Famous Names

So I was looking at facebook today and I saw the line "[insert one of my friends here] commented on Steve Perry's photo" and it got me to thinking, "I wonder if Steve ever gets any comments about having the same name as this guy." For a second I pondered this question and thought, "If I met this guy, I'd ask him how it feels to have the same name as the singer." All the while totally forgetting that I have the same name as a famous author who died in 1997. I honestly don't mind being asked about it (No, I'm not named after him; my middle initial is G, and it's a family name going back over 100 years), likely because it really doesn't come up that often--probably only two times this year, but I wonder how many people think about mentioning it, but then decide not to.