"Duncan" is an Australian single recorded in 1980 by Slim Dusty which reached No. 1 on the Kent Music Report charts for two weeks in early 1981. The song was Dusty's second-most successful single after "A Pub with No Beer". It is also known as "Beer with Duncan", "Have a Beer with Duncan" and "I Love to Have a Beer with Duncan". It was written by Pat Alexander.
There’s also “Deadeye” Duncan from Star Wars KOTOR.
― Anonymous User 6/1/2023
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I'm not sure if he's FAMOUS famous but I'm friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend of Duncan Drummond, co-founder of Hopoo Games, creator of Risk of Rain franchise.
Can’t believe no one has mentioned the badass warrior Duncan Idaho from Frank Herbert’s Dune series. Jason Momoa plays him in the just-released film directed by Denis Villaneuve.
Duncan Kennedy is a famous bearer. A 3x Olympian in the sport of luge. He was the first American to win a luge World Cup event. He also obtained 21-career international medals throughout his career. He retired in 1997.
― Anonymous User 1/15/2013
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Duncan is the name of a character from the "Dragon Age" universe; in Dragon Age: Origins, Duncan is Grey Warden that saves your character's life and recruits them into the order. Duncan also appears in related merchandise of the series.
A famous family has the last name of Duncan on the show "Good Luck Charlie." The family consists of Teddy Duncan, PJ Duncan, Gabriel Duncan, Charlotte Duncan, Amy Duncan, and Robert Duncan.
I'm surprised to see no one has mentioned Duncan Edwards, the Manchester United footballer who died from kidney injuries he received in the Munich Air Disaster.
Duncan Hines (1880-1959) started out as a traveling salesman. He wrote a travel guide ranking restaurants (a new idea at the time) and later wrote a guide to lodging. In 1953, Hines sold the rights for his name to be used on different food items, and he is best remembered today for the cake mix that still bears his name.
The only television character I know with the name Duncan is Duncan the delinquent from Total Drama Island. I love the name, too, and that's not just because he's one of my favorite characters on the show!
Colonel Duncan McKenzie, who was given command of Natal when it was placed under martial law on February 9, 1906, after twenty-seven Africans refused to pay the new poll tax, which quickly led to an uprising. He saw the martial law as a perfect opportunity to instill in natives "a proper respect for the white man." After the uprising was put down, he spent six weeks going through Midland chiefdoms, finding tribesmen reported to be "defiant." He burned villages and crops, confiscated cattle and deposed chiefs. Information from "Diamonds, Gold and the Making of South Africa" by Martin Meredith.
King Duncan was murdered by Macbeth (and indirectly by Macbeth's wife, Lady Macbeth, who forced him to do it) in William Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth.
There is a town on Vancouver Island in British Columbia called Duncan and often you will hear people on the island refer to it as "Drunkin' Duncan". So that's what I think of when I first hear this name. It isn't a bad name all in all though.
― Anonymous User 10/9/2006
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Duncan Quagmire of the Lemony Snicket series bore this name. His name comes from the surname of a dancer, Isadora Duncan, and his sister is named Isadora.
― Anonymous User 8/29/2006
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Singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik is a famous bearer of this name.