People With Same Initial Letters For First Name And Surname

[FMW2934]

1. She found fame with a puppet
2. TV quiz host born in Orkney

[JimF]

2 Depending on how bad this quiz is, the setter may think that Magnus Magnusson was born in Orkney.

[FoxLee2]

2. Robert Robinson

[JimF]

Is that the same Robert Robinson who presented Ask the Family, Call My Bluff and several other game shows?

[FoxLee2]

Yes, it's him

[THECORBYLOON]

Robinson was born in Liverpool.
Audrey Atterbury was a puppeteer on Andy Pandy, not sure you could say she was famous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Atterbury

[JimF]

You wouldn't say that he was born in Liverpool, then?

[THECORBYLOON]

Surely his strong Scouse accent was the clue?

[JimF]

Would that it were! Would that it were...

[THECORBYLOON]

Would that it were, la, would that it were, ya divvy...

[wolf63]

Sandy/Sandi Shaw?

[JimF]

:-)

[JimF]

Sandie Shaw is possible, though she didn't exactly "find fame" with Puppet on a String, having had many hit singles including two No 1s before that.

[THECORBYLOON]

I suppose you could argue that winning Euro vision with that song made her more widely known.

If the other answer IS Magnus Magnusson, who knows what the other answers are?

[wolf63]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Question1662424.html

Mike something is MM .

[Mamyalynne]

Michael Miles was born in New Zealand.

[Fibonacci]

There was a Magnus Magnusson born in Orkney just not a TV quiz host !
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Magnusson_(disambiguation)

[petland]

1 Betty Blackler - Larry the lamb ?
2 Final episode of Mastermind with Magnus Magnusson was filmed on Orkney but as mentioned not born there