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{{trope}}
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{{quote|"Whatever your character's name is, people are going to call you that. [[I Am Not Spock|For the rest of your life]]. Make your character's name '''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (TV)|Will Smith]]'''."|[[Will Smith (Creator)|Will Smith]] quoting [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFjwbKMlmF4 valuable advice] }}
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* David Wong, main character of ''[[John Dies At the End (Literature)|John Dies At the End]]'', by David Wong. Not necessarily, as David Wong is just a pen name.
* Possibly the earliest example of this trope in literature would be ''[[The Divine Comedy (Literature)|The Divine Comedy]]'' by Dante Aligheri featuring a protagonist named Dante Aligheri.
* Portia da Costa's [[Romance Novel]] ''[http://www.portiadacosta.com/thestranger.html The Stranger]'' features an obvious [[Expy]] of Paul McGann's [[Doctor Who
* William Lee, [[Author Avatar|the protagonist of several works]] by [[William S Burroughs]].
** Similarly, Jack Kerouac wrote many novels starring a protagonist named Jack Duluoz.
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* A couple of author John Iriving's characters are named John: Johnny Wheelwright, narrator of ''[[A Prayer for Owen Meany]]'' and John Berry, narrator of ''[[The Hotel New Hampshire]]''.
* Darren O'Shaughnessy (who usually writes under the penname Darren Shan) is best known for a book series about a young vampire named [[The Saga of Darren Shan|Darren Shan]].
* [[Tanith Lee]], who wrote for British sf series ''[[Blake's Seven
* J(ames) G(raham) Ballard in his novels ''Empire of the Sun'' and 'The Kindness of Women'' has the protagonist "Jim Graham".
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* Kathryn Janeway in ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' who was named Elisabeth Janeway and Nicole Janeway before actress Katherine Kiernan Maria 'Kate' Mulgrew suggested Kathryn.
* Katherine Mulgrew played Kate Columbo in ''[[Mrs. Columbo]]''.
* Several minor ''[[
* On ''[[Gilmore Girls]],'' Sookie's husband Jackson is played by Jackson Douglas. His real-life girlfriend almost played Sookie.
* Long time ago now, but the [[Britcom]] ''Terry and June'' starred Terry Scott and June Whitfield as Terry and June Medford. They ''also'' starred as Terry and June ''Fletcher'' in an earlier [[Britcom]] ''Happy Ever After'' - the same couple in a different house with a troublesome aunt and her mynah bird. ([[Captain Ersatz|This was not accidental.]])
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* Chuck Campell plays Chuck the Gate Tech on ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'', though this may actually have been a mistake. The character was without a name for quite a while, and it's rumored that another actor dropped his name into a line. He is, however, later called Chuck again by another character. Notable in that fans had been calling him Chuck the Gate Tech (or, alternately, "Chucknician") for some time previous.
* Lee and Tim from ''[[Not Going Out (TV)|Not Going Out]]'' are played by Lee Mack and Tim Vine respectively. There is also Tim and Lucy's father, Geoffrey, who is played by Geoffrey Whitehead, but this is an odd case as he was originally played by Timothy West.
* Rhodri Meilir played a character called Rhodri in the ''[[
* Larry Bagby III as Larry Blaisdell in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', although the character was named before Larry Bagby III was cast. Bagby joked that he should get the part because the character was named for him.
* Comedian Mark Curry as Mark Cooper in ''[[Hanginwith Mr. Cooper]]''.
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* Miranda Hart as the title character of ''[[Miranda (TV)|Miranda]]''.
** These are something of a fictionalized version of [[As Himself|as themselves]]
* Simon Anstell as Simon in ''[[
* Derek Van Der Lint as Derek Raine in ''[[Poltergeist the Legacy]]''.
* [[Whitney Blake]] played Dorothy Baxter on ''[[Hazel]]'', and was a former "Mrs. Baxter" in real life ([[Meredith Baxter]] of ''[[Family Ties (TV)|Family Ties]]'' fame is her daughter).
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* The little-known sitcom ''Big Brother Jake'' features fitness personality Jake Steinfeld as Jake Rosner.
* ''[[The Partridge Family]]'' stars Shirley Jones<ref>Who had previously appeared in ''[[Oklahoma]]''</ref> as Shirley Partridge, the mother, and features Danny Bonaduce as Danny Partridge, the middle son.
* In the 70s British spy serial [
* The ''entire'' cast of the Japanese television series ''Playgirl''.
* ''[[Revenge (TV)|Revenge]]'' has Emily VanCamp as Emily Thorne, Emily Alyn Lind as the flashback version of Emily, and Ashley Madekwe as Ashley.
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* The cast of ''[[Godspell]]'', sans Jesus and John/Judas, are named after the actors who portrayed them in the original cast. Newer performances of this show often change character names to match their own casts.
* ''[[Finian's Rainbow (Theatre)|Finian's Rainbow]]'' has a harmonica-playing minor character named Sunny, originally played by Sonny Terry.
* In the ''[[
* The short lived yet wildly popular Broadway musical ''[[Title of Show (Theatre)|Title of Show]]''. In fact, the show takes it up a notch with it being "a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical" (guess how many guys wrote this musical?) and the song "I Am Playing Me."
* In ''[[American Idiot (Music)|American Idiot]]'', the rock opera featuring [[Green Day (Music)|Green Day]]'s music, the main character Johnny was named after the actor who plays him -- John Gallagher Jr. (who uses the name 'Johnny Gallager' in his music career).
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* Gunnery Sgt. Pete Stacker appears in the ''[[Halo (Franchise)|Halo]]'' series as, for lack of a better term, is the "white, southern accented," counterpart to Sgt. Johnson. Stacker, despite never having his name spoken in any material of the Halo franchise, is said to be named after his voice actor, who, it might be funny to point out, [[Talking to Himself|also voiced Captain Jacob Keyes]] in ''[[Halo Combat Evolved (Video Game)|Halo Combat Evolved]]''.
* Heather Mason in ''[[Silent Hill 3 (Video Game)|Silent Hill 3]]'' is actually named after her voice actress, Heather Morris.
* [[Michael Jackson (Music)|Michael Jackson]] as the voice of Space Michael in ''[[Space Channel 5 (Video Game)|Space Channel 5]].'' Jackson was the inspiration for that particular character and, when approached about voicing him, he said, "Yes!" because he absolutely loved the [[Shout
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)|Metal Gear Solid]]'' has a coincidental example with Solid Snake's real name of "David", which happens to be the first name of his English voice actor, David Hayter. In reality, the name "David" was already decided during the Japanese voice recording, which was completed before the English voice actor for Snake was even chosen. It actually came from the main character in ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', as well as Meryl Silverburgh's partner from ''[[Policenauts (Visual Novel)|Policenauts]]''.
* Sadly [[Averted Trope]] in ''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]'' where, due to the policy of not reusing voice actors too frequently, Yuri Lowell is ''not'' voiced by voice actor [[Yuri Lowenthal]].
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* One Danza that is not the main character (and isn't their biggest part in the show) is Cree Lincoln from ''[[Codename Kids Next Door (Animation)|Codename Kids Next Door]]'' who is voiced by [[Cree Summer (Creator)|Cree Summer]], [[Talking to Himself|who also voices her little sister, Abby/Numbah 5]]).
** Another minor character Numbuh 362 is given the name Rachel, her voice actor? [[Rachael MacFarlane]] ([[Seth Macfarlane|yes, that MacFarlane]])
* Minor character example -- in several episodes of ''[[Kim Possible (Animation)|Kim Possible]]'', [[Tara Strong (Creator)|Tara Strong]] has played a character named "Tara". But then, [[Man of a Thousand Voices|she's played]] ''[[Talking to Himself|so]]'' [[Hey, It's That Voice!|many roles]] that it was bound to happen eventually.
* Also Julie Brown as Julie [[Stealth Pun|Bruin]] in ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures]]''. In this case, she's effectively [[Adam Westing|parodying herself]].
* ''[[Kappa Mikey (Animation)|Kappa Mikey]]'' has its main characters playing characters with the same name in the [[Show Within a Show]]. As a bonus, Mikey Simon's voice actor is Michael Sinterniklaas, setting up a recursive Danza.
* ''[[Home Movies (Animation)|Home Movies]]'' through the entire cast, though Paula became an exception when her original voice actress, Paula Poundstone, was replaced.
* Almost the entire cast of ''[[Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (Animation)|Dr. Katz Professional Therapist]]'' is named after their voice actor's first name with no last name given (Laura Silverman as Laura, Todd Barry as Todd). Even the guests that appear on the show [[Special Guest|are credited as "Dave as Dave Attell".]] There are only three exceptions to this rule: Dr. Jonathan Katz uses his full name, Benjamin Katz was named after his actor's last name (most likely because his first name is Jon and that would be confusing), and Stanley's voice actor is Will Le Bow.
* Ray Romano voices a character named [[Significant Anagram|Ray Magini]] in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]''.
** Lunchlady Doris was originally voiced by script supervisor Doris Grau.
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