Move over, Kelly Clarkson. There’s a new girl in town.

Her name is also Kelly Clarkson, and she doesn’t like the attention you’ve given her.

Although the junior majoring in communications also shares an interest in singing, she doesn’t have anything else in common with the first “American Idol” winner. But that doesn’t stop her from being called out during routine checkups and just in general.

“My life having a famous name has gotten me attention I really don’t want,” she said. “I get called out in class or in public. Even at a dentist office, I was asked to autograph a piece of paper for the receptionist’s daughter. On the other hand, people remember who I am, and my name.”

In one instance in particular, Kelly was asked to sing karaoke at a restaurant without anyone having prior knowledge of her name. Once the man in charge made the name connection, she felt pressured into singing.

“It’s all in good fun though,” she said. “I think my friends get more things brought up to them because if I comment on Facebook, their friends say (things like) ‘I didn’t know you knew Kelly Clarkson.'”

A similar fate is at hand for Kevin Durant, a sophomore majoring in occupational safety and health. His story is a little bit different though. Instead of agonizing over the name coincidence, he doesn’t mind it.

“A lot of people don’t believe me when I tell them my name,” he said. “I usually end up having to show them my ID.”

For Durant, his biggest problem comes when he’s online, even though the only thing he shares with the Oklahoma City Thunder forward is the same jersey number.

“I get a lot of emails on Facebook,” he said. “People also try to add me on Skype pretty frequently. My name was also on a wall at school for an award and people thought the real Kevin Durant went there.”

Most recently, Durant was  recognized by the bus full of students that attended the NCAA basketball trip to Oklahoma. When he was late for the bus, his name was called out and students started to ask if he was the famous basketball player.

“Some people look at a name as a name, but not who it is,” Durant said. “It’s not really about who the celebrity is, but who the person themselves is. My name is just another name.”

Elizabeth Taylor, the famous actress, is known for her many husbands, perfume label and well-known role as Cleopatra in the 1963 film. But Oakland University students may know her more personally as a  sophomore majoring in nursing.

“I don’t think there is a struggle for uniqueness because everyone knows me for me, not the famous Elizabeth Taylor,” she said. “If I looked like her and had the same name, then there could be a struggle, but that’s not a problem for me.”

Taylor, whose parents didn’t name her after the movie star, didn’t experience much special attention while she was growing up.

“I honestly didn’t notice I had a famous name until second grade when my teacher brought it up,” she said. “Since then, every year all of my teachers ask about it.”

Meghan Kelly, a senior recruitment advisor in the office of undergraduate admissions, has nothing in common with the FOX news anchor, including the spelling of their names. While Megyn Kelly spends her afternoons  anchoring “America Live,” OU’s employee hopes to pursue her graduate work at the university.

“Everyone wants to be unique and special, so sharing the same name with someone can be tough sometimes,” she said. “I certainly made an effort to distinguish

myself, much like younger siblings try to distinguish themselves from their older siblings … I think that it is what you do and who you are which makes you more unique.”

There are around 19,000 students at OU, and one never knows when they’ll end up among the stars.