This is a list of people with reduplicated names.

Reduplication, in linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

, is a process by which the root or stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated. Alternative terms include cloning, doubling, duplication and repetition. Reduplication has a grammatical function in some languages, such as plurality or intensification. It is also used to derive

Derivation (linguistics)

In linguistics, derivation is the process of forming a new word on the basis of an existing word, e.g. happi-ness and un-happy from happy, or determination from determine...

 new words. The process of anthroponymy

Anthroponymy

Anthroponomastics , a branch of onomastics, is the study of anthroponyms Anthroponomastics (or anthroponymy), a branch of onomastics, is the study of anthroponyms Anthroponomastics (or anthroponymy), a branch of onomastics, is the study of anthroponyms (Anthroponomastics (or anthroponymy), a branch...

, or naming people, is frequently creative, and provides examples of this.

Reduplication in human names is sometimes used with hypocorisms, i.e. informal short versions of names. It is commonly used this way in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, e.g. the French name

French names

This article describes the conventions for using people's names in France, including the norms of custom and practice, as well as the legal aspects.-Madame, Mademoiselle, Monsieur:In normal polite usage, a person's name is preceded by an honorific:...

 Louise

Louise (given name)

Louise, Aloisia and Luise are, respectively, French and German feminine forms of Louis. Louise has been regularly used as a female name in English speaking countries since the middle of the 19th century. It has ranked among the top 100 names given to girls in France, England, Ireland, Scotland,...

becomes Loulou as a diminutive

Diminutive

In language structure, a diminutive, or diminutive form , is a formation of a word used to convey a slight degree of the root meaning, smallness of the object or quality named, encapsulation, intimacy, or endearment...

. The nicknames and fictional characters below include other examples.

People with reduplicated surnames

• Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh
  Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh
  Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh was the Minister of External Relations of Cameroon from 1988 to 1992 and the head of United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda .-Biography:Booh-Booh was born in Manak, Cameroon...
  
   (born 1938)
• Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje
  Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje
  Ruben Bertrand Boumtje Boumtje is a retired Cameroonian professional basketball player. At 7'0" and 260 lbs, he played at center. He is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., U.S., and enjoyed a brief stint in the NBA...
  
   (born 1978)
• Eric Djemba-Djemba
  Eric Djemba-Djemba
  Eric Daniel Djemba-Djemba is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Danish side Odense BK and the Cameroon national football team. He has previously played club football in France, England and Qatar.-Nantes:...
  
   (born 1981)
• Lomana LuaLua
  Lomana LuaLua
  Lomana Trésor LuaLua is a Congolese footballer who plays for Blackpool, and the Congo DR national football team.LuaLua was born in Kinshasa, but moved to England at a young age. After impressing in a college football match, he signed for Colchester United. There, he scored a total of 21 goals in...
  
   (born 1980)
• House of Kamehameha
  House of Kamehameha
  The House of Kamehameha , or the Kamehameha Dynasty, was the reigning family of the Kingdom of Hawaii between the unification of the islands by Kamehameha I in 1810 and the death of Kamehameha V in 1872...
  
   (19th century)

People with reduplicated personal names

Reduplicated in the original language

• He Pingping
  He Pingping
  He Pingping was, according to the Guinness World Records, the world's shortest man who was able to walk.- Early and personal life :He measured 74 cm tall, and was the third child of a family in Huade county, in the city of Ulanqab in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He had...
  
   (何平平) (born 1988)
• Li Lili (黎莉莉) (born Qian Zhenzhen, 1915–2005)
• Lily Li
  Lily Li
  Lily Li is a Hong Kong actress.-Filmography:* State of Divinity * Centre Stage* The Young Master* Disciples of the 36th Chamber* Shatter* Shaolin Mantis* Challenge of the Masters...
  
   (李麗麗) (born 1950)
• Yo-Yo Ma
  Yo-Yo Ma
  Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...
  
   (马友友) (born 1955)
• Sa Dingding (萨顶顶) (born 1983)

Not reduplicated in the original language

• Wang Zhizhi
  Wang Zhizhi
  Wang Zhizhi is a Chinese professional basketball player. He is a former player in the National Basketball Association.Wang is 214 cm tall. Wang's father Wang Weijun and mother Ren Huanzhen were both basketball players...
  
   (王治郅) (born 1977)

People with reduplicated nicknames or stage names

• BeBe & CeCe Winans
  BeBe & CeCe Winans
  BeBe & CeCe Winans are an American Gospel music brother and sister duo. BeBe and CeCe Winans are the seventh and eighth of "Mom" and "Pop" Winans' ten children, most of whom have had successful Gospel music careers.-Musical career:...
  
   (born 1962, 1964)
• CeCe Peniston
  CeCe Peniston
  CeCe Peniston is an African American recording artist and former beauty queen. At the beginning of the nineties, she was considered to be one of the most successful dance club artists in the history of the U.S...
  
   (borm 1969)
• Chi Chi LaRue
  Chi Chi LaRue
  Larry David Paciotti is an American film director of gay, bisexual and straight pornography. He is best known in his drag persona as Chi Chi LaRue and has also directed under the names Lawrence David and Taylor Hudson.- Career :...
  
   (born 1959)
• Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez (born 1935)
• Fei Fei (Hong Kong actress, 1945–2008)
• Flavor Flav
  Flavor Flav
  William Jonathan Drayton, Jr. , better known by his stage name Flavor Flav, is an American rapper and television personality who rose to prominence as a member of the rap group Public Enemy...
  
   (American rapper, born 1959)
• JoJo (American singer, born 1990)
• José José
  José José
  José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz , known by his artistic name José José, is a Mexican singer.Referred in the entertainment world as "El Príncipe de la Canción" , José José is best known for his romantic ballads and renowned for his vocals...
  
   (Mexican singer, born 1948)
• Lisa Lisa
• Lulu
  Lulu (singer)
  Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE , best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, actress, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day...
  
  , born 1948
• May May
• Marky Mark
  Marky Mark
  - People :* Mark Wahlberg , American musician & actor* Marky Mark , Brazilian musician a.k.a. DJ Marky* Marky Mark, a Canadian professional wrestler- Music :* Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, Mark Wahlberg's rap group of early 1990s fame...
  
  
• Zsa Zsa Gabor
  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  Zsa Zsa Gabor is a Hungarian-born American stage, film and television actress.She acted on stage in Vienna, Austria, in 1932, and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936. She emigrated to the United States in 1941 and became a sought-after actress with "European flair and style", with a personality that...
  
   (born 1917)
• Sylvain Sylvain
  Sylvain Sylvain
  Sylvain Sylvain is an American rock guitarist, most notable for being a member of the New York Dolls.-Early years:...
  
   (born 1951)

People with the same personal name and family name

American people

• Abraham Abraham
  Abraham Abraham
  Abraham Abraham was an American businessman and the founder of the Brooklyn, New York department store Abraham & Straus, founded 1865...
  
   (1843–1911)
• Barbara Barbara (fashion designer)
• Chris Christie (born 1962)
• Dick Dickey
  Dick Dickey
  Richard Lea "Dick" Dickey was an American professional basketball player for the National Professional Basketball League's Anderson Packers and National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics, although he is best remembered for his college career while playing at NC State.-Early life:Dickey was...
  
   (1926–2006)
• Dudley Dudley
• Ea Ea
  Craige Schensted
  Craige Eugene Schensted is a physicist who first formulated the insertion algorithm that defines the Robinson–Schensted correspondence; under a different form, that correspondence had earlier been described by Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson in 1938, but it is due to the Schensted insertion...
  
  
• Edward Edwards (actor)‎
• Edward I. Edwards‎ (1863–1931)
• Gordon Gordon (writer) (1906–2002)
• John Johns‎ (1796–1876)
• Khaled Khaled (born 1975)
• Lauren Bush Lauren (born 1984)
• Morris Morris
  Morris W. Morris
  Morris W. Morris was a Jamaican-born American stage actor best known for his longtime performance in the role of "Mephistopheles" in "Faust". Morris was of English and Spanish ancestry....
  
   (1844-1906)
• Philip Phillips (archaeologist)‎ (1900–1994)
• Philip Phillips (businessman)‎ (1874–1959)
• Philip Phillips‎ (lawyer) (1807–1884)
• Richard (Dick) Richards‎
• Richard N. Richards‎ (born 1946)
• Robert Roberts (butler)‎ (1780–1860)
• Robert Richford Roberts
  Robert Richford Roberts
  Robert Richford Roberts distinguished himself as an American Methodist Circuit Rider, Pastor, Presiding Elder, and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1816. He was the first married man in America to serve as Bishop of the M.E. Church.-Birth and Early Life:Roberts was born in...
  
   (1778–1843)
• Robert W. Roberts
  Robert W. Roberts
  Robert Whyte Roberts was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born in Kent County, Delaware, Roberts received a liberal education.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar....
  
   (1784–1865)
• Thomas T. Thomas
  Thomas Thurston Thomas
  Thomas Thurston Thomas, also writing as Thomas T. Thomas and Thomas Wren, is a science fiction author.-Books:*The Doomsday Effect Winner of the Compton Crook Award in 1987.*First Citizen...
  
   (science fiction writer)

Arab people

• Azzam Azzam
  Azzam Azzam
  Azzam Azzam is an Israeli Druze who was convicted in Egypt of spying for Israel, and jailed for eight years. He maintained his innocence throughout the ordeal, and since, no credible evidence was presented at his trial, and no additional evidence was ever released.-Arrest and trial:Azzam is a...
  
   (born 1963)
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali‎ (born 1922)
• Sirhan Sirhan‎ (born 1944)
• Sirhan Sirhan (militant)‎ (died 2003)
• Dr Tohme Tohme (adviser to Michael Jackson)
• Haidar Haidar
  Haidar Haidar
  Haidar Haidar is a Syrian writer and novelist.His novel Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr was banned in several Arab countries, and even resulted in a belated angry reaction from the clerics of Al-Azhar University upon reprinting in Egypt in the year 2000. The clerics issued a Fatwa banning the novel,...
  
   (Syrian novelist)

Australian people

• George Georges
  George Georges
  George Georges was a Labor senator for Queensland, Australia from 1968 to 1986. From 15 December 1986 he was an independent after quitting the ALP...
  
   (politician, 1920–2002)
• Isaac Isaacs
  Isaac Isaacs
  Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG KC was an Australian judge and politician, was the third Chief Justice of Australia, ninth Governor-General of Australia and the first born in Australia to occupy that post. He is the only person ever to have held both positions of Chief Justice of Australia and...
  
   (Governor-General, 1855–1948)
• Richard W. Richards‎ (Antarctic explorer, 1893–1985)
• Bob Roberts (politician, born 1952)
• Peter Peters
  Peter Peters
  Peter Peters is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, commentator and journalist.He was a first grade player for Parramatta Eels and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles from 1969 to 1974, playing in the 1972 and 1973 premiership winning teams, Later he became a football commentator on...
  
   (rugby league player and 2KY
  2KY
  2KY is a commercial radio station based in Sydney, broadcasting throughout New South Wales and Canberra on a network of over 140 narrowcast transmitters as well as the main 1017 AM frequency in Sydney. 2KY broadcasts live commentary of thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing...
  
  host)
• Miao Miao
  Miao Miao
  Miao Miao is an Australian table tennis player who represented Australia at the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympic Games. Her best Olympic result was the quarter finals of the doubles tournament in Sydney...
  
   (table tennis player, born 1981)
• Roger Rogerson
  Roger Rogerson
  Roger Caleb Rogerson is a controversial former detective-sergeant of the New South Wales Police Force. Rogerson was convicted of perverting the course of justice and lying to the 1999 Police Integrity Commission...
  
   (ex-policeman, born 1941)

Canadian people

• David David (fur trader, 1764–1824)
• Peter Peeters
  Pete Peeters
  Peter H. Peeters is a retired Vezina-winning professional ice hockey goaltender who was one of the NHL's most colourful characters in the 1980s.-Early life:...
  
   (hockey player, born 1957)
• Raymond Raymond
  Raymond Raymond
  Raymond Raymond was a Canadian lawyer and politician. First elected to represent the riding of Terrebonne, Quebec as a Liberal in the 1957 federal election he was a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons for less than a year, losing his seat in the 1958 federal election that...
  
   (politician, born 1905)
• William Williams (military leader, 1800–1883)

Chinese people
(Note: these people's surnames are not the same as the given names in the original language)

• Lang Lang (pianist)‎
• Li Li (badminton player)‎
• Li Li (gymnast)‎
• Li Lili (singer and actress, 1915–2005)
• Lily Li
  Lily Li
  Lily Li is a Hong Kong actress.-Filmography:* State of Divinity * Centre Stage* The Young Master* Disciples of the 36th Chamber* Shatter* Shaolin Mantis* Challenge of the Masters...
  
   (actress, born 1950)
• Cao Cao
  Cao Cao
  Cao Cao was a warlord and the penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty who rose to great power during the dynasty's final years. As one of the central figures of the Three Kingdoms period, he laid the foundations for what was to become the state of Cao Wei and was posthumously titled...
  
   (warlord)
• Yang Yang
  Yang Yang
  -People:* Yang Yang , Chinese badminton player* Yang Yang , Chinese baseball player* Yang Yang , Chinese director...
  
  

Welsh people

• Edward Edwards (cleric)‎ (1726–1783)
• Edward Edwards (musician)‎ (1816–1897)
• Griffith Griffith‎ (1883–1967)
• James James‎ (1833–1902)
• Llewelyn Lewellin‎ (1798–1878)
• Owen Owen‎
• Owen Owen (school inspector)‎ (1850–1920)
• Pryce Pryce-Jones
  Pryce Pryce-Jones
  Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones was a Welsh entrepreneur who was one of the first to succeed in the mail order business.-Life history:...
  
   (1834–1920)
• Rob Roberts
  Rob Roberts
  Rob Roberts is a rugby league player for the Oldham Roughyeds in National League Two. He plays , , or /...
  
  
• Robert Roberts (cleric)‎ (1680–1741)
• Richard Richards (MP)‎ (1752–1823)
• Thomas Thomas (boxer)‎ (1880–1911)
• Thomas Thomas (cleric)‎ (1804–1877)
• His son Thomas Llewellyn Thomas
  Thomas Llewellyn Thomas
  Thomas Llewellyn Thomas was a Welsh Anglican clergyman and scholar of the Welsh language. He wrote poems in English, Latin and Welsh and worked on a Basque translation of the Old Testament...
  
   (1840–1897)

Other British people

• Anthony Anthony
  Anthony Roll
  The Anthony Roll is a record of ships of the English Tudor navy of the 1540s, named after its creator, Anthony Anthony. It originally consisted of three rolls of vellum, depicting 58 naval vessels along with information on their size, crew, armament, and basic equipment. The rolls were...
  
  , compiler of the Anthony Roll, inventory of Tudor ships
• Edward Edwards (Royal Navy officer) (1742–1815)
• Edward Edwards (librarian)
  Edward Edwards (librarian)
  Edward Edwards was a British librarian, library historian, and biographer. He was an important figure in the establishment of free libraries in the U.K. He died and is buried in Niton on the Isle of Wight.-Early life and work:...
  
   (1812–1886)
• Jerome K. Jerome
  Jerome K. Jerome
  Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, and was brought up in poverty in London...
  
   (writer) (1859–1927)
• Mohamed Mohamed (born 1984)
• Monier Monier-Williams
  Monier Monier-Williams
  Sir Monier Monier-Williams, KCIE was the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England...
  
   (1819–1899)
• Neville Neville‎
• Bob Roberts (folksinger)
  Bob Roberts (folksinger)
  Bob Roberts was a British folk singer, songwriter, storyteller, bargeman, author, and journalist. He was the last captain of a British commercial vessel operating under sail, and brought to an end a centuries old tradition.- Life :...
  
   (1907–1982)
• Bob Roberts (footballer)
  Bob Roberts (footballer)
  Robert John Roberts , better known as Bob Roberts, was an English football goalkeeper. He spent the majority of his career at West Bromwich Albion, with whom he won an FA Cup winner's medal, and also played for Sunderland Albion and Aston Villa...
  
   (1859–1929)
• Robert Roberts (Christadelphian)‎ (1839–1898)
• Roland Rowland‎ (1917–1998)
• Samuel Samuel
  Samuel Samuel
  Samuel Samuel was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1913 to 1934....
  
   (politician) (1855–1934)
• Solomon J. Solomon (painter) 1860–1927)

Other people

• Abdullah Abdullah
  Abdullah Abdullah
  Abdullah Abdullah is an Afghan politician and a doctor of medicine. He was an adviser and friend to Ahmad Shah Massoud, legendary anti-Taliban leader and commander known as the "Lion of Panjshir". After the fall of the Taliban regime, Dr. Abdullah served as Afghanistan's Foreign Minister from 2001...
  
   (Afghan politician, born 1960)
• Adam Adami
  Adam Adami
  Adam Adami, O.S.B. was a German monk, diplomat and priest.Born in Mülheim am Rhein, Adami seems to have made his first studies in Cologne. At the age of 19, he entered the Benedictine abbey of Brauweiler and occupied himself with theology and law studies...
  
   (German priest, 1603–1663)
• Carl Carls
  Carl Carls
  Carl Carls was a German chess master.In 1922, he took 2nd, behind Erhardt Post, in Bad Oeynhausen...
  
   (German chess master, 1880–1958)
• Eddie Edwards (various people)
• Henry Henry
  Henry Henry
  The Most Reverend Henry Henry D.D. was an Irish Roman Catholic Prelate and from 1895 until 1908 he held the title Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. He was known for his energy and zeal, as well as his overt activism in local politics, founding the Belfast Catholic Association.-Career:Dr Henry was...
  
   (Irish Roman Catholic bishop, 1846–1908)
• Roger Roger
  Roger Roger (composer)
  Roger Roger was a French film composer and bandleader. His aliases included: Eric Swan, Cecil Leuter, the last being a pseudonym he used for his electronic productions...
  
   (French composer, 1911–1995)
• Santorio Santorio (Italian physician, 1561–1636)
• Thomas Thomas‎ (Indian surgeon, 1917–1998)
• William Williams (various people)

Fictional characters

• Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
  Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (character)
  Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo , or "Bobobo" as he is often called, is a fictional character and the main protagonist and title character of the anime and manga series Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and Shinsetsu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo created by Yoshio Sawai.Bobobo is an eccentric man with bodybuilder sized muscles and a giant...
  
  , the main character of the eponymous manga and anime series
• Boo-Boo Bear
• Cha-Cha DiGregorio from the musical
  Grease (musical)
  Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
  
   and movie
  Grease (film)
  Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...
  
   Grease
• Charles Charles, a character on Pushing Daisies
  Pushing Daisies
  Pushing Daisies is an American comedy-drama television series created by Bryan Fuller that aired on ABC from October 3, 2007 to June 13, 2009. The series stars Lee Pace as Ned, a pie-maker with the ability to bring dead things back to life with his touch, an ability that comes with stipulations...
  
  
• Chi-Chi or Chi Chi, a character in Dragon Ball media
• Chi Chi, a character in the Scarface
  Scarface (1983 film)
  Scarface is a 1983 American epic crime drama movie directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, produced by Martin Bregman and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana...
  
  universe
• ChibiChibi
• Durand Durand from the movie Barbarella
  Barbarella (film)
  Barbarella is a 1968 Franco-Italian science fiction film based on Jean-Claude Forrest's French Barbarella comics. The film was directed by Roger Vadim and stars Jane Fonda, who was Vadim's wife at the time.-Plot:...
  
  
• Humbert Humbert
  Lolita
  Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by the author into Russian...
  
  
• James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree—took great care of his mother, though he was only three
• Jar Jar Binks
  Jar Jar Binks
  Jar Jar Binks is a fictional character from the Star Wars Saga , and the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. His primary role was to provide comic relief, but many reacted negatively to his character...
  
  
• Jay Jay the Jet Plane
  Jay Jay the Jet Plane
  Jay Jay the Jet Plane is an American CGI children's television series based at the fictional Tarrytown Airport. It has about 60 episodes and it is aimed at ages 2-6. The characters are talking airplanes, a helicopter, some humans, and two talking ground vehicles...
  
  
• Major Major Major Major
  Major Major Major Major
  Major Major Major Major is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22.-Fictional character biography:He has the surname Major, and at birth his father gave him the first and middle names Major and Major, informing the mother that he had named the boy 'Caleb' in accordance with her wishes...
  
  
• Montgomery Montgomery
• Richie Rich
• Rin Tin Tin
  Rin Tin Tin
  Rin Tin Tin was the name given to a dog adopted from a WWI battlefield that went on to star in twenty-three Hollywood films. The name was subsequently given to several related German Shepherd dogs featured in fictional stories on film, radio and television.-Origins:The first of the line Rin Tin...
  
   (various movie dogs)
• Tintin
  Tintin (character)
  Tintin is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the series of classic Belgian comic books written and illustrated by Hergé. Tintin is the protagonist of the series, a reporter and adventurer who travels around the world with his dog Snowy....
  
   (cartoon character)
• Wilson Wilson (Home Improvement television show)
• Xiao Xiao‎