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Compare [[Named After Somebody Famous]], when this is done deliberately as a reference, and not just with foreign characters.
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== Albanian ==
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== Romanian ==
* The [[Anti Christ]] from the [[Left Behind]] series is named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceaucescu Nicolae] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
* Perhaps best used in ''[[Work Time Fun]]'' in the [[Rock
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* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Abominable Snowmen'', which was set in a Tibetan monastery, had characters with the names of prominent historical figures in Tibetan Buddhism.
* As did ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'', set in a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] version.
** There's also "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Rampa Lobsang] [[Honest
* Tenzin, the Tibetan villager that helps Nate in ''[[Uncharted]] 2: Among Thieves'', was most likely named after Tenzin Gyatso, the religious name of the 14th Dalai Lama.
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