Fun:Famous Forenames

A list of famous people (living or dead) sorted by forename.

Including a good (goodest = +10) / bad (baddest = -10) rating.

I've rated those about whom I have an opinion.

More often than not I have insufficient knowledge.

You are invited to amend, add, rate & give reasons if you want.

A.

• Alger Hiss, -5

• Andrew Schlafley, -10

B

• Benjamin Disraeli,

• Benjamin Franklin, +3

C

• Carl Sagan, +5

• Charlton Heston, -10

• Crispin Glover, +7

D

• David Lloyd George,

• David Blunkett, -7 (very bad - see immigration reforms also probably the most fascist labour politician in history. Nice dog though.)

E

• Ed Begley, Jr., +1

• Edward the Confessor,

• Erin Brockovich, +

F

• Flora Macdonald,

• Florence Nightingale, +8

G

• Gary Busey, +8

• George dubya Bush, -11

• George Clooney, +8 (nothing to do with his politics but ...)

H

I

J

• John Schlafly,

• Judge Reinhold, +6

K

L

M

• Marie Curie, +5

N

O

P

• Paul Revere, ±10 (depending)

Q

R

• Richard "Dick" Cheney, -10

• Richard Dawkins, +10

• Richard Feynman, +5 (supported bomb, but still quite good)

• Richard Lionheart, 0 (+10: mate of Robin Hood? -6: Crusader - who did he think he was; George Bush? -5 Fairly incompetent king, whose image was saved by good spin doctors. +1 Best sort of king: never at home.

• Richard III, -7

• Robert Schlafly,

S

T

U

V

• Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, -8

W

X

Y

Z

• Zeno, -or is that paradoxically a surname?