Common or famous names that are also verbs

You wouldn't think there'd be this many.

Names Spelled Exactly Like Verbs

• Art (wherefore art thou)
• Barb (to equip with a barb)
• Bill
• Blanche (to become pale)
• Bob
• Buck (Rogers)
• Bud
• Butch
• Buzz
• Carol
• Candy (to cook with sugar or syrup)
• Chase
• Chip
• Chuck
• Cotton (to become friendly, or understanding, after Cotton Mather witch persecutor)
• Dawn
• Don
• Dot
• Drew
• Ebb (Ebenezer)
• (Uncle) Fester
• Flip
• Foster
• Frank (to mail something free of charge)
• Grace
• Grant
• Guy (to support with a guy wire)
• Harry (to harass constantly)
• Hector (to verbally intimidate or bully someone)
• Homer (to score a home run in baseball)
• Hope
• Jack
• Jimmy
• Josh
• Judge (Reinhold)
• Juice (Newton)
• Lance
• Mark
• Max
• May
• Mike (rowave)
• Nick
• Pat
• Peg
• Penny (to wedge a coin into a door jamb, binding it shut)
• Peter (out)
• Pierce (Brosnan)
• Ralph
• Rip
• Rob
• Rock (Hudson)
• Roger
• Rose
• Skip
• Stew(art)
• Stone (Phillips)
• Sue
• Tip
• Unmesh
• Wade
• Ward
• Will
• Wink
• Wolf

Names That Are Homophones of Verbs

• Barry (bury)
• Bea (be)
• Bette (Midler) (bet)
• Bo (bow, as wood under stress)
• Brooke ("I will brook no nonsense from anyone!")
• Carrie (carry)
• Claude (clawed)
• Cyn (sin)
• DeForrest (deforest)
• Di (die)
• Doug (dug)
• Duane (the tub, I'm dwowning!)
• Eddie (eddy)
• Em (am)
• Flo (flow)
• Ken (can)
• Mae (may)
• Mary (marry)
• Matt (mat)
• Moe (mow)
• Neal (kneel)
• Nell (knell)
• Paige (page)
• Paul (pall, to become less interesting)
• Perry (parry)
• Phil (fill)
• Reed (read)
• Rex (wrecks)
• Russell (rustle)
• Shelby (Shall be)
• Taylor
• Terri (tarry, to delay or wait)
• Wayne (wane)
• Winnie (whinney)

Names That Are Verbs Missing an Ending "g"

• Brandon (brandin')
• Holden (holdin')
• Karen (carin')
• Marion (marryin')
• Owen (owin')
• Robin (robbin')
• Sharon (sharin')
• Søren (soarin')
• Warren (warrin')
• Waylon (wailin')

Names of Famous Singers

• Cher
• Edge
• Slash
• Sting