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*  Author [[Brandon Sanderson]] once expressed regret in one of his online annotations that he was unable to give character [[Mistborn|"Kelsier"]] a cool last name like Mistshadows.
* ''[[The First Law]]'': Logen Rip-Your-Fucking-Face-Off Ninefingers.
* The name Starbuck may signal Herman Melville's penchant for symbolism in ''Moby-Dick'', but it also signaled "awesome" to both TV sci-fi (''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic(1978 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'') and Seattle coffeehouse proprietors.
** It certainly signaled "awesome" to [[110 in the Shade|Bill Starbuck]], who changed his name from Smith because that didn't suit a man like him (who also considers "Lizzie" too prosaic a name for a woman -- "why, it don't ''stand'' for anything!").
* [[Thomas Pynchon]]: Pirate Prentice, Oedipa Maas, Patience Eggslap, Tyrone Slothrop, Mike Fallopian, Ronald Cherrycoke, and Clayton "Bloody" Chiclitz.
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* [[Castle]] gives us Richard [[Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar]] "Rick" Castle and his daughter Alexis Castle, as well {{spoiler|as the new captain}} Victoria Gates (better known as "Iron Gates").
* [[The Mentalist]] also gives us a few; Teresa Lisbon, Kimball Cho, and {{spoiler|former CBI supervising agent}} Madeleine Hightower.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|The 2004 ''Battlestar Galactica]]'']] has an entire crew's worth of Awesome McCoolnames, starting with William and Lee Adama, Kara Thrace, Karl Agathon, Galen Tyrol, Felix Gaeta, Sharon Valerii, Anastasia Dualla, Billy Keikeya, Diana Seelix (the last being made-up on the spot by Aaron Douglas for a previously nameless character), Gaius Baltar and Admiral Helena Cain. And that's not even counting the pilot callsigns, which qualify for [[Badass Nickname]] territory.
** And of course, the Galactica itself.
* ''[[All That]]'': Randy Quench, VOLENTEEAH FIAHMAN.
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* One National Guardsman legally changed his name to [[Transformers|Optimus Prime]].
* There seems to be an unwritten rule demanding that TV meteorologists bear pornst- ...''distinctive'' names. "Dallas Raines," "Storm Field," "Johnny Mountain," "Aloha Taylor," "Topper Shutt," "Sam Champion," "Ray Ban," "Monte Montello," "Flip Spiceland" and [[wikipedia:Amy Freeze|Amy Freeze]] are all actual examples. The Germans have Ben Wettervogel, which translates to "Weatherbird." Many of these are stagenames, but not all: [[wikipedia:Sara Blizzard|Sara Blizzard]] really is called that, yes.
* [[Bear McCreary]], composer of all of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|the 2004 ''Battlestar Galactica]]'']]'s [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* One-time Canadian IOC delegate Dick Pound. Yes, that's his real name, not his porn-star stage name.
* ''[[Law and Order]]'' creator Dick Wolf.
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