Game Show Contestants Who Share Names With Celebrities

[jlgarfield]

Here's a fun Q: How many contestants on game shows had the same name(s) as celebrities? I swear that I've seen a few examples.

[Ian Wallis]

If memory serves, there was a contestant named Betty White on Match Game 7x one time when Betty was actually on the panel.

[Kevin Prather]

"The Name's The Same" was more or less built around this concept.

Meredith's "Millionaire" had a week dedicated to contestants with famous names.

Jeopardy had a player named Lara Croft, an aquatic veterinarian for SeaWorld who had previously appeared in a SeaWorld commercial.

[BrandonFG]

When I was a kid, I remember seeing a lady on J! named Nancy Walker and being confused by the concept of a contestant having the same name as a famous actress.

[MikeK]

On an episode of Balderdash, the contestants' first names were Regan and Byrnes.  Among the celebrities that week was Regan Burns.

[Brian44]

If memory serves, there was a contestant named Betty White on Match Game 7x one time when Betty was actually on the panel.

Indeed there was!
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[Casey Buck]

Not sure if this quite counts, but two of Millionaire’s million dollar winners had director’s names (John Carpenter and Kevin Smith).

[Mr. Matté]

If memory serves, there was a contestant named Betty White on Match Game 7x one time when Betty was actually on the panel.

On the TTTT '80 episode with Barry Bremen, the sports imposter, one of the game's imposters was named Bill Cullen (ours was on the panel as well)

[Eric Paddon]

On Password Plus, when Monty Hall was on for the week, they had a contestant named Jay Stewart.

[TimK2003]

If memory serves, there was a contestant named Betty White on Match Game 7x one time when Betty was actually on the panel.

On the TTTT '80 episode with Barry Bremen, the sports imposter, one of the game's imposters was named Bill Cullen (ours was on the panel as well)

And in the recently aired TTTT episode that was part of the Buzzr Bob Barker salute with the game show fanatics who won a dinner date with Kitty Carlisle: one of the imposters was a Mark Goodson.

[SuperMatch93]

Didn't WML once have a contestant named John Daly?

[snowpeck]

If memory serves, there was a contestant named Betty White on Match Game 7x one time when Betty was actually on the panel.

On the TTTT '80 episode with Barry Bremen, the sports imposter, one of the game's imposters was named Bill Cullen (ours was on the panel as well)

And in the recently aired TTTT episode that was part of the Buzzr Bob Barker salute with the game show fanatics who won a dinner date with Kitty Carlisle: one of the imposters was a Mark Goodson.

The other imposter was named Bob Barker.

[WhammyPower]

There was an episode of Classic Concentration with a contestant named Steve Martin. Go watch his first turn:

[Long live Jeopardy!]

On Jeopardy!, in June 2014, they had a contestant named Jack Barry.

[chargeradiocom]

On the Eubanks’ run of Card Sharks, there was a contestant named Bob Eubanks.