great names in movies, books & tv

[Jesus_marley]

I remember a character from an old SF novel:

Haviland Tuff

 

[Balgus]

There is also Dunk and Egg from Hedge Knight

 

[Lhorgrim]

Ford Prefect
Fox Mulder
Boogaloo Shrimp (for real)
Race Bannon
Johnny Quest
Doc Savage
Mack Bolan
Thomas Magnum

 

[Aeolius]

Clancy Brown...you probably hear him every day somewhere

He's also Mr. Krabs, on Spongebob

 

[kenobi65]

Jack E. C. Han

Chon Wang.

Chon Wang: "My name is Chon Wang. "
Roy O'Bannon: "'John Wayne'?"
Chon Wang: "Chon Wang."
Roy O'Bannon: "That's a terrible cowboy name!"

 

[Thunderfoot]

Chon Wang.

Ha, I had forgotten about that one.
But since we're on cowboy names... and these are real folks by the way (no they're aren't stripper names.)

Dusty Trails
Dusty Bottoms
Dusty Roads (not to be confused with Dusty Rhodes of wrestling fame)
Calamity Jane
Calamity Coleman
Calamity Flatts
Festus Parker
William Bonn(e)y (Billy the Kid)
Taylor Winds
Wendy Skye (AKA Windy Sky famous western showgirl(so I guess this is a stripper name))
Pancho Sancho
Juan Cortez
Julio Paulo
Daniel "Satin" Sheetz
Frank James (and a distant relative I might add)
Frank "Boots" Calhoun

 

[kenobi65]

But since we're on cowboy names... and these are real folks by the way (no they're aren't stripper names.)

I was gonna say, I think you've invented a new game:
"Is this a cowboy name, or a porn-star name?"

 

[Ambrus]

How about Rosencrantz & Guildenstern?

 

[amethal]

Do they have to be tv, film or books?

You could use the names of famous sports stars. Admittedly some of these are more famous than others!

Didier Deschamps
Ronnie Rosenthal
Laurent Blanc
Gerd Muller
John Jensen
Ulysses De La Cruz
Just Fontaine
Carlton Palmer
Vinny Jones

Sachin Tendulkar
Mataya Muralitheran
Rodney Ontong
Peter Willey
Graham Dilley
Dennis Lillie
Wes Hall
Graeme Hick

Gerald Davies
Paul Moriarty
Laurence Delaglio
Paul Thorburn
Jason Robinson
Gavin Hastings
Willie John McBride

Frankie Detorri
Lester Pigott
Tony McCoy