Splitting a person's name into forename and surname

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Published on 2008-11-03T19:19:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 3:10 UTC
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ok so basically I am asking the question of their name I want this to be one input rather than Forename and Surname.

Now is there any way of splitting this name? and taking just the last word from the "Sentence" e.g.

name = "Thomas Winter"
print name.split()

and what would be output is just "Winter"

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