Whenever you're stuck for a character name it's nice to have a resource handy that'll give you a choice. There are quite a few name generators on the internet, but here are a few of the best.
This isn't so much of a generator as a factually based resource, which even breaks things down into ethnicity. Very handy - http://names.mongabay.com/
A straighforward generator - http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm
And another - http://www.thescriptvault.com/res.html
Really like this one, too - http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/gen-male-hu-uk.php
These are pretty cool Ed, cheers for posting them.
I usually combine a friend's first name with another friend's last name, but this doesn't always work if the name doesn't sound like it'd belong to someone from the region featured in the story...
Nice list - got them bookmarked.
Thanks