Probably inspired by the Molière example, the French filmmaker Francis Veber often has a character named François Pignon or François Perrin. Notably, in earlier movies, this character tended to be a Butt Monkey who was the unwitting cause of humorous calamity on others, but in more recent movies is a sympathetic "everyman" character who gets a happy ending. In fact, the word pignonisme has been adopted in the French language to reference the attitudes of the "man on the street".
Used as part of a joke in Office Space, where one of Peter Gibbons' co-workers is named Michael Bolton. He's none too happy about sharing a name with the singer-songwriter, and Peter asks him why he doesn't get it changed, to which Michael replies: "Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks!"
The first live-action Transformers film and the Friday the 13th remake both feature characters named Trent. They're actually portrayed by the same actor (Travis Van Winkle) and both are Jerkasses.
Maybe this should get moved to cross media, because there's also Edison Trent, from Freelancer, and Trent from Total Drama Island.
"Doug Roberts" is the name of Henry Fonda's Naval officer protagonist in Mister Roberts, as well as Paul Newman's architect character in The Towering Inferno.
In the English-language version of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the song the prisoners sing, "Marcetta," is translated "Maria" due to Lip Lock...which is also the name of a one-scene prostitute who, this being aLeone film, is the single most prominent female character.
Letters to Juliet consists of finding the right Lorenzo in the area to find her lost love.
Sophie shares her name with one of the main characters of Mamma Mia!, who is coincidentally also portrayed by Amanda Seyfried.
One of the main characters in Cool Runnings is a 6½-foot-tall muscular black—but bald—sprinter named Yul Brynner.
Child's Play and Toy Story both have a little boy named Andy and both movies have child's toys coming to life
Metalbeak is a dangerous bird of prey with a prosthetic beak who's killed by the hero — a talking male owl in Legend Of The Guardians and the nickname of a non-speaking female(?) hawk in Rango.
