Mariah Curie
Having a distant relative as notable as Marie Curie is something not a lot of people have bragging rights to. The physicist and chemist discovered radium and polonium ( the latter of which she named after her home country of Poland) and even helped discover life-saving cancer treatments. You’ve probably heard her name, even if you’re not familiar with her work.
If you were talking about the famed scientist in the middle of a noisy nightclub where your words were muffled by music, you might mistake her name for international superstar Mariah Carey’s, but that’s not what happened here. Eileen Mart O’connell was confidently uncorrected by a guy who thought he knew her family tree better than she did.