Go to Google News (preferably in an anonymous browser window so it’s not skewed towards your usual searches — though it will detect your location/country).
Search for your surname. Who comes up top?
For me it’s Immigration Minister Chris Bowen.
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What a fun thing to do!
I share a surname with a famous Australian (in history) so the first hit is a school named after the famous man.
In Ancient History, it was me, but nowadays everyone is on the internet, and it’s a geological consultancy. I don’t even make the first page any more, but a member of my family does.
If I google “Daniel Bowen”, you come up on top and Chris Bowen is nowhere to be seen.
French golfer Caroline Afonso, whom I’d never heard of, followed by a few people who have Afonso as their first name.
I share mine with a University in USA
Parramatta Lord Mayor Lorraine Wearne… Not very exciting.
Me. Indeed all the hits refer to me.
The highest ranking person on Google News with my surname is a player with the Minnesota Vikings.
If I google my whole name, I’m a founder of a community kitchen serving meals for the needy, a professor of sociology, a lawyer, and a medium.
It’s also fun to submit your name to Google Images, and see all the other “yous” out there.
I think I will change my name to DeLorean
Mine keeps flinging me back to Switzerland, where Lockett Pundt is on top.
When referred back to Oz, it’s of course Tony Lockett.
Alex Smith, of the SF 49ers, with 4635 references.