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in reply to a message by LMS
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.
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
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Really?
Wow, I didn't know that! Mind, I was just typing any historical figure that I thought of, so I figured I was just not being careful. But now that I'm thinking about it, you're right. I can't think of another George.
Wow, I didn't know that! Mind, I was just typing any historical figure that I thought of, so I figured I was just not being careful. But now that I'm thinking about it, you're right. I can't think of another George.
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Yeah, only three George's, one until 24 years ago-James is most common
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What about George Washington Carver? He is pretty famous. I know there are a lot of others, I just can't think at the moment.
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That's already there
Next to George I put (Washington (Carver), Bush). He wasn't a president though, lol. But horray for his invention of peanut butter!
Next to George I put (Washington (Carver), Bush). He wasn't a president though, lol. But horray for his invention of peanut butter!
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George Kenan?
Although I don't know exactly how famous he is over thre. I just need to know about him for my exam :-)
Although I don't know exactly how famous he is over thre. I just need to know about him for my exam :-)
This message was edited 2/22/2008, 1:11 PM
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