Indiana Jones Name Generator

Pulp adventurer names for archaeologists, villains and sidekicks

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Generate Indiana Jones style names: whip-cracking archaeologists with state-name nicknames, 1930s professors, Nazi and Soviet villains, plucky sidekicks and fast-talking love interests, plus the canon cast from Raiders to the Dial of Destiny.

About Indiana Jones names

Indiana Jones is not Henry Jones Jr.'s real name; it was the dog's. That joke captures the formula for Indiana Jones style names: a plain, respectable given name and surname (Henry Jones, Marion Ravenwood, Marcus Brody) paired with a rugged, American-sounding nickname that belongs on a movie poster. The trick is to take a state, a trait or a tool and attach it to an ordinary surname: Montana Hale, Dakota Reese, Jack "Tennessee" Harlow, Walter "Whip" Caldwell. Give the same person a Dr. or Professor in front and you have both halves of the character in one line.

The films run from 1935 to 1969, so supporting names should feel right for that era. Sidekicks and love interests carry period nicknames (Willie, Short Round, Mutt, Dot, Roz, Bunny), while villains get formal European titles: Oberst, Standartenführer, Baron, Dr., or the Soviet Colonel and Commissar ranks of the Crystal Skull years. Guides, dig foremen and boat captains are usually known by a single name or a name plus trade, like Sallah, Satipo or Katanga.

The list below mixes the canon cast with original adventurers, rival archaeologists, cultists, pilots, agents and sidekicks, so you can name a whole serial's worth of characters or just find your own Indiana.

How to choose Indiana Jones names

Build an adventurer name in two layers: a formal academic name (Dr. Cassius Marlowe) and the nickname the world uses (Kit), so the character can switch between lecture hall and tomb.
State names only work as nicknames if the surname is short and ordinary; Montana Hale lands, Montana Featherstonehaugh does not.
Match villains to the decade: German titles and surnames for the 1930s films, Soviet ranks for 1957, ex-Nazi scientists hiding under new names for 1969.
Give sidekicks one-word handles (Sparky, Pip, Scrap) and let their full names come out only when they are in trouble.
Avoid naming a character after the actual relic; 'the Ark Hunter' reads as a title the newspapers gave him, not a name anyone would answer to.

Frequently asked questions

What is Indiana Jones's real name?

Henry Walton Jones Jr. He took the name Indiana from the family dog, as revealed in The Last Crusade. His father, Henry Jones Sr., and his goddaughter Helena Shaw share the family habit of plain names with big reputations.

How do I make a name sound like Indiana Jones?

Pair an ordinary surname with a rugged nickname drawn from a place or trait, and optionally put an academic title in front: Dr. Montana Hale, Jack "Tennessee" Harlow. The contrast between professor and adventurer is the whole effect.

Does this generator include characters from the movies?

Yes. The canon cast is here, including Marion Ravenwood, Sallah, Marcus Brody, Short Round, Mola Ram, Belloq, Toht, Elsa Schneider, Irina Spalko, Mutt Williams, Helena Shaw and Jürgen Voller, alongside hundreds of original names.

Can I use these names for a D&D or Call of Cthulhu campaign?

They fit any 1920s to 1960s pulp setting, including Call of Cthulhu, Pulp Cthulhu, Hollow Earth Expedition and modern-era D&D one-shots. The original names are free to use; the film characters belong to Lucasfilm and are best kept to home games.

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All 500 Indiana Jones names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 22 names

Abbot Severin
Abner Ravenwood
Ace Hollister
Adebayo Okonkwo
Adelaide Whitlock
Agnes Birdwhistle
Ahmed el-Sayed
Alabama Finch
Alessandro Bartolini
Amara Diallo
Ambrose "Digger" Hale
Ambrose Pell
Anabel Redmond
Anna Jones
Archie Carmichael
Arizona Pike
Arjun Kapoor-Malhotra
Arkansas Lou Creedy
Armand Chastel
Augustin Belloq
Augustin Delacroix
Augustus "Gus" Pemberton

B: 27 names

Babatunde Falade
Barnaby "Barn" Hollis
Barnaby "Gaskets" Trask
Baron Maximilian von Eckhardt
Baroness Ottoline Vasque
Barranca
Bashir the Camel Trader
Basil Shaw
Bean Sorensen
Beatrice "Bea" Lockhart
Beckett Hale
Benjamin "Bones" Whitlock
Bertie Lansdowne
Beryl "Blue" Morgenthau
Beryl Cartwright
Bitsy Hargrove
Blackie Donovan
Boomer Fitzgerald
Boone Carrigan
Bridger Cole
Brock Falconer
Brother Anselm
Brother Ignatius
Bull Radigan
Bunny Whitfield
Buster Kilgore
Button Reyes

C: 50 names

Calvin "Carbide" Reyes
Captain Bartholomew Crane
Captain Declan Moriarty
Captain Esteban Cruz
Captain Hamish Drummond
Captain Jonas Whitaker
Captain Ngata Te Rangi
Captain Oskar Lindgren
Captain Pyotr Danilov
Captain Ray "Stormy" Decker
Captain Simon Katanga
Carlos Mendoza
Carolina Brooks
Carolina Shaw
Cassius "Kit" Marlowe
Cassius Rourke
Cecily Harcourt
Chance Weatherby
Charlie Rossiter
Chattar Lal
Chen Bao
Chip Morales
Chukwuemeka Nwosu
Clara Dunmore
Clarence "Hook" Bramwell

C, continued

Cody Ransom
Colonel Anton Voss
Colonel Antonin Dovchenko
Colonel Ernst Vogel
Colonel Friedrich Strasser
Colonel Herman Dietrich
Colonel Mikhail Sorokin
Colonel Viktor Zhelenko
Colonel Yuri Bagramov
Colorado Jones
Colorado Quinn
Colt Renshaw
Commissar Galina Orlova
Comrade Anya Petrova
Constance Ashby
Cordelia Fenwick
Cormac Devlin
Count Laszlo Ferencz
Count Sebastien Duvalier
Countess Marguerite de Valmont
Cubby Reinholt
Cult Leader Varuna Das
Curly Mossberg
Cuthbert "Bert" Fallows
Cyrus "Hatchet" Vale

D: 59 names

Dakota Ravenwood
Dakota Reese
Dane Halvorsen
Daphne Ellsworth
Dash Kowalski
Dashiell Fontaine
Desmond "Dez" Okafor
Dickie Frobisher
Diego Salcedo
Dolores "Lola" Vance
Don Esteban Carrasco
Don Rodrigo Vasquez
Dorothy "Dot" Kessler
Dr. Abel Carrington
Dr. Alastair Pennington
Dr. Amelia Thornquist
Dr. Amos Thackeray
Dr. Anders Brekke
Dr. Arthur Fenwick-Hale
Dr. Bartholomew Grange
Dr. Benedict Halloran
Dr. Celeste Aubert
Dr. Clementine Oakes
Dr. Cornelius Vance
Dr. Dmitri Volkhov
Dr. Elias Roth
Dr. Elsa Schneider
Dr. Erich Falkenrath
Dr. Everett Lansdowne

D, continued

Dr. Gustav Stahl
Dr. Heinrich Lang
Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr.
Dr. Hermann Geist
Dr. Hollis Wainwright
Dr. Ignatius Brewer
Dr. Ilse von Rauch
Dr. Imogen Fairbanks
Dr. Konrad Eisler
Dr. Lavinia Crosse
Dr. Leopold Stanhope
Dr. Lionel Havisham
Dr. Lorenzo Vidal
Dr. Lucien Vautrin
Dr. Ludwig Kurtzweil
Dr. Magda Kessler
Dr. Miriam Goldfarb
Dr. Oksana Lysenko
Dr. Oskar Lindqvist
Dr. Percival Ruddock
Dr. Phoebe Marchbanks
Dr. Rafe Ashcombe
Dr. Rebecca Lowenthal
Dr. Sergei Antonovich Krayev
Dr. Silas Mordaunt
Dr. Solomon Aaronson
Dr. Thaddeus Pryor
Dr. Vasily Orlenko
Dr. Wendell Scrivener
Dusty Mitchell

E: 15 names

Eddie Malone
Edith Calloway
Edmund "Dutch" Van Hollen
Eleanor "Nell" Prescott
Elena Marquez
Elias "Tumbleweed" Garrity
Elliot "Spade" Nevins
Ellsworth "Ellie" Grange
Emmett "Flint" Carrow
Enid Maybury
Enzo Scalabrini
Étienne Marceau
Evelyn Crane
Ezekiel "Preacher" Halloran
Ezra "Sketch" Whitfield

F: 12 names

Farouk Mahmoud
Father Tobias Rinaldi
Fatima al-Zahra
Fedora Garth
First Mate Rufus Tolliver
Flora Brannock
Frances "Frankie" Moran
Franklin "Frank" Delgado
Fräulein Greta Hoffstetter
Fräulein Helga Strom
Freddie Whitcombe
Frederick "Fitz" Gerrard

G: 12 names

Gaston Morel
General Otto Wernicke
George "Mac" McHale
Georgia Thorne
Georgiana Pell
Georgie Pratt
Gideon "Gid" Carver
Ginger Halloway
Gloria Fontaine
Greta Lindholm
Guillermo Escobar
Gunner Aldridge

H: 25 names

Hakim Benali
Hank Wilkerson
Harold Oxley
Harriet Sinclair
Harrison "Hap" Dunmore
Harrison Marlowe
Harvey "Hawk" Lindqvist
Hassan al-Rashid
Hattie "Hat" Kilbride
Hauptmann Erik Lindemann
Hauptmann Wilhelm Brandt
Hazel Kincaid
Helena Shaw
Henry "Hank" Jones III
Henry Jones Sr.
Herr Direktor Albrecht Fuchs
Herr Doktor Anton Kessler
Herr Ulrich Mannheim
Herr Wolfgang Krieger
Hester Wren
High Priest Kalidasa
Hilda Varga
Hiroshi Takahashi
Huang Lei
Humphrey "Hump" Sedgwick

I: 9 names

Ibrahim Daoud
Idaho Keane
Ignatius "Iggy" Doyle
Indiana Jones
Indiana Shaw
Ines Valverde
Ingrid Falk
Irene Falkner
Irina Spalko

J: 16 names

Jack "Tennessee" Harlow
Javier Ocampo
Jean-Baptiste Thierry
Jedediah "Jed" Lockwood
Jeremiah "Jem" Talbot
Jesse Thorne
Jimmy Cavanaugh
Johnny Santoro
Jojo Malone
Jomo Wanjiru
Jonah "Sixpence" Hollis
Jorge Villanueva
Joseph "Jolt" Kaminski
Josephine "Jo" Harker
Judith Mayhew
Jürgen Voller

K: 15 names

Kansas Farrow
Kapitan Bogdan Rydz
Kapitän Manfred Ulbricht
Kazim
Kemal Demirci
Kenji Moriyama
Kentucky Mace
Khalil Barakat
Kiran Mehta
Kit Beaumont
Kitty Lorrimer
Klaber
Knuckles Moran
Kofi Mensah
Kwame Boateng

L: 22 names

Lady Isolde Marchbanks
Lakshmi Iyer
Lancelot "Lance" Abernethy
Lao Che
Layla Haddad
Lefty Monroe
Leonard "Lucky" Strand
Li Wen
Liang Kai
Lieutenant Ivan Krasny
Lillian "Lil" Marchand
Lionel "Lion" Ashworth
Lord Edmund Dacre
Lord Peregrine Whitlow
Lord Rowan Hexley
Lottie Beaumont
Louisa Farrow
Lucan Draycott
Lucas "Ledger" Faraday
Lucien Devereaux
Lucky Torrance
Luis Paredes

M: 34 names

Mabel Strand
Madame Lin Shu
Madame Mystère
Madame Solange Vernier
Mademoiselle Colette Renard
Maharajah Jaswant Singh
Maisie Lamont
Major Arnold Toht
Major Dieter Haussmann
Major Konstantin Drozd
Major Lothar Brecht
Major Natasha Volkova
Major Rudolf Vostrum
Malcolm "Mack" Redfern
Manuel Ortega
Marcus Brody
Margaret "Mags" Thornbury
Mariel Santangelo
Marion Ravenwood
Marisol Ocampo
Matteo Vincenzi
Maude Pettibone
Maverick Stone
Mickey Flanagan
Minnie Tarrant
Missouri Blake
Mitzi Delacroix
Mola Ram
Montana Hale
Montgomery "Monty" Pike
Moose Kowalczyk
Mortimer "Mort" Keane
Mustafa Bey
Mutt Williams

N: 10 names

Nadia Petrova
Nadia Qureshi
Nathan "Gator" Beaumont
Nathaniel "Nate" Corbett
Nevada Callahan
Ngawang Dorje
Ngozi Adeyemi
Nibs Carrigan
Nicky Romano
Nora Delahunt

O: 11 names

Oberleutnant Hans Gerber
Oberst Gerhardt Falke
Oberst Klaus Reinholt
Obersturmführer Bruno Seidel
Octavius "Tavi" Rourke
Ollie Fairbanks
Omar ibn Khalid
Opal Weatherby
Ophelia Strand
Orson "Doc" Pratchett
Otto Vandermeer

P: 41 names

Paco Velasquez
Padre Efraín Montez
Panama Hat
Pandit Gopal Sharma
Pascal Lefort
Patrick "Paddy" Shaughnessy
Peanut O'Hara
Pearl Kincaid
Penelope "Penny" Sparkes
Percival "Percy" Thistle
Philippe Dubois-Carrère
Pilot Amelia Bryce
Pilot Jock Lindsey
Pip Tanaka
Priestess Sitara
Priya Raghunathan
Professor Ada Wentworth
Professor Alaric Dunstable
Professor Ambrose Kettering
Professor Benjamin Rosenbaum

P, continued

Professor Cyril Abernethy
Professor Desmond Alcott
Professor Dexter Brighton
Professor Edgar Fairweather
Professor Eustace Pendlebury
Professor Friedrich Hagen
Professor Horace Blackwood
Professor Humphrey Castellan
Professor Ingrid Halvorsen
Professor Jacob Feinstein
Professor Jasper Whitcombe
Professor Lucius Tarrant
Professor Maxwell Crane
Professor Nigel Fortescue
Professor Oliver Tremayne
Professor Phineas Oakley
Professor Quentin Marlow
Professor Reginald Thistlewood
Professor Simon Hargreaves
Professor Soren Dahl
Professor Tabitha Greer

Q: 1 name

Queenie Bascombe

R: 22 names

Rafael Bustamante
Ramon Sandoval
Raoul Vasseur
Rashid Abu Suleiman
Ravi Chandrasekar
Red Coughlin
Reginald "Reg" Hawtrey
Remy Baudouin
Renaldo Santos
René Belloq
Rex Harlan
Rhoda Pemberton
Ricardo Montoya
Rocco Falcone
Roland "Rocky" Brennan
Ronnie Castellan
Rosa Ibarra
Rosalind "Roz" Carver
Ruby Marchetti
Rupert "Rusty" McAllister
Russell "Rip" Kowalski
Ruth Abernathy

S: 31 names

Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir
Salvatore "Sal" Pagano
Samir Khoury
Samuel "Dusty" Kincaid
Sanjay Bhattacharya
Satipo
Sawyer Blackwood
Scrap Delaney
Sebastian "Bash" Coyle
Sefu Mwangi
Señor Alonso de Maeztu
Señora Pilar Arévalo
Sheikh Abdul Karim
Short Round
Sidney "Sid" Marchetti
Silas Marlow
Sir Galahad of the Rock
Sir Nigel Ashford-Payne
Sir Percy Kendrick
Sister Agnes Lumley
Skeet Harlan
Skipper Amos Greeley
Slick Lorenzo
Slim Hatfield
Sparky Nguyen
Spike Jennings
Standartenführer Karl Ebner
Stumpy Weaver
Sturmbannführer Ludwig Krauss
Sun Jia
Sylvia Marchand

T: 36 names

Tao Shen
Tariq Nassar
Teddy Kumar
Tendai Moyo
Tennessee Walsh
Tenzin the Guide
Tess Brannigan
Tex Callahan
Texas Jack Mulligan
Texas Rourke
Thaddeus "Thad" Moreau
The Baron of Bones
The Bone Collector of Pankot
The Cartographer
The Collector
The Dutchman
The Grail Knight
The Hooded One
The Hyena
The Jackal of Cairo
The Jade Widow
The Knight of the Cruciform Sword
The Last Templar
The Portuguese
The Prussian
The Scorpion
The Serpent Priest
The Thuggee High Priest
The Vulture
Theodora "Teddy" Vance
Theodore "Brick" Sullivan
Thomas "Tripwire" Abbott
Tomas Reyes
Tommy Garrick
Trixie Van Doren
Tuck Abernathy

U: 1 name

Utah Merrick

V: 7 names

Vernon "Sarge" Holloway
Victor "Vic" Lazarro
Vikram Desai
Vinnie Scarpa
Virginia Slade
Viscount Cyril Fane
Vivian Hale

W: 17 names

Wallace "Wally" Keppel
Walter "Whip" Caldwell
Walter Donovan
Warren "Shovel" Teague
Wendell "Scupper" Haye
Whitey Bannister
Wilhelmina "Billie" Hart
Wilhelmina Stroud
Willie Hargrove
Willie Scott
Wingnut Parsons
Wink Oyelaran
Winston "Wink" Dalrymple
Wu Feng
Wu Han
Wyatt Hallam
Wyoming Burke

X: 1 name

Xiao Ming

Y: 1 name

Yusuf Haddad

Z: 3 names

Zachariah "Zack" Blume
Zeke Purdue
Zhou Mingyu