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

This might not be what you want to hear, but I don't think this problem is suited to a regular expression since names are not regular. I don't think they are even context-sensitive or context-free. If anything, they are unrestricted (I would have to sit down and think that through more than I did before I say that for sure, though) and no regular expression engine can parse an unrestricted grammar.