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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
** 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.
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** 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
* 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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