Merge pull request #16678 from tklauser/moar-names

Add more amazing people to the names generator

pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go

@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ var (
 		// Mary Lou Jepsen, was the founder and chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and the founder of Pixel Qi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Jepsen
 		"jepsen",
 
+		// Irène Joliot-Curie - French scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935. Daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A8ne_Joliot-Curie
+		"joliot",
+
 		// Karen Spärck Jones came up with the concept of inverse document frequency, which is used in most search engines today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones
 		"jones",
 
@@ -262,6 +265,9 @@ var (
 		// Maria Kirch - German astronomer and first woman to discover a comet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Margarethe_Kirch
 		"kirch",
 
+		// Donald Knuth - American computer scientist, author of "The Art of Computer Programming" and creator of the TeX typesetting system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
+		"knuth",
+
 		// Sophie Kowalevski - Russian mathematician responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya
 		"kowalevski",
 
@@ -319,6 +325,9 @@ var (
 		// Lise Meitner was an Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. She played a major role in the discovery of nuclear fission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner
 		"mietner",
 
+		// Maryam Mirzakhani - an Iranian mathematician and the first woman to win the Fields Medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani
+		"mirzakhani",
+
 		// Samuel Morse - contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs and was a co-developer of the Morse code - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse
 		"morse",
 
@@ -370,6 +379,9 @@ var (
 		// Dennis Ritchie - co-creator of UNIX and the C programming language. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
 		"ritchie",
 
+		// Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - German physicist who was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for the discovery of X-rays (Röntgen rays). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen
+		"roentgen",
+
 		// Rosalind Franklin - British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer whose research was critical to the understanding of DNA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
 		"rosalind",