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I didn't recognize most of them, I had to search some to get an idea.

If the goal is testing, an improvement would be to add some internationalization. There are not other than English characters there. You want to be sure that your first foreigner don't break your program.

Actually, maybe it would be a nice project to accept pull request from around the world and create an standard international data set.

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> If the goal is testing, an improvement would be to add some internationalization.

The goal is rather to be using some fun names during development. For example, when I work on our appointment scheduling software, I often need to walk through the scheduling and registration process in order to check the user experience. Instead of using the tired old John Smith123 and john123@example.com I can use some names that I fondly remember from a book or movie.

Fair enough.

Can I suggest adding Iñigo Montoya at least?

Can't. Haven't read the book yet and was unimpressed with the movie. Sorry. ;-)

is it only "good guys"? I noticed several WOT names but only from the "light" side, no Forsaken (maybe harder to get last names) or Padan Fain.

I omitted indeed characters I didn't like. Those are not necessarily the villains. There a quite a few of them in there as well.

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