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Some are completely unusable because of the person that they share a name with, but they still come to mind when I think of American and European history. I starred the ones I like/would use. I'm a big history junkie, so there are a lot of them. Sorry if there are some duplicates... I was on a roll lol.

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American:
Benedict (Arnold)
Christopher (Colombus, I guess this could go under European, too)
Richard (Nixon)
George (Washington (Carver), Bush and a million other presidents)
Abraham (Lincoln)
John (Adams, Qunicy Adams)
Quincy (Adams)
Samuel* (Adams)
Paul* (Revere)
Martin (Luther King Jr.)
Luther (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Marilyn (Munroe)
Amelia (Earhart)
Kurt (Cobain)
Benjamin* (Franklin)
Pocahontas*
Sacagawea*
Sitting Bull*
Powhatan*
Pontiac* (I starred the Native American names because they're interesting, not because I'd use them)
Leif* (Erikson)
Amerigo (Vespucci)
Dwight* (Eisenhower)
Thomas (Jefferson)
Ulysses (Grant)
Helen (Keller)
Theodore*/Teddy (Roosevelt)
Eleanor (Roosevelt)
Harriet (Tubman)
Susan* (B. Anthony)
Lewis (This was really his last name, but nobody calls him "Meriweather)
Clark (Also last name, but he's not called William, either)
Lloyd (Frank Lloyd Wright, I'd only make the connection with the name Lloyd)
Betsy (Ross)
Johnny ("Appleseed")
Rosa (Parks)
Thomas* (Paine)

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European:
Maximilien* (Robespierre, I prefer Maximillian)
Alexander* (The Great)
Julius* (Caesar)
Nero(pyromaniaccc!)
George (Danton)
Victoria (Queen)
Anastasia* (Nikolaevna)
Augustus* (various Roman dudes)
Diana (Princess)
Antoinette* (Marie... what a sweet, sweet person...)
Elizabeth (Queen)
Giuseppe (Mazzinni, sp?)
Charles (Charles Maurice de Tallyrand, Dickens, Darwin)
Maurice (Charles Maurice de Tallyrand)
Adolf (Hitler)
Vincent (Van Gogh)
Napoleon (Bonaparte)
Louis (XVI was the baddie)
William* (Wallace, Shakespeare)
Henry* (VIII)
Galileo (Galilei)
Voltaire* (what was this dude's actual name? He had the coolest alias ever, though. I starred it because it's cool. =P)
Karl (Marx)
Friedrich* (Engels)
John (Lennon, yes, I believe he's a very significant historical figure)
Emmeline* (Pankhurst)
Ivan* (Pavlov, The Terrible)
Benito (Mussolini)
Josef* (Stalin, I would spell it Joseph because Josef would be too strong an association)
Winston (Churchhill)

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Edited to add a few *s.

This message was edited 2/21/2008, 4:02 PM