Many of the Characters in Brave New World are named off of real-life characters in the time of Aldous Huxley. Thanks to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World for discovering the similarities.
Please note that quite a few of these characters were not mentioned in the previous posts because they played minor parts.
Bernard Marx: Claude Bernard and Karl Marx
Henry Foster: Henry Ford
Lenina Crowne: Vladimir Lenin
Fanny Crowne: Fanny Caplain
George Edsel: Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford
Polly Trotsky: Leon Trotsky
Benito Hoover: Benito Mussolini and Herbet Hoover
Helmholtz Watson: Hermann Von Helmholtz (German Physicist) and John B. Watson
Darwin Bonaparte: Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles Darwin
Mustapha Mond: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Sir Alfred Mond
Herbert Bakunin: Herbet Spencer and Mikhail Bakunin
Pope(accent on the e): Named after the North American rebel with the same name.
More characters to come!
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