| This is a list of characters from animated cartoons, comic books and comic strips that
are named after real people.
- For other lists of people, see Lists of people.
- For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people), see Lists of etymologies.
- For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of
eponyms.
Characters named after famous people
- Alexander Lemming from The Beano, named after Alexander
Fleming
- Arpine Lusène, named after Arsène Lupin, a fictional character from Maurice
Leblanc.
- Baby Face Finlayson, formerly from The Beano comic – Baby Face
Nelson
- Calamity James from The Beano comic – Calamity Jane
- Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes – John Calvin, 16th century theologian
- Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes – Thomas Hobbes, 17th century philosopher
- Char Aznable (Mobile Suit Gundam thru Char's
Counterattack). Rumored to be named after French lounge singer Charles Aznavour.
- Foghorn Leghorn, Warner Brothers cartoons – Senator
Claghorn, regular character on the Fred Allen radio show
- Dewey, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie" –
Thomas Edmund Dewey, American politician
- Huey, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie" –
Huey Pierce Long, American politician
- Louie, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie" –
Louie Schmitt, animator
- Ivy the Terrible, from The Beano comic – Ivan the Terrible.
- John D. Rockerduck, named after John D. Rockefeller.
- Nemo from the movie Finding Nemo – Captain Nemo, fictional character in Jules Verne's novels: 20,000 Leagues under
the Sea and The Mysterious Island.
- Pepe Le Pew, French skunk in
Warner Brothers cartoons – Pepe
le Moko, fictional character from the novel and movies of the same name
- Scrooge McDuck – Ebenezer Scrooge, fictional character in Charles
Dickens' A Christmas Carol
- Robin of the Batman series – Robin Hood, English folk hero
- Sigmund (dutch comics character), named after Sigmund Freud
- Tycho Brahe, from Penny Arcade – Tycho Brahe, sixteenth-century astronomer
- Yogi Bear – Yogi
Berra, baseball player
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are
each named for a Renaissance painter - Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo.
- Victor and Hugo, from The Hunchback of Notre
Dame (Disney film, 1996) - Named after Victor Hugo, author of The
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Characters named after non-famous people
- Homer Simpson, Marge Simpson, Lisa Simpson, and Maggie Simpson of The
Simpsons are named after the family members of creator Matt
Groening: his father Homer, his mother Marge and his sisters Lisa and Maggie.
- Garfield is named after Jim
Davis' grandfather, James Garfield Davis
- Alvin, Simon, and Theodore (The Chipmunks), are named after the
executives of their original record label, Liberty Records: Alvin Bennett (the president), Theodore Keep (the chief engineer), and Simon
Waronker (the founder and owner).
- Timmy Turner from The Fairly OddParents – Timmy Hartman (younger brother of Butch Hartman)
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