One cell with first and last name into two cells

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I'm trying to split a cell containing first and last name or first name, MI, last name into separate cells for first, middle, last.

Dataset is 56,000+ lines, but first, middle and last seem to always be separated by a space.

Examples of name formats that I'm seeing (actual names modified to protect the guilty):

William H. Gates III
Steven Ballmer
James I. Cash, Jr.
R. V. Gilmartin
Jean Phillipe Courtois
Mo-Fun Appul, Ph.D.

I can lose the titling items, but would like a column each for first, middle and last names/initials.
 

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This formula will extract everything from the left of the last space character for the text in cell A1

=LEFT(A1,FIND("*",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","*",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))))-1)

this one will extract everything from the right of the last space character

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("*",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","*",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")))))
 
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Muchas Gracias Senor.

I'll tickled that a little bit to make it work for the Jr., Sr., III, Ph.D. thing and it works like a charm.
 
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