Some are completely unusable because of the person that they share a name with, but they still come to mind when I think of American and European history. I starred the ones I like/would use. I'm a big history junkie, so there are a lot of them. Sorry if there are some duplicates... I was on a roll lol.
American:
Benedict (
Arnold)
Christopher (Colombus, I guess this could go under European, too)
Richard (Nixon)
George (
Washington (
Carver), Bush and a million other presidents)
Abraham (
Lincoln)
John (Adams, Qunicy Adams)
Quincy (Adams)
Samuel* (Adams)
Paul* (Revere)
Martin (
Luther King Jr.)
Luther (
Martin Luther King Jr.)
Marilyn (
Munroe)
Amelia (Earhart)
Kurt (Cobain)
Benjamin* (
Franklin)
Pocahontas*
Sacagawea*
Sitting Bull*
Powhatan*
Pontiac* (I starred the Native American names because they're interesting, not because I'd use them)
Leif* (Erikson)
Amerigo (Vespucci)
Dwight* (Eisenhower)
Thomas (
Jefferson)
Ulysses (
Grant)
Helen (Keller)
Theodore*/Teddy (
Roosevelt)
Eleanor (
Roosevelt)
Harriet (Tubman)
Susan* (B.
Anthony)
Lewis (This was really his last name, but nobody calls him "Meriweather)
Clark (Also last name, but he's not called
William, either)
Lloyd (
Frank Lloyd Wright, I'd only make the connection with the name
Lloyd)
Betsy (
Ross)
Johnny ("Appleseed")
Rosa (Parks)
Thomas* (Paine)
European:
Maximilien* (Robespierre, I prefer
Maximillian)
Alexander* (The Great)
Julius* (
Caesar)
Nero(pyromaniaccc!)
George (Danton)
Victoria (
Queen)
Anastasia* (Nikolaevna)
Augustus* (various
Roman dudes)
Diana (
Princess)
Antoinette* (
Marie... what a sweet, sweet person...)
Elizabeth (
Queen)
Giuseppe (Mazzinni, sp?)
Charles (
Charles Maurice de Tallyrand, Dickens,
Darwin)
Maurice (
Charles Maurice de Tallyrand)
Adolf (Hitler)
Vincent (
Van Gogh)
Napoleon (Bonaparte)
Louis (XVI was the baddie)
William* (
Wallace, Shakespeare)
Henry* (VIII)
Galileo (Galilei)
Voltaire* (what was this dude's actual name?
He had the coolest alias ever, though. I starred it because it's cool. =P)
Karl (Marx)
Friedrich* (Engels)
John (
Lennon, yes, I believe he's a very significant historical figure)
Emmeline* (Pankhurst)
Ivan* (Pavlov, The Terrible)
Benito (Mussolini)
Josef* (Stalin, I would spell it
Joseph because
Josef would be too strong an association)
Winston (Churchhill)
Edited to add a few *s.
This message was edited 2/21/2008, 4:02 PM