# Favorite character names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678 "2009-03-16T22:27:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/21 "2009-03-17T05:26:18Z")
> [@wunderkammer](#): > > Major Major Major But of course, once he was promoted to major, he was _Major_ Major Major Major. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chase\_Ransom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@Chase\_Ransom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chase_Ransom)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/22 "2009-03-17T05:38:17Z")
Lankester Merrin from the Exorcist. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/23 "2009-03-17T07:27:15Z")
Natty Bumppo, the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking novels. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/24 "2009-03-17T09:15:56Z")
Lando Calrissian ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/25 "2009-03-17T09:19:24Z")
> [@Stealth\_Potato](#): > > But of course, once he was promoted to major, he was _Major_ Major Major Major. 😛 Actually he was major alrady, they (chracters in the book) just didn’t want to change the name so they proomterd him from _major_ to the new title of _major major_ ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/26 "2009-03-17T09:24:10Z")
Data from ST:TNG has a nice sound to it. It also feels like a natural name for an android that still leaves room for some humanity. ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/27 "2009-03-17T09:25:43Z")
Excuse the misspellings, i should really try to read before I post ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/28 "2009-03-17T10:21:31Z")
Slartibartfast ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/29 "2009-03-17T10:51:24Z")
Pratchett’s Omnians are good. There’s Constable Visit-the-Infidel-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets of the City Watch, and the priest Mightily Oats ( Mightily-Praiseworthy-Are-Ye-Who-Exalteth-Om Oats). ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/30 "2009-03-17T11:10:40Z")
Havelock Vetinari. It took me ages to see the link with the Medici. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/31 "2009-03-17T12:12:36Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Oom Koos, the name of a dutch Afrikaan farmer in the book _The Disgrace_ by J. M. Coetzee Koos is a very common Afrikaner name here (it translates as Uncle Jake, more or less, Koos being short for Jacobus, and Oom being Afrikaans for Uncle) I’ve always been partial to **The Saint Of Killers** from _Preacher_. **Hellboy** ’s a good name too, as is **Abe Sapien** ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/32 "2009-03-17T12:52:34Z")
Thursday Next Ford Prefect Oolon Colluphid Montana Wildhack ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/33 "2009-03-17T13:05:30Z")
Bertram Wilberforce Wooster Augustus Fink-Nottle Reginald “Pongo” Twistleton Oofy Prosser Tuppy Glossop Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps Harold P. “Stinker” Pinker ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/34 "2009-03-17T14:14:11Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > Slartibartfast I was coming here to mention this and Zaphod Beeblebrox
 But my favorite name from the Hitchhikers’ guide is actually Ford Prefect, owing to the brilliantly funny explanation of how he came to be known by that name. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/35 "2009-03-17T14:18:19Z")
Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski He abides. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/36 "2009-03-17T14:30:01Z")
Seconded as to both George R.R. Martin’s _Song of Ice and Fire_ and P.G. Woodhouse’s _Jeeves and Wooster_ names. Sheer genius. _Monty Python_ had some great names: Jethro Q. Walrustitty Ken Shabby Colin Mozart, Ratcatcher Dinsdale Piranha Tarquin Fintimlimbimlimbimwhimbimlin Bus Stop Ftang Ftang Olay Biscuitbarrel Arthur Peter Brown Telescope Adrian Blackpool Rock Stoat-Gobbler John Raw Vegetable (whwhwhwhwhuh) Norman Michael (ding ding ding) (tweeet!) Edward (Honk, honk) ‘Shubiddy shubiddy shubiddy’ (low honk) Thomas ‘Oh, we’ll keep a welcome in’ (BANG!) Williams (rising whistle) ‘Raindrops keep falling on my’ (whing!) ‘Don’t sleep in the subway’ (Cuckoo cuckoo) nyeuueneuhuenhuh Smith And why is it that the world never remembered the name of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nĂŒrnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/37 "2009-03-17T14:38:19Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > an Asian man known as The Swede Marlene Dietrich and her thick German accent in “Destry Rides Again” - she played “Frenchy”. The best: She Who Must Be Obeyed, from _She_. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/38 "2009-03-17T14:43:33Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > Thursday Next > Ford Prefect > Oolon Colluphid > Montana Wildhack Eccentrica Gollumbits ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/39 "2009-03-17T14:56:54Z")
Snidely Whiplash, Dudley Do-Right, Tennessee Tuxedo, Savoir Faire Bullwinkle J. Moose, Rocket J. Squirrel, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale (and Ponsonby Britt) Rufus T Firefly, Otis B Driftwood, Prof Hugo Z Hackenbush ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/40 "2009-03-17T15:18:36Z")
I keep wanting to write a story about Kamchatka Jones, his brother Warsaw Indiana and their twin cousins Jonathan and John Nathan. But I’m not much of a writer so I’m afraid the names would be the best thing about the story 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678.md?page=3)