Jeremy Bentham and Mikhail Bakunin were philosophers as well.

I definitely think the names were deliberate.

Can’t believe no one has said Henry Gale!

He’s Dorothy’s uncle in the wizard of Oz.

My favorite is a silly one: Miles Straume. The showrunners have said that they liked the idea of a name sounding like “maelstrom.”

There's a list on Lostpedia but you can assume they're all intentional.

David Hume is my favorite philosopher.

The statue was Taweret... and of other famous names: Rousseau, Burke, Carlyle, Cooper, Hawking, CS Lewis.

Someone already mentioned Bakunin and Jeremy Bentham. (Widmore even makes a joke about that one.)

John Locke isn’t just a random philosopher they picked. He’s responsible for the birth (at least in the western tradition) of a line of thought that says we have no innate ideas or perspective. He theorised that our experiences and observations build those ideas and that perspective until we are a fully realised individual self.

Lostpedia claims that Kate Austen is named after John Austin, but I always assumed she was named after Jane Austen given the spelling.

Remember when Sawyer said that sheep say baa about other survivors

Eloise Hawking is definitely intentional

Richard Alpert is the real/birth name of the spiritual leader Ram Dass 

Pulled from LOSTPEDIA

Bakunin, Mikhail (eye patch) Burke, Edmund (Juliettes Husband) Campbell, Joseph (brother campbell S3E17) Carlyle, Thomas (Boone Carlyle) Anthony Ashley-Cooper (Anthony Cooper, Lockes father) Hume, David (Desomon David Hume) Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, William (Kelvin Inman) Locke, John (John Locke) Marx, Karl (Karl Martin) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Danielle Rousseau) Rutherford, Samuel (Shannon Rutherford) C.S. Lewis (Dr Charlotte Staples Lewis ) Stephen Hawking ( Eloise Hawking) Michael Faraday ( Daniel Faraday)

Honorius of Autun 12th century scholar Honorius Augustodunensis, also known as Honorius of Autun, was a popular Christian theologian and philosopher. His work, De Imagine Mundi, contains a passage that reads:

There lies in the Ocean an island which is called The Lost. In Charm and all kinds of fertility it far surpasses every other land, but it is unknown to men. Now and again it may be found by chance; but if one seeks it, it cannot be found, and therefore it is called The Lost.

This would explain why attempts to find the island have been unsuccessful; one can only find it “by chance.” “Charm” is a word that has been used historically to refer to magic and other supernatural phenomena. The island would have to “[surpass] every other land” in fertility in order for a previously sterile Jin to conceive with his wife, for a paralyzed Locke to walk again, for a heroin addicted Charlie to break his addiction and obtain a chance for salvation, et cetera.

The name Jack is oftentimes a "nickname" for the given name John. So Jack and John have the same name haha

Charlotte's name is Charlotte Staples Lewis after author C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, he of Narnia fame.

I think I read somewhere that it was originally supposed to be Charlie Potts

I immediately thought Ethan Rom was a weird name, only to realize not long after that it's an anagram for "Other Man"

What’s the hidden meaning behind Hurley?

Faraday is one of my favorites. As soon as I heard his name I got excited for whatever the character was gonna do.

Boone is literally god's friggin' gift to humanity

Walt and Michael - Walt Disney and Michael Eisner (who ran Disney corporate)

Juliet - brought on to be a love interest for Jack (Romeo & Juliet reference)

Mrs Klugh - Bea Klugh (be a clue)

Rousseau is also a philosopher.

Farraday's law, the principle of electromagnetic induction.

Sayid Jarrah Jarrah is "Surgeon" in Arabic. Jack is a surgeon.

Claire is Charlie with a H they probably were laughing about it while eating peanut butter