27 People Who Are Famous for Two Different Reasons
‘Hedy Lamarr... Mother of Wi-Fi and successful actress’
It’s hard enough to become successful in one of your life’s pursuits. So when someone manages to pull it off twice? It’s well deserving of the mix of awe and annoyance it inspires. Sure, you could say in some cases that their success in the first field enabled the other, but not always. For example, being a famous guitarist isn’t going to magically make your astrophysics calculations accurate.
Redditors shared the names of people that somehow managed to come out on top in two different rat races — usually discovered by seeing a familiar name in an unfamiliar place, and finding upon further research that yes, it’s that Zeppo Marx. Though if I’d had a tangential hand in the bombing of Hiroshima, I would need comedy too.
