Character Name Ideas

Science Names

Male
Amedeo- Amedeo Avogadro (founder of atomic molecular theory)
Aristotle- Aristotle (philosopher and polymath)
Alan- Alan Turing (mathematician and computer scientist)
Albert- Albert Einstein (physicist)
Albertus- Albertus Magnus (mathematician)
Alexander Alexander Grothendieck (mathematician)
Alfred- Alfred Nobel (chemist, invented dynamite)
Amar- Amar Bose (engineer)
Aston- Francis Aston (discovered 212 isotopes)
Augustus- Augustus De Morgan (mathematician)
Anders- Anders Jonás Åbgström (physicist)
Antoine- Antoine Lavisier (father of modern chemistry)
Atlas- Greek titan of astronomy and navigation

Benjamin- Benjamin Franklin
Bernhard- Bernhard Riemann (mathematician)
Blaise- Blaise Pascal (mathematician)

Carl- Carl Gauss (mathematician)
Chaim- Chaim Weizmann (chemist)
Charles- Charles Messier (astronomer)
Clarence- Clarence Birdseye (invented the technique for freezing food)
Claude- Claude Pouillet (physicist)
Chance- probability of an event
Claudius- Claudius Ptolemy (astronomer)

Dalton- John Dalton (atomic theory)
Deke- Donald 'Deke' Kent Slayton (astronaut)
Dimitri/Dmitry- Dmitry Mendeleev (chemist, periodic table of elements)
Darwin- Charles Darwin (biologist)

Ernst- Richard Ernst (chemist)
Elon- Elon Musk (Tesla)
Edison- Thomas Edison (inventor)
Edward- Edward Lorenz (mathematician)
Eduard- Eduard Buchner (chemist)
Edwin- Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin (second man to walk on the moon)
Enrico- Enrico Fermi (created the nuclear reactor)
Erasmus- Erasmus (founded the Lunar Society)
Escher- Maurits Escher (mathematician)
Euclid- Euclid (mathematician)
Evariste- Evariste Galios (mathematician)

Felix- Felix Klein (mathematician)
Ferdinand- Ferdinand Porsche (automotive engineer)
Fleming- Alexander Fleming (botanist)
Francis- Francis Bacon (created the scientific method)
Frederick- Frederick Sanger (chemist)
Fritz- Fritz Haber (chemist)

Galileo- Galileo Galilei (astronomer)
Gaspard- Gaspard Monge (mathematician)
George- George Boole (mathematician)
Gerhard- Gerhard Herzberg (physicist)
Giovanni- Giovanni Cassini (astronomer)
Giulio- Giulio Natta (chemist)
Glenn- John Glenn (astronaut)
Gottfried- Gottfried Leibniz (mathematician)
Gottlieb- Gottlieb Daimler (industrial engineer)
Graham- Thomas Graham (chemist)
Gregor- Gregor Mendel (studied genetics)
Grigori- Grigori Perelman (mathematician)

Hawking- Stephen Hawking (physicist)
Henry- Henry Ford (founded Ford motor company)
Henri- Henri Poincare (mathematician)
Herschel- William Herschel (astronomer)
Hubble- Edwin Hubble (astronomer)
Hayden- geologist who helped map Yellowstone

Irving- Irving Langmuir (chemist and physicist)
Isaac- Isaac Newton (astronomer)

Jacob- Jacob Bernoulli (mathematician)
James- James Watt (invented the steam engine)
Jens- Jens Skou (researched enzymes)
Johann- Johann Bernoulli (mathematician)
Johannes- Johannes Kepler (astronomer)
John- John Napier (mathematician)
Joseph- Joseph Fourier (mathematician)

Kurt- Kurt Godel (mathematician)
Karl- Karl Benz (Mercedes-Benz)
Kepler- Johannes Kepler (astronomer)
Klein- Felix Klein (mathematician)
Kelvin- unit of measuring temperature

Leonardo- Leonardo da Vinci (inventor)
Leo- Leo Baekeland (chemist)
Leonhard- Leonhard Euler (mathematician)
Linus- Linus Pauling (founder of quantum chemistry)
Liu- Liu Hui (mathematician)
Lorenz- Edward Lorenz (mathematician)
Louis- Louis Pasteur (chemist)
Luca- Luca Pacioli (mathematician)

Magnus- Albertus Magnus (mathematician)
Mario- Mario Molina (chemist)
Maurits- Maurits Escher (mathematician)
Michael- Michael Faraday (chemist)
Mo/Mohamed- Mohamed 'Mo' Ibrahim (founded Celtel international)
Maxwell- physicist

Neil- Neil Armstrong (first person to walk on the moon)
Newton- Isaac Newton (astronomer)
Nicolaus- Nicolaus Copernicus (astronomer)
Nikola- Nikola Tesla (inventor)

Otto- Otto Hahn (father of nuclear chemistry)
Odd- Odd Hassel (chemist)
Omar- Omar Khayyam (mathematician)

Pascal- Blaise Pascal (mathematician)
Paul- Paul Dirac (physicist)
Pierre- Pierre de Fermat (mathematician)
Prafulla- Prafulla Ray (father of Indian pharmaceuticals)

Rene- Rene Descartes (mathematician)
Roald- Roald Hoffman (chemist)
Robert- Robert Boyle (one of the first people to apply the scientific method to chemistry)
Rudolf- Rudolf Diesel (invented the Diesel engine)

Svante- Svante Arrhenius (chemist)

Thales- Thales (mathematician)
Thomas- Thomas Graham (chemist)
Tycho- Tycho Brahe (astronomer)
Tadeusz- Tadeusz Reichstein (chemist)

Wallace- Wallace Hume Carothers (invented nylon)
Walther- Walther Nernst (chemist)
William- William Hamilton (mathematician)

Female
Aber
Ada- Ada Lovelace (computer scientist)
Agnes- Agnes Robertson (botanist)
Aurora- Aurora borealis
Alice- Alice Hamilton (toxicologist)
Andromeda- name of the closest galaxy to the Milky Way
Adelie- type of penguin
Adalie

Barbara- Barbara McClintock (geneticist)

Caroline- a German astronomer
Cori- Gerty Cori (first woman to win a Nobel prize)
Cecilia- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (astrophysicist)

Dian- Dian Fossey (primatologist)
Doris- Doris Lessing (sci-fi author)

Evelyn- Evelyn Boyd Granville (second African American woman to receive an PhD in mathematics)

Florence- Florence Nightingale (nurse)

Galilea- Galileo

Hypatia- Hypatia of Alexandria
Hedy- Hedy Lamarr (developed a radio frequency hopping system to stop missiles)
Henrietta- Henrietta Swan Leavitt (astronomer)
Hattie- Hattie Scott Peterson ((84:5 African American woman to receive a degree in civil engineering)
Hu- Hu Qiheng (computer scientist)

Inez- Anne Inez McCafferty (sci-fi author)
Irene- Irene Fischer (geodesist)
Irmgard- Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (engineer)

Jane- Jane Goodall (anthropologist and scientist)
Julia- Julia Robinson (mathematician)

Kate- Kate Gleason (mechanical engineer)

Lillian- Lillian Gilbreth (first industrial psychologist)
Lise- Lise Meitner (discovered the element protactinium)

Mae- Mae Jemison (first African American woman to reach space)
Mars- planet and Roman god of war
Margaret- Margaret Huggins (astronomer)
Mary- Mary Anderson (developed the windshield wiper)
Marie- Marie Curie (chemist)
Maya- a 3D graphics application
Maria- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (mathematician)
Martha- Martha Coston (developed signaling flares)
Mina- Willamina Paton Stevens (astronomer)

Nora- Nora Blatch (civil engineer)
Nobel
Nova- an astronomical event
Nicola
Nikola- Nikola Tesla

Olive- Olive Dennis (service engineer)

Radia- Radia Perlman (computer programmer)
Rachel- Rachel Carson (marine biologist)
Rosalind- Rosalind Franklin (chemist)

Sagan- Carl Sagan (astronomer)
Sally- Sally Ride (first American woman to go to space)
Sophia- 'wisdom'
Stephanie- Stephanie Kwolek (helped develop Kevlar)
Sofya- Sofya Kovalevskaya (mathematician)
Sophie- Sophie Germaine (mathematician)

Temple- Temple Grandin (zoologist)
Tesla- Nikole Tesla (inventor)

Virginia- Virginia Apgar (Apgar score)

Willimina- Willamina Paton Stevens (astronomer)