Also, Opera (the browser) and Oprah (the TV personality):

http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2011/05/25/oprah-winfre...

The strangest thing is that the only email, specifically accusing Tony Hawks of abusing his name's similarity to Tony Hawk is in Dutch. Likely, however, Mr Hawks has received numerous complaints about it in English and chose to ignore those, but kept the one in Dutch as he did not understand it (or did not care what it said).

It's not the he didn't understand or didn't care what he said. It's that he had a funny response. It's his own name, for Heaven's sake. And the people writing to him are clearly not doing their own due diligence either.

> And the people writing to him are clearly not doing their own due diligence either.

The people writing to him are eight years old. And he is making fun of their inability to spell.

yea but like, maybe he could just change his name to Tony Falcons? a mafia gangster would be proud to have that name

As funny as that is, the majority of those are kids. Kids that just had their hopes and dreams shattered ;)

I am tearing up from laughter at these emails and their responses.