Your favorite character names

[Rob Allen]

A pair of English authors who created wonderfully evocative character names:

P. G. Wodehouse
Reginald Jeeves
Bertie Wooster
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Galahad Threepwood
Rupert Psmith
Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge

Mervyn Peake
Lord Sepulchrave, Earl of Groan
Steerpike
Dr. Prunesquallor
Mr. Flay
Abiatha Swelter
Sourdust
Barquentine

[Mightyqueen801]

Addie Pray, from the book of the same name (later made into a movie called Paper Moon.)

[perdidob]

Scott Farkus, from In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, by Jean Shepherd.
Better known from the movie adaptation "A Christmas Story". I think the name matched the character perfectly.

I also like all the names of the characters in How Green Was My Valley, especially Huw, Gwilym,
Bronwen, Ianto, Angharad and Dai Bando.

[Clark Park]

Bix Rampike - the husband and father in Joyce Carol Oates' "My Sister, My Love" (2008)

[L'Artiste]

Alexander Sterling
Katerina Petrova
Vivian Darkbloom

[Votre_Chef]

Major Major Major from Catch 22.

[CraigCreek]

Ross Poldark, Demelza Carne, Verity Poldark, Captain Andrew Blamey, (can't think of his first name) Warleggan, and other characters from Winston Grahame's "Poldark" series, set in post American-Revolutionary Cornwall, and adapted into a great Masterpiece Theatre series, now available on YouTube. The essence of romantic historic fiction...

Elswyth Thane (great pen name right there!) gave wonderful names to her "Williamsburg" series characters: the Revolutionary era Tibby (Tabitha) Mawes and Julian Day of "Dawn's Early Light", their granddaughters Eden and Susannah Day, grandson Sedgewick Sprague, who has a brief and doomed romance with his double-first cousin Susannah, Cabot Murray, the "Yankee Stranger" with whom Eden falls in love, Eden and Cabot's son Bracken Murray, who accompanies the ladies of the family to England during Victoria's Jubilee Year and falls in love with the very young Lady Dinah Campion (while Bracken's sister Virginia falls in love with Dinah's brother, the Honorable Archie (Archibald) Campion - lots of transatlantic romances, along with memorable names.

[kanhawk]

From Stephen King's The Green Mile:
Percy Wetmore, the repulsive sniveling prison guard.