Wolfgang Van Halen (Eddie’s son)?
Gil Scott-Heron
Julian Bream, a British guitarist with gills
Hamilton Fish. The name of a series of Congressmen from the same district for at three generations. They named a bridge for one of them.
Longtime Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon (born Meadow Lemon III, legally changed in his 20s)
John Pomfret, a Washington Post journalist with gills
Samuel Colt - gun maker
or
Colt McCoy - football player
Merlin Olsen
Catherine Susan “Kitty” Genovese (murder victim) or Katharine “Kitty” Dickson Dukakis (former first lady of Massachusetts)
Robert Falcon Scott (polar explorer)
Lance Bass (NSYNC singer)
Buck Taylor (Gunsmoke actor, born Walter Clarence Taylor III)
Samuel Colt (firearms manufacturer)
Peter S. Beagle (novelist)
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (founder of Chicago)
Mare Winningham (actress, born Mary Megan Winningham)
Johanna “Jenny” Lind (singer) or Jennifer “Jenny” Agutter (actress)
I know Snake was already mentioned above, but drag racers Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen are forever connected. Granted, both of those nicknames include the article so it may not match the criteria exactly.
Ken Loach film director. Not who I’m named after BTW.
Buffalo Bill Cody - entertainer
Tom Kite - pro golfer
Laura Harrier - actress
Joe Stork - political activist
Sable Starr, baby groupie from the 70s.
More baseball players:
Robin Roberts
Sid Bream
Ryan Gosling
Richard “Goose” Gosage
I don’t know of anyone named “Dove”, but Harry Turtledove is an author of alternate-history fiction.
Does it count if neither the person nor the animal are named after each other, and the similarity of names is pure coincidence?
Christopher “Kit” Carson (frontiersman)
Eric Partridge (lexicographer; if @dtilque has never consulted one of his books, I’d be surpised)
Mia Farrow (actress)
William Hare (of the notorious serial killer duo Burke and Hare)
Walter Pidgeon (actor)
Armando “Chick” Corea (musician)
Chicken George (ancestor of Alex Haley)
Joey Ramone (musician, born Jeffrey Ross Hyman)
Raven-Symoné (actress)
Robert “Bobcat” Goldthwait (comedian)
Ram Dass (guru, born Richard Alpert)
Unless I missed it Eagle hasn’t been mentioned yet:
Angela Eagle (British Poltician)
For American sports enthusiasts announcer Ian Eagle might be better known.
He was believed to have lived under the name Saul Bass at one time. Not sure if anyone other than Cosmo Kramer believed that.