from Wikipedia:
Alexandre Dumas may or may not have known that the characters were named after three real musketeers:
Armand de Sillègue d’Athos d’Autevielle,
Isaac de Portau,
Henri d’Aramitz.
The characters in José Saramago’s books Ensaio sobre a cegueira and Ensaio sobre a lucidez (translated as Blindness and Seeing) aren’t given names. For example, the main character of Blindness (and a central secondary character in Seeing) is simply referred to as “the eye doctor’s wife.”
Good gravy! Four pages and nobody’s mentioned:
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[li]The Joker. Don’t even bring up “Jack Napier” from Tim Burton’s film – so not canon.[/li][li]Similarly, the burglar who killed Peter Parker/Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben – never given a name in the comics, but possibly was given one in the third movie (again, non-canon).[/li]
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Redcloak from Order Of The Stick.
Wait, the little red-haired girl wasn’t Frieda? I always assumed they were one and the same.
No, Frieda pestered his lights out. Besides, he knew her name.
Was freida the one with naturally curly hair?
And the boneless cat.
Samurai Jack; his real name was never revealed I believe.
The one-armed man, from The Fugitive
He did have a symbol/sigil that I believe was his family/clan name. It was on the banner he flew while battling the robot army in the second half of the pilot episode. I wonder if it’s an actual Japanese character that could be translated.
People just have trouble remembering him…
He IS the one who wipes memory, right?
I feel so old.
I stopped in to mention The Feral Kid from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. I actually thought the Gyro Captain had no name, but IMDB lists him as “Jedediah the Pilot.”
Still one of my favorite movies, and I don’t care who knows it.
Oh, *that * Futurama. I got it mixed up with the one in my head. I think I’ll go adjust my meds now.
He does the same in Yojimbo, except he sees a field of mulberry trees on looking out the window and gives his name as “Kuwabatake Sanjuro,” respectively “mulberry field” and “thirty year old.”
CONTROL Agent 99
Post #72.
In the movie version of The Postman, we never learn the Postman’s real name, although it is given once or twice in the novel (I highly recommend the novel, the movie seems widely hated, although David Brin liked it, as do I)
In The Boondock Saints, Il Duce’s actual name is unknown.
The Driver, from The Hire, is never given a name. The only personal detail we ever learn about him over the course of something like eight short films and the comic books is that he is not married anymore.
Fool in King Lear.
Umbrella man came forward for the HSCA hearings in 1978. He is a Dallas resident named Louie Steven Witt.
The name of the Babushka Lady is still unknown, but Gary Mack says a Kodak film processor in Dallas may have met her back in 1963, and said her slide was badly out of focus.