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** The [http://starwars.wikia.com/Rodian Rodian] species, composed largely of bounty hunters and other hired guns, may be named after the killer in ''Crime and Punishment'', ''Rodion'' Romanovich Raskolnikov.
** General ''Grievous''. This one speaks for itself.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20191030081828/http://webspace.webring.com/people/kv/valeriev84/meaning.html A nice list].
** One critic was less kind in his speculations on several ''[[Star Wars]]'' names. Amidala: Yiddish ''madela'' (girly-girl); Anakin: manikin (little man); Princess Leia's a good ''lay'' (it was the 70s, and Lucas was in his early 30s); Kenobe: cannibais, presumably what Lucas was smoking when he came up with this.
* In ''Stay'' the main character's last name, Letham, is an anagram of Hamlet, which is fitting as {{spoiler|the plot is about his struggle with the question of whether To Be or Not to Be.}}
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