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* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Principal Kuno's first name is never given, and eventually he's referred to only as "[[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Principal]]." Likewise the Jusenkyo Guide (whose daughter IS named,) the Gambling King, and the Dojo Destroyer.
* None of the sisters in ''[[Sister Princess]]'' have family names and until the anime Wataru was only ever refered to by a form of 'brother'. This makes knowing whether they're half sisters or full sisters to each other impossible to tell.
* This was revealed to be the case with {{spoiler|Tobi}} in ''[[Naruto]]''. The one notable name he went by was a lie to lend him credibility; he prefers to remain nameless and focus only on his end-game. On chapter cover simply
** Revealed to be the case with the bijuu. Each bears a name given to them by {{spoiler|the Sage of Six Ways}} but because of the general belief that they're little more than mindless energy, few humans bother to learn a name beyond their title.
** {{spoiler|As of Chapter 568, the names of the Four Tails and the Nine Tails have been revealed: [[Shout-Out|Son Goku and Kurama]] respectively.}} Whether or not Shukaku is the correct name for the One Tail is uncertain.
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* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - The Producer.
* ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'' has characters only referred to as "Aogami Pierce" ("blue haired guy with piercings") and "The girl in the dress".
* ''[[One Piece]]''.
** Baby-5
** Only one of the Five Elders - [https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Jaygarcia_Saturn Jaygarcia Saturn] - has been named, though seeing as it took a long time for this revelation, the other four might be named eventually.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'', neither the title character's name nor the names of his planet or species is ever given.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|The Mayor]] from ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' (though some of the merch calls him [[Punny Name|Hizzonor]]). Most of the citizens also seem to not have names (The Clown With The-Tear-Away-Face, The Wolf Man, etc).
* [[The Hero|The Janitor]] from ''[[Willy's Wonderland]]''. One could consider him a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Five Nights at Freddy's (video game)|Mike Schmidt]], but he doesn't talk, nothing is known about his past, and his name is never stated. He's just "The Janitor" [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|because that's his job.]]
== [[Literature]] ==
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** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'':
*** The Doctor (the Emergency Medical Hologram, not [[Doctor Who|that one]]) went seven years without getting a name that stuck. In the last episode, he's portrayed as finally having settled on "Joe," but that was in a future that got erased.<ref>[[Word of God]] is that he was originally named Dr Zimmerman in the script, but they managed to go long enough without mentioning his name onscreen that it became a plot point of its own.</ref>
** The [[Mysterious Backer|Traveler]] claims his name is unpronounceable by humans.
** Lwaxana Troi's valet has a name - Mr. Homm - but the name of his home planet and species have never been given.
* The BBC show ''[[Bugs]]'' manages this with the three stars, Nick Beckett, Ros Henderson and 'Ed', who has no specified surname.
* In ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'', the leading agent of the team, Callen, has no first name. Not even ''he'' knows his first name. All we know is that it starts with "G". The others refer to him as "Callen", "Agent Callen", "G. Callen", "G", or "Mr. Callen". Even during the most recent season finale where {{spoiler|Hetty leaves her position at NCIS to get a Romanian crime family off Callen's back by faking G's death certificate (complete with video evidence of G's death), we never know his first name.}} To maintain the mystique surrounding G's name {{spoiler|they probably had the first name on the form illegible except for the G, [[Genre Savvy|knowing that someone with a DVR could just pause at that exact moment to see it]].}}
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{{quote|'''Arthur:''' Slartibartfast?
'''Slartibartfast:''' I told you it wasn't important. }}
== [[Theatre]] ==
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* In the ''[[Reefer Madness]]'' musical, the man who provides the [[Framing Device]] for the story is never reffered to by name; most just call him "The Lecturer".
* Generally if there's a Narrator in a stage show they won't be given a name [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|beyond their function]], although they can have other names besides 'Narrator', such as the Stage Manager in ''Our Town'' or the Leading Player in ''Pippin''.
* Not counting adaptations or works inspired by ''[[Macbeth]]'', the Weird Sisters have no names in the original work. In fact, "Weird Sisters" is a title added to later adaptations; Shakespeare's script only calls them "the witches".
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[Dragon Quest Swords|Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors]]'' has one character (Fleurette) who will refer to the otherwise unnamed protagonist by a nickname in spoken dialogue; she suggests several nicknames (such as "Blade" and "mon ami"), and you can choose one of them.
* The main character of ''[[Hatred]]'' opens the trailer to his game by saying "My name is not important... What is important is what I'm going to do". Fans joke that his name actually is "Not Important", and an [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] that his rampage is caused by an [[Embarrassing First Name]].
** The alternate interpretation was [[Ascended Meme|referenced in patch notes]] that
* The protagonist of ''[[A Hat in Time]]'' is simply referred to as "Hat Kid", her name never mentioned in-game. In fact, nobody in-game calls her "Hat Kid" either, referring to her by names like "some girl", "small child" or "little girl". Descriptions of her in the manual provide no help there, as they are given by Hat Kid herself, in first person narrative.
* In ''[[Little Nightmares]]'', the only character with a name is the protagonist, Six (and in the sequel, her friend Mono) everyone else is identified by their occupation, such as the Chefs, the Teacher, the Janitor, and so on. The [[Big Bad]] is simply called The Lady.
* Arceus, the [[The Maker|Creator God]] in ''[[Pokémon]]'' mythos. As it tells the player in ''[[Pokémon Legends: Arceus]]'', "Arceus" is the name humans gave it, and it uses that name while dealing with them. Whatever its real name is (assuming it even has one) it keeps secret.
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
* At one point in ''Kagetsu Tohya'' [[Tsukihime|Kohaku]] shows up for the school festival and doesn't really know what to put for her surname, so she just writes Tohno. She, and Hisui by extension, don't actually ''have'' last names. Or at least, they don't remember their families or childhood. Ciel's last name is also never given and Ciel also happens to be a pseudonym. Her real first name is Elesia, something mentioned only in passing. It's something a bit more important in her case, marking her as someone who doesn't entirely belong.
* From the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series,
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* While Shaggy from ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' does have a first name (Norville), you could easily watch a hundred episodes of the franchise's various incarnations without hearing it.
* In ''[[Atomic Betty]]'', Betty's last name is never mentioned; the most we know is it begins with a 'B', though the fandom likes to refer to her as Betty Barrett.
* The title characters of ''[[2 Stupid Dogs]]'' are never given names because they are strays, the closing credits dub them "Big Dog" and "Little Dog".
** In one episode, Little Dog has to fill out a form. He leaves "name" blank, and laments, "I don't know my name!"
** Though one episode had the big dog say his name was "Jonathan".
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* Likewise [[Johnny Cash]], born J. R. Cash. He apparently assumed "Johnny" because the USAF wouldn't accept initials as a valid name.
* The writer Abe Lemons claims to have been born A. E. Lemons, and when it was told he needed a first name, he just put a "B" between the A and the E. Supposedly he later regretted not renaming himself "Ace".
* Also [[Ulysses S. Grant]], who was born Hiram Ulysses Grant and had his name changed as a result of an error when applying to West Point. His friends called him Sam.
** This also made his initials U.S. Grant. Quite useful when leading the Union army and later running for President.
* None of the members of synthrock band [[The Birthday Massacre]] use their real names. For example, there's Chibi on vocals, Rainbow and Falcore on guitar, O. E. on bass, O-en on keyboard, and Rhim on drums.
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** In the band [[Lordi]] only Mr. Lordi's real name is known to the public, and he won't reveal his real face. The rest of the band is entirely anonymous in their civilian identities, and the media has agreed to keep it that way.
* The members of [[The Residents]] have always remained completely anonymous and have always worn masks (most famously the eyeball mask, top hat, and tuxedo outfit) in performance and other media.
* The Tank Man{{who}}
* [[Image Board|Anonymous]], eventually subverted by Project Chanology.
* The Man in the Iron Mask (not that historians haven't tried to figure it out).
* One of the hallmarks of urban legends is the absence of names. For instance,
** At least that one is probably based on the death of Kenji Urada, the first man ever killed by a robot.
* [[Prince]] the Artist Formerly Known as [[The Unpronounceable]] Symbol formerly known as Prince.
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