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For American history I think:

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Abraham
Lincoln
George
William
Thomas
Benjamin
Louis
Tecumseh
John
Henry
Pontiac, probably not a very viable first name choice :-P
Elizabeth
Emily
Eleanor
Susan
Lucretia
Jacques
Etienne

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The latter two are because of early exploration in the area that I live in, northern Michigan (Father Marquette and early explorer Brule, respectively). I think of a lot of figures, particulary ones that are pertinent to this region, mostly by surname--Jolliet, Radisson, Cadillac, Dablon, etc. because I either don't know their first names or they're ridiculously long and I can't remember them (such is the case of Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, for example, whose name seems different every time I read it from a different source).

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From European history the following come to mind first:

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Charles
William
Wilhelm
Rudolph
Sigismund
Peter
Franz
Max
Karl
Friedrich
Joseph
Louis
Eugen
Osman (though the one I'm thinking of isn't European himself, you can hardly avoid his empire in European history)
Bayezid
Suleiman
Mehmet
Mustafa, this and the previous names all following the same logic as Osman
Lazar
Radu
Mircea
Roxelana, again via the Ottoman empire
Catherine
Elizabeth
Maria
Theresia
Jadwiga
Jane
Anne
Victoria
Mary

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And on and on. :-) I'll stop myself from editing this as more come to mind before it turns into a really long and tedious list!

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This message was edited 2/21/2008, 2:21 PM