Famous Tathans Throughout History

Well, a lot of people lost their shit last week when the NCAA Transfer Portal revealed that Ohio State QB Tate Martell’s actual name is Tathan. Thing is, when you look closely, there have been plenty of other prominent Tathans throughout the annals of history.

Like his cousin Nathan, Hale was played a vital role in Revolutionary War espionage. Unlike his cousin, however, he switched sides so many times that neither Britain nor the Colonists wanted him by the end of the war.

In James Fenimore Cooper’s earliest rejected manuscript, Buckeye (later changed to Hawkeye) emancipates himself from his legal family and joins the Huron nation when his adopted father Uncas will not allow him to be the Last of the Mohicans.