Hudson was named by agent Henry Willson, who also encouraged an Armenian-American named Krekor Ohanian to become Touch Connors. As the link makes clear, Touch ultimately attained his greatest fame as Mike “Mannix” Connors.
How high?
Lady Bird Johnson
Soupy Sales
Nipsey Russell
Brace Beamer (voice of The Lone Ranger on radio)
Redd Foxx
Moms Mabley
Peewee Herman
Did you check in front of Hugh Jass?
Dirk Diggler
The Edge (The “The” is not negotiable!)
The Frito Bandito
Freddie Mercury
Neil Armstrong
John Redcorn
Rusty Shackleford (Sorry for two consecutive King of the Hill references)
Kevin Spacey
R. Lee Ermey
Lou Dobbs
Tre Cool
Johnny Rotten
Tommy Lee
Mayo
Errol Flynn.
Humphrey Bogart.
Arnold Schwartzenegger
Gina Lolobrigida. ( Which was the name Arnie used in his defense of keeping his last name when the studio exec’s wanted him to change his name because no one could pronounce it and it wouldn’t fit on a marquee. “What about Gina Lolabridgida?”)
Sophia Loren.
kuni lou
Hudson is prolly the last guy I’d think of if somebody refered to “Rock”.
The Rock = Dewayne Johnson
Rock could also be Rocky Marciano, Rocky Balboa, Rocky Johnson, Al “Rock” Rogowski (better known as Ole Anderson). Knute Rockne, Sgt. Rock, Rocky from RHPS…
Slim Jim Phantom.
There’s a musician named Rhett Miller. I think it works well, though of course Miller is rather similar to Butler.
Jello Biafra
This is the only male contrived first name in the thread that isn’t either one syllable or two with the second being “ee” in sound. Also it’s the only one with a last name that was a country.
What about Scooter? How can you take anyone seriously over the age of nine who goes by the name of Scooter?
Hehe. My Grandfather named his dog after that wascally old wabbit. Bugs Dog doesn’t have the same ring 
Sid Vicious
Johnny Appleseed
Ima Hogg
In case you think the last name in my previous post is fictitious.
Mojo Nixon
When my old buddy Kirby chose this name, he said that he wanted two things that you don’t normally hear together. (Same idea as Jello Biafra).
F.U. Shakespeare was influenced by this (and by Pete Rose in the book Ball Four ).
Matthew McConaughey – it takes real balls & confidence in your acting ability to put that mouthful on a marquee.
M. Night Shyamalan – ingenious, because the boondoggle of a last name prevents you from wondering who the hell names their kid “Night”!
Learned Hand
Amor de Cosmos
Lionel Tiger
Judy Wasylycia-Leis (You are a true New Democrat when you can spell Wasylycia-Leis without looking it up.)
You know Mojo Nixon. That is soooo coooooool!
Speaking of iconoclastic singers, Kinky Friedman.