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Just for fun...(not as a reflection of your political beliefs or anything), what are some of your favorite names from history?
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Re: Your fave historic famous person name..
Ooh that's a tough one
Nikola Tesla
LOVE!
I also wanted to add Jacqueline Bouvier ...
edit: I can't read.
Charles "Chuck" Yeagar
Frank Lloyd Wright
Julia Morgan
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Frederick Lord Leighton
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Lucy Maude Montgomery
Louisa May Alcott
Lloyd Yoder
Lyndon Baines Johnson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy
Geraldine Ferraro
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Mary Magdalene
Carroll Shelby
Athena
I like a lot of names already listed.
I'll add:
Walter Elias Disney
William Makepeace Thackeray
Frederick Douglas
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Merriwether Lewis
Zelda Fitzgerald
George Washington Carver
Frederick Douglas (which I think was already mentioned)
Maria Theresa, ruler of the Hapsburg monarchy back in the mid 1700's.
Maybe that's a little bit of an obscure historical famous person, but still! Lovely name.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks.
This would be one of mine. When I used to hear it I thought of here and love it but now i think of how popular it is!
Miles Davis is a great one too. I love jazz in general so I'm drawn by how I associate the names.
I know of her! It is a pretty awesome name. My pick is Theodore Roosevelt. DS's fn is Theodore.
Virginia Dare. Always wanted to give a daughter the middle name of Dare.
A?nor de Ch?tellerault
mother of Eleanor of Aquitaine
HAHA.
I also love Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Louisa May Alcott!
Marie Antoinette
Patrick Henry
Abraham Lincoln
Frank Lloyd Wright
Etta James
Ophelia from Hamlet- literature not history
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette's original name)
Alexander (the name we picked for our boy!)
Elizabeth (after the queen and my favorite movie star, Elizabeth Taylor)
Vivien Leigh (she was a total bada** in "Gone With The Wind")
Helen Keller
Sandro Botticelli
Christina Georgina Rosetti
Fra Filipo Lippi
Jacques Lipchitz
Sofonisba Anguissola