How do I find certain text strings from 1 column in another column?

Esscaster

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Hey All,

Man this place is great, got a another problem. I have a two lists of names
For sake of this question I'll say
[List 1] and
[List 2]. Basically want to find
out which people on
[List 1] are on
[List 2]. The problem is that while
[List 1]
has the First Name_Last name,
[List 2] has the names mostly in Last Name,
First name form and they also include middle names, nicknames, and spouses.

What I'd like to know is if there is a way to Find if certain sets of let's say 4-5
characters in
[List 1] can be found in
[List 2]

For example. Can we find true/false from the below somehow based on successive
strings (for example, if an entry on
[List 1] has "Geor" on
[List 2], can it find that?:

List 1True/FalseList 2
George SmithTRUESmith, George R.
Milton TorresTRUERedder Waller
Shawn BradleyTRUEBradley, Shawn and Casey
Tim RedderTRUEGrace Jones
Dana WallerFALSETorres, Milly

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</tbody>

Thanks all!
 

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