[lit-ideas] nameless celebrities?

I discover that Potiphar's wife, wicked seductress of Joseph, actually has a 
name and it's Zuleika.  The Bible gives her no name, but Persian legend 
obliges, it appears. An aggravating discovery, since she was one of only four 
famously anonymous people I can think of at the moment. Two others are also 
from the Bible - Pharoah's daughter rescuer of Moses and the Good Samaritan. 
The only non-Bible case I could think of is Coleridge's "person from Porlock", 
he who interrupted Coleridge's recording of his Kublai Khan vision. Why can't I 
think of more cases? 
Moribund of brain in rain-soaked Tunis, Mirembe


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