3. Dr. John Watson Once Went By The Name "Ormond Sacker" - Sherlock Holmes
"Ormond Sacker" sounds like a name a writer might come up with having tried way too hard, which is why Arthur Conan Doyle originally changed the name of Sherlock Holmes' famous assistant to the more simple "John Watson." Yes, even Doyle thought that Ormond Sacker sounded a bit too bizarre, and he was totally right - there's a nice simplicity to John Watson, perfect in its commonplace. Sherlock and Ormond is a bit much. Watson is, of course, Holmes' trusted assistant and the narrator of almost all of the Doyle stories. As a war veteran, he teams up with Holmes having returned from the field, and the two team up to solve mysterious. I don't think that a name like Ormond Sacker would have made it quite so easy to "believe" in the character of Watson, though, so it's a good thing that Conan Doyle wiped the slate clean and toned down the weirdness.