Need to split last name from full namek to sort

I have a column of names, either "John & Jane Doe" or "Jane Doe". I need to sort on the last name. How do I split off the last name to do a proper sort?

Enhanced again
--[SCRIPT Nom_Prénom"]
(* take care of coupound names as
"Charles de Gaulle" --> "Charles" and "De Gaulle"
"William De Foe" --> "William" and "De Foe"
"Walter John de la Mare" --> "Walter John" and "De la Mare"
"François de La Rochefoucauld" --> "François" and "De La Rochefoucauld"
set avant to the clipboard as text
if avant is not "" then
set avant2 to every paragraph of avant
repeat with i from 1 to count of avant2
set ti to item i of avant2
set offs to offset of " de " in ti
if offs > 0 then
set ni to "De " & text (offs + 4) thru -1 of ti
set ti to text 1 thru (offs - 1) of ti
else
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set mots to every text item of ti
set mi to items 1 thru -2 of mots
set ni to item -1 of mots
set ti to mi as text
end if
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set item i of avant2 to ti & tab & ni
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
set avant to avant2 as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set the clipboard to avant
end if
--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 12 décembre 2007 13:59:8)

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