Named After Somebody Famous: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'', the New York Pizza Cats' original Japanese names are as follows:

** Sundance Kid = [[Michael Jackson|Michael]], who even does Jackson's dance moves, including his Moonwalk.

** Dee Dee = [[Madonna]]

** Cosmo = [[Prince]]

* Members of the Ghost Brigades in John Scalzi's Old Man's War universe are named after famous historical figures, mostly scientists (e.g. Jared Dirac and Jane Sagan).

* When [[Ender's Game|Ender Wiggin]]'s dad gets a name, it turns out that (1) Wiggin isn't his actual name, but rather Wieczorek, and (2) his full name is Jan Paweł Wieczorek, which became John Paul Wiggin when Anglicized, and yes, that's John Paul as in [[The Pope|Pope John Paul II]], who was canonized in this timeline. Something of a subversion in that he is [[Named After Somebody Famous]] both in-universe and out of universe (John Paul II was, of course, Polish).

* In the [[Thursday Next]] series, people do this deliberately; it's a world where literature is [[Serious Business]], so people name themselves after somebody famous, most often a classic English writer. After a court case where the entire jury was made up of Christopher Marlowes, a law was enacted to affix a number to the names of people who did this.

* In ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'', people from the Capitol are often named after Ancient Roman historical figures: Cinna, Caesar (Flickerman), Seneca (Crane), Coriolanus (Snow), Claudius (Templesmith), etc.