The challenger: direct from out of the wasteland. He’s bad. He’s beautiful. He’s crazy. It’s the man with no name! Mad Max III: Beyond Thurderdome 1985 starring Mel Gibson & Tina Turner & Adam Cockburn & Helen Buday & Frank Thring & Bruce Spence & Robert Grubb et al, directors George Miller & George Ogilvie, camel salesman as MC
Rozzer: Could I have your name please, sir?
Kenneth More: Yes, Hannay. H-A-double-N-A-Y. Richard Hannay. The 39 Steps 1959 starring Kenneth More & Sid James & James Hayter & Barry Jones & Taina Elg & Brenda de Banzie & Reginald Beckwith & Faith Brook & Michael Goodliffe & et al, director Ralph Thomas
Call me, Al. The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 starring Alec Guinness & Stanley Holloway & Sidney James & Alfie Bass & Marjorie Fielding & Edie Martin & John Salew & Ronald Adam & Arthur Hambling & Clive Morton et al, director Charles Crichton, Pendlebury to Holland
Everybody calls me Al. Capone 1975 starring Ben Gazzara & Harry Guardino & Susan Blakely & Sylvester Stallone & John Cassavetes & Frank Campanella & John Orchard & Carmen Argenziano & George Chandler & John Davis Chandler & Royal Dano et al, director Steve Carver
The name is Moose … Moose Malloy. You heard of me maybe. Farewell, My Lovely aka Murder, My Sweet 1944 starring Dick Powell & Claire Trevor & Anne Shirley & Otto Kruger & Miles Mander & Mike Mazurki & Douglas Walton & Ralf Harolde & Esther Howard & Ernie Adams et al, director Edward Dmytryk, dude looking for doll
Now the first thing I want to get off my chest – my name isn’t Bailey, it’s Markham. Out of the Past aka Build My Gallows High 1947 starring Robert Mitchum & Kirk Douglas & Jane Greer & Rhonda Fleming & Richard Webb & Steve Brodie & Virginia Huston et al, director Jacques Tourneur, him to her
My name is Dan Adams. Blind Spot 1958 starring John Le Mesurier & Robert Mackenzie & Delphi Lawrence & Gordon Jackson & Anne Sharp & George Pastell & Michael Caine & ErnestClark & John Crawford et al, director Peter Maxwell
My name is George Gideon. Gideon of Scotland Yard 1958 starring Jack Hawkins & Anna Massey & Dianne Foster & Cyril Cusack & Andrew Ray & James Hayter & Ronald Howard & Laurence Naismith & Howard Marion-Crawford et al, director John Ford, opening line
Soldier: His name?
Martins: Lime. Harry Lime. The Third Man 1949 starring Orson Welles & Trevor Howard & Joseph Cotten & Alida Valli & Bernard Lee & Wilfrid Hyde-White & Erich Ponto & Ernst Deutsch & Robert Brown et al, director Carol Reed
His name was Kane. He had a horse. Django Unchained ***** 2012 starring Jamie Foxx & Christoph Waltz & Leonardo DiCaprio & Kerry Washington & Samuel L Jackson & Don Johnson & Walton Goggins & James Remar & Dennis Christopher & James Russo et al, director Quentin Tarantino, song
The name Jackson he’s hiding under is Bill Carson. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly [Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo] 1966 starring Clint Eastwood & Lee van Cleef & Eli Wallach & Aldo Giuffre & Al Mulock & Antonio Casas & John Bartha & Claudio Scarchillio & Sandro Scarchilli & Antonio Molion Rojo, director Sergio Leone, Angel Eyes
Names don’t matter. ibid. Army captain to Tuco & Blondie
You can call me Shane. Shane 1953 starring Alan Ladd & Jean Arthur & Van Heflin & Brandon de Wilde & Jack Palance & Ben Johnson & Edgar Buchanan & Emile Meyer & Elisha Cook junior & Douglas Spencer et al, director George Stevens
Little man: What did you say your name was again?
Man With No Name: I didn’t. High Plains Drifter 1973 starring Clint Eastwood & Verna Bloom & Marianna Hill & Mitchell Ryan & Jack Ging & Ted Hartley & Billy Curtis & Dan Vadis & Geoffrey Lewis et al, director Clint Eastwood
I never did know your name. ibid. little man
The name’s Spikes. Harry Spikes. I’m a bank robber, boys. The Spikes Gang 1974 starring Ron Howard & Lee Marvin & Gary Grimes & Charlie Martin Smith & Arthur Hunnicutt & Noah Beery & Marc Smith & Don Fellows & Susan Coyne et al, director Richard Fleischer
My name is Harry Palmer. The Ipcress File 1965 ***** starring Michael Caine & Guy Doleman & Nigel Green & Sue Lloyd & Gordon Jackson & Aubrey Richards & Frank Gatliff & Thomas Baptiste & Oliver MacGreevy & Freda Bamford & Pauline Winter et al, director Sidney J Furie, Harry resists torture
My name’s Pol by the way. The Quiller Memorandum 1966 starring George Segal & Alec Guinness & Max von Sydow & Senta Berger & George Sanders & Robert Helpmann & Robert Flemyng et al, director Michael Anderson, Pol to Quiller
Bond. James Bond. Dr No 1962 starring Sean Connery & Ursula Andress & Jack Lord & Joseph Wiseman & Bernard Lee & Anthony Dawson & John Kitzmiller & Zena Marshall & Eunice Gayson & Louis Maxwell & Peter Burtonn et al, director Terence Young, James to Miss Trench
Good morning. My name’s Bond. James Bond. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service 1969 starring George Lazenby & Telly Savalas & Diana Rigg & Gabriele Ferzetti & Bernard Lee & Ilse Steppat & Angela Scoular & Louis Maxwell & Catherine Schell & George Baker & Desmond Llewelyn et al, director Peter Hunt, opening scene
No-one knows her real name but she is known as Octopussy. Octopussy 1983 starring Roger Moore & Maud Adams & Louis Jourdan & Kristina Wayborn & Kabir Bedi & Steven Berkoff & Desmond Llewelyn & Louis Maxwell et al, director John Glen
Personally I don’t much like the 2X4B – it’s a jerky middle name. Red Dwarf s3e6: The Last Day, Kryten to Rimmer, BBC 1989
The name’s Commander Rimmer. Arnold Rimmer. Friends call me Ace. I’ve come from another dimension. Red Dwarf s4e5: Dimension Jump, Ace
My name is Christopher Pike. Commander of the space vehicle Enterprise. Star Trek pilot episode The Cage (as digitally remastered), completed and rejected by NBC 1965, writer Gene Roddenberry, director Robert Butler, Captain Pike to Talosians
My name will blaze across the stars long after your petty treacheries have been forgotten. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e18: Dramatis Personae, Sisko to Kira
Kes: What’s your name?
Doctor: What purpose would a name serve a hologram? Star Trek: Voyager s1e3: Parallax
25,097. I would like a name. Star Trek: Voyager s1e7: Eye of the Needle ***** Doctor
Choosing a name is no easy matter. I speak from experience. Star Trek: Voyager s2e17: Dreadnought, Doctor to Ensign Wildman, with Kes
Hello, my name is Q. Star Trek: Voyager s2e18: Death Wish, asylum-seeking Q
My designation is Seven of Nine tertiary adjunct of Uni-matrix 01. But you can call me Seven of Nine. Star Trek: Voyage s5e2: Drone, Seven of Nine to new Borgie
The name Hitler was popular among the Jewish population in one part of Poland. Nazi Secrets: Hitler’s Family Skeletons
One day people will know my name. Josef Mengele
My name is not Clay. Clay is the name of the people that owned my ancestors, and I no longer wanna be called by that slave name. Muhammad Ali
Cassius Clay was my slave name. I am no longer a slave. Muhammad Ali
You keep saying Cassius Clay. My name is Muhammad Ali. And you will announce it right there in the centre of that ring after the fight if you don’t do it now. You are acting just like an old Uncle Tom. Another Floyd Patterson. I’m going to punish you. Muhammad Ali to Ernie Tyrell
What’s my name? Muhammad Ali to Ernie Terrell throughout fight
No names, no pack-drill. Early 20th century proverb
As I shall be known from now on – the Black Vegetable. The Black Adder: The Foretelling, BBC 1983
The Saxe-Coburg-Gothas of Buckingham Palace ... By adopting the name Windsor, George had transformed his family name from a dangerous liability into a reassuring emblem of Britishness. King George and Queen Mary: The Royals Who Rescued the Monarchy, BBC 2012 I
I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, ‘If you’re going to get hit as many times as I’ve been hit by Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield – you’re not going to remember many names.’ George Foreman