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Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names

  1. Marilyn Monroe
  2. (Reverend) Jim Jones
  3. Herbert Hoover
  4. Roy Rogers
  5. Charlie Chaplin
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey

Once referred to in a speech by Jimmy Carter as Hubert Horatio Hornblower Humphrey (true) making him a rare quadroalliterative.

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You forgot her 108 day marriage to Nick Cage!

Seriously, up until 2002, I would agree with you but… during the last decade or so she has made quite a name for herself with 3 critically acclaimed albums as a singer/songwriter and multiple honours for her charity and humanitarian efforts as well as her work developing music programs in schools.

Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names

  1. Marilyn Monroe
  2. (Reverend) Jim Jones
  3. Herbert Hoover
  4. Roy Rogers
  5. Charlie Chaplin
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey
  8. Farrah Fawcett
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Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names

  1. Marilyn Monroe
  2. (Reverend) Jim Jones
  3. Herbert Hoover
  4. Roy Rogers
  5. Charlie Chaplin
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey
  8. Farrah Fawcett
  9. Benjamin “Beast” Butler

Civil War general, politician, Dennis Franz lookalike. Most famous for being the most hated man in the history of New Orleans due to his insults to the city ladies (which were retaliation for their actions towards his troops), and for being a Civil War chamber pot model.

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Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names

  1. Marilyn Monroe
  2. (Reverend) Jim Jones
  3. Herbert Hoover
  4. Roy Rogers
  5. Charlie Chaplin
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey
  8. Farrah Fawcett
  9. Benjamin “Beast” Butler
  10. Hannibal Hamlin

Another Civil War-era figure.

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Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names

  1. Marilyn Monroe
  2. (Reverend) Jim Jones
  3. Herbert Hoover
  4. Roy Rogers
  5. Charlie Chaplin
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey
  8. Farrah Fawcett
  9. Benjamin “Beast” Butler
  10. Hannibal Hamlin
  11. Jesse James
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Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names

  1. Marilyn Monroe
  2. (Reverend) Jim Jones
  3. Herbert Hoover
  4. Roy Rogers
  5. Charlie Chaplin
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey
  8. Farrah Fawcett
  9. Benjamin “Beast” Butler
  10. Hannibal Hamlin
  11. Jesse James
  12. Janis Joplin
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Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names

  1. Marilyn Monroe
  2. (Reverend) Jim Jones
  3. Herbert Hoover
  4. Roy Rogers
  5. Charlie Chaplin
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey
  8. Farrah Fawcett
  9. Benjamin “Beast” Butler
  10. Hannibal Hamlin
  11. Jesse James
  12. Janis Joplin
  13. Dorothy Dandridge

I chose the category before this one, so somebody else can choose the next up.

11189

New category: Hugo award winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
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Famous centenarians (famous for reasons other than being centenarians):

  1. Bob Hope
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New category: Hugo award winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
11192

New category: Hugo award winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
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Hugo award winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
11194

As I recall, Carter referred to him as “Hubert Horatio Hornblower,” immediately caught himself, and added his real last name, “Humphrey.”

Hugo Award-winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  5. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Long a favorite of mine. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and Old Man’s War by John Scalzi are very complimentary updatings/retellings/reactions to it.

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Hugo Award-winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  5. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  6. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
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Hugo Award-winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  5. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  6. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

Old Man’s War was nominated for a Hugo but it lost to Spin.

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Hugo Award-winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  5. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  6. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  7. Dune by Frank Herbert
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Hugo Award-winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  5. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  6. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  7. Dune by Frank Herbert
  8. *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell *by Susanna Clarke

My apologies. Thank you, Little Nemo, for the correction.

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Hugo Award-winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  5. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  6. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  7. Dune by Frank Herbert
  8. *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell *by Susanna Clarke
  9. The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

The first of her four.

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Hugo Award-winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  5. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  6. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  7. Dune by Frank Herbert
  8. *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell *by Susanna Clarke
  9. The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
  10. The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

A classic first-contact novel.

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Hugo Award-winning novels

  1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  5. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  6. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  7. Dune by Frank Herbert
  8. *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell *by Susanna Clarke
  9. The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
  10. The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
  11. Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Warring AI’s, the death of Gods, the end of Humanity, and John Keats, all set to the structure of The Canterbury Tales with Simmons writing in the voice of six (IIRC) separate science fiction writers for each of the tales. What’s not to love?