McGee's aircraft carrier list had a LOT of real names.
His suggestions included: Mark Twain, William Penn, John Hancock, New Amsterdam, Susan B. Anthony, Ulysses S. Grant, John Glenn, Christa McAuliffe, Harrisburg, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Colin Powell, Meriwether Lewis, Paul Revere, Annapolis, William Jefferson Clinton, Maya Angelou, Thomas Jefferson, Sacagawea, Henry Hudson, William Seward, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thomas Pain, Tomahawk, William Clark, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Arrow, Frank Lloyd Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Chesapeake, Woodrow Wilson, Jesse Jackson, Pocahontas, Fort Sumter, Hebert Warren Wind, Appomattox, John Wesley Powell, Barbara Jordan, Helen Keller, Sojourner, John James Audubon, and Hannibal Hamlin.