Penelope Smallbone From the Bond film Octopussy.
I once asked: if there were a female James Bond, what guy would she meet with a name like Pussy Galore?
And the answer was: Roger Moore.
Just thought of another one. Apollo Creed from Rocky is a great boxer’s name. Rocky Balboa is not so bad, either.
Woodhouse, Sterling Archer’s butler
A list of P. G. Wodehouse characters . Psmith is just the ptip of the iceberg
OT, there’s probably a similar list of actors who used their birth names, although they sound like they had to be concocted. Including Bradford Dillman and Malachi Throne
Princess Leigh-Cheri Furstenberg-Barcalona (from Tom Robbins’ “Still Life With Woodpecker”)
Rupert Pupkin - from King of Comedy (De Niro)
Captain Jack Sparrow - but you have heard of him…
Edward Murdstone
Peake, Pratchett and Miéville all seem to do this very well.
Beatrix Elphinstone
Oom Koos Means ‘Uncle John’ or something close in Afrikaans. A character in JM Coetzee’s The Disgrace. He wasn’t a main character or anything, but his name has stuck with me two decades after reading it in college.
There is now a rapper with that name so it stuck with that dude also.
Good one! My all time favorite is from the same era: Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red Skelton)
Just thought of one that another character in the show had to explain for me: Natalie Kinkle.
Bob Belcher: Wait. Your name is Nat King Cole?
Nat: Yeah. Natalie Kinkle. Nat for short.
“Animal Mother” from Full Metal Jacket, played by Adam Baldwin.