History Main / PetsHomageName

* ''Series/DueSouth'': Canadian Mountie Sergeant Benton named his wolf Deifenbecker, after former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbecker.

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* Charlie from ''Literature/TheSomedayBirds'' names his dog Tiberius, after the ornithologist Tiberius Shaw, PhD.

* ''{{VideoGame/Skullgirls}}''' Peacock [[PopCulturedBadass is a huge fan of cartoons]], so it's natural that her little bird sidekick, Avery, takes his name from [[Creator/TexAvery one of the most famous animators of the medium]].

'''Liz:''' --NAMED HER [[ReclusiveArtist EMILY]] [[{{Anvilicious}} DICKINSON!]]

* Toys/MapleleaGirls: The Maplelea Girls are series of 18" dolls meant to teach about [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Canadian geography, history, and culture]]; the story goes that a group of seven girls who met on holidays now share their everyday experiences and the differences between their provinces and their lives. In a suitably patriotic fashion, some of the pets available have names like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier Laurier]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Diefenbaker Diefenbaker]], named for important Canadian prime ministers.

* ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'': Merlin's {{Familiar}} is an owl named Archimedes.

* In ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'', Huggy Bear named one of his racing mice [[Film/{{Seabiscuit}} Cheesebiscuit]].

* In ''Literature/AMurderIsAnnounced'', Rev. Julian Harmon, an [[{{Oxbridge}} Oxford alumnus]], named his cat after an Assyrian king.

Not to be confused with TributeToFido, which is when a name is an homage to a pet.

It's a simple way to provide characterization: if you're highly educated and/or sophisticated you give a likewise name to your pet. A popular scientist to name cats after is Erwin Schrödinger, best known for his SchrodingersCat thought experiment. Popular enough to be a StockAnimalName.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'' had Samantha Carter, the team SmartGuy, owning a cat named Schrödinger in some of the later seasons.

* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'': [[TheMunchausen Baron Munchausen's]] [[CoolHorse horse]] is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus Bucephalus]], thus making this trope OlderThanRadio.
* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', bumbling inventor Wayne Szalinski has a dog named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark Quark]].

** Likewise, Clarissa herself has a pet alligator named [[ElvisPresley "Elvis"]].

* In ''Literature/TheSalmonOfDoubt'', one of Literature/DirkGently's current cases is working out the name of a dog. He eventually realises that, since the late owner was writing a biography of Søren Kierkegaard , he would therefore would probably have named the dog Kierkegaard, because it's a huge stress reliever to turn to it and say "Oh, shut ''up'', Kierkegaard!"