has the complete list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononymous_person

Starting with Homer, Nero, Socrates, Aristotle, etc.
by Mark Burch G2G6 Pilot (218k points)
+11 votes
Pocahontas is well connected.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Powhatan-3
by Mark Burch G2G6 Pilot (218k points)
Thanks, Mark.
+11 votes

Saki - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Munro-2118 - author with both American and British ancestors, but not connected

by Roger Stong G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
+11 votes
Here are a few more. Havn't had time to search for profiles. Sorry if I'm repeating some:

Bjork

Charo

Drake

Ellen

Enya

Flee

Jewel

Moby

Morrissey

Oprah

Prince

Seal

Sinbad

Yanni
by David Randall G2G6 Pilot (349k points)
Enya - no profile I could find

Flee - I think you meant "Flea" of the RHCP - no profile I could find

Jewel - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kilcher-8 - unconnected

Moby - 6 potential "private" profiles to explore, but none that are clearly his
Thanks David and Scott.
+11 votes

Fabio (not connected; has photo)

by Sharon Casteel G2G6 Pilot (165k points)
Thanks, Sharon.
+11 votes
Twiggy is now opened as a Living Notable, has bio, image(s), is connected.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hornby-198
by Ros Haywood G2G Astronaut (1.9m points)
Thanks, Ros.

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