Regex - Return First and Last Name

Question

I\'m looking for the best reliable way to return the first and last name of a person given the full name, so far the best I could think of is the following

Answer 1

I think your best option is to simply treat everything after the first name as the surname i.e.

William Henry Gates
Forename: William
Surname: Henry Gates

Its the safest mechanism as not everyone will enter their middle name anyway. You can't simply extract William - ignore Henry - and extract Gates as for all you know, Henry is part of the Surname.