Cartoon characters named after people
This is a list of characters from animated cartoons, comic books and comic strips that are named after real people.
- For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies.
- For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.
Characters named after famous people
- Baby Face Finlayson, formerly from The Beano comic – Baby Face Nelson
- Calamity James from The Beano comic – Calamity Jane
- Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes – John Calvin, 16th century theologian
- Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes – Thomas Hobbes, 17th century philosopher
- Foghorn Leghorn, Warner Brothers cartoons – Senator Claghorn, regular character on the Fred Allen radio show
- Dewey, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie" – Thomas Edmund Dewey, American politician
- Huey, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie" – Huey Pierce Long, American politician
- Louie, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie" – Louie Schmitt, animator
- Ivy the Terrible, from The Beano comic – Ivan the Terrible.
- Pepe Le Pew, French skunk in Warner Brothers cartoons – Pepe le Moko, fictional character from the novel and movies of the same name
- Scrooge McDuck – Ebenezer Scrooge, fictional character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
- Robin of the Batman series – Robin Hood, English folk hero
- Tycho Brahe, from Penny Arcade – Tycho Brahe, sixteenth-century astronomer
- Yogi Bear – Yogi Berra, baseball player
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are each named for a Renaissance painter - Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo.
Characters named after non-famous people
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