A bit of a clarification I guess. Luke Easter played for the Rochester Red Wings, a minor league baseball team. He played for the Cleveland Indians from 1949 to 1954 after a couple of years in the Negro Leagues.
He played in the minors for several years after his major league career ended. That included the Rochester Red Wings. He finally retired at age 48 in 1963.
Sadly, he was murdered in an armed robbery in 1979 taking payroll deposits to a bank in Cleveland.
Edwin Atwater was responsible for setting up Montreal’s water purification system in the 1850’s. The original buildings are still there - on the major street named after him.
His actual first name was Luscious. On a related note, the band Luscious Jackson took its moniker from Olympic and NBA basketball player Lucious Jackson.
And a brother named Tally!
Of the people I’ve actually known, nothing (not even having known a guy named Robin Hood and two people at more or less the same time who went by Nonie) will ever come close to a girl I went to high school with whose parents chose to name her Common Bush.
I went to school with a girl named Rainy Marsh. No, not “Renee”. Her parents named her “Rainy”.
Went to Junior High School with Harry Burger. He was famous for streaking (this was the 70’s), and getting caught by Mr. A, who was the Vice Principal and had a hook for an arm.
Also, I have an ancestor (1700’s?) with the first name Wrestling.
Julia? Augusta?
Perhaps she was a fan of Tom Lehrer.
“I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know
whose name was Henry, only to give you an idea of what
a individualist he was, he spelled it H-E-N-3-R-Y -
the three was silent, you see.”
I wonder why they didn’t simply translate it to “Fox”.
Come to think of it, “Fox” ought to sound like a silly name, but because we are used to it, it doesn’t get the same wtf reaction that “Cow” or " “Hedgehog” might. And it’s ok to be named Mr/Ms Hare, but not “Rabbit”.
The Publick Universal Friend — self-given name, but I like that it’s not just, y’know, someone being silly.
Forgot one. My youth pastor’s last name was Sinn. Yep, a youth pastor.
So he’s uses the short version of his first name Randall.
Which in American English is quite innocent. So it’s a good thing he doesn’t live in the U.K., because Randy is not a good name for a pastor.
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce the reverend Randy Sinn, to give a sermon to today’s youth. 
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first commissioner of baseball.
Barkevious Mingo - saw his name several times while on a US trip, watching sports in a bar. There’s something about it that just tickles me 
Lionel Tiger - a Canadian-born, American-based anthropologist. He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and co-Research Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. [Wikipedia]
I went to school with the following. While not necessarily weird, one has to wonder about their parents.
Zachary Taylor and his sister Elizabeth Taylor.
Sandy Rhodes
Harry Crouch
Otillio Mighty
I worked for a man named Dick Peters.
In the Navy, I knew a Phil Dick, a Maynard Lipp, and a guy with the last name of Brickhouse.
When Dansby Swanson first joined the Braves, my first comment was, “That boy’s parents were determined that he would become either a baseball player or a butler.”
I think there was a Cardinal Sin in the Philippines some years ago.
It is, indeed, an awesome name, and seeing mention of it reminds me of another English inventor with a great name: the civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette (last name is pronounced Basil-Jet), who developed the London sewer system.
And, my contributions to the list of unusual names are the sons of former bodybuilder (and Mr. World) John Brown. John felt that his name was very common, and he gave his three sons (all of whom are accomplished wide receivers) some outstanding names. From oldest to youngest, his sons are: