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20 athlete names that sound A LOT like Star Wars characters

In honor of the new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens we present the most Star Wars names in all of sports.

Bill Hanstock
Bill Hanstock is a writer, author and Emmy Award-winning producer. He began writing for SB Nation in 2011.

Far be it from us to openly mock anyone’s name. In most cases, you don’t get to choose your own name. What’s more, all names originating from a particular language are going to look weird to someone who doesn’t speak that language. So with that in mind, we happily present to you the very most Star Wars-ass names in sports.

These are all real, actual athletes. You can look them up.

1. Jetsy Extrano:

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2. Nerfy Nunez3. Rougned Odor4. Sicnarf Loopstock5. Jair Jurrjens6. God Shammgod7. Quintin Jammer8. Hope Solo9. Sequoyah Stonecipher10. Ndamukong Suh11. Kosta Koufos:

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12. DeSagana Diop13. Aaron Ekblad14. Kai Forbath15. Jori Lehtera16. Reto Berra17. Anders Bjork:

bjork

18. May Bodie19. Igor Bobkov20. Zemgus Girgensons:

zemgus

Visualizations of Star Wars-ass athletes were all created by James Dator.

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