Yes, I share a name with a famous singer. If you got to my page hoping to find something about the person my family and friends call the "other" Dan Fogelberg, I apologize. We are related, second cousins, but I haven't talked to him since
1979 and have no way of contacting him. Please don't waste your time and my bandwidth besieging me with requests for information about the other Dan. Try to understand that while I admire and enjoy his music, and wish him all the best, our careers are quite separate and we are not the same person. (I know that the other Dan has been fighting cancer recently. I join his many loving fans in wishing him a complete recovery. He's been in my thoughts.)

There are some interesting parallels other than our names. We were both painting majors in college, though one of us quit school to pursue a music career while the other became an art teacher. And I was famous first: in 1965 I was featured in the World Book Science Annual in a story chronicling my experiences as the Colorado-Wyoming Science Fair winner the previous year. In fact, in our only meeting Dan greeted me with the assertion that he thought I was a scientist.
Perhaps it was as much of a shock to him to find his name in the encyclopedia as it was to me when I heard mine on the radio. (Check back soon for another interesting story about the Fogelbergs and our common tastes in art.

As for using the name Dan Fogelberg, I think we can manage to continue sharing it. I've been showing my work under that name since at least 1968, and I've never been called anything else, except by my mother. She persisted in calling me Danny, except when she was mad at me, when she reverted to Daniel. My students called me "Foge," but to the rest of the world I remain Dan Fogelberg.
You can look it up.