I used to keep a running list of amazing names of historical figures as I came across them. Here are a few of my favorites in no particular order.
- Waltrina Stovall, restaurant critic.
- Bacon Tait, Virginia slave trader.
- Everardus Bogardus, minister in New Netherland.
- Flavel Shurtleff, Massachusetts attorney.
- Sir Henry George Outram Bax-Ironside, British diplomat.
- Hayward Turnipseed, Georgia dog owner.
- Reverdy Cassius Ransom, AME bishop and civil rights activist.
- Judge William Wayne Justice, American jurist, unsurprisingly from Texas.
- Fulwar Skipwith, American consul in Paris during the French Revolution.
- Wager Swayne, Union army colonel.
