History OverlyLongName / Literature

** She also loves doing this in her ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novels, especially concerning Romulans -- sorry, Rihannsu. ''The Romulan Way'' features a Romulan Commander named Ael i-Mhiessan t'Rllaillieu, and a Federation agent going by the name Arrhae ir-Mnaeha t'Khellian. To make things even worse, the poor woman's ''Human'' name is Terise Haleakala-[=LoBrutto=]. And now my fingers have cramped up.

** Also, in ''[[TwoThousandTen 2010]]'', it is revealed that the full name of Dr. Chandra, who programmed the HAL 9000 computer, is Dr. Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai.

* In the afterword to ''3001'', ArthurCClarke admits to rifling through a Sri Lankan phonebook to find the name "Thirugnanasampanthamoorthy". (The character so named comes up with the idea of infecting the Monolith with a computer virus.) It's rather a short name by Sri Lankan standards.

* Creator/AlanDeanFoster[='=]s novel ''Spellsinger'' features "Caspar di Lorca di l'Omollia di los Enansas Giterxos", more usually known as "Caz". A city councilor in the sequel goes by the name of Millevoddevareen. Ironically, his associate Mudge accuses the hero, Jonathan Thomas Meriweather, of having an excessively long name and insists on calling him "Jon-Tom".

* The title character of Christopher Stasheff's ''The Warlock in Spite of Himself'' is Rod Gallowglass, "born Rodney d'Armand (he had five middle names, but they make dull reading)...."

* The heroine of ''ThePrincessDiaries'' (the books, not TheFilmOfTheBook) learns her full name is Amelia Migonette Thermopolis Grimaldi Renaldo. As opposed to just Mia Thermopolis, which some would consider bad enough.

** The name is long enough for the chorus of the Music/DschingisKhan song "Hadschi Halef Omar" to consist of little more.

* ''Hadschi Halef Omar Ben Hadschi Abul Abbas Ibn Hadschi Dawuhd al Gossarah'', a character in the Kara Ben Nemsi books of German author Karl May.

* Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian d'Anconia, the largest copper magnate in the world of Ayn Rand's ''AtlasShrugged''

** The city named Heliodeliphilodelphiboschromenos appears in a song (where it's immediately followed by a deep breath) in ''Eric''.

** Goblin names are short morose phrases, like Tears Of The Mushroom or Of The Wind Forgetfully Blown (although the latter prefers "Billy").

* There's a god from the {{Dragaera}} novels named Tristangrascalaticrunagore, although even his followers generally call him Tri'nagore for short.

* Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, an Andalite from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', usually shortened to Ax by his human compatriots. All the Andalites have a similar three-part name, which apparently have a first name, family name and a third name.

* Ketran names in ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}''. Toomin/The Ellimist was formally known as Azure Level, Seven Spar, Extension Two, Down-Messenger, Forty-one (actually kind of an address, his place on the giant crystals in the sky.)

* ''[[PrinceRoger March Upcountry]]'' series by Creator/JohnRingo and DavidWeber: Prince Roger Ramius Sergei Alexander Chiang [=MacClintock=]. (His mother's name is Alexandra Harriet Katryn Griselda Tian [=MacClintock=]... the Seventh.)

* Long alien sounding names are a practical staple of DouglasAdams: any ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' novel is full of them.

* In the LiadenUniverse stories of Steve Miller and Sharon Lee there's an alien race among whom each individual's name is not merely a reference label but a complete description of the individual (they're extremely long-lived, and like the Ents have never seen the value of shortcuts). The individual who most often appears in the stories is introduced as "Twelfth Shell Fifth Hatched Knife Clan of Middle River's Spring Spawn of Farmer Greentrees of the Spear-makers Den, The Edger" -- and that's the ultra-condensed version he uses on human paperwork; his full name, we're told, takes nearly twelve hours to speak. Fortunately for the characters (and the reader), he lets his human friends get away with just "Edger".

* AlanDeanFoster's novel ''Spellsinger'' features "Caspar di Lorca di l'Omollia di los Enansas Giterxos", more usually known as "Caz". A city councilor in the sequel goes by the name of Millevoddevareen. Ironically, his associate Mudge accuses the hero, Jonathan Thomas Meriweather, of having an excessively long name and insists on calling him "Jon-Tom".

* In Creator/JRRTolkien's Middle-earth (''TheLordOfTheRings'', etc.), the tree-like Ents have a language that to us 'hasty folk' is incredibly long-winded. Entish names are more or less a complete description and history of the individual thing being discussed. Worse yet, due to the phonetics of Ent language (which has a lot of humming), they can't even be transcribed. Tolkien was a linguist; when he wrote that something couldn't be transcribed, he would have had a pretty good idea of how bizarre a language would have to be for that to be the case. However he did offer "a-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-burúmë" as a "probably very inaccurate" attempt by the Hobbits to represent a fragment of Entish. This was ''part'' of the word for a ''hill.''

* Gnomes in the ''{{Dragonlance}}'' universe have names nearly as long, because, even though they don't live as long as Ents, their names include a description and biography of themselves and every one of their ancestors in recorded history.

* Used a few times in DianeDuane's ''YoungWizards'' books mostly in the ForeignSoundingGibberish sense, as most possessors of odd names here are not human, such as Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni, better known as "Fred" (who is a white hole and therefore seems to be translating his name from various forms of radiation); there's also the great white shark ed'Rastekeresket t'k Gh'shestaesteh, whose name gets shortened to Ed, and aliens Roshaun ke Nelaid am Seriv am Teliuyve am Meseph am Veliz am Terianst am det Nuiiliat (who is [[spoiler: royalty, and his name therefore denotes lineage]]), and Filifermanhathrhumneits'elhhessaifnth, or "Filif" (an alien tree). One can conclude that Diane Duane is rather fond of overly long names to establish alien-ness rather than to invoke comedy--though the idea of a 100-foot-long great white answering to "Ed" is rather comedic.

* ''HarryPotter'' gives us "Albus Percival Wulfric Brian [[TheDumbledore Dumbledore]]."

** From ''Lord Vorpatril's Alliance'': Tej, whose full name is Akuti Tejaswini Jyoti ghem Estif Arqua [[spoiler:Vorpatril]]. Her father found a book entitled ''Ten Thousand Authentic Ethnic Baby Names From Old Earth, Their Meanings and Geographical Origins'' and was apparently attempting to use as many of them as possible on his children.

* In LoisMcMasterBujold's VorkosiganSaga book ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance'', Tej --Akuti Tejaswini Jyoti ghem Estif Arqua -- and all her siblings have half a dozen, which they all have boiled down to a nickname.

* Clennen Mendakersson in ''TheDalemarkQuartet'' is self-admittedly fond of long names, and thinks his own and his wife's are too short. So he made up for it with his children and his horse: Dastgandlen Handagner Clennensson, Cennoreth Manaliabrid Clennensdaughter, Osfameron Tanamoril Clennensson, and Barangarolob. Dagner, Brid, Moril, and Olob for short.