I read this a month or so ago, an interview with the author Brian McClellan about creating names for characters:
http://sonsofcorax.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/nanp-the-difficulty-of-names/

Last name has to be a bird of prey:

Ethan Hawk
River Phoenix
Johnny Eagle
Captain Falcon

If you're writing mythical epic style stuff your initials need to contain the string "R. R."

First initial "J" is optional.

Don't worry it can't be worse than Luke Starkiller or Johnny Utah

Carrion feeding birds are good too:

Luis Condor
Shane "Buzzard" Williams
Janette Crowe
Timothy Raven

Vulture Pete

Good, good!

Mr. Vanderhoos (alternate spelling Vanderhuis) sounds Dutch to my unlearned ear.

Trini Listerwoovwen?

Astrid Lindstrom (to give it a cosmopolitan feel)

:-)

It would help if I knew what kind of story. All I've is Dutch sounding, hope those helped.

Maarten Van Der Naaktgeboren.

You're welcome.

What's your book about?

And I'm just a schmuck with a keyboard--I'll be a "writer" if I ever get published--but I don't find names that difficult...just whatever fits, I guess...

Yaaarbooooten, the Egret.

Haarlen van Trindledorf

Jurgen Mullins

Van Blaaaargh de Kestrel

Felipe Kidwhistle

Ulrich da Osprey

Kidwhistle is a great name

Felix Kidwhistle.

Dr. Augnar Van Krellin

The Last White Line

Bob Genghiskhan

Having recently re-read Batavia's Graveyard:

Jeronimus Cornelisz
Wiebbe Hayes
Francisco Pelsaert
Houtman Abrolhos

Most names would be students, teachers and alike, parents and policemen, and some other people I think of later, but some are good, some bad, some cute, some cold-blooded. Really all kinds of people I suppose...

I need a bunch of names for all those, and I don't really want them to be recognised as good or bad by their names, just a bit of their behaviour maybe, but, you know, just normal I think...

Yeah I don't really have anything too specific yet :)

Crazy Anglican, out of curiosity: are those names of people you know or something or no one as far as you know?

I'm also asking because I don't want people I know to influence my choices, explicitly using them or not using them... You guys could make sure I don't :)

Also, for the ones who asked about what it's about, well, I haven't decided yet to be honest. I have a load of plots in mind and I'm just going for an open ending for now leaving all possibilities open. I think that might help making it good or at least unpredictable, because some clues and such would simply lead to nothing since those are from plots I'm not actually following through with...

I just write and hope one of my plots finish soon :P

Also a good name for a school please!

St. Krellin's Finishing School for Troubled Young Gentlemen

So the only thing I know for sure is the main character, which is a student who forgets a lot and has a load of wounds and not a clue where they are coming from. He's also quite paranoid, and doesn't know if that's an overreaction, since he has those wounds...

First name is Huge, I don't know a surname yet.

Hugo*