Mel Blanc - Looney Tunes man of many voices

Zachary Quinto - Mr Spock and Sylar

Veronica Lake - She was famous for this hair style:

Tallulah Bankhead - bisexual female crumpeteer and with a name like that you'd expect it.

Benedict Cumberbatch?

...Marco Van Basten.

The best name ever.

I win.

(PS: the winner could have been Roque Santa Cruz. If he hadn't turned out to be shite.)

A good mate of mine pointed out once that the composer of the theme tune to Juliet Bravo was the fantastically monikered Derek Goom.

hunky (male) actor with a ticklish name. Say it aloud - it'll cheer you up! Mandy Patinkin! Mandy Patinkin! There, isn't that better?

Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache

Ernie Blenkinsop.

Dick Balharry, naturalist
Dougal Haston, mountaineer
Fyfe Robertson, television presenter & journalist

especially on Soccer Saturday on Sky is well traveled striker Kenny Lunt

Tilusha Ghelani

I confess I had to look-up how to spell her name.

called Gabriella Storm. Afte a while, her name was more interesting than she was unfortunately.

A White House aide, I believe.

A friend of mine worked with him a decade ago while he (friend) worked at British Embassy in Washington.

Apparently he's an all round good egg.

Brazilian footballers like to keep it simple when it comes to names:

Edson Arantes do Nascimento (call me Pele) and

Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira (Sócrates will do).

Coltrane

Cool name. Cool dude. Cool music.

The composer of the Inspector Morse theme amongst others is the euphoniously named Barrington Pheloung.

any suggestive surname beginning with a J can follow.

Janus has already been done.

Julie Peasgood was on the Birds Eyes Peas adverts for so many years?

Mr Kinnard.

I took that as proof that God loves me and wants me to be happy.

used to work with a guy called

Dick Cheeseman.

Once again, thank you lord.

Boutros
Ghali

Scorchio

When I lived in the South West, I remember a Clarks (big local employer) spokesman/manager/something called Melvyn Colenutt. So marvellous I named one of my plants after him.

The editor of a myriad comedy shows who I always thought was a woman. Then a while back I discovered HE was best chums with my hairdresser's son!

Great name!

Good sounding name

Kenny G

Horrible sounding music

Notably Katherine Cracknell, and the best of all, Fenella Fudge.

...used to have a lady by the name of Fanny Tickler. She was on old dear, now sadly (especially for the IT dept) passed away. I can only assume the Tickler family was blissfully unaware of the comedic properties of the forename in the late Victorian era....?

But how about placenames? Surely it's got to put an extra 20grand on your house if you live in:

Bewaldeth and Snittlegarth (Cumberland)
Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby (Yorkshire North Riding)
Praze an Beeble (Cornwall)
Nempnett Thrubwell (Somerset)

May all your nempnetts be well-thrubbed.

The best ever name is Dudley Manlove star of Plam 9 From Outer Space.

from a Knight's Tale.

Yum yum pig's bum.

Mariella Frostrup

To return to a sporting theme, has there ever been a more splendid name than Bedford Jezzard, England international in the 50's. Did he play for The Spurs? Was he a removal van in his spare time? Not as posh as Forbes Phillipson-Masters though, who had his own valet in the Southampton dressing-room of the '70's. Allegedly.

"Ah the new Miss Galore, and where do you hide your gold knuckles in this outfit?"

FFS how did they get away with it?

...buried in Altarnun Churchyard in Cornwall.

Always liked the sound of Sappho Clissett - she's a literary agent. I'd choose her if I wrote a book.

But the last few entries sealed the deal:

The West Wing = WG "Snuffy" Waldren
Buffy the Vampire Slayer = Thomas Wanker

Misty Hyman?

Michael Fassbender

Hastings Banda, ex of Malawi.

Cornelius Lysaght who does the gee-gees on Radio 5.

Canaan Banana

I wish to nominate the old dudes:

Overend Watts
Ariel Bender

Apparently linked with Man U..........Ricky van Wolfswinkel

Does anyone know this book? It's possibly the greatest list book ever (alongside All Heavy Metal Band Names), consisting of nothing more than lists of real names of real people from Britain. It's one of those books that can have you losing control of your bodily functions, such is the mirth it provokes. A few samples:

Luke Warm
Dick Willy Cock
Amorous Swain
Fanny Stretcher
Dick Sodom
Euphemia Twat
Sheperdess Jane Backhoffner

There are plenty of far ruder ones, including pretty much every modern day swear word you could think of.

called Darlington Chance

I like the pleasing rhythm and rhymes in Marissa/Pater/Noster and the evocative surname which sounds a bit vicar-y, a bit university college, but is actually a type of lift.

The whole name could be a type of medicinal herb or food ingredient (add two grammes of Marissa Paternoster). It sounds so unlikely for a rock guitarist but makes most other names seem so bland.

My previous favourite name was Sterling Morrison which could be a type of Morris Minor.

Emmanuel Panther and Arthur Bottom

legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado

Parents are cruel

called Björn Björn.

Which is a name I rather like.

He was on the news recently, can't remember what he was talking about, his name stayed with me though.

Bandersnatch:

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Although Benedict Cumberbatch has read it:

It just makes you want to add "A wop bam boo!"

...Manohla Dargis

As a young apprentice I had a Training Manager called Wilf Hart who is rumoured to have had a younger brother Alf.

"Not a name but a job application form gone wrong," according to Jason Manford.

But behind Nev's former place of employment, Bury Football Club, lies Bury Cemetery (and yes, we have a Cemetery End). There's a stone in there for a gent named Holland Holland, which always fascinated, intrigued and chilled me as a child.

Jiggs Whigham.

The Chalfonts.

It still exists. Honestly, have these people been awake for the last 25 years?

... Rhoma Twaddle who got married and became Rhoma Bogg.

The name I always liked saying, however, was that of Harti Weirather, the Austrian downhill skier of the early 1980's.

Mind you, as names go, Franz Klammer is a great one. You can't be called that and not be a complete nutter.

I'd like to introduce `Legs' Larry Smith, drums
And Sam Spoons, rhythm pole
And Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, bass guitar
And Neil Innes, piano
Come in Rodney Slater on the saxophone
with Roger Ruskin Spear on tenor sax.
I, Vivian Stanshall, trumpet.

(I initially was going to just suggest Bohay-Nowell, then realised there were at least three rivals for Best Sounding Name Ever in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.)

the ice hockey player Miroslav Satan? (About whom wikipedia says: Satan grew up in Topoľčany, Slovakia.)

Then there is a (possibly not real) English gentleman who worked for one of the international oil companies in Norway when I grew up: Stephen "Steve" Pick. (Which doesn't work in English, but is quite funny in Norwegian...)

called Fittapart.

Good job Mansfield doesn't get many Swedish tourists.

I used to go to the Le Mans 24 Hour race back in the 1980's where one of the "gentlemen racers" (as opposed to the pros) was an American fellow who rejoiced in the name of Frederick F. Stiff the 3rd.

Roundabout 1984, jimmy Tarbuck was hosting a general knowledge quiz show on BBC.

One of the contestants introduced himself as "Eric lally"

JT then said "And what do you Doo Lally"

Now maybe you had to be there, but I pissed my pants.

Not that great in itself, but he used to email everyone with an uplifting and motivating message every week - a message that was, I felt, always somewhat undermined by the email system putting his surname first...

Matt Frei's name cannot appear onscreen without me wanting to put "Arbeit" in front of it.

Will Power and Scott Speed.

I encountered two client names that pleased me greatly:

Stanley Studley
Hephzibah Holyoake

Spiro Agnew
Lawrence Eagleburger
Alistair Darling
Ed Balls
Goodluck Jonathan

... Jack Power (a salesman who visited the office when my body decided to knock on death's door many years ago) and Ulrika Thor (a current colleague in a distant land).

Professor in Paisley and former army officer.

Great Hockey Names

Hilton Ruggles - Canadian Import Ice Hockey player of yesteryear (Cool Black dude from Quebec - probably still playing in his 40s).

Solihull Barons had a player in the 80s who rejoiced in the name of Dean Vogelgesang (tr. Birdsong) - he used to pirouette round with his arms and one leg extended, on one skate, when he scored.

Sydney Crosby - great name, great player.

Dustin Byflugien (Pronounced 'Bufflin')

Guillaume Latendresse - cool French-Canadian name

Was always sniggersome, but, post-Internet, it takes on a whole 'nother level of cacklishness.

Gay Search

Dentresangle

Former South Korean Prime Minister.

that when his wife worked in a bank, she saw an elderly woman's bank account. The name was Fanny Staines.

Bradley Walsh fails to retain his composure in the face of extreme provocation.

There were two ladies who lived next door to each other.

One was called Antoinette Bucket, the other Godiva C. Whiteside.

The latter sounds almost like a Groucho Marx concoction.

from Mallaig on the West coast of Scotland whose name was Donald Duck. Sadly, he passed away about 5 years ago at the age of 81. Apparently, the Disney corporation became aware of him many years ago and challenged him. He gleefully pointed out that he was here 10 years before their DD and they backed off. He says he lost count of the times when, identifying himself, he got the response 'aye, and I'm Mickey Mouse!'

He was Corporal Pepper when I first met him...about 9 months later he was promoted.

Sergeant Pepper.

I shit you not.

...there was a guy who was (briefly - I guess on a test run or something?!) Captain of the Titanic called Captain Haddock. I kid you not. Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Icebergs etc etc

circa 1989 was Monsieur Bastard.

works with a consultant called Richard Head, and years ago a colleague was called Wendy Ankers

Belle & Sebastian guitarist, Stevie Jackson, has just released a solo album with the best title I have heard in a long time:

(I Can't Get No) Stevie Jackson.

on drums. Known as "Artimus Pyle," and why the hell not?

Was, at one time, a chap called Euan Kerr.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1166041/

Friend of a friend. Changed it as soon as she was old enough. As you would.

I think he was a senior RC in the Phillipines or somewhere like that, but his name always amused me.

For cool names I think my favourite film director is hard to beat - Michaelangelo Antonioni

By the way, doing canvassing for a political party is great for finding unusual and interesting names off the electoral roll. It would feel wrong to share them, which is just as well 'cos I can't remember any full names but I do remember some neat first names like Pretty and Cleopatra.

Imagine being called Cleopatra!

...called Victoria Sandwich. No idea if that's an urban myth or true - but one hopes the latter.

I worked at a library about 10 years back and a rather prim woman came in asking if her book had arrived. A colleague asked her her name, to look for said book order.

"It's Bottom, Mrs Bottom..." she said, in a kind of Northern Ireland version of Hyacinth Bouquet tone, with unflinching courage.

I watched my colleague politely acknowledge this information, turn round to search for the book and fight for control over her twitching guffaw muscles.

A few years later I was booking a large church as a music exam venue. The visiting examiner had a problem with the heating arrangements and I went in search of the caretaker, who informed me we needed to call the church's 'heating guy' - one Hugh Jabbey. I'm really not making this up.

. . . used to emanate from my direction when the wages clerk for a firm of civil engineers used to phone me up stating his name as "Cock here, Bertlin & Partners"

is my favourite. For those who are ignorant of his talent, he was a Las Vegas based singer. Thank you, Wiki.

Former Mongolian communist leader Mr Jambyn Batmönkh (pronounced (Shamblin Batmunch)

Lebanese radical, best known for his name being used to describe substantial "female chestage".

that put up street markets, that went by the unlikely name of 'Spook Erections'.
I always thought that the company logo should also say 'Put The Willies Up You'

I once had to help prepare for the visit of South Korean dignitary

Mr Lee Bum Suk.

Everyone was very very pleased to meet him and smiled a lot at him.

... called Corry Bathy. I liked him before I even met him.

on a Friday veg in front of the TV and misheard the character Lady Veronica Carlton-Sandways as Lady Barometer Carton-Sandwich, which I rather like.

there are signs for the villages of Hutton Henry and Wingate that seem to run together to create the name of an Empire era novel. Hutton Henry Wingate - I can't work out whether he would be an explorer or a villian. Possibly both.

With an Indonesian curator called Alia Swastika

EDIT: Great call OP, wonderfully chewy name aside, Isherwood is one of my favourite authors. Totally neglected these days!

Binky Masarate, Susan Lovely and Eddy Fast

is a pretty cool name.

On the BBC theme there is also racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght