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My personal lists of some the best names in Birmingham history:

==Fun names==
* [[Hul-Cee Acton]]
* [[Spurgeon Banyard]]
* [[Young Boozer III]]
* [[Lone Broussard|Lone Jensen Broussard]]
* [[Sander Cakebread]]
* [[Twinkle Cavanaugh|Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh]]
* [[Godfrey Chryssoverges]]
* [[Eleanor Clinkscales]]
* [[Alfred Conybear|Alfred E. Conybear]]
* [[Tene Dolphin]]
* [[Spright Dowell]]
* [[Culpepper Exum]]
* [[Efrem Zembelist Fulford]]
* [[Logwood Goin|Logwood Ulysses Goin]]
* [[Electric Griffin]], Birmingham High School Class of 1916
* [[Two-Boys Gumede]]
* [[Lazarus Gusdofer]], clerk at Famous Clothing Store in 1884
* [[Leven Hazlegrove|Leven Savage Hazlegrove]]
* [[Freeman Hrabowski|Freeman Alphonsa Hrabowski III]]
* [[Zenko Hrynkiw|Zenko John-Gregory Hrynkiw]]
* [[Chervis Isom|Hewlett Chervis Isom Jr]]
* [[Sam Will John]]
* [[Theophilus Jowers|Theophilus Calvin Jowers]]
* [[Wulf Koch]]
* [[Tuck Kornegay]]
* [[Garnet Leader]]
* [[Sang Lyda]]
* [[Ocllo R. Mason]]
* [[Dolester Miles]]
* [[Vasthy Mompoint]]
* [[Sydenham Moore]]
* [[Sigmund Nesselroth]]
* [[Retin Obasohan]]
* [[Wytangy Peak-Finney]]
* [[Oswaldo Ponce]]
* [[Memory Leake Robinson]]
* [[Audrey Skirball-Kenis|Audrey Marx Skirball-Kenis]]
* [[Notable Smith]]
* [[Milner Snuggs]]
* [[JoJo Starbuck]]
* [[Stan Stefansic]]
* [[Walladean Streeter]]
* [[Ninian Tannehill]]
* [[Trygve Tollefsbol|Trygve Olaf Tollefsbol]]
* [[Eph Tunkle]], pianist for the Society Serenaders
* [[Azor Van Hoose]]
* [[Sidney van Sheck|Sidney William Jiroušek van Sheck]]
* [[Tryphena Voltz]], girls' adviser at Woodlawn High School
* [[Rebel Zeigler]]

==Classical names==
* [[Armenius Bennett]]
* [[Leonidas Dickey|Leonidas Cicero Dickey]]
* [[Orion Dozier|Orion Theophilus Dozier]]
* [[Logwood Goin|Logwood Ulysses Goin]]
* [[Miller Gorrie|Magnus Miller Gorrie]]
* [[Theophilus Jowers|Theophilus Calvin Jowers]]
* [[Orlandus Regulus]], orderly at [[South Highlands Infirmary]]

==Names inspired by Native Americans==
* [[Powhatan James]], Baptist minister
* [[Cherokee Jemison Van de Graff|Cherokee Jemison Van de Graaff Rountree]]
* [[Delaware Williams]]

==Pun names==
* [[London Bridges]]
* [[Merry Christmas]], minister
* [[Lexi Coon]]
* [[Kris Cross]]
* [[Rusty Dorr]]
* [[Izzy Gould]]
* [[Harry Lipson Jr|Harry Lipson]]
* [[Shiney Moon]] (1906-1953), artist
* [[Carrie Moore|Carrie N. Moore]], principal of [[Enon Ridge School]]
* [[Cherri Pitts]], architect
* [[Buck Wheat]], co-founder of [[Miss Myra's|Miss Myra's Pit Bar-B-Q]]
* [[Olden Young]] (1894-1976), miner

==Redundant names==
* [[Chris Christ]], attorney and judge
* [[Chris Christie]], attorney
* [[David David]], real estate agent
* [[Fouad Fouad]], engineer
* [[Johnny Johns|John Johns]], CEO of Protective Life
* [[Joe Joseph]], restuarateur
* [[Neely Henry|Henry Henry]], vice-president at Alabama Power
* [[Swaid Swaid]], neurosurgeon
* [[Tommy Thomas]], former Pelham police chief
* [[Wardie Wardy]] (1848-1918)
* [[Bill Williams|William Williams]], architect
* [[William H. Williams]], Baptist minister

==Commonly misspelled names==
* [[Karon Bowdre]]
* [[Georges Bridges]]
* [[E. G. Burchfiel]]
* [[Kaitlan Collins]]
* [[Courteney Cox]]
* [[Chriss Doss]]
* [[Heman Drummond]]
* [[Diean Hairston]]
* [[Lary Hayes]]
* [[David Hobdy]]
* [[Emmet O'Neal]]
* [[Gray Plosser]]
* [[Shelia Smoot]]
* [[Ferd Weil]]
* [[Stimson Woodward]]

==Names shared with someone much more famous==
* [[Louis E. Armstrong|Louis Armstrong]], director of Indian Springs School
* [[Jeff Bridges]], chief of the Trussville Police Department
* [[Charles A. Brown|Charlie Brown]], assistant superintendent of schools
* [[John Brown]], street preacher
* [[Chris Christie]], attorney
* [[Cindy F. Crawford|Cindy Crawford]], newspaper editor
* [[Lillie Cole]], Kingston neighborhood president
* [[Henry Ford]], co-founder of [[A Promise to Help]] ministry
* [[Ben Franklin]], radio engineer
* [[Bill Morgan Freeman]], artist and crafstman
* [[Robert Frost]], restaurateur
* [[Hugh Grant]], principal of Barrett Elementary School
* [[Don Johnson]], heating & air conditioning executive
* [[Richard Harris]], South Pratt neighborhood president
* [[Robin Hood]], co-founder of [[NHabit]]
* [[Andy Jackson|Andrew Jackson]], [[Eden Elementary School]] teacher
* [[Robert Kennedy]], UAB researcher
* [[Ted Kennedy]], founder of BE&K
* [[Kenneth Loggins|Kenny Loggins]], convicted murderer
* [[Bill Murray]], meteoroligist
* [[Robert Leslie Palmer|Robert Palmer]], attorney and author
* [[Bobbie Kaul|Barbara "Bobbie" Orr]], maiden name of Mrs Hugh Kaul
* [[Annie Potts]], secretary of Grasselli Heights
* [[Keith Richards]], founder of Taziki's
* [[Freddie Rogers|Fred Rogers]], mayor of Roosevelt City
* [[Richard Simmons III|Richard Simmons]], Center for Executive Leadership
* [[James Stewart (disambiguation)|James Stewart]], [[Mayor of Irondale]]
* [[Peter Weller]], Unitarian minister
* [[Irvin Wilhelm|Kaiser Wilhelm]], Barons pitcher and manager
* [[Charles Yeager]], director of Turkey Creek Nature Preserve

==Men with names (now) more commonly given to girls==
* [[Laurie Battle]]
* [[Maxie Baughan]]
* [[Jule Beasley]]
* [[Brooke Burnham]]
* [[Ashley Curry]]
* [[Camille Desmarais]]
* [[Luellen Foster]]
* [[Courtney Haden]], [[Courtney Shropshire]]
* [[Carol Hayes]]
* [[Bev Head|Beverly Head]]
* [[Hilary Herbert]]
* [[Jan Jeffries]]
* [[Gail Joyce]]
* [[Elsie Lewis]] (-1928), a motorcycle officer
* [[Brooksie Lovvorn]]
* [[Rosamond McDuff]]
* [[Dana Ousler]]
* [[Rose Owen]]
* [[Rubee Pearse]]
* [[Clare Purcell]] (1884-1964), Methodist bishop
* [[Shelley Stewart]]
* [[Stacy Williams]]
* [[Leslie Wright]]

==Women with names more commonly given to boys==
* [[Jacque Bailey]]
* [[Lewis Barrett]]
* [[Bedford Embry]]
* [[Michael Etheridge]], [[Michael Robinson]]
* [[Brantley Fry]]
* [[Miller Girvin]]
* [[Marty Handlon]]
* [[Ivan Jo Hightower]]
* [[Micah Morgan]]
* [[Stewart Richards]]
* [[Cecil Roberts]]
* [[Willis Rushton]]
* [[Kyndall Waters]]