Father-in-law, film professor, shares his name with an expert on nuclear proliferation, which throughout the years produced a variety of hilarious misattributions for both.
Between 1989 and 1993, fans of boy band star Nick Carter used to write letters to my father, Michael Avallone, who wrote three spy novels under the pseudonym of Nick Carter in the mid sixties.
To be fair, this was all pretty much pre internet.
I've been coaching girls' high school soccer in Louisiana, but the person I know who has the most persistent problem is my former colleague Sean Carter, who regularly gets phone calls at the office asking for Jay-Z.
