Peter, I don’t mean to pick on you, and I apologize for doing so. I have only skimmed the thread, and so I could easily have missed some; and I wouldn’t reply to every post anyway.
Anyway, I did not mean to single you out, and I am sorry.
If we’re going to be technical, then “The Wizard of Oz” and “Lord of the Rings” are not names either.
Stop bothering me with facts. Facts do not support my position and make it look stupid.
The Oliver Stone movie “JFK”.
Alice’s Restaurant, both film and song. (“Remember Alice? This is a song about Alice.”)
Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael. Roxy is shown, but the main character is Dinky (no…I don’t mean she’s small. Her name is Dinky Bossetti.)
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes. The main character was not a parrot.
Finding Nemo - (Suprised no-one beat me to that one).
Zodiac - (Zodiac killer).
The Golden Child.
Goodbye Lenin - He only appears in statue form.
Glengarry Glen Ross.
The Triplets of Belleville - The main protagonists are an old lady with an orphapedic boot and a fat cartoon dog who actually behaves like a dog. Noteable for a beautiful scene where they cross an ocean on a pedalo.
Angels and Demons - Did not appear in it anywhere, nor does a coherent plot (quite enjoyed it anyway).
Pan’s Labyrinth.
Really, lots.
Aw, man – I was all set to chime in with A Canticle for Liebowitz.
Sticking with SF, I would propose She (and its sequel, Ayesha).
I think a lot of fantasy books probably are named after villains, gods, etc. Like The Call of Cthulhu etc. I guess The Snow Queen would qualify, as well as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and The Last Unicorn.
With regard to movies – I don’t believe anyone’s mentioned The Return of Jafar.
Er…not so much. “Finding Nemo,” “Zodiac,” and “The Golden Child” are all spot on, but Glengarry Glen Ross" is not the name of a character in the play or film; it’s a real estate project, I think. Likewise, there is no character named “Pan” in PL. I refuse to see or read anything more by Dan Brown, so I can’t say with certainty, but I suspect that there are no characters identified as such in what I will laughingly call the narrative.
Like I said, I was thinking of characters from a story, named in the title, who are not the protagonist. “Nemo” is the perfect example. But a simple allusion to a name in the title, when no such person exists in the narrative, would seem to disallow it.
Aslan has as much of a call to be the protagonist of LWW as anybody, though he is much less focused in in the later books.
And why not? Liebowitz certainly is a character who figures in the story; he just doesn’t take part in the action. Sounds like a good answer to me.
“Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael”
Never even shows up!
There’s a cute Irish movie called Waking Ned Devine. The title character wins the Irish Sweepstakes and promptly dies in the first few minutes; the rest of the movie is about friends and neighbors faking his non-death to get the money.
A very convoluted case: in the 1980s Valerie Harper starred in a sitcom called Valerie.
When she had a contract dispute and walked out they killed her off but kept the name, which IIRC they did because it was in her contract that her name must remain on the series and though there were lawsuits flying both ways (the producers sued her, she sued them, each claiming the other had breached) they didn’t want it breached further, so after a few episodes they changed the name to Valerie’s Family.
Later after the contract dispute was settled somewhat (though the case would go on for years) the title was changed to The Hogan Family, which it really was about. Harper eventually got a very big settlement (evidently the courts ruled she was more sinned against than sinning) but it may be the only sitcom ever to be named for a corpse for a good part of its run.)
Also, if TV shows count, there are several that are named for the star even though the character she or he plays has a different name. Examples:
Newhart (main character Dick Loudon)
The Bob Newhart Show (main character Bob Harley0
The Andy Griffith Show (main character Andy Taylor)
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (main characters Lucy and Ricky Ricardo)
EQUUS is a horse and or a god but the main characters are Dr. Dysart and Alan Strang.
There is, to the extent that you accept “Pan” as a translation for “el Fauno”. Certainly, the title is referring to the tall creepy fellow with the hooves.
How about comic strips? While Funky Winkerbean is certainly a major character in the comic strip by the same name, I’d have to say that Les Moore is the main protagonist.
Stop being smarter than me. It’s annoying.
Spot on, captain.
Aren’t they the names of the partners, who are mentioned by Alec Baldwin’s character? They never appear onscreen, but they are referenced, so they exist in the story.
I thought Pan was the faun. Looking on IMDB, Pan seems to be a loose translation of faun. The original title is “El laberinto del fauno”, or the labyrinth of the faun.
Yeah, I should have read the OP more carefully.
Edit - heh, see Chronos got there before me.
Wikipedia says that it’s the name of two real estate deals. And I don’t think being referenced in the story is sufficient to establish an entity as a character in a given story. Otherwise, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abe Lincoln are all characters on the West Wing.
A character in a movie has to ACTUALLY APPEAR ON SCREEN, or at least have a line of spoken dialogue. Anyone wish to argue the contrary?
Ah, but Amy isn’t exactly a character in the movie. She only gets mentioned in a story told by Silent Bob.
But in the same vein, how about (500) Days of Summer?
Summer is a character, but not the protagonist.
Precisely. Though people frequently think that the female lead’s name is Amy, due to not paying attention. My cite is my friend Jeff. 
Still, it’s debatable. She’s a character within a story within the film.