BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Real life John Watson

**Posted by saturnR** May 12, 2014 7:04 am

There is a real life John Watson who is the CFO of Chevron Corporation
note: see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Watson_(Chevron)

I was thinking we could compile a list of real life people with the same names as the characters from Sherlock

There seems to be a real life James Moriarty who is a composer of classical musical
note: see: http://jamesmoriarty.net/

Please help me to add more

**Posted by maryagrawatson** May 12, 2014 7:51 pm

John Watson is a fairly common name. I had a partner name John Watson for a number of years in some volunteer work that I did. He was an insufferable know-it-all. Sherlock Holmes was so far off my radar back then that I never thought anything of the name, although I vaguely did the association.

(I want to thank Martin Freeman for incarnating an adorable and likeable John Watson and making me forget about the real life version. )

Mary

Mary

**Posted by nakahara** May 12, 2014 8:23 pm

Real one should be John Hamish Watson, shouldn´t he?

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** May 12, 2014 11:22 pm

We should try and find a list of John Watsons in the army, or John Watsons who are doctors. That would be cool.

**Posted by maryagrawatson** May 13, 2014 1:30 am

The John Watson I knew was in the medical field, a paramedic. A useless one however, not the kind you'd want around if you came across a poor sod who impaled himself on a ski pole, though. Oh, fond memories.

Mary

**Posted by belis** May 13, 2014 9:35 am

Sherlock Holmes wrote:
We should try and find a list of John Watsons in the army, or John Watsons who are doctors. That would be cool.

General Medical Council is only to happy to oblige

**Posted by nakahara** May 13, 2014 9:49 am

belis wrote:
Sherlock Holmes wrote:
We should try and find a list of John Watsons in the army, or John Watsons who are doctors. That would be cool.
General Medical Council is only to happy to oblige

Plenty of John Watsons there... now if we could only find some real life Sherlocks to match them....

**Posted by maryagrawatson** May 27, 2014 12:46 am

nakahara wrote:
Plenty of John Watsons there... now if we could only find some real life Sherlocks to match them....

I spoke to a William (Bill) Holmes today. Does that count as close enough?

It's been a VERY strange day... I got my cases for the week and the accused in one of them is named John Watson (told you it's a popular name!). Feeling slightly weirded out.

Mary

**Posted by nakahara** May 27, 2014 6:33 am

maryagrawatson wrote:
nakahara wrote:
Plenty of John Watsons there... now if we could only find some real life Sherlocks to match them....
I spoke to a William (Bill) Holmes today. Does that count as close enough?

It's been a VERY strange day... I got my cases for the week and the accused in one of them is named John Watson (told you it's a popular name!). Feeling slightly weirded out.

Mary

Wow, that´s bizzare!