Real-life good-guy actor Eric Close.
(Also, fictional DYNASTY patriarch Blake Carrington.)
Martyred Salvadoran bishop Oscar Romero.
Political cartoonist Herblock.
Mystery novelist Rex Stout, of NERO WOLFE fame.
Congressman and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp.
Director of Intelligence and UN Ambassador John Negroponte
You need two names.
Louis Simpson - poet
His name was “Herb Block”, is the whole joke.
(Oh, and to keep the thread going: Lawrence Sanders.)
:smack:Thanks - I shoulda caught that.
Joseph Folk - former Missouri govenor.
John Nash - Nobel Prize winner, famously portrayed in A Beautiful Mind.
Knowlton Nash - former Canadian newscaster.
Sam Mendes picked up an Oscar for directing AMERICAN BEAUTY; and then, after banging out ROAD TO PERDITION, he moved on to doing blockbuster James Bond movies with SKYFALL and SPECTRE; also, he married Kate Winslet along the way.
Much as I hate to post this: Orenthal James Simpson.
University of California president and student-protest nemesis Clark Kerr.
What about Clark Kent (hey, someone had to post it)?
Yes! Somebody like… me, in post 106? 
At that: the creator of Plastic Man, Jack Cole, arguably counts; after all, back in ‘91 he was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall Of Fame.
Which, more to the point, brings me to how Jack Kirby surely counts.
Paul LePage: current Maine governor.
Ah, finely played.
I’m more an antiquated kinda guy, myself, which is why I’m more partial to folks like James Sheakley, who of course we all know was Alaska’s Territorial Governor from 1893 - 1897.
Acutally - s and sh don’t jive - so we’ll go with Charles Seibert, who was Dr. Riverside in Trapper John, MD.
MISSED EDIT WNDOW
manoman - the Z ending of Charles and S beginning of Seibert is a no-go, either.
I’m getting crummy at this.
Good ole Josias Simmler, author of de Alpibus Comentarius, which I put down only last week to catch up on some Derrida.