If you wrote a book about a politician who has to resign beause of sexting, would you give him a name like Anthony Weiner?
Physicist Jessica Sunshine.
Too bad she’s not allowed to answer the phone in the Intensive Care Unit she’s a nurse in. 
That should be a fertility clinic.
If we’re doing corporate names, my favorite was the accountancy firm formerly called Nigro, Nigro, and White. Unfortunately, they are now simply Nigro & Nigro. I blame white flight.
I’m not going to search through the whole thread, but another name occurred to me.
Hermes Pan was a choreographer and dancer whose name showed up in movies of the 1920s to the 1980s. He worked with Fred Astaire, and his name is on My Fair Lady and Finian’s Rainbow, but that’s at the end of his career.
Having a name made up of two Greek Gods sounds like a put-on, but his name was originally Hermes Panagiotopoulos, and his simply abbreviated that polysyllabic last name, so I think I can call his name legit.
Nobody’s mentioned Steve Jobs?
And Michelle Bachman sounds too much like a combination of Michelle and Barack to be for real.
Like someone could really be named Yo-Yo Ma. Sounds like an insult:
Hey, Yo! Yo! Yo Ma.
I’m sure some of you have heard of that wealthy pastor in Atlanta, Creflo Dollar. That’s his real name and he’s certainly made millions of dollars over the years.
The rather well-off drummer from 70s UK prog rock band Curved Air is called Florian Pilkington-Miksa! (Slightly out of date page, as the band is touring again… )
Dr. Mehmet Oz is his real name. Frank Oz, no.
John Cage: action hero, porn star, or WWE villain?
None of the above. Mortal Kombat fighter.
In college, I took a class from a professor whose first name was Dana. He was a guy. I was a bit confused about that, but may have figured it was an ethnic name that just sounded like a girl’s name in the US. But, he was white and had an Anglo last name, so maybe he had some ancestry on his mother’s side from some obscure European town where boys are named “Dana”.
No, he wasn’t transgender to my knowledge - his body was clearly masculine and he never pretended to be a girl.
Dana Carvey
Dana Andrews
Dana Elcar
Dana Milbank
Race driver Lake Speed
Democratic pundit Krystal Ball
Why is this strange? There are a lot of white, Anglo American men named “Dana.”
Dana Carvey. And others.
While we’re on the subject, Ric Flair’s name isn’t a pseudonym (although he was born Richard Fliehr).
It’s a pseudonym. His real name is Gregory Rybarski.
According to Wikipedia, his name is still Richard Fliehr. So that would mean that “Ric Flair” is a pseudonym.
In any case, if changing your name legally makes it a non-pseudonym, then that really defeats the purpose of the discussion, doesn’t it?