Two Harry Potters and a Katie Price explain how having a famous name has affected their lives.
"People assume it's a bad thing and I might want to change my name but it's not. Mostly people find it funny," Harry adds. The 25-year-old says he will often use his name as inspiration for a Halloween costume but admits it has caused confusion at work.
While on a placement for his PhD, Harry says he once emailed someone in another room and five minutes later, that person rang another colleague to check the email wasn't spam.Image captionHaving a famous namesake does have its advantages though. When Harry was six, his family moved to Devon and someone from a local newspaper came to photograph him dressed as the famous wizard and gave him a book."I don't really remember the trip other than it being good fun," he says.Harry Potter outside the entrance to the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play in JulyThis Mr Potter lives in Melbourne, Australia, and says he's been"putting up with the same jokes for 20 years". "You can imagine being a PE teacher - 'Are we playing Quidditch today sir? What are you doing here, shouldn't you be teaching at Hogwarts?' Students in the corridors humming the theme tune. You have fun with it. It doesn't make me angry." The 37-year-old is originally from Yorkshire and says he remembers the moment when it struck him how famous his name was going to become. "I remember getting off a train from Huddersfield to Leeds for my first year at university and there being a huge billboard for the first film. That's when it hit home that this was going to be massive. "People don't believe you when you tell them your name. They laugh. They don't expect it to be true. All around the world people know who Harry Potter is. I've been to China and Africa and the reaction is the same. It's a very famous name." Harry is the third Harry Potter in his family with both his great grandfather and great uncle also having the name Harry Potter."It's sort of a family tradition," he says. In 2018 he tweeted JK Rowling to tell the author that his two girls named Iris and Ivy were starting to appreciate that their dad has a"very cool and famous name."
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