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* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "The Crepes of Wrath", the Albanian exchange student/spy living with the Simpsons in exchange for Bart is named [[wikipedia:Adil Çarçani|Adil]] [[wikipedia:Enver Hoxha|Hoxha]].

* ''[[St. Trinian's]]' (franchise)|St. Trinian's schoolSchool for Girls]], in the 2007 reboot film, has a French teacher called Miss [[wikipedia:Maupassant|Maupassant]], though this is probably an intentional joke.

* Invisible Kid II from the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]] was named [[wikipedia:Jacques Foccart|Jacques Foccart]]. For added irony appeal, he was also black.<ref>Which may also be a reference to the film ''[[Mystery Men]]''.</ref>

** Also Inspector Dreyfus of the ''[[The Pink Panther|Pink Panther]]'' films. The name itself however is originally Yiddish, a language related to German.

* The ''[[Tintin]]'' adventure [[Tintin/Recap/The Castafiore Emerald|"The Castafiore Emerald"]]'' has Igor Wagner, whose name is quite fitting for an accompanist to an operatic prima donna. Quite probably inspired by [[Igor Stravinsky]] as well as [[Richard Wagner]].

* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', Panther's all-American, [[Black Best Friend|white best friend]] is named Homer. Not exactly a common name in the States due to who itsit's associated with...

* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', one of the characters is Michael [[wikipedia:Giuseppe Garibaldi|Garibaldi]], despite Garibaldi being an uncommon surname. To reduce the perceived oddity of this choice, in the Italian dubbed version the name becomes Gariboldi.

* There's also the Garibaldi Temple in ''[[Castlevania: Curse of Darkness]]''. Along with other oddities such as a town named ''Cordova'' in the middle of Valachian forests.

* In the late 1980s sitcom ''[[wikipedia:Head of the Class|"Head of the Class"]]'', an Indian-American character is named "Jawaharlal Choudhury." Not only doare the given name and the family name unlikely to be paired in a real Indian person because they come from two different ethnicities, but also "Jawaharlal" is obviously taken from the name of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Also, naming fashions change from generation to generation in India; thus, to an Indian, someone named Jawaharlal should have been born in the late 19th century, not someone who is a teenager in 1986.

* [http://ignisart.com/camdenhouse/canon/sign-12.htm Mahomet Singh] in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' novel ''The Sign of The Four''. The Penguin Books annotation calls this a solecism, and blandly remarks that "the two names would not be found together." This annotation should be accompanied by bells, whistles, flashing lights, and a [[wikipedia:Maroon (rocket)|maroon.]] Especially a maroon.

* Subverted in the ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369994/ movie], when Jerri's new friend introduces himself as "Megawatti Sukarnoputri. Not ''that'' [[wikipedia:Megawati Sukarnoputri|Megawati Sukarnoputri]]."

* Where else but [[Demi Moore]]'s ''[[Striptease (film)|Striptease]]'', where a stripper "from Israel" is introduced as ''[[wikipedia:Ariel Sharon|Ariel Sharon]]''? Admittedly though, the name is gender-neutral (although in Hebrew it is strictly male), and in this case likely a stage name.

* One of the ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' novels has two Mongolian characters named ''[[wikipedia:Jamukha|Jamukka]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:Borte|Bortay]]''.

* ''[[The X-Files]]'', in the episode set in Norway, introduces the Norwegian fisherman... Trondheim (also the name of one of Norway's biggest and most important cities, and a former capital). While naming kids after cities or places is not unusual in the States, it is not a part of Norwegian naming conventions at all, neither as given names or surnames. On the other hand, Trondheim is stablished as having been born in Pensacola, which is in Florida...

* The [[Anti Christ]] from the ''[[Left Behind]]'' series is named [[wikipedia:Nicolae Ceaucescu|Nicolae]] [[wikipedia:Carpathian Mountains|Carpathia]]. To be absolutely fair, his other name is [[Embarrassing Middle Name|"Jetty" (?!?!)]] and this is hardly the only offensive moment in these novels.

* ''[[Command & Conquer|RedAlert: Red Alert]]'':

** Piotr, Illyana, Mikhail [[wikipedia:Grigori Rasputin|Rasputin]]. A recent{{when}} recton reveals that Colossus and family ''are'' in fact descended from the "Mad Monk".

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'': The ship that took [[Warhammer 40,000|Luna Volves and Death Guard]] loyalist captains [[Horus Heresy|Iacton Qruze and Nathaniel Garro]] to Terra is also named after the famous filmmaker—or, rather, a pale shadow of his memory.

** Another 40K reference is Lord Inquisitor [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Karamazov Fyodor] [[wikipedia:The Brothers Karamazov|Karamazov]], [[Kill It with Fire|Pyrophant]] [[Knight Templar|Judge]] of Salem Proctor.

* [[wikipedia:Leonid Brezhnev|Simon Brezhnev]] of ''[[Durarara!!]].''

* There's a fairly important character named [[wikipedia:Vladimir Mayakovsky|Mayakovsky]] in ''[[The Magicians]]''. Especially irritating because the characters in the book are supposed to be highly educated and you'd figure one of them would have noticed that.

* ''[[Airwolf]]'' featured a General [[wikipedia:Sergey Kirov|Kirov]] as well

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''{{'}}s Ivan [[wikipedia:Emil Braginsky|Braginsky]] aka Russia.

* ''[[Soul Series]]'':

* ''[[X-Men]]''

* Apparently Jerry Jenkins and Ann M. Martin took the same creative writing class. Mallory of the ''[[Babysitters Club]]'' gets a boyfriend in Australian Ben [[wikipedia:Hobart|Hobart]].

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' has the [[Wronski Feint]], named for a Polish Seeker. Wronski is pronounced the same as Vronsky, Anna's lover in ''[[Anna Karenina]]''.