NPR Puzzle: Double take, famous names with repeated letters

The Weekly Quiz From NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz                                                      https://www.npr.org/2024/11/23/nx-s1-5198595/sunday-puzzle-double-take-famous-names-with-repeated-letters

Every answer today is the name of a famous person in which the first two letters of the first name are the same as the last two letters of the last name. I’ll give you the repeated letters and categories of the people. You tell me who they are.            Ex. GE, Oscar winner for Best Actress  –>  Geraldine Page (winner for the 1985 movie “The Trip to Bountiful”)

  1. RO, Oscar winner for Best Actor (in “Raging Bull”)
  2. SA, Seven-time M.L.B. All-Star (primarily with the Chicago Cubs)
  3. EL, Writer and Peace Nobelist (author of “Night” and other works on the Holocaust)
  4. MA, Former White House daughter
  5. AN, Woman who taught Helen Keller
  6. [one name:] BA, queen consort in the Bible (wife of David, mother of Solomon)
  7. LO, Comic actor of old Hollywood (partner of Bud Abbott)

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