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A common form of naming characters: giving them the partial or modified name of real-life celebrities or historical figure. May overlap with Shout-Out Theme Naming if repeated across a group. One way would be giving the group a set of names which, when combined, form the name of a famous person. An advanced version gives a person the same first name as a famous person and has their last name included as a middle name. Another variation is to give a group of characters the first names of a well-known group, such as a group of friends named John, Paul, George, and Richard/Ringo, after The Beatles. If characters are named after things like famous killers or conquerors, it overlaps with Names to Run Away from Really Fast. If they are named after famous Scientists and Inventors, it overlaps with Scientific and Technological Theme Naming. Compare Shout-Out Theme Naming, Famous-Named Foreigner (when foreign characters are named after famous people from their countries just because the creators didn't research the relevant naming conventions), Character Name Alias (when the name in question isn't actually the character's real name but a fake one that they're using after a real or fictional famous person) and Unusual Pop Culture Name (when they're named for a famous character, often embarrassingly). Contrast "Near and Dear" Baby Naming. If the character hates their given name (for example an atheist given an overly religious name) then they may invoke Do Not Call Me "Paul". When the famous person a character is named for is their own actor, it's The Danza. Not to be confused with Named Like My Name, Historical Domain Character, or Beethoven Was an Alien Spy. Because this trope is so prevalent, it would be inappropriate to include any real-life instances on this page. |
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In-universe, Caesar from the Planet of the Apes franchise chose his name after the Roman Caesars. In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, he's even named as the father of his 'owner' starts quoting Julius Caesar. | |
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In the Thursday Next series, people do this deliberately; it's a world where literature is Serious Business, so people name themselves after somebody famous, most often a classic English writer. After a court case where the entire jury was made up of Christopher Marlowes, a law was enacted to affix a number to the names of people who did this. | |
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Danganronpa: Komm Susser Tod: Sasuke Akechi has the same surname of Akechi Mitsuhide, infamous for his betrayal of Oda Nobunaga. Sasuke himself turns out to be a traitor, as he is the mastermind of the Killing Game. | |
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Kydd was named after Thomas Paine, whom his parents met before he was born, though they would later come to disapprove of his radical ideas. | |
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Sleepless Domain: The named members of the Magical Girl team and pop band Team Forte are all named after female musicians who have shared their respective instruments. Forte Lead's name is Roni, which she shares with Venus and the Razorblades' lead guitarist and vocalist Roni Lee; Forte Drums is named Debbi, after The Bangles' drummer Debbi Peterson; and Forte Bass is named Gail for bassist Gail Ann Dorsey, best known for playing alongside David Bowie. Team Alchemical's manager is named Arthur Clark, after prominent science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. |
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The dying president on the Geena Davis show Commander in Chief was named Teddy Roosevelt Bridges. | |
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The Devil is a Part-Timer!: King Satan reveals that Satan is a pretty common name for demons in Enta Isla, like how Humans on Earth use the name "Smith" or "Jones". The original Satan that started the trend and had led the Demons in the distant past is a figure that is Shrouded in Myth. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), many relations to the main characters are named after historical figures: members of the Brotherhood of Guardians are named after peaceful revolutionaries and/or physicists/philosophers, same as their fire-ant compatriots (Rembrandt, Sojourner, Hawking, Archimedes, etc.), while Tails' father and uncle are named Amadeus and Merlin, respectively. | |
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Devil May Cry 2 has Lucia who is named after Lucia of Syracuse or Saint Lucy as she was also known. While Saint Lucy did appear as a character in the Divine Comedy to aid Dante, she was also a real-life person who was a Christian martyr during the Diocletianic Persecution. This is reflected in Lucia's character when during the game's climax, she insists on sacrificing herself to close the portal to the Demon World viewing herself as expendable but is stopped as Dante doesn't view her that way. Since Saint Lucy also happens to be the Patron Saint of The Blind, Lucia references this by having one of her eyes covered at all times. | |
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Nero, the main protagonist of Devil May Cry 4 and Devil May Cry 5, is named after the Roman emperor Nero. As the real-life Nero persecuted Christians, DMC's Nero is also opposed to a religious group though in this Nero's case, the religious group he is dealing with is far from innocent. | |
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The Nimbasa Gym in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 does this with the three trainers you face before the leaders; they are named Nikola, Fleming and Ampère (after electrical engineers Nikola Tesla, John Ambrose Fleming and André-Marie Ampère). | |
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The Aristocats: Lafayette and Napoleon are named after the Marquis De Lafayette and Napoleon Bonaparte. | |
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Heathers has a Veronica and a Betty, which you might think is a coincidence until you notice their equally significant last names - Sawyer and Finn respectively. | |
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The titular cowboy from The Wacky World of Tex Avery. | |
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Los Trotamúsicos: Attila the dog is named after Attila the Hun. | |
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In School Days, the characters are named after Japanese Prime Ministers. e.g. Makoto Itou is named after Hirobumi Itou. | |
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When Kevin Steen finally made it to WWE, he took the name Kevin Owens as a tribute to Owen Hart.note It's actually a reference to his son, Owen Steen, who is named after Owen Hart, but close enough | |
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Darby Allin is named after two famous punk rockers: Darby Crash and GG Allin. | |
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About Scout: Sam assumes Scout was named after the protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird, but in fact, she and her sister Lulu were named after Demi Moore's daughters. | |
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Death Hunt: Sundog (Carl Weathers) reveals that his real name is George Washington Lincoln Brown, which he hates being called. | |
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One of the names considered for Juspion, in an early stage of pre-production, was Deniro. Unfortunately, it wasn't carried to the show. | |
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CSI: NY played with it. Mac Taylor was last-named after Lt. Dan Taylor by Gary Sinise. | |
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Breath of the Wild features another in-universe example. All four Divine Beasts are named after characters from their associated races who were allies of the player in past Zelda games and are honored as legendary heroes in the histories of their respective races by the point in the timeline when the game takes place. Urbosa remarks that Vah Naboris was named in honor of the legendary Gerudo Sage Nabooru. According to a Zora monument, Vah Ruta is named after The Sage Princess Ruto. Vah Rudania and Vah Medoh are never specifically stated in the game to be named after Darunia and Medli respectively, but Rudania is an anagram of Darunia and Medoh is too similar to Medli to be a coincidence. | |
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Summer Knight involves the murder of the eponymous knight, Ronald Reuel. | |
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British series Skins had a character named Naomi Campbell, no relation to the famous singer, and very much not played for laughs as the show is set in the British equivalent of High School. The mocking is merciless. | |
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Taken: In "Acid Tests", Amelia Henderson tells her future husband Jesse Keys that she was named after Amelia Earhart. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Mac's full name is Ronald McDonald. His father intentionally named him this as a joke. | |
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Averted with Sting. He originally went by "Flash" Borden and later "The Stinger", but announcers kept referring to him as "Sting" and he just went with it. Steve Borden actually owns the trademark to the name "Sting" despite the singer using it first, and the singer has to pay the wrestler to use the name (though it's a very small sum). | |
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In The Vicar of Dibley episode “Community Spirit�, the eponymous Vicar is informed by her friend Alice that her second cousin is called Reg Dwight and is therefore invited to a fete the Vicar is organizing. On arriving, he reveals that it’s not the first time he’s been mistaken for Elton John. | |
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Umineko: When They Cry has Dlanor A. Knox, named after Ronald Knox, and Willard H. Wright, named after S. S. Van Dine. Both figures created rules that codified detective fiction. | |
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The Simpsons: Dr. Marvin Monroe is named after Marilyn Monroe. Milhouse's name is based on Richard Nixon's middle name. Matt Groening gave him the name because he felt it was the most unfortunate name you could give to a child. His full name is Milhouse Mussolini Van Houten. Barney Gumble is named after Barney Rubble from The Flintstones. Arnie Pye was named after radio presenter Ernie Pie. Apparently the full name of Akira (the sushi waiter and martial arts dojo employee) is Akira Kurosawa. |
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1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Simpsons | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_261c8d3f | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_26574d29 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_26574d29 | comment |
Danganronpa: Paradise Lost: Smarmy Host Takeshi Tashiro is named after both Takeshi Kitano and Masashi Tashiro, two controversial Japanese television personalities. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_26574d29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_26574d29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Danganronpa: Paradise Lost (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_26574d29 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_26674ed5 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_26674ed5 | comment |
In Metal Gear Solid 2, Solidus Snake's Presidential alias, George Sears, appears to be both a reference to George W. Bush (both are 43rd US Presidents) and to Isaac Sears, the leader of the historical Sons of Liberty. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_26674ed5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_26674ed5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_26674ed5 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2705e27b | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2705e27b | comment |
Invoked on Empire. One of Cookie's friends from prison is nicknamed Poundcake. Her real name? Sara Lee. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2705e27b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2705e27b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Empire | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2705e27b | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2754c6fb | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2754c6fb | comment |
The slave characters in the alternative history series Timeline-191 all bear famous classical names from the past (Scipio, Xerxes, Aristotle, Bathsheba) echoing the real-life tendency to do this in the American South during slave-owning times. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2754c6fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2754c6fb | featureConfidence |
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Timeline-191 | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2754c6fb | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_27c9b5a7 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_27c9b5a7 | comment |
Chocoholic Mysteries: In Puppy Puzzle, Aubrey Andrews Armstrong named his dog Montezuma (or Monte for short), a chocolate Labrador, after the famed Aztec emperor and chocolate drinker of the same name. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_27c9b5a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_27c9b5a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Chocoholic Mysteries | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_27c9b5a7 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2819aebd | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2819aebd | comment |
From the original series, there's Dr. Thomas Light and Dr. Albert Wily, named after Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein, respectively. The former might be questionable, but the latter does have some resemblance to his namesake (the Einstein Hair). | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2819aebd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2819aebd | featureConfidence |
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Mega Man (Classic) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2819aebd | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2894671c | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2894671c | comment |
In Justice League International, Galactic Conqueror Manga Khan's series of robotic servants (L-Ron, Hein-9, and K-Dikk) are all named after science fiction writers (L. Ron Hubbard, Robert A. Heinlein, and Philip K. Dick, respectively). The Odd Name Out is the most recent model, J-Lo, who is named after Jennifer Lopez. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2894671c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2894671c | featureConfidence |
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Justice League International (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2894671c | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2993e124 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2993e124 | comment |
Parodied in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - minor character Thomas Franklin Benjamin Jefferson Elexander Phelps is this, combined with My Nayme Is. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2993e124 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2993e124 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2993e124 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2a8943c0 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2a8943c0 | comment |
In Miraculous Ladybug, Word of God says that Nathaniel, an aspiring comic book artist, got the surname "Kurtzberg" from Jack Kirby's birth name. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2a8943c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2a8943c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Miraculous Ladybug | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2a8943c0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ae406c1 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ae406c1 | comment |
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri provides us with Provost Prokhor Zakharov, leader of the University of Planet faction, who invented the fusion drive that made the journey to Alpha Centauri possible. He seems to be named after Soviet nuclear physicist and peace/human rights/democracy activist Andrei Sakharov, who was famous for his brilliance (like Zakharov) and his involvement in politics (it's possible he would have become President of post-Soviet Russia had he not died in 1989). To put the icing on the cake, Arthur C. Clarke names the fusion engine in the Leonov in 2010... the Sakharov Drive. Clearly, the Firaxis team read its science fiction. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ae406c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ae406c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ae406c1 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2b05167 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2b05167 | comment |
Similar to Alien Nation, the Zabronians in The Neighbors name themselves after famous athletes in an attempt to blend in. Thus the community leader is Larry Bird, his wife is Jackie Joyner-Kershee, and their sons are Reggie Jackson and Dick Butkus. (Notice that none of them share a surname, a concept that is apparently too foreign for them.) | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2b05167 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2b05167 | featureConfidence |
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Alien Nation | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2b05167 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ba48a26 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ba48a26 | comment |
Castle: Twice with Richard Castle. His birth name, Richard Rodgers, was a blatant reference by his Broadway actress mother to the famous musical theater composer. When he legally changed his name to something more befitting a writer, he took the middle name "Edgar" from Edgar Allan Poe. The episode "Target" has Beckett and Castle questioning a man named Bram Stoker. As he grumpily explains after Castle remarks on how young he looks, the author is a distant relative and his English scholar parents thought it would be cute. He does not agree with them on that. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ba48a26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ba48a26 | featureConfidence |
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Castle (2009) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ba48a26 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ce1b491 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ce1b491 | comment |
Elphaba, the name given to the future Wicked Witch of the West in Wicked, comes from the initials of Oz creator L. Frank Baum. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ce1b491 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ce1b491 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
TheWizardOfOz | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2ce1b491 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d11206b | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d11206b | comment |
In Angel (1984), Kit Carson took his stage name from the famous frontiersman. His original name is mentioned briefly by the lawyer for his estate who is trying to move Kit into a nursing home, but Kit no longer answers to it. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d11206b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d11206b | featureConfidence |
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Angel (1984) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d11206b | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d316bc0 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d316bc0 | comment |
Much like their canon counterparts, the turtles in Hamato Clan Kunoichi are all named after artists from the Renaissance. Being women in this version, their names were changed to "the overshadowed women of the Renaissance; Sofonisba, Elisabetta, Lavinia, and Artemisia." | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d316bc0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d316bc0 | featureConfidence |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d316bc0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d8fcd22 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d8fcd22 | comment |
Dizzy Gillespie Harrison, the hapless protagonist of The New Guy. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d8fcd22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d8fcd22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The New Guy | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2d8fcd22 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2db3d13e | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2db3d13e | comment |
Alfred J. Kwak: Dolf is named after Adolf Hitler and Dr. Livingston after David Livingstone. Winnie, Alfred's girlfriend, was named after Winnie Mandela. Michael Duckson is clearly Michael Jackson. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2db3d13e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2db3d13e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Alfred J. Kwak | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2db3d13e | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2efa5091 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2efa5091 | comment |
The fae boy from An Encounter and an Offer is renamed Arthur, after being put under Sir Kay's care. Ironically, he has no idea why. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2efa5091 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2efa5091 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
AnEncounterAndAnOffer | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_2efa5091 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_310607c9 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_310607c9 | comment |
Wolf 359: Human members of the cast seem to all be named after some kind of famous scientist or engineer. Eiffel shares his name with the famous French engineer and architect, and Minkowski, Hilbert, and Lovelace are all named after mathematicians. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_310607c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_310607c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wolf 359 (Podcast) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_310607c9 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_310d6df7 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_310d6df7 | comment |
Stand Still, Stay Silent: Mikkel Madsen's prologue ancestor and twin brother are both named Michael Madsen. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_310d6df7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_310d6df7 | featureConfidence |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_310d6df7 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_312e7659 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_312e7659 | comment |
In Child of the Owl, Casey was named after a baseball player that won several games at the time of her birth. Her friend is named Tallulah, after Tallulah Bankhead, her (Tallulah's) aunt's favorite actress. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_312e7659 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_312e7659 | featureConfidence |
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Child of the Owl | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_312e7659 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31313512 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31313512 | comment |
ANNO: Mutationem: The Walter Raleigh that's owned by the Factio Pugni is named after the real-life explorer and courtier of Elizabeth I. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31313512 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31313512 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31313512 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31a48eed | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31a48eed | comment |
The Outer Limits (1995): In "Dark Matters", the U.N.S. Slayton and the U.N.S. Gagarin are named after the Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton and the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space. In "Phobos Rising", it is mentioned that the Free Alliance had a base on a celestial body called Sagan V, which was named after the astrophysicist Carl Sagan. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_31a48eed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31a48eed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Outer Limits (1995) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31a48eed | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31a8701b | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31a8701b | comment |
James Jesse, the first Trickster, invoked Steven Ulysses Perhero when he decided to commit robberies like his "reverse namesake" Jesse James. In-universe, this was definitely not intentional on his parents' part; a later retcon had it that his father was an Italian immigrant who'd Anglicized their names while unaware of the potential implications. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31a8701b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31a8701b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Flash (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31a8701b | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31ca9925 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31ca9925 | comment |
Jefferson Davis Hogg of The Dukes of Hazzard. note Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War And his brother Abraham Lincoln Hogg, the "white sheep" of the family. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_31ca9925 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31ca9925 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Dukes of Hazzard | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31ca9925 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31e24f1e | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31e24f1e | comment |
Happens in-universe with The Joker's pet hyenas (or Harley Quinn's, depending on the continuity), Bud and Lou, named after comedy legends Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. It also stands to reason that Harley's daughter by the Joker, Lucy Quinzell, is most likely named after Lucille Ball. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31e24f1e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31e24f1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Joker (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_31e24f1e | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_33860f9f | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_33860f9f | comment |
Stephen Stills of Scott Pilgrim is named after the folk singer of the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. There's also a character named "Young Neil", an obvious reversal on Neil Young's name. Less obviously, there’s Clash at Demon Head’s drummer Lynette Guycott, named after the drummer of the band Plumtree; one of their singles named Scott Pilgrim himself. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_33860f9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_33860f9f | featureConfidence |
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Scott Pilgrim (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_33860f9f | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_33acebd8 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_33acebd8 | comment |
Guilty Gear: Many characters in the series are named after Western bands or musicians, including (but not limited to) A.B.A (ABBA), Axl Low (Axl Rose), Chipp Zanuff (Chip Z'nuff), Johnny (Johnny Winter), Ky Kiske (Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske), Slayer, Testament, Venom, and Zappa (Frank Zappa). The protagonist Sol Badguy (real name: Frederick Bulsara) is named after the singer Farrokh Bulsara (better known as Freddie Mercury), whose only solo album was named Mr. Bad Guy. Some characters are also named after famous fictional characters, like Zato-1, his symbiote Eddie (Eddie the Head), and Faust. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_33acebd8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_33acebd8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Guilty Gear (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_33acebd8 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_347facfb | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_347facfb | comment |
Scarface: The lead character, Tony Montana, was named by the film's writer, Oliver Stone, after his favorite athlete, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_347facfb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_347facfb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Scarface (1983) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_347facfb | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_34fd3cf6 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_34fd3cf6 | comment |
Lampshaded in an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, where the monster that lives in the Aqua Teen's attic is named "Willie Nelson" as a reference to the fact that the original Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Baffler Meal" which served as the pilot to ATHF featured Willie Nelson as a guest star. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_34fd3cf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_34fd3cf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_34fd3cf6 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_351f5c8e | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_351f5c8e | comment |
In Baritarian Boy, one of the lead characters is named Felix. Co-author Fyodor Pavlov chose this as a shout-out to Russian Prince Felix Yusupov, whom he describes as his "life's inspiration." | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_351f5c8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_351f5c8e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Baritarian Boy (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_351f5c8e | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_35e05f2a | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_35e05f2a | comment |
RWBY: Volume 9 introduces the character of Lewis, who is named after Lewis Carroll. Volume 9 takes place in a strange world called the Ever After, which is heavily inspired by Carroll's novels and is the setting of the in-universe fairy tale The Girl Who Fell Through the World. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_35e05f2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_35e05f2a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
RWBY (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_35e05f2a | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3651bc0c | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3651bc0c | comment |
In The Princess and the Frog, Louis the jazz-playing alligator is named after Louis Armstrong. He even references the jazz legend in the song "When We're Human." | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3651bc0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3651bc0c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Princess and the Frog | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3651bc0c | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3736eb2 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3736eb2 | comment |
In The Secret Show, Victor's full name is "Victor Thomas Jefferson Volt". | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3736eb2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3736eb2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Secret Show | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3736eb2 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3763b42f | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3763b42f | comment |
In The Last Song, the main character Ronnie (played by Miley Cyrus) is named after Miley's grandfather, Senator Ron Cyrus. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3763b42f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3763b42f | featureConfidence |
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The Last Song | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3763b42f | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3790ae45 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3790ae45 | comment |
In Double Homework, Morgan’s real name is Amy. Since she has the same date of birth as Princess Amelia (Amy), she was named after her, just like many other girls who were born on the same day. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3790ae45 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3790ae45 | featureConfidence |
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Double Homework (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3790ae45 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_37c75d92 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_37c75d92 | comment |
Koihime†Musou: Tales of the Armored War Gods: All of the Riders seen are named after Japanese warlords. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_37c75d92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_37c75d92 | featureConfidence |
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Koihime†Musou: Tales of the Armored War Gods (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_37c75d92 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_381bd9cf | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_381bd9cf | comment |
Franny's teacher in the Franny K. Stein book series is named Ms. Shelly. Her surname is likely a reference to Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_381bd9cf | featureApplicability |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_381bd9cf | featureConfidence |
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Franny K. Stein | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_381bd9cf | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_38edabf0 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_38edabf0 | comment |
In Office Space the main character Peter's best friend is named Michael Bolton, like the famous singer. In-universe it's an aversion, since he wasn't named after the singer (Michael mentions he was in his early teens when the singer became famous). The name is just a coincidence. He also hates the singer, and refuses to be called "Mike" because "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks." | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_38edabf0 | featureApplicability |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_38edabf0 | featureConfidence |
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Office Space | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_38edabf0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_396461c3 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_396461c3 | comment |
Samson En Gert: Samson is named after the biblical character, because of his long hair. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_396461c3 | featureApplicability |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_396461c3 | featureConfidence |
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Samson En Gert | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_396461c3 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3a52a342 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3a52a342 | comment |
Cynara: Poetry in Motion: Byron, though she's French, happens to be a poet with the same name that a famous English one had decades before. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3a52a342 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3a52a342 | featureConfidence |
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Cynara: Poetry in Motion | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3a52a342 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3b19a3ad | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3b19a3ad | comment |
Andy Libby, Lazarus' side-kick in Methuselah's Children had Andrew Jackson Libby as a full name. | |
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Methuselah's Children | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3b19a3ad | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3b88d68c | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3b88d68c | comment |
The main protagonist Dante shares his name with the author and main character of The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3b88d68c | featureApplicability |
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The Divine Comedy | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3b88d68c | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3f500771 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3f500771 | comment |
Inspector Canardo: Rasputin the main villain is named after Rasputin the Mad Monk. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3f500771 | featureApplicability |
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Inspector Canardo (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_3f500771 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_400469e | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_400469e | comment |
Calvin and Hobbes, named after 16th-century theologian John Calvin and 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. In a similar vein, Calvin's teacher, Mrs. Wormwood, is named after a character in C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. It's unlikely the principal Mr. Spittle is another literary reference. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_400469e | featureApplicability |
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Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_400469e | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4044579f | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4044579f | comment |
House Shark: Frank Roosevelt is named like FDR. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4044579f | featureApplicability |
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House Shark | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4044579f | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_404622d6 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_404622d6 | comment |
Wilt from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, being a former small-time basketball player before his Career-Ending Injury, is named after professional player Wilt Chamberlain. In one episode the gang adopts a litter of puppies. Wilt names three of them after Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_404622d6 | featureApplicability |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_404622d6 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_410c72d0 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_410c72d0 | comment |
The Distinguished Gentleman: In-Universe, Thomas Jefferson Johnson's mother named him such because she hoped that he would become important. Instead, he becomes a Con Man, but she still loves him. Then he discovers that he shares part of his name with Jeff Johnson, a recently deceased Congressman, and runs for office under that name. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_410c72d0 | featureApplicability |
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The Distinguished Gentleman | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_410c72d0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_41b0198a | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_41b0198a | comment |
The Dresden Files: The main character, Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, was so named by his stage magician father. Summer Knight involves the murder of the eponymous knight, Ronald Reuel. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_41b0198a | featureApplicability |
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The Dresden Files | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_41b0198a | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_42bcd2f7 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_42bcd2f7 | comment |
In Supah Ninjas, one minor character is named Katara. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_42bcd2f7 | featureApplicability |
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Supah Ninjas | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_42bcd2f7 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_43576f5 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_43576f5 | comment |
Supernatural: Sam and Dean's Character Name Aliases Their real last name, Winchester, is part of a firearms theme in the show as a reference to Oliver Winchester of repeating-rifle fame. Though they're not so much "named after" as actually descended from the family of Oliver and Sarah Winchester, with plotlines showing that the family has been hunting for at least as long as the name has been associated with the signature firearm. It might be better to say it's a reference to Oliver's daughter-in-law Sarah Winchester, making it not only a firearms reference but a supernatural one: Sarah believed she had to appease the spirits of victims of Winchester rifles by continuing construction on her home, and the "Winchester Mystery House" remains a paranormal landmark. There is a demon named Alistair and a demon named Crowley. This refers to Aleister Crowley, an early 20th-century British occultist. One or both of them may be the actual man behind the myth of the famed occultist, Crowley especially is shown as being fond of showing up in human guise and making his bargains without any pretense that he's anything other than a supernatural creature... just to make sure the bargainers have no room to loophole their way out of damnation. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_43576f5 | featureApplicability |
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Supernatural | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_43576f5 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_45723af9 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_45723af9 | comment |
In Star Trek: Prey, the Circle of Jilaan's illusion ships are all named after Stage Magicians: Cross's is the Blackstone, Ardra's is the Houdini and Jilaan's own ship was the Zamloch. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_45723af9 | featureApplicability |
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Star Trek: Prey | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_45723af9 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_45b4bf9a | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_45b4bf9a | comment |
Red vs. Blue has Franklin Delano Donut (after president Roosevelt) and Dick Simmons (after fitness guru Richard Simmons). | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_45b4bf9a | featureApplicability |
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Red vs. Blue (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_45b4bf9a | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_468bebb0 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_468bebb0 | comment |
In Discworld, the dwarfs who invented the printing press in The Truth are all named after printers (many of whom also gave their names to fonts in real life). | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
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Discworld | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_468bebb0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_48338594 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_48338594 | comment |
Exaggerated on The Muppets (2015) with Gloria Estefan, the penguin Miss Piggy adopted from a vacation in Argentina. The latter claims it was the only Spanish name she could think of at the time she named the penguin. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_48338594 | featureApplicability |
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The Muppets (2015) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_48338594 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_490a7b4a | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_490a7b4a | comment |
Hip Barrows from More Than Human was named after Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, by his doctor father. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_490a7b4a | featureApplicability |
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More Than Human | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_490a7b4a | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_49427aaf | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_49427aaf | comment |
Agent 327: Olga Lawina is named after Dutch singer Olga Lowina. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_49427aaf | featureApplicability |
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Agent 327 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_49427aaf | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4962e658 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4962e658 | comment |
Mean Girls features Janis Ian, named after the eponymous singer (who was lesbian, something the character is accused of being), whose song "At Seventeen" is even on the soundtrack. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4962e658 | featureApplicability |
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Mean Girls | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4962e658 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_499099fe | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_499099fe | comment |
In Shortbus, Severin is deeply ashamed of her real name, and can only write it down on two slips of paper at Sophia's request. Her first name is Jennifer. Her last name? Aniston. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_499099fe | featureApplicability |
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Shortbus | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_499099fe | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4a52e0a0 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4a52e0a0 | comment |
The Eschaton Series: The ReMastered in Iron Sunrise seem to be named after notable far-right philosophers. Or people with similar viewpoints; one of them calls herself Blofeld! | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4a52e0a0 | featureApplicability |
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The Eschaton Series | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4a52e0a0 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4b434423 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4b434423 | comment |
The Ghost-type gym leader in Pokémon Sword and Shield, Allister, is named after a pun on his Japanese name ("Onion", a type of allium), but his name might also pull from English occultist Aleister Crowley. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4b434423 | featureApplicability |
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Pokémon Sword and Shield (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4b434423 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4b57d678 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4b57d678 | comment |
The titular character in Murphy Brown was named after Eddie Murphy and James Brown. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4b57d678 | featureApplicability |
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Murphy Brown | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4b57d678 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4c51dda2 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4c51dda2 | comment |
Manimal: Melody Anderson's character, Brooke Mackenzie, was named after two child actresses, Brooke Shields and Mackenzie Phillips. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4c51dda2 | featureApplicability |
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Manimal | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4c51dda2 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4c9f68b | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4c9f68b | comment |
James Buchanan Barnes, formerly Captain America's sidekick Bucky, is named after US President James Buchanan. This is somewhat strange, considering how unpopular Buchanan was during his presidency, but whatever.note Joe Simon originally named him "Bucky" for his friend Bucky Pierson. As characterization marched on he needed a full name to justify the nickname and, probably a fan of irony, the writer at the time named Captain America's sidekick for the worst President the country had known 'til then. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4c9f68b | featureApplicability |
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BuckyBarnes | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4c9f68b | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4d8e5ec | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4d8e5ec | comment |
Parodied in an episode of The Daily Show discussing the White House gate-crashing incident where the "Senior Correspondent" turns out to be a random crasher calling himself "Edward R. Brokaw-Amanpour" | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4d8e5ec | featureApplicability |
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The Daily Show | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4d8e5ec | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4e45b093 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4e45b093 | comment |
The two main characters of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon and Leonard, are named after a famous TV producer named Sheldon Leonard. Their last names are Cooper and Hofstadter, respectively, which they share, aptly enough, with famous physicists: Leon N. Cooper and Robert Hofstadter (whose son Douglas is best known for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid). Leonard's middle name is Leakey, after the famous archaeologist Louis Leakey and his anthropologist wife Mary. Played for Laughs in Young Sheldon, when it’s revealed that Sheldon and Amy’s firstborn son is named Leonard, but he’s named after Leonard Nimoy, not Sheldon’s best friend Leonard Hofstadter. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_4e45b093 | featureApplicability |
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The Big Bang Theory | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4e45b093 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4f410616 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4f410616 | comment |
The real name of one of the protagonists in The Mysterious Benedict Society is George Washington; lampshaded by an other protagonist as soon as she finds out. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4f410616 | featureApplicability |
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The Mysterious Benedict Society | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_4f410616 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_50a9ace1 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_50a9ace1 | comment |
Popeye: Bluto is named Brutus in the comic strips, after the adoptive son of Julius Caesar. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_50a9ace1 | featureApplicability |
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Popeye (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_50a9ace1 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_517380f | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_517380f | comment |
Used in-universe in Terra Ignota. It's often assumed that Mycroft is named after Mycroft MASON, the founder of the Mason Hive. The truth is that they are both named after Mycroft Holmes. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_517380f | featureApplicability |
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Terra Ignota | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_517380f | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_52b4733d | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_52b4733d | comment |
In the sci-fi novel The Green Futures of Tycho by William Sleator, the eponymous main character's parents have named their children after Tycho Brahe, an astronomer; Tamara Karsavina, a ballet dancer; Ludwig van Beethoven, a composer and Leonardo da Vinci, an inventor and artist. They hoped the names would inspire them to aspire to careers associated with them. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_52b4733d | featureApplicability |
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The Green Futures of Tycho | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_52b4733d | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5307b01d | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5307b01d | comment |
In Penny Arcade, Tycho Brahe is named after an astronomer. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5307b01d | featureApplicability |
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Penny Arcade (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5307b01d | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_531ab86a | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_531ab86a | comment |
Pangur from The Tygrine Cat is a black cat named after Pangur Bán, the subject of a 9th-century Irish poem. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_531ab86a | featureApplicability |
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The Tygrine Cat | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_531ab86a | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_53736ee6 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_53736ee6 | comment |
R.U.R. features an in-universe case of this, with two robots named after Marius and Sulla. When one of the characters asks why they named a female robot after a Roman general, the manager simply says "We thought that Marius and Sulla were lovers." | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_53736ee6 | featureApplicability |
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R.U.R. (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_53736ee6 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_53a0bd8b | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_53a0bd8b | comment |
The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Star", the survey ship Magellan is named after the 16th Century explorer Ferdinand Magellan. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_53a0bd8b | featureApplicability |
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The Twilight Zone (1985) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_53a0bd8b | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5507c921 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5507c921 | comment |
Fraidy Cat: Fraidy’s seventh life, Eddie Kittenbacker, is named after famous WWI fighter ace Eddie Rickenbaker. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5507c921 | featureApplicability |
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Fraidy Cat | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5507c921 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_557dcfec | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_557dcfec | comment |
Shaider after American actor Roy Scheider | |
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Space Sheriff Shaider | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_557dcfec | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57978c41 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57978c41 | comment |
Gavan after French actor Jean Gabin | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57978c41 | featureApplicability |
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Space Sheriff Gavan | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57978c41 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57d60ab7 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57d60ab7 | comment |
Man of the Year: Two of Tom Dobbs' assistants are named Allison and Janie. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57d60ab7 | featureApplicability |
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Man of the Year | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57d60ab7 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57fab47f | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57fab47f | comment |
De Kiekeboes: Bibi Pralin Gaga is named after Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Alanis is named after Alanis Morissette. Elody Melody is named after Flemish teen pop star Sylvie Melody. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_57fab47f | featureApplicability |
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De Kiekeboes (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_57fab47f | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_58bbb91c | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_58bbb91c | comment |
I, Jedi: Corran attends the Jedi Praxeum under the name "Kieran Halcyon", after a historical Jedi Knight that Luke found in recovered records who was possibly a distant ancestor. The holocron of Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas recognizes the name—Master Baas apparently knew the real one—causing "Kieran" to have to explain to Tionne that he was named after the historical Kieran. | |
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I, Jedi | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_58bbb91c | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_59151283 | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_59151283 | comment |
Metal Gear: Hideo Kojima often steals the names of his favourite directors, with both a Miller and an Emmerich appearing in Metal Gear Solid. In Metal Gear Solid 2, Solidus Snake's Presidential alias, George Sears, appears to be both a reference to George W. Bush (both are 43rd US Presidents) and to Isaac Sears, the leader of the historical Sons of Liberty. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_59151283 | featureApplicability |
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Metal Gear (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_5921531c | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_5921531c | comment |
In Persona 5, all of the Confidant NPCs (except for Caroline, Justine, and Igor, who retain the Frankenstein theme naming of other Velvet Room attendants in the Persona series), along with a few party members, are named after real-world historical Japanese figures. Tying into the game's themes of rebellion and the goal of the protagonists, most of the namesakes combated Japanese societal norms in some way. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5921531c | featureApplicability |
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Persona 5 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_599e5956 | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_599e5956 | comment |
In Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, the twin bears of Razor Ridge are named Benny and Bjorn, after ABBA songwriters Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_599e5956 | featureApplicability |
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Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_599e5956 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_59da62aa | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_59da62aa | comment |
Fallout: New Vegas: Samuel Cooke, the founder of the Powder Gangers, is named after Sam Cooke, the singer of "Chain Gang". Ulysses named himself after Ulysses S. Grant, the general who, in his words, turned two flags into one. |
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Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5a05b300 | comment |
Wilde Life's protagonist is named after Oscar Wilde. Word of God says that each character is named after somebody, either real or fictional, with an emphasis on literary figures—for example, a ghost is named Sylvia Snyder. | |
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Wilde Life (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5a05b300 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5a077317 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5a077317 | comment |
In the Sons of Anarchy episode "Caregiver", Stephen King guest stars as a "cleaner" named Bachman. "Richard Bachman" was an alias King used to publish stories early in his career. Another episode has two minor characters named Luther and Vandross. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_5a077317 | featureApplicability |
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Sons of Anarchy | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5a077317 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5a2333ef | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5a2333ef | comment |
LittleBigPlanet has Larry Da Vinci, Marlon Random and Newton. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5a2333ef | featureApplicability |
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LittleBigPlanet (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5a2333ef | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5ab2850c | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5ab2850c | comment |
Fuuma Kotaro, the main protagonist of both Action Taimanin and Taimanin RPG Extasy, is named after the real-life Fuuma Kotaro. | |
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Action Taimanin (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5ab2850c | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5cb7fc72 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5cb7fc72 | comment |
The ship where most of the gameplay happens in System Shock 2 is named the Von Braun. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5cb7fc72 | featureApplicability |
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System Shock 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5cb7fc72 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5cdad167 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5cdad167 | comment |
In Minority Report, the three oracles are named Agatha, Arthur, and Dashiell, after the mystery novelists. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5cdad167 | featureApplicability |
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Minority Report | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5cdad167 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5d354f8 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5d354f8 | comment |
Red Dwarf: Arnold Judas Rimmer, named after Judas Iscariot. In-Universe, it’s explained that he got the middle name because his mother was a member of the Church of Judas, which believed Judas switched places with Jesus and was the one crucified, and named him that in Judas’ honor. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5d354f8 | featureApplicability |
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Red Dwarf | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5d354f8 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5dd1609f | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5dd1609f | comment |
Family Skeleton Mysteries: Georgia's full name is Georgia O'Keeffe Thackery. | |
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Family Skeleton Mysteries | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5dd1609f | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5e15e203 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5e15e203 | comment |
Speaking of theoretical demons, the online game Ace Online threw a reference to Laplace's demon, by the item called "Soul of Laplace". The item is used to upgrade Legendary Weapons, which is in turn created by merging a weapon with Gematria Scripture, referring to it as "being possessed by demonic souls." | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5e15e203 | featureApplicability |
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Ace Online (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5e15e203 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5e91c7d | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5e91c7d | comment |
Dr. Salvador in Resident Evil 4 may be named after Dr. Salvador Allende, the Chilean president who was deposed by Augusto Pinochet in 1973. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5e91c7d | featureApplicability |
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Resident Evil 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_5e91c7d | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_605dd875 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_605dd875 | comment |
In the Stargate-verse, about half of Earth's starships are named for historical figures (the others are figures from Greek mythology not known to be Goa'uld). The Russian-crewed Korolev was named after one of the lead engineers of the Soviet space program, and the Chinese-crewed Sun Tzu was named after Sun Tzu. The fourth American-crewed 304 was supposed to be USS Phoenix, but was renamed George S. Hammond after the first CO of Stargate Command, who had recently died. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_605dd875 | featureApplicability |
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Stargate-verse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_605dd875 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62145b40 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62145b40 | comment |
In the fourth world of Mystic Ark, there are several NPCs scattered about that are named after famous inventors and musicians such as Edison, Einstein, Ludwig, and Picasso. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62145b40 | featureApplicability |
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Mystic Ark (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62145b40 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62164fb7 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62164fb7 | comment |
Shadows over Meridian: The Mogriff leader Windblade is named after a great Mogriff hero who led the defense of their home nest-fortress centuries ago when the Queens of Meridian ordered them to be forced out and was one of those who sacrificed their lives to give their children time to escape. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62164fb7 | featureApplicability |
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Shadows over Meridian (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62164fb7 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62745373 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62745373 | comment |
My Ridonculous Race: Original Character Sam's full name is Samuel Vicente Antonio Sampson Matthew Hill. Incidentally the author has mentioned he imagines Sam's voice as that of Samuel Vincent. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62745373 | featureApplicability |
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My Ridonculous Race (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_62745373 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_63230cb | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_63230cb | comment |
In Dragon Ball Z Abridged's take on Episode of Bardock, all of the inhabitants of Planet Plant are named after rappers like the town's doctor Dray, his son Twopock, Rizza, Aice Qube, and the exiled Khris of the clan Brown. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_63230cb | featureApplicability |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_63230cb | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6365ff2d | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6365ff2d | comment |
In Dragon Quest, there are two characters named Howard and Nester, after the Nintendo Power comic characters (one of which is already a comic version of "Game Master" Howard Phillips, making him a double reference). | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6365ff2d | featureApplicability |
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Dragon Quest (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6365ff2d | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_63f596a3 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_63f596a3 | comment |
Ciem: The Human Centipede, and its sequels, mention rather explicitly that Dolly Malestrom was named after Dolly the Cloned Sheep. Given that it takes place in the 2020s, this reference actually makes sense. It places Dolly's birth some time between 1996 and 1998, making her just slightly older than Candi. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_63f596a3 | featureApplicability |
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Ciem Webcomic Series (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_63f596a3 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6418fc5 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6418fc5 | comment |
In .hack//G.U. Redemption, the AIDA-infected weapon wielded by Taihaku is called Maxwell. This is a reference to Maxwell's Demon theory. The game self-confirms the reference by naming the identical-looking sword Haseo obtains after defeating Taihaku as Szilard (mistranslated as Silad), the person that solved (or at least offered an explanation to) Maxwell's Demon. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6418fc5 | featureApplicability |
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.hack//G.U. (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6418fc5 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_641cc254 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_641cc254 | comment |
Pretty Dudes has the Gomez brothers, who are named after influential Black Americans Duke Ellington, George Washington Carver, and Thurgood Marshall. They mention a sister named Alvera, which might be a riff on Sojourner Truth. In the same episode, Rock and Van Diolosa mention they were named after the rich Rockefeller and Vanderbilt families. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_641cc254 | featureApplicability |
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Pretty Dudes (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_641cc254 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6505f7f3 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6505f7f3 | comment |
Molly of Denali: “Molly and the Great One� reveals that Molly's father, Walter, is named after Walter Harper, the first person who successfully climbed Denali. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6505f7f3 | featureApplicability |
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Molly of Denali | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6505f7f3 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_67005ac3 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_67005ac3 | comment |
The eponymous character from Koudelka is named after the Czech photographer Josef Koudelka. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_67005ac3 | featureApplicability |
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Koudelka (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_67005ac3 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6744d821 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6744d821 | comment |
The Owl House: Principal Hieronymus Bump and Boscha are both named after Hieronymous Bosch, whose surrealist artwork served as a major inspiration for the show's overall design. Willow's fathers share names with two famous gay rights activists - Gilbert Baker (creator of the pride flag) and Harvey Milk (first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States). Jacob Hopkins shares his surname with the infamously zealous Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_6744d821 | featureApplicability |
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The Owl House | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6744d821 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_68b5d8bb | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_68b5d8bb | comment |
Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Temugin "Gene" Khan is named after the ancient warlord Genghis Khan - birth name Temugin. This is no coincidence, as he was the first Mandarin. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_68b5d8bb | featureApplicability |
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Iron Man: Armored Adventures | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_68b5d8bb | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_68fb14d3 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_68fb14d3 | comment |
Johann Sebastian Bach Smith of I Will Fear No Evil. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_68fb14d3 | featureApplicability |
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I Will Fear No Evil | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_68fb14d3 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_691be369 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_691be369 | comment |
The X-Files: One of The Lone Gunmen is John Fitzgerald Byers, as he was born on the day JFK died. Scully's name is taken from Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully (in "Irresistible" a character even says "I don't remember his name, but she was Scully, like that baseball announcer.") John Doggett comes from Vin's partner Jerry Doggett. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_691be369 | featureApplicability |
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The X-Files | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_691be369 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_69fa7496 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_69fa7496 | comment |
Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Scrooge McDuck was named after Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Gladstone Gander has a cousin and rival called Disraeli Duck. This is a reference to the archrivals of Victorian Britain's politics: William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli. |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_69fa7496 | featureApplicability |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_69fa7496 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6a8aff51 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6a8aff51 | comment |
The Stormlight Archive: Several characters are named after the Heralds, ten divine servants of the Almighty empowered to lead humanity against the end of the world. Among the main characters, Kaladin is clearly named after Kalak, Herald of the Willshapers, while Shallan is named after Shalash of the Lightweavers (which, coincidentally, is the Order of the Knights Radiant that Shallan belongs to). It's also not uncommon to see minor background characters clearly named after the other Heralds. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6a8aff51 | featureApplicability |
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The Stormlight Archive | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6a8aff51 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ab7b40a | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ab7b40a | comment |
Tekken 7 character Josie Rizal is named after José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ab7b40a | featureApplicability |
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Tekken 7 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ab7b40a | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6abf16c2 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6abf16c2 | comment |
Big Finish Doctor Who: The vortisaur that becomes the TARDIS Team Pet in the audio drama Storm Warning is named Ramsay, after the Prime Minister in Charley's time, Ramsay Mac Donald. In No More Lies, the Doctor names another vortisaur Margaret, but doesn't say why. The Big Finish audio drama "Bang-Bang-A-Boom!" has a parody of Victor Bergman from Space: 1999 called Ivor Fassbinder. The name is presumably a reference to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, by analogy with Ingmar Bergman. |
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Big Finish Doctor Who (Audio Play) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6abf16c2 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ae82a56 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ae82a56 | comment |
Welcome To Wonderland: P.T. Wilkie's full name is Phineas Taylor Wilkie. He was named after P.T. Barnum. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ae82a56 | featureApplicability |
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Welcome To Wonderland | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ba673f9 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ba673f9 | comment |
The three male leads in the UK detective drama New Tricks are Jack Halford, Brian "Memory" Lane, and Gerry Standing. The writer is a supporter of West Bromich Albion football (soccer) team, and Halford Lane Standing is the oldest stand at their grounds. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ba673f9 | featureApplicability |
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New Tricks | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ba673f9 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6be52549 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6be52549 | comment |
West of Loathing parodies the concept with the inventor of the gun, Terri Gun, and the inventor of the bullet, Chet Bullet. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6be52549 | featureApplicability |
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West of Loathing (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6be52549 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6c1d09b2 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6c1d09b2 | comment |
Colonel Sanders in Fallout 2 takes his name from the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder and mascot. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6c1d09b2 | featureApplicability |
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Fallout 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6c1d09b2 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6c1d09b4 | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_6c1d09b4 | comment |
A possible companion in Fallout 4 is John Hancock, a ghoul who, after an inspirational chem trip that landed him in the post-apocalyptic shell of the Old State House, appropriated both the name and the clothes of the historical John Hancock. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6c1d09b4 | featureApplicability |
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Fallout 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6c1d09b4 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6d7fb9f | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6d7fb9f | comment |
Twins Tom and Pat Bartlett, from Time for the Stars, have the full names of Thomas Paine Leonardo da Vinci Bartlett and Patrick Henry Michelangelo Bartlett. | |
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Time for the Stars | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6d7fb9f | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6e0e351 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6e0e351 | comment |
In EV Nova, the Kania system and its Space Station Port Kane, as well as the Kane Band (Earth's equatorial docking ring), are named for Omata Kane, the physicist who developed Faster-Than-Light Travel in the setting. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6e0e351 | featureApplicability |
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Escape Velocity (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6e0e351 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ec8d05a | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ec8d05a | comment |
In Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies, Claude Chaney a.k.a. the Phantom of the Flickers has his name based off two famous horror movie actors, Claude Rains and Lon Chaney. | |
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Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ec8d05a | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ed09d93 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ed09d93 | comment |
Big Mouth: Nick's mother's full name is Diane Keaton Birch. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ed09d93 | featureApplicability |
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Big Mouth | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6ed09d93 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6fd4e61f | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6fd4e61f | comment |
Napoleon, from Animal Farm by George Orwell. | |
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Animal Farm | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_6fd4e61f | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_7045c9b3 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_7045c9b3 | comment |
Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Cockroaches are named Joey, Dee Dee, and Marky, after members of The Ramones. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_7045c9b3 | featureApplicability |
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Oggy and the Cockroaches | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_7045c9b3 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_72262aee | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_72262aee | comment |
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Aang's father figure Gyatso is named after Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Chong, leader of a Wacky Wayside Tribe of singing New Age Retro Hippies, is named after fellow hippie Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong fame. The Secret Police of Ba Sing Se are called the "Dai Li" after a prominent political figure in Guomindang-era China. The guy headed Chiang Kai-shek's ruthless "Investigation and Statistics Bureau" (a predecessor to the more accurately named Military Intelligence Bureau), as well as of the fascist Blue Shirts Society (which also conducted security and intelligence operations). |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_72262aee | featureApplicability |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_72262aee | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_72b14fbc | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_72b14fbc | comment |
In The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow Johnny Hollow, the eponymous photographer who sent the campsite photo that's the subject of the film, is named after the electronica group whose song "Alchemy" provides the film's soundtrack. (Its co-director, Vincent Marcone, is a member.) The short was initially conceived as a music video before developing into a more fully plotted short film. | |
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The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_72b14fbc | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_731993f | type |
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CSI-verse: The franchise likes this. CSI: Grissom was last-named after Gus Grissom, the Mercury astronaut, courtesy of his actor William Petersen. Grissom makes a joke of this once, naming his beetles from a crime scene "John, Paul, George, and Ringo". Apparently, 'Diebenkorn' Russell was named after a famous artist. It's still no wonder he prefers 'D.B.'. CSI: Miami: Horatio Caine, named after Horatio Alger. CSI: NY played with it. Mac Taylor was last-named after Lt. Dan Taylor by Gary Sinise. |
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Cradle Series: The original patriarch of the Arelius family, the man who would go on to become Ozriel, the Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court, was named "Ozmanthus Tiberian Mereithan Arelius." Variants of these names are speckled throughout the series; the most recent Arelius Monarch was named Tiberian, an old Arelius woman in a side story is named Ozmantha, and of course the main Arelius character is named Eithan. This is how Ozriel was able to disguise himself using his real name. | |
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The hero of Planet Terror is named Wray, aka El Rey (Spanish for "The King"). This could be a reference to Elvis Presley (who was also called "The King"), but it's almost certainly a reference to another famous L. Wray, the rockabilly legend Link Wray. | |
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James MacDonald from Arthur, being of Scottish descent, is obviously named for the many Real Life Kings of Scotland of the same name, such as James VI and I. In "The Last King of Lambland," he's actually addressed as "King James" for a time. | |
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KanColle Fan works that make the girls separate from their armaments instead of being personifications have this trope built in by nature. | |
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Bread Barbershop's main character is known as Bread Pitt, a pun on Brad Pitt. Weirdly enough, since Brad Pitt isn't known for being a hairdresser like Bread Pitt is. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: How many real-life Zeldas can you think of? Word of God states that the eponymous princess is indeed named for Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In turn, Robin Williams named his daughter after the princess, as mention in the Real Life section below. and again in turn, the quirky Sheikah scientist Robbie encountered in Breath of the Wild appears to be named after him. Also the recurring enemies known as Poes, likely named after the famous Edgar Allan Poe. Another possible source of the name, however, is the Chinese philosophy of "hun" and "po", similar to yin and yang. "Hun" is the part of the soul that strives for heaven and is associated with life, and "po" is the part of the soul that stays with the corpse and is associated with death. Further, the Poe sisters are named Amy, Beth, Joelle, and Meg after the sisters from Little Women. In-universe example with the Link from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, who is not a descendant/reincarnation of the original Link like all the rest. He's simply a regular boy who was born in an age where naming your son after the legendary Hero of Time is most likely a fairly common occurrence. Not that he ever meets anyone else with that name. Breath of the Wild features another in-universe example. All four Divine Beasts are named after characters from their associated races who were allies of the player in past Zelda games and are honored as legendary heroes in the histories of their respective races by the point in the timeline when the game takes place. Urbosa remarks that Vah Naboris was named in honor of the legendary Gerudo Sage Nabooru. According to a Zora monument, Vah Ruta is named after The Sage Princess Ruto. Vah Rudania and Vah Medoh are never specifically stated in the game to be named after Darunia and Medli respectively, but Rudania is an anagram of Darunia and Medoh is too similar to Medli to be a coincidence. |
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In The Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill is named after Buffalo Bill. In Hannibal Rising, Hannibal's widowed aunt Lady Murasaki is named after the world's first novelist. | |
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Football player Roberto Miura from Rival Schools is most likely named after two famous footballers: legendary Italian player Roberto Baggio, who is quite popular in Japan (also for being a Buddhist), and Kazuyoshi Miura, one of the first Japanese to ever play in a European league. | |
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In The Lion's Cavalcade, a sequel to The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by Alan Aldridge and Harry Willock, the hippo ballerina is named Pavlovna Majesté Nijinska. | |
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In one of the supplementary sourcebooks for the Forgotten Realms (specifically, Champions of Valor), an organization of good-aligned monsters and talking beasts called the Fangshields is stated to be led by a wemic paladin of Nobanion named Kul Kulann. As in Cú Chulainn. In one sense quite fitting, since Cú Chulainn's warp-spasm made him into quite the savage beast and he was an incredible warrior, but in another sense rather odd considering this is a lawful good, honorable fighter who would be completely against berserker raging in combat. (Also the name means "Hound of Culann"...) | |
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In the Sword of the Stars novel The Deacon's Tale, one human character is called Margaret Thatcher. | |
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In the 1934 film The Black Cat, newlyweds Peter and Joan Alison intend to spend their honeymoon in the Hungarian spa town of Gömbös, “the pearl of the Carpathian Mountains�. There is no such place, however Gyula Gömbös de Jáfka was the Hungarian prime minister from 1932-36. This gives a whole new meaning to the line “Pistyan used to be all right 10, 15 years ago, but now...Gömbös is the place.� | |
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The Sheriff of Twin Peaks is Harry S. Truman. FBI Agent Cooper says that he should remember it, this time. Agent Cooper himself is named after the very mysterious D.B. Cooper |
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In Mass Effect, Systems Alliance carriers are named for great leaders, artists, and intellectuals in human history. One mentioned by name is SSV Einstein. | |
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The title character of Amélie is named after actress Emily Watson, who was originally intended to play her. | |
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Batman: Both Batman (Bruce Wayne) and the Golden Age superheroine Miss Victory (Joan Wayne) were named after "Mad" Anthony Wayne, a hero of the American War of Independence. Happens in-universe with The Joker's pet hyenas (or Harley Quinn's, depending on the continuity), Bud and Lou, named after comedy legends Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. It also stands to reason that Harley's daughter by the Joker, Lucy Quinzell, is most likely named after Lucille Ball. The villain Mr. Zsazs, created by Alan Grant, and Denny O'Neil's Retcon that The Question's real name is Charles Szasz, are both references to Thomas Szasz. Since both characters are explorations of the "differently sane", Szasz's theories are relevant to both of them. |
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Spielban, after American filmmaker Steven Spielberg | |
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Barney Gumble is named after Barney Rubble from The Flintstones. | |
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The Sword in the Stone: Archimedes the owl is named after Archimedes. | |
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Total Recall 2070: Detective David Hume takes his name from perhaps the most famous philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment after Adam Smith. | |
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Conway's Game of Life features constellations named Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Schumann, Stravinsky, Mozart, and Bartok. | |
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Disney's Frozen being very loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen features four characters, named in order; Hans, Kristoff, Anna, and Sven. | |
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Darlin': A girl names her pet mouse after Jennifer Lawrence. | |
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Fallout: Colonel Sanders in Fallout 2 takes his name from the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder and mascot. Fallout: New Vegas: Samuel Cooke, the founder of the Powder Gangers, is named after Sam Cooke, the singer of "Chain Gang". Ulysses named himself after Ulysses S. Grant, the general who, in his words, turned two flags into one. A possible companion in Fallout 4 is John Hancock, a ghoul who, after an inspirational chem trip that landed him in the post-apocalyptic shell of the Old State House, appropriated both the name and the clothes of the historical John Hancock. |
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Sly Cooper: The titular protagonist, a Phantom Thief, shares his surname with D. B. Cooper, who infamously hijacked an airplane in 1971, stole $200,000 in ransom, and was ultimately never caught. | |
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In The Secret Life of Kitty Granger, the Nazi sympathizer Henry Lowell's daughter Diana is named after Diana Mitford. Mitford's husband was Oswald Mosley, who in the story is an old friend of Richard Smythe, Diana's godfather and another extremist. | |
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Shuttlecraft in Star Trek are generally named after famous scientists or explorers, most famously the Galileo, which had a TOS episode named after it. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gene Roddenberry named Jean-Luc Picard after the early 20th-century space scientists Jean-Felix and Auguste Piccard. |
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Ryan Howard of The Office. The writers swear that the name, shared by the All-Star first baseman of the Philadelphia Phillies, is a coincidence, but consider that the American adaptation was in development in 2004, the same year Howard, a big-time prospect since he was drafted, played for the Phillies Triple-A affiliate in Scranton, which is where the show is set. | |
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The Koopalings in Super Mario Bros. are named after real-life musicians and other celebrities. As is possibly the boss Reznor in Super Mario World. | |
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Happens occasionally on Neo Pokeforum. For example, Chaos' Poochyena is called Dirty Harry, while Skitty's Slowpoke is named Forrest Gump. For a certain degree of "famous", both Allen and Chaos borrow names from Twitch Plays Pokémon. | |
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Kabir from Born Behind Bars is the product of a Maligned Mixed Marriage between a Muslim and a Hindu, so he was named after a saint recognized by both religions. | |
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Grease: Rydell High School is named after '50s/'60s teen idol Bobby Rydell. Sandy Olsson shares her surname with Ann-Margret, who was born Ann-Margret Olsson. In the original stage version, she has the Polish-American surname "Dumbrowski," but the film gives her a meaningful Adaptational Name Change. Fittingly, Ann-Margret and Bobby Rydell (the school's namesake) had played love interests in Bye Bye Birdie. |
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Danganronpa: Memento Mori: Ultimate Kendo Team Captain Masao Mifune, with mannerisms befitting an old-fashioned samurai, shares his surname with famous Jidaigeki actor Toshiro Mifune. | |
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Jaine Austen Mysteries: The detective working the case in Murder Gets a Makeover is named Denzel G. Washington. While Jaine doesn't actually ask if he was named after the actor, she does say "Loved you in Training Day" when she first meets him at the crime scene. He does not look amused by this. | |
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Among the novelty shaped rubber bands that make up the cast of Bands on the Run are an airplane named Amelia, after Amelia Earhart, and a lightbulb named Edison, after Thomas Edison. | |
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The Walking Dead (2010): Abraham Ford (Abraham Lincoln and Gerald Ford; alternate interpretation: Abraham was shot in Ford's Theater).note Interestingly, there's also the actor Andrew Lincoln, which is a stage name; however, he's British, so it's probably not derived from Presidents. | |
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Some characters are also named after famous fictional characters, like Zato-1, his symbiote Eddie (Eddie the Head), and Faust. | |
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Times Like This: Cassie's last name is Wells. Matt's last name is Gahan. (Indirectly, though... according to Word of God on the FAQ page: "Matt Gahan originally had the last name of 'Gahane' and that was based on a good friend of mine whose last name used the same letters, but I decided to leave off the last 'e' so he'd have the same last name as the lead singer of one of my favorite bands.") | |
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M*A*S*H had a double with Hawkeye. His full name is Benjamin Franklin Pierce, so he's named after both a Founding Father (Benjamin Franklin) and a U.S. President (Franklin Pierce). Though never revealed in the series, Fanon gives Colonel Sherman T. Potter the middle name "Tecumseh", which would make Potter named after Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. |
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Multiple characters in Lost are named after philosophers. There's John Locke (who for some time goes by another philosopher, Jeremy Bentham), Danielle Rousseau, Desmond David Hume, and Mikhail Bakunin, among others. Locke's father is named Anthony Cooper, after Lord Shaftesbury, patron of John Locke the philosopher. Also, Daniel Faraday and Eloise Hawking are both named after physicists, which becomes important when it's revealed that Hawking is Faraday's mother. Charlotte Staples Lewis. |
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Reba: Van and Cheyenne Montgomery have a daughter named "Elizabeth". Pointed out in the episode when Brock's mother comes to visit. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: Tons and tons of characters. A few examples: the main characters are named Baudelaire; their banker is named Poe. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Ghondor Vandham constantly complains about her name. In Future Redeemed we find out that the first patriarch of the Vandham family, the grandfather of the man who helped found the second City, and the son of N and M, was named Ghondor. Which explains why his distant descendant hates it; it's a male name. | |
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In both The Loud House and its Spin-Off The Casagrandes, family pets (not counting pets that belong to any particular family member) are named after cartoonists. Charles, the Louds' dog, after Charles Schultz. Cliff, the Louds' cat, after Cliff Sterrett. Walt, the Louds' canary, after Walt Kelly. Geo, the Louds' hamster, after George "Geo" Harriman. Sergio, the Casagrandes' parrot, after Sergio Aragonés. Lalo, the Casagrandes' dog, after Lalo Alcaraz. |
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The Underland Chronicles: Luxa's mother Judith, Judith's twin brother Hamnet and their sister Susannah are named after William Shakespeare's children. Some of the mice are named after famous mathematicians. | |
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In Xenogears the protagonist Fei Fong Wong is named after a real-life Chinese doctor and martial artist (made famous in the West by a Jackie Chan film). His past incarnations as a Contact are all named after famous people too, for instance Kim Kasim (from Kim Jong-Un) and Lacan aka Grahf (from a psychologist named Jack Lacan), except for the first one, which is Abel (as in Cain and Abel, not Niels Abel). | |
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Amethyst van der Troll from Trollz appears to be named after Anneliese van der Pol. | |
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Belle from Pokemon: Adventures in the Millennium names almost all of hers after historical figures, usually criminals. The Odd Name Out is Klondike, who's named after the geographical region. In addition, Belle and her partner-turned-rival Starr are named for Belle Starr, following the same naming conventions as Jessie and James and Butch and Cassidy from the Pokémon anime. |
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Doc and Clara Brown's sons, of Back to the Future Part III and the animated series, are called Jules and Verne after their favorite author. This actually proved to be a plot point in the animated series episode "A Verne By Any Other Name" - after being bullied about his name, Verne went back in time to convince his parents to name him something else. | |
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Francesco Bernoulli, the Italian racecar from Cars 2, is named after Dutch/Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli, who came up with the law of conservation of fluid dynamics. | |
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It's common for characters in Angie Tribeca to be named after rock musicians - for example, Jay Geils and Alan Parsons. | |
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Michael Jordan Mackenzie, usually referred to as "Mack", a supporting character in Daria is named after famous basketball player Michael Jordan, and mocked for that by short-lived jerk of the week Tommy Sherman. | |
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Virgil Ovid Hawkins, aka Static, is a twofer. His first and last name are from real-life African American lawyer Virgil D. Hawkins. His middle name is a reference to the Roman poet Ovid. | |
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Early Metal Heroes shows had a tendency to name their protagonists after film personalities: Shaider after American actor Roy Scheider Gavan after French actor Jean Gabin Spielban, after American filmmaker Steven Spielberg One of the names considered for Juspion, in an early stage of pre-production, was Deniro. Unfortunately, it wasn't carried to the show. In Janperson, supporting character Gun Gibson was named after Mel Gibson, apparently. This doesn't apply to the protagonist, however, whose name comes from him wearing a jumper. |
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One Cool Friend: The species of penguin Elliot encounters is the Magellanic penguin. He names the one he takes home Magellan. Elliot's father named his tortoise Captain Cook. | |
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In Thunderbirds ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy's sons are named Scott, Virgil, Alan, Gordon, and John — all of which happen to be the names of the Real Life Mercury Program astronauts. In real life, Virgil Ivan Grissom was better known to the public as "Gus". |
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In Route 148 , all the towns encountered in the comic used to be named after famous writers. | |
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Elvis Costello (Declan McManus) took his Stage Name after Elvis Presley. | |
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CSI: Miami: Horatio Caine, named after Horatio Alger. | |
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Devil May Cry: The main protagonist Dante shares his name with the author and main character of The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri. Vergil is a recognized alternate spelling of Virgil, Dante's guide in Inferno and Purgatorio, and a poet Dante greatly admired. Trish, Dante's sidekick and possible love interest, is named after Beatrice Portinari, a woman whom Dante Alighieri was enamored with. Devil May Cry 2 has Lucia who is named after Lucia of Syracuse or Saint Lucy as she was also known. While Saint Lucy did appear as a character in the Divine Comedy to aid Dante, she was also a real-life person who was a Christian martyr during the Diocletianic Persecution. This is reflected in Lucia's character when during the game's climax, she insists on sacrificing herself to close the portal to the Demon World viewing herself as expendable but is stopped as Dante doesn't view her that way. Since Saint Lucy also happens to be the Patron Saint of The Blind, Lucia references this by having one of her eyes covered at all times. Nero, the main protagonist of Devil May Cry 4 and Devil May Cry 5, is named after the Roman emperor Nero. As the real-life Nero persecuted Christians, DMC's Nero is also opposed to a religious group though in this Nero's case, the religious group he is dealing with is far from innocent. |
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Liam Gallagher from Shameless (UK) shares his name with the singer of Oasis, something clearly intentional as he is also from Manchester. Jokes are made on the subject on several occasions. | |
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In The Maze Runner, the Gladers' names are not their real names, but names based on scientists and inventors and such that were planted in their memories. Thomas is named after Thomas Edison. Newt is named after Sir Isaac Newton. Gally is named after Galileo Galilei. Alby is named after Albert Einstein. Chuck is named after Charles Darwin. Teresa is named after Mother Teresa. |
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The British Railway Stories: Some of the engines are named after their designers. Herbert and Nigel are named after Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley, Stephen was named after Stephen D. Holden, Arthur is named after Arthur Peppercorn, and Hawk, full name Hawksworth, was named after Fredrick Hawksworth. While he wasn't an engine designer, Sir Ralph is named after Sir Ralph Wedgewood. He took the name to honour the memory of the previous engine to have it, Gadwall the A4 Pacific. Gadwall was destroyed in the Baedeker Blitz during World War II. |
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Pokémon: Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are named after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. As a double bonus, their Japanese names, Sawamular and Ebiwalar, are based on Japanese martial arts stars Tadashi Sawamura and Hiroyuki Ebihara. The French name for Hitmonchan is derived from Mike Tyson's last name, while Korea named it Hongsoomon, after Korean boxer Hong Soo-hwan. Similarly, the Japanese names for Abra, Kadabra and Alakazam are based on famous magicians and psychics: Casey (after Edgar Cayce, a clairvoyant), Yungerer (after magician Uri Geller), and Foodin (after magician Harry Houdini). This actually led into trouble when Nintendo got sued by Geller himself because the latter alleged that Kadabra appropriated his name and image. Geller would eventually apologize and renounce the lawsuit 20 years later, on November 28, 2020. Other Pokémon are named after historical rulers: Kangaskhan is a tough kangaroo-reptile-ish Pokémon named after Genghis Khan, and Empoleon shares its name in all languages (and its height!) with Napoléon Bonaparte. The fossil Pokémon Archeops might be named after the pharaoh Cheops of the Great Pyramids fame. The Nimbasa Gym in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 does this with the three trainers you face before the leaders; they are named Nikola, Fleming and Ampère (after electrical engineers Nikola Tesla, John Ambrose Fleming and André-Marie Ampère). In Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Eevee!, the Master Trainers using Zubat and Golbat are named West and Keaton respectively, after Batman actors Adam West and Michael Keaton. The Ghost-type gym leader in Pokémon Sword and Shield, Allister, is named after a pun on his Japanese name ("Onion", a type of allium), but his name might also pull from English occultist Aleister Crowley. Bill, who invented the PC system, or at least the one used in Kanto and Johto, is named after Bill Gates. |
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In-story in The English Patient: the thief David Caravaggio. He lampshades this, mentioning Caravaggio's painting David with the Head of Goliath. | |
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In-universe example with the Link from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, who is not a descendant/reincarnation of the original Link like all the rest. He's simply a regular boy who was born in an age where naming your son after the legendary Hero of Time is most likely a fairly common occurrence. Not that he ever meets anyone else with that name. | |
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Shanghai Noon: Jackie Chan plays "Chon Wang", misheard by Owen Wilson's character as "John Wayne". Lampshaded when O'Bannon declares "That's a terrible cowboy name!". It is later revealed that the real name of Roy O'Bannon is "Wyatt Earp". The villainous sheriff is called "Nathan Van Cleef", named after actor Lee Van Cleef, a character actor of many westerns. |
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In King's Quest VI, the leader of the royal guard in the Green Isles is named Captain Saladin, after the medieval Muslim leader known for fighting the Crusaders. | |
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In Justice League Elite, Manchester Black's sister is Vera Lynn Black. | |
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Josiah "Jed" Bartlet in The West Wing says he was named after his ancestor Josiah Bartlett (despite the spelling difference), who was a real-life signer of the Declaration of Independence. | |
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Each of the titular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are notably named after famous Renaissance artists. | |
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Sheldon The Tiny Dinosaur has a seahorse friend named William Wallace. Considering that she's the only character with a surname, this is obviously a deliberate reference to the Scottish hero. | |
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FC De Kampioenen: Carmen's dog Nero is named after Nero. | |
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On Cinema: Tim Heidecker names his son Tom Cruise Heidecker, Jr., after one of his favorite actors of all time . Little Tom Cruise ends up dying from a black mold infection after Tim insists on treating him only with Dr. San's All-Natural Snake Oil. Tim later names a memorial fund (though he uses it more as a personal piggy bank) and a brand of vape pens after him. | |
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Oversaturated World: Turns out that Rainbow Dash is named after one of the descendents of the legendary King Glitterhoof. | |
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Past Sins: Nyx is by Twilight named after someone from her bedtime stories, who lived more than a millenium ago. | |
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A bit of a goofy inversion in the Camelot arc of Fate/Grand Order. When the good guys travel to a village in Iran, they meet a local archer by the name of Arash who's been protecting the people there. The townsfolk note that Arash is the name of a legendary archer who saved all of Persia, so it's a very common name (if oddly fitting in this case). Of course, it turns out that the guy in question is the mythical Arash, plucked out of time to save his people once again. Since he recognized this trope, he didn't feel the need to bother with an alias. | |
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Also, the Gurus in the English version are named after the Three Wise Men. | |
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The Bible | hasFeature |
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Mega Man Zero's Big Bad Dr. Weil is named after Ray Kurzweil, an author on several books about transhumanism and technological singularity, things that Weil is a master of. | |
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Practically everyone from Brave New World (how that fits in a historyphobe society, you ask), such as Bernard Marx (George Bernard Shaw and Karl Marx), Benito Hoover (Benito Mussolini and Herbert Hoover) and Darwin Bonaparte (Charles Darwin and Napoléon Bonaparte). | |
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Brave New World | hasFeature |
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The Final Destination franchise started with all the surnames in the first movie being derived from horror directors, and all the sequels have at least one of those. Examples include Alex Browning, Kimberly Corman, Lewis Romero, Nick O'Bannon and Candace Hooper. | |
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In Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!, all of the girls have names that reference female Hollywood stars, such as Drew Baringmore and Jamie Lee Coitus. | |
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Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_a6284736 | type |
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Olga Dies Dreaming: Olga's parents, activists who had belonged to the Young Lords, named her after Olga Viscal Garriga, advocate for Puerto Rican independence. Olga’s mother, a radicalized activist herself, looks down on her daughter for not living up to her namesake's ideals. | |
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Mimpi Metropolitan: Prima Irama is named after Indonesian celebrities Barry Prima and Rhoma Irama. In-universe, Prima says that he is named as such a prayer that he will become famous too. | |
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Trigonometry: Kieran and Gemma's cat's name is David Bowie. | |
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Trigonometry | hasFeature |
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Due South: Stanley (Ray) and Stella Kowalski. Wilson Welsh and his brother Harding were named after the two American presidents with those last names. (Woodrow Wilson and Warren G Harding) Diefenbaker after the Canadian prime minister (in-universe). And of course, Fraser's senior inspector, Margaret "Meg" Thatcher. |
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Due South | hasFeature |
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Clueless: Cher, and her best friend Dionne, were both, in Cher's words, "named after great singers of the past who now do infomercials." | |
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Clueless | hasFeature |
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Ryan Reynolds of Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye has gotten used to people answering his emails right away specifically because he shares a name with Ryan Reynolds, though this was unintentional. In addition, his father was an actor who played a sheriff on TV named Burt Reynolds. | |
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Psychonauts: Mikhail Bulgakov, the foreign student at Whispering Rock Camp, takes his name from the Russian playwright who wrote The Master and Margarita. | |
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Psychonauts (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_a90d239a | |
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Scott and Barda’s baby Jacob in Mister Miracle (2017) is named after Jack Kirby. | |
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Mister Miracle (2017) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird: Cullen does this in-universe with the pets he acquires as the story unfolds. When he selects one of the Fereldan horses for his own, he names him Ferdinand (after Brother Ferdinand Genitivi, his favorite author); later, when Leliana gives him one of her messenger crows for his exclusive use, he names her Brona (after Andraste's mother). | |
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Twice Upon an Age (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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Orphan Black names several characters and places after scientists famous for championing evolution. | |
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Orphan Black | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ab9ec4d0 | |
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The Ultra Violets has Albert Feinstein, mathlete. | |
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The Ultra Violets | hasFeature |
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The title character of Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. is named for that other Crusoe, as his father dreamed of a life at sea. He laments why he wasn't named Harry or Ike. | |
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In Cool Runnings, one of the characters' names is Yul Brynner, which elicits a chuckle from one of his teammates. | |
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Scrooge McDuck was named after Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. | |
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Both Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy IX contained many a Shout-Out to Shakespeare. The former had Rosencrantz and Romeo Guildenstern, while the latter had both characters and fictional characters named Puck, Cordelia, and King Leo/Lear. | |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_aeedf9b7 | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All has a clown named Lawrence "Moe" Curls, after The Three Stooges. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_af583f46 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_afa87e53 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_afa87e53 | comment |
Tony Delvecchio of Backyard Sports is named after wrestling announcer Tony Schiavone. Marky Dubois, from the same series, is named after Marky Ramone, a member of The Ramones. The developers were originally going to give Marky the full name, but then decided against it. | |
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Backyard Sports (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_afc86b0a | type |
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Ender's Game: When Ender Wiggin's dad gets a name, it turns out that (1) Wiggin isn't his actual name, but rather Wieczorek, and (2) his full name is Jan Paweł Wieczorek, which became John Paul Wiggin when Anglicized, and yes, that's John Paul as in Pope John Paul II, who was canonized in this timeline (as happens in 2014 in real life). Something of a subversion in that he is this both in-universe and out of universe (John Paul II was, of course, Polish). | |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_afdde82a | comment |
Beelzebub in I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level is not the famous one. She just gets her name from the original Beelzebub, and living up to that name causes her no end of stress. (In narration, Azusa compares this to Earth cultures naming their daughters Maria.) | |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids: Elvis and Mr. Socrates. Butch himself is an odd example sharing the name with a real-life outlaw. While never expressed in the show the band name may, in fact, be an in-universe pun based on this trope. |
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Forrest Gump was named in-universe after the Civil War general and Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest. He states that his mother chose the name as a reminder of the stupidity of humanity. | |
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The Amarcians in Tales of Graces are all named after famous scientists and mathematicians — names such as (Blaise) Pascal, (Siméon Denis) Poisson, (Joseph) Fourier, (Pierre de) Fermat, (Carl Friedrich) Gauss, and so on. Also, Fermat's husband is named after astronomer Carl Sagan. | |
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River City Ransom: In the GBA remake, several gangs have this as their Theme Naming gimmick: The Rockers are mostly named after famous rock stars, while the Home Boys have names referencing famous rappers. The Cowboys (Billy, Butch, Cass, Clint, Earp, Eli, Oakly, Shane, Wayne, Wyatt) are named after famous Wild West figures. |
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Game of Thrones: Nymeria is named after a warrior queen of legend. | |
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Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
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Mallard Fillmore: Mallard's friend, Dave, named his son after Rush Limbaugh. It's what led to his wife divorcing him.◊ The title character is himself named after Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States. | |
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Foxtrot once had a parody strip coincidentally also named "Luther and Locke." | |
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Spider-Man: The Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain the White Rabbit is supposedly the widow of a man named Lewis Dodson, continuing the Alice in Wonderland theme with a reference to Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson. |
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CAPTAIN YAJIMA: The titular Captain Yajima and her archnemesis Zoga are named after iconic '60s and '70s Japanese actors whose roles also serve as inspirations for the characters — Yajima after Masaaki Yajima, voice actor for Captain Kirk in the Japanese dub of Star Trek: The Original Series, and Zoga after Machiko Soga, most famous for her role as Bandora/Rita Repulsa in the Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger/Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers series. | |
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CAPTAIN YAJIMA (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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My Life In Blue does this a lot: Iddy Pop is clearly named for Iggy Pop. Portia's last name is Bathory like the bloody countess. | |
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Nods to famous folk in-universe are frequent in the Deryni works. Of course, among famous people, it's also as much to do with family and/or friendship as fame. Haldane royalty tends to reuse the names of certain illustrious predecessors. Since princes get four names in addition to the surname, there's plenty of opportunities for this. Among the popular candidates for reuse are Cinhil (first Haldane king of the Restoration), Blaine (also used by the Festils), Donal (Brion's father's first name, King Brion and King Cinhil's second), Nygel/Nigel, Aidan (second Haldane in the seventh century, also Cinhil's grandfather, the only survivor of his family's massacre during the Festillic Invasion) and Alroy (Cinhil's father and Cinhil's eldest surviving son). Morgan's first two children. His daughter is named Briony after the late King Brion Haldane, and his son is named Kelric (a combination of King Kelson and Morgan's own first name Alaric). Kelson's heir, born in the year 1130 (according to the Codex), is christened Javan Uthyr Richard Urien Haldane; the prince's first name is that of the ill-fated King Javan Haldane, King Cinhil's second surviving son (and the protagonist of King Javan's Year), and his third name honours Kelson's great uncle and Araxie's father, Prince Richard Haldane Duke of Carthmoor. |
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Though known by a variety of ring names over his long career, Sid Eudy is arguably most famous as Sid Vicious, having named himself after the Sex Pistols bassist of the same name. | |
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Domina: In-universe, many people have names related to their warlords, who themselves named after either real gods and goddesses or fictional gods and goddesses. In particular, Dracul is such an important part of the vampire culture that many vampires choose names like "Drake" and "Drakela" when they become vampires. The Atlantean cities are named after Greek philosophers, the Dagonite towns are named after writers, and the Rahab wrecks are named after emperors. |
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Domina | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_b859e0e1 | comment |
Daniel Boone Davis, the protagonist of The Door into Summer. | |
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The Door into Summer | hasFeature |
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Nero: The titular character is named after Roman Emperor Nero. Another character, Clo-Clo, is named after the affectionate nickname of French singer Claude-François. | |
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Amadeus Cho, of The Incredible Hercules, is named after Mozart. His sister Maddy's full name? Madame Curie Cho. His archenemy is Pythagoras Dupree. | |
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In Timeless, when the team goes to different points in time, they call themselves by the names of famous people from the future. | |
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Duckman: George Herbert Walker King Chicken's name is based on George H. W. Bush. | |
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While multiple previous works have hinted at it, Transformers: Beast Wars (2021) establishes that the Predacon Dinobot took his name after the legendary Autobot warriors. | |
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Toontown: Corporate Clash: Major Player's real name is Dave BruBot, a reference to jazz composer Dave Brubeck. Treekiller's real name is Spruce Campbell. |
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Tiny Toon Adventures had a pretty obvious Take That! with the Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs who were also named after artists - Picasso, Warhol, Rockwell, and Grandma Moses. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Imperial Guard commander Kubrik Chenkov doesn't really share his namesake's passion for filmmaking, he's a Frontline General who does not tolerate disobedience, to the point where it's said he's summarily executed more of his men than he's shot enemies. | |
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Bogie from Angel, Angel, Down We Go was unsurprisingly named after Humphrey Bogart. | |
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El Goonish Shive: There is a minor character named Assistant Director Leifeld. He's a comically over-muscled barrel of a man, similar to the way Rob Liefeld tends to draw characters. Despite the slightly different spelling, The Rant clarifies that the Shout-Out is intentional. The Girl Posse at Moperville South (Diane, Lucy, and Rhoda) are are all named after sitcom characters. In order to fit the theme naming without having too obvious of a reveal, Diane's sister is named Rhea, after Rhea Perlman who played Diane's coworker on Cheers. |
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The names of characters in Blazing Saddles include, among others of this type, Hedley Lamarr (Hedy Lamarr) and Olson Johnson (Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson). A Running Gag has Hedley correcting anyone who calls him Hedy, to which one person says, "What are you worried about? This is 1874, you'll be able to sue her!" | |
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Blazing Saddles | hasFeature |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Alexis Lois "Lexi" Luthor is named after her grandparents, Lex Luthor and Lois Lane. | |
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In Son of the Sannin, some Original Characters who were part of the Edo Tensei army were named after Japanese historical figures. One is an Iwa kunoichi named Sayu Tokimune, whose clan's surname is taken from a general and samurai named Hojo Tokimune from the 13th century (known for pushing Mongolian forces back during their invasion of Japan), and another is Akashi Sutoku, a Plasma Release user and old enemy of the Uchiha and Senju clans, named after a 12th-century emperor. | |
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A subject of a complaint in Raffy Tulfo in Action was named after a certain American animator who created a famous cartoon mouse. | |
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On a similar theme to the above, an episode of Taggart had all the characters, bar the main detectives, named after the players of a Scottish Football (soccer) cup winning team who the writer supported. The reference went over of the heads of English, Northern Irish, and Welsh viewers, but not of older Scottish viewers, who spotted it instantly. | |
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Taggart | hasFeature |
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Rita in Gifts of Wandering Ice was named after a famous hunter chieftess who lived two hundred years ago. | |
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Gifts of Wandering Ice (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_be651019 | |
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In Chrono Trigger: The Edible Theme Naming of Soysauce, Vinegar, and Mayonnaise were turned into Ozzie (Osbourne, although he's Ozzy), Flea (of Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Slash (of Guns N' Roses). This raised issues with the sequel, which introduced a new character named Slash, while containing the old ones as an Optional Boss, so the new character was renamed Nikki (presumably after Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx). Also, the Gurus in the English version are named after the Three Wise Men. Both Trigger and Cross contain characters named after famed Persian emperors (Cyrus and Dario respectively, seemingly named after Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great), both of them serving as Death by Origin Story big brother figures to two separate characters named Glenn. |
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Team Fortress 2: In the "Meet The Medic" short, it's revealed that Medic keeps a flock of pet doves. In the operating room, no less. His favorite is named Archimedes, which is fitting for an eccentric bird who follows after his master. | |
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Bernard Black from Black Books got his middle name (Ludwig) from Beethoven. (Discussed in-universe.) | |
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Black Books | hasFeature |
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In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Hajime was given the moniker of Izuru Kamakura, sharing the name of the founder of Hopes' Peak Academy as part of the Kamakura Project. | |
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_c34f83b2 | |
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Doctor Who: In "Dragonfire", many of the guest characters are named after famous figures of academic film criticism and theory. Plus Kane and Ace's real name Dorothy. | |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_c43df4d8 | |
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In SA Swann's Hostile Takeover series virtually everything on or relating to Bakunin, from the star Kropotkin that it orbits down to the Friedman Hotel on Lenin Avenue in Proudhon City is named after some anarchist, minarchist, socialist and/or anti-statist philosopher or theorist. | |
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Homer Price: Homer himself, who's named after Homer, a historical figure and famous poet from ancient Greece. | |
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The King Nobody Wanted: Tytos Clegane is named after Tytos Lannister, the lord who raised his father to a landed knight. Aerys Chelsted was named after the late king due to his father Qarlton's sycophancy. Due to the original Aerys' insanity and tyranny, he views it as an Embarrassing First Name and prefers to go by "Rys". An unusually high proportion of the Most Devout bear Targaryen names, including multiple Baelors. One is even named after a dragon, Balerion. He notes that this is a common habit on his home isle, Dragonstone, and that he has an aunt named Syrax. In the backstory, Lord Harwyn Bracken was named after Harwyn Hoare. |
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In the Shadow Children series, the Garner children are Matthew, Mark and Luke; it's also mentioned that their mother wishes she would have had a fourth son to name John. | |
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Shadow Children | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_ca5d97f1 | comment |
Lampshaded (of course) in the naval expedition sketch from episode 32 of Monty Python's Flying Circus: "Why does the senior personnel all bear the names of Hollywood film stars of the forties and female ones at that?" | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_cac1f772 | comment |
CSI: Grissom was last-named after Gus Grissom, the Mercury astronaut, courtesy of his actor William Petersen. Grissom makes a joke of this once, naming his beetles from a crime scene "John, Paul, George, and Ringo". Apparently, 'Diebenkorn' Russell was named after a famous artist. It's still no wonder he prefers 'D.B.'. |
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CSI | hasFeature |
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Survival of the Fittest has a character named for hockey player Sidney Crosby. A slight variation in that the character is based on the real person rather than simply sharing his name. | |
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Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner from Criminal Minds is, quite possibly, named after a real Aaron Hotchner, who also just happened to be a lawyer before finding his true calling, which isn't too far off from Hotch's- the real Hotchner became a biographer, famously penning one for Ernest Hemingway meaning, in real life, Hotch is just as much a profiler as the one on TV is (only that the real one doesn't use it to catch criminals). | |
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Criminal Minds | hasFeature |
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Quest for Glory II Characters of the thieving persuasion can break into a certain house at night where an old man lives with his four sons. Three are named Kareem, Abdul, and Jabbar, respectively, after the basketball player. The fourth, Kamar, does not fit with this naming structure. There's also a Griffin named Merv, after game show producer Merv Griffin. |
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"Superstar" Billy Graham named himself after famous Baptist minister Billy Graham. | |
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons has the two dodo pilots Orville and Wilbur, who are named after The Wright Brothers. | |
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Fortune Summoners: Marina, as she relates what her parents told her: | |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_d109f322 | comment |
In Andromeda, Nietzscheans tend to have names that are mashups of famous people, like "Tyr Anasazi" and "Charlemagne Bolivar". | |
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Andromeda | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_d22a9a66 | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_d22a9a66 | comment |
In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, Lord Bao (also known as Master Paopao), an Honorable Elephant who holds court trials, is named after Bao Qing Tien, a famous Chinese politician who lived during the Song Dynasty and is revered nowadays as a Chinese symbol of justice. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (Animation) | hasFeature |
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Life Hacks For Kids has some 'hacks' named after the host, Sunny. | |
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Life Hacks For Kids (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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In the Old West chapter of Live A Live, several of the townspeople are named after famous cowboy actors: Clint, Gene and John. Annie is likely named after Annie Oakley. | |
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Live A Live (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_d29994ae | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_d31cdea | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_d31cdea | comment |
In The Hunger Games, people from the Capitol are often named after Ancient Roman historical figures: Cinna, Caesar (Flickerman), Seneca (Crane), Coriolanus (Snow), Claudius (Templesmith), etc. | |
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The Hunger Games | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_d31cdea | |
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Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_d34b015e | comment |
Since Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda considered Easy Rider to be a modern-day Western, the protagonists are Wyatt (Earp) and Billy (the Kid) | |
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Easy Rider | hasFeature |
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When performing outside WWE, Christian goes by "Christian Cage", after Christian Slater and Nicolas Cage. | |
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Eleutherophobia: Cassie's full name is Cassandra Day, a homage to Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. | |
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The Faculty: The chemistry teacher played by Jon Stewart is named Edward Furlong. | |
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The Faculty | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_d55f8bad | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_d67b8fb8 | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_d67b8fb8 | comment |
In Little Busters!, all of Rin's cats are named after famous people. That is to say, whatever random famous people Kyousuke comes up with off the top of his head at the time, as he believes that it's important to give them a name but that the name itself doesn't matter. This leads to cats with names like Lennon, Gates, Einstein, and Hitler. | |
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Little Busters! (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_d67b8fb8 | |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_d6eb7846 | comment |
In The Replacements, the main characters go to "George Washington Middle School" Of course, there was an episode where Todd uses an evil robot to threaten teachers into accepting any answer he gives them as correct. So, when he said the first president was George Stapler .... from that point on, every episode referred to it as George Stapler Middle School. |
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The Replacements | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_d8283dcf | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_d8283dcf | comment |
Babes in the Wood: Caralyn was intended to be named for Marilyn Monroe, but the vicar had a headache the day they named her, leading to her unique name. | |
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Babes in the Wood | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_d8cc2c32 | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_d8cc2c32 | comment |
George Washington Missler of Hyper Fighting Machine Marmalade is named after both George Washington Carver, famous for saving the economy of the American South by farming peanuts (as well as inventing peanut butter) and Chuck Missler, who has become famous on the Internet as "the peanut butter man" after assuming that evolution is false because life doesn't spontaneously form inside sealed jars of peanut butter. Fittingly, the Humongous Mecha which the character pilots is called Peanut Butter. | |
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Hyper Fighting Machine Marmalade | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_d8cc2c32 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_db96ded4 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_db96ded4 | comment |
On The Legend of Korra (the Sequel Series to Avatar): Aang's son Tenzin repeats the Dalai Lama motif (although Tenzin is a fairly common Tibetan name). Korra's friend Mako is named after Mako Iwamatsu, the prominent Japanese-American actor and voice artist who originally voiced Avatar's Iroh (though Greg Baldwin became The Other Darrin after Mako died). The Big Bad Amon may also be named after Nazi war criminal Amon Goeth (made famous by Schindler's List). |
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The Legend of Korra | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_db96ded4 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dc368a13 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dc368a13 | comment |
In Penny and Aggie, the original two members of Penny's Girl Posse were named Sara and Michelle. There is no Gellar. Nick and Charisma are also named after Nicholas Brendon and Charisma Carpenter (aka Xander and Cordelia), and Stan and Jack after Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. | |
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Penny and Aggie (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dc368a13 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dc4e4f67 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dc4e4f67 | comment |
A rare one-person example in The Wotch: When Sonny Leo Harper got permanently ka-girled, he became Cher Lita Harper. This new identity also counts as a Punny Name, as Cher Lita is a cheerleader. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dc4e4f67 | featureApplicability |
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The Wotch (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dc4e4f67 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ddad77ae | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_ddad77ae | comment |
Julius and Augustus Furst, the patriarchs of the First Family in Astro City, are both named after Roman emperors who had months named after them. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ddad77ae | featureApplicability |
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Astro City (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ddad77ae | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dde35817 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dde35817 | comment |
Would you believe one of WWF's most notorious jobbers of the '80s and '90s was once (probably unintentionally) named after one of its biggest stars of the same era? While he usually wrestled (and counted lights) under his real name, Barry Horowitz briefly wrestled as Jack Hart, no relation to the Excellence of Execution himself. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dde35817 | featureApplicability |
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Barry Horowitz (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_dde35817 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_de6659ec | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_de6659ec | comment |
Once Upon a Time: Season 3 introduced the sea goddess Ursula. Season 4 introduced the mermaid turned sea witch named for her, who serves as an antagonist for part of its second arc. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_de6659ec | featureApplicability |
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Once Upon a Time | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_e081af79 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e081af79 | comment |
Police in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! are named after ice cream. The two feds are Ben and Jerry, and the two local cops are Baskin and Robbin. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e081af79 | featureApplicability |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e081af79 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e214a513 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e214a513 | comment |
Anastasia: Bartok the bat was named after Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e214a513 | featureApplicability |
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Anastasia | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e214a513 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e28fc547 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e28fc547 | comment |
Naomi's ring name was apparently named after supermodel Naomi Campbell. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e28fc547 | featureApplicability |
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Naomi (Wrestler) (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e28fc547 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e45a08d4 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e45a08d4 | comment |
Urbanus: Urbanus, just like the comedian he is based on, is named after several medieval popes. His dog Nabuko Donosor is named after Babylonian king Nebukadnezzar II. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e45a08d4 | featureApplicability |
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Urbanus (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e45a08d4 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e48a9d64 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e48a9d64 | comment |
To the Moon: In Impostor Factory, Tobias Reynard's nickname is "Tobi", and according to Quincy, his last name is French for "fox". In other words, he's named after Toby Fox. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e48a9d64 | featureApplicability |
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To the Moon (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e48a9d64 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e5dfd2c1 | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_e5dfd2c1 | comment |
The Zork games have Lord Dimwit Flathead's eleven siblings: John D., T.J. "Stonewall", Johann Sebastian, J. Pierpont, Thomas Alva, Leonardo, Lucrezia, Ralph Waldo, John Paul, Frank Lloyd, and Babe. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e5dfd2c1 | featureApplicability |
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Zork (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e5dfd2c1 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e601279b | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e601279b | comment |
Guys Being Dudes: Seeing as he's established as a Falling in Reverse fan, Arlo's Charizard, Ronnie, is probably named after Ronnie Radke. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e601279b | featureApplicability |
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Guys Being Dudes (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e601279b | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e6c59cd1 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e6c59cd1 | comment |
One of the technicians in Quake IV is named after the German-Austrian composer Johann Strauss. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e6c59cd1 | featureApplicability |
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Quake IV (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e6c59cd1 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e776f83b | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e776f83b | comment |
Locomotives of British Railways: Episode 3, "Quite A Q1", introduces Oliver the Q1 locomotive. He was named after his designer, Oliver Bulleid. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e776f83b | featureApplicability |
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Locomotives of British Railways (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e776f83b | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e936047a | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e936047a | comment |
Mr. Oskar Kokoschka from Hey Arnold! is named after the Austrian expressionist painter. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e936047a | featureApplicability |
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Hey Arnold! | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e936047a | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e93b2f62 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e93b2f62 | comment |
The Fly (1986) borrowed the surname from a Formula One driver for its protagonist (an Ironic Name, given the character suffers from motion sickness), and in the sequel his son outright has the guy's full name: Martin Brundle. In addition, Tritagonist Stathis Borans's first name references Lou Stathis, a Heavy Metal editor who was a fan of the work of this film's writer/director, David Cronenberg. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e93b2f62 | featureApplicability |
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The Fly (1986) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e93b2f62 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e9c57346 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e9c57346 | comment |
Before he became the electrifying People's Champion and still later one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Dwayne Johnson, aka "The Rock", was a boring, goody-two-shoes babyface called Rocky Maivia, a combination of his father's ring name (Rocky Johnson) and his grandfather's ring name (Peter Maivia). | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_e9c57346 | featureApplicability |
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Dwayne Johnson (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_ea4f62db | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_ea4f62db | comment |
Family Guy: Mayor Adam West is named after the real-life Adam West, who consequently is also his voice. "Christopher Cross" Griffin |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_ea4f62db | featureApplicability |
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Family Guy | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ea4f62db | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ec593c1 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ec593c1 | comment |
Trouble with the Curve has Mickey, who is a girl named after Mickey Mantle. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ec593c1 | featureApplicability |
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Trouble with the Curve | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ec593c1 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_eca201fb | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_eca201fb | comment |
The Gates family, from the National Treasure' movies. The protagonist is Benjamin Franklin Gates. His father is Patrick Henry Gates, his father was named John Adams Gates... it's apparently a family tradition. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_eca201fb | featureApplicability |
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National Treasure | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_eca201fb | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ed8b580 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ed8b580 | comment |
Franklin Mumford on My Wife and Kids, although you really can't tell until you learn he has a sister named Aretha. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ed8b580 | featureApplicability |
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My Wife and Kids | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ed8b580 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_eded6020 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_eded6020 | comment |
In the 2012 adaptation of The Lorax, the two main kids in the present day are named Ted and Audrey, respectively named after Ted "Dr. Seuss" Geisel and his wife. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_eded6020 | featureApplicability |
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The Lorax (2012) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_eded6020 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ef8bd4a5 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ef8bd4a5 | comment |
Mega Man: From the original series, there's Dr. Thomas Light and Dr. Albert Wily, named after Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein, respectively. The former might be questionable, but the latter does have some resemblance to his namesake (the Einstein Hair). In the English version of Mega Man X5, all eight Maverick bosses have names derived from the rock band Guns N' Roses. Grizzly Slash (Slash), Axle the Red (Axl Rose), Squid Adler (Steven Adler), Dark Dizzy (Dizzy Reed), and the list goes on. The Skiver is the only Odd Name Out, though it might be a reference to Michael "High in the Sky" Monroe, who recorded a song with GNR. Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2 would change the names back to those of the original Japanese release, or at least something close (such as The Skiver, originally Spiral Pegacion, being rechristened Spiral Pegasus). Mega Man Zero's Big Bad Dr. Weil is named after Ray Kurzweil, an author on several books about transhumanism and technological singularity, things that Weil is a master of. |
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Mega Man (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ef8bd4a5 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f07570d4 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f07570d4 | comment |
54: Steve's younger sisters Grace and Kelly were named after Grace Kelly. | |
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54 | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_f0d6862 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f0d6862 | comment |
Oliver Wendell Douglas from Green Acres is named after 19th-century supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | |
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Green Acres | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f0d6862 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f120845f | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f120845f | comment |
Kingdom of Loathing has Linnell the Booze Giant, named for John Linnell of They Might Be Giants. There's also a town called Flangeburgh, a play on the name of John Flansburgh, another member of TMBG. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f120845f | featureApplicability |
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Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f120845f | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f1a38c03 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f1a38c03 | comment |
Suske en Wiske: Professor Barabas is named after the biblical thief the people of Judea wanted to be spared of a death sentence, instead of Jesus Christ. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f1a38c03 | featureApplicability |
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Suske en Wiske (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f1a38c03 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f1f0ba56 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f1f0ba56 | comment |
In the Reboot Legion Of Superheroes, the Orando royal family (Sensor's family) are the House of Wynzorr. The current monarch is King Charlz and his son's name is Prince Willum. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f1f0ba56 | featureApplicability |
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Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f1f0ba56 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f2c3e3d4 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f2c3e3d4 | comment |
Gavin & Stacey has a subtle one that eventually gets lampshaded; the two central families are the Wests and the Shipmans, while the latter's neighbours are the Sutcliffes.note For any non-UK tropers who haven't worked it out from the Pot Holes, these were all serial killers. The other main characters are called Smith and Jenkins. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f2c3e3d4 | featureApplicability |
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Gavin & Stacey | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_f3c0e616 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f3c0e616 | comment |
Hiveswap has a host of these, including Nihkee Moolah (after women's wrestler Fabulous Moolah), Mallek Adalov (after Rami Malek and Ada Lovelace), and Barzum and Baizli Soleil (after Barnum and Bailey and, slightly less relevantly, Cirque du Soleil). | |
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Hiveswap (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f3c0e616 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f3e1f424 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f3e1f424 | comment |
Merlin (2008) / Harry Potter crossovers may have Merlin claim he was only named after the famous wizard, who is a real historical figure in the Wizarding World, to hide who he really is. Particularly humorous since Merlin's name is used in a number of Unusual Euphemisms in Harry Potter canon. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f3e1f424 | featureApplicability |
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Merlin (2008) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f3e1f424 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f4291939 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f4291939 | comment |
The Rescuers: The character Medusa is named after the Greek mythological creature and her crocodiles Nero and Brutus after Nero and Brutus, Caesar's adoptive son. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f4291939 | featureApplicability |
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The Rescuers | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_f475f785 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f475f785 | comment |
Syd Barrett on Legion (2017) is named after Roger "Syd" Barrett of Pink Floyd. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f475f785 | featureApplicability |
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Legion (2017) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f475f785 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f73b55b5 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f73b55b5 | comment |
In Janperson, supporting character Gun Gibson was named after Mel Gibson, apparently. This doesn't apply to the protagonist, however, whose name comes from him wearing a jumper. | |
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Tokusou Robo Janperson | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f73b55b5 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f74b5f80 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f74b5f80 | comment |
Alfred Bester from Babylon 5. At first the name was just a Shout-Out, but then the Expanded Universe revealed he was also named after the author in-universe. John Sheridan shares a very unusual last name American Civil War general Philip Sheridan, but it is later made explicit that John is a direct male-line descendant of Philip's. |
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Babylon 5 | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_f74b5f80 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_fa612011 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_fa612011 | comment |
Hank from The Half-Life of Planets was named after Henry Rollins, and chose his nickname after Hank Williams. | |
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The Half-Life of Planets | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_fcc7ec6b | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_fcc7ec6b | comment |
Triple H gets his name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, partially from William Randolph Hearst and Leona Helmsley. | |
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Triple H (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_fcc7ec6b | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ff1a7522 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ff1a7522 | comment |
In Sunday in the Park with George, the modern-day artist George is named after his secret great-grandfather, the painter Georges Seurat. To add to the similarities, the actor who plays George in Act 2 also plays his great-grandfather in Act 1. | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ff1a7522 | featureApplicability |
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Sunday in the Park with George (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ff1a7522 | |
Named After Somebody Famous / int_ff536b75 | type |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_ff536b75 | comment |
Members of the Ghost Brigades in John Scalzi's Old Man's War universe are named after famous historical figures, mostly scientists (e.g. Jared Dirac and Jane Sagan). | |
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Old Man's War | hasFeature |
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Named After Somebody Famous / int_ff78195a | type |
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The soundtrack album to Dead Man on Campus included Twiggy Ramirez collaborating with his namesake on a Cover Version of "I Only Want To Be With You", seemingly just for the gag of crediting the song to Twiggy & Twiggy. | |
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In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gene Roddenberry named Jean-Luc Picard after the early 20th-century space scientists Jean-Felix and Auguste Piccard. | |
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