Sentence examples for surname here from inspiring English sources

When Adam Clayton Powell Diago moved to Washington D.C. to attend Howard University in 1979 or 1980, he dropped the Diago - "It wouldn't make sense," he said, to use his mother's surname as his surname here on the mainland - and starting calling himself Adam Clayton Powell IV.

I won't put their surnames here but know that I remember them.

Her parents were French Jews who fled the Nazis, settling in New York, and Anne, née Anne-Elise Schwartz (her father changed their surname) was born here, in 1948.

The central character of My Sex Life has the surname Daedalus and here we're invited to think of Nora Helmer, heroine of A Doll's House (there's a portrait of Ibsen on her father's wall) and Ishmael, the son of Abraham exiled to the desert.

One neighbor, a 53-year-old migrant vendor who goes by the surname Zhu, has lived here for 18 years and earned enough money from selling 16-cent ice creams in a roadside store to send all three of his children to university.

Here your surname is never forgotten.

The people here are surnamed Jiang.

The landscape painters Salomon van Ruysdael and his nephew Jacob van Ruisdael (who spelled their surnames differently) were born here.

A list of common surnames can be found here.

"Göth" and "Goeth" redirect here; see Goeth (surname) for a discussion of this and related surnames.

But probably not, said Jerry Della Femina, owner for 16 years of the restaurant here bearing his surname.