You know, I grew up watching pro-football-player-turned-pro-wrestler Wahoo McDaniel
Alvah Curtis Roebuck, co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Edmund Muskie, American statesman (as an animal, muskie is an informal term for a muskellunge)
Sir William Gull is a name that tends to pop up whenever Jack The Ripper gets mentioned…
Flea, bass player for the Red Hot Chili Peppers
There’s a real musician who performs under that name.
ETA: looking at that article, I’m sure I noticed the name in the end credits of Great Balls of Fire or maybe Road House.
Marlin doesn’t appear to have been mentioned yet.
In keeping with the overall animal theme, I’ll put forward Marlin Perkins as an exemplar.
Lynx and Lamb Gaede made up the neo-Nazi pop duo Prussian Blue when they were small kids. They have since renounced some of their rascist ideology, but not all.
Priscilla Pointer (actress, died recently, Amy Irving’s mother)
Courteney Cox (actress, no elaboration needed)
Model and actress Jean Shrimpton.
Rhea Perlman
Bob white. Though largely unknown now he was well known as a test pilot and aviation pioneer. The first man to fly Mach 4, 5 and 6. He took an airplane high enough to be considered an astronaut.
Hey, that opens up a whole bunch of possibilities: Julia Child! Alan Ladd! Everyone else from Captain Kidd on down!
(Shucks, I guess Henny Youngman can qualify even before we get to the surname…)
Indeed. Bruce Boa is Harry Hamilton, the obnoxious American who demands a Waldorf salad in the final Fawlty Towers episode of the same name. Also, that same episode has Norman Bird as Mr. Arrad.
Son, all I’ve ever asked of my Marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God.
Ant Anstead
Lyle Talbot
Ant is a nickname for anyone named Anthony or Antonio. That makes Anthony Quayle worth a lot in this game.
In OUR MAN FLINT, Gila Golan played, uh, Gila, the femme fatale who’ll maybe swindle our hero or maybe succumb to his manly charms, who can say?