Talk:Thomas Friedman/Archives/2016

No relation to Milton Friedman?

I'd always assumed that Thomas Friedman was the son of Milton Friedman - neither article mentions this, though, so I assume they're no relation? --Singkong2005 · talk 00:42, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Friedman is a fairly common surname. Two Friedmans in my HS graduating class and a teacher, all from the same town, all unrelated. Milton Friedman's son David Friedman is an economist. For the four years I a socialist (I was an impressional young teenager in friggin' Amherst, and still haven't heard the end of it) I confused all three Friedmans (as well as columnists Cal Thomas and Thomas Sowell). It's hard to keep all the political figures straight when one isn't really interested. Now I tend to conflate based on function rather than name. ~Luke --71.192.116.43 05:44, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah...Friedman is a fairly unusual surname, but it's not like a Rothschild or a Rockefeller - there are plenty of common people in the world who possess it. Would be kind of fun if they were all related, as it would be quite an eclectic group of scholars. Milton Friedman the master economist, Stanton Friedman the ufologist and nuclear physicist, and of course Thomas Friedman the noted writer collector of Pulitzers. Shadowrun 07:51, 10 April 2007 (UTC)