Shakkanakku, Akkadian governor of Mari, c. 2250 BC
Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon
Demosthenes, Greek orator; it means "strength of the people"
Marcus Valerius Corvus, Roman general; he was awarded the cognomen Corvus (="Raven") after his first great victory
Vercingetorix, Gaulic leader who opposed Julius Caesar; it is a nomme de guerre that means something like "Captain of Heroes."
Maximus Thrax, late Roman Emperor
Ingvar Far-Traveller, Swedish Viking who led a mercenary army to the Caspian Sea
Un the Deep-Minded, noted Viking matriarch
Athelstan the Glorious, Anglo-Saxon king
Nell Ruemonger, obscure Englishwoman of the 1300s who appeared in a legal case I happened to read; I stole this name for The Raven and the Crown.
Hup the Fiddler, another name from a medieval English court roll.
Buzzleswat, likewise
Chagatai, son of Genghis Khan
Semiramide degli Appiani, Florentine noblewoman who marred a Medici in 1482
Desiderius Erasmus, Christian humanist
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, the alchemist and natural philosopher better known as Paracelsus
Safely-On-High Snat, Puritan settler in Massachusetts
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Crazy Horse, Sioux spiritual leader.
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Louisiana politican and Confederate general
Themistocles Zammit, Greek archaeologist
Others? Have to be real people, not fictional.
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Hard to go wrong with the Public Universal Friend
Safely-on-High Snat?! Ive gotta look that one up
Safely-on-High Snat comes from David Hackett Fischer, "Albion's Seed"
Camille Flammarion “astronomer, science-fiction writer and spiritualist.” (contemporary of Rodin)
The Hittites are always good for a name:
Burnaburiaš and Šuppiluliuma are classics.
Bushrod Johnson earns a place among Civil War-era names, alongside Longstreet aide Moxley Sorrel.
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