Several of the main characters from the TV show LOST have names that give clues and insights into parts of their personalities. Sometimes the writers just wanted to give the characters a clever name. I've no idea if there's any significance to Sayid Jarre, but I've found none so far.
John and Jack - are the two main leaders, and they often have opposing viewpoints. They have essentially the same name.
Jack Shepherd - he kind of IS a shepherd, isn't he?
Kate Austen - named after Jane Austen whose main work highlighted the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic stability.
Her work also centered on realism meanwhile she published most of her work anonymously.
Dr. Juliet Burke - named after Juliet Capulet from "Romeo and Juliet". Juliet is thrust into adulthood fairly quickly -- where she must deal with issues of life, love, passion, and even death. She is considered by many to be the true hero of the play, acting as a sounding board and a balance against the impulsive Romeo.
Boone Carlyle - Daniel Boone? Thomas Carlyle?
James "Sawyer" Ford - Tom Sawyer is a nice, playful boy, a natural showoff who likes to show his authority over other boys. Henry Ford invented the assembly line, and was also a notorious nazi sympathizer. His legacy is that his company continuously produces the cheapest and most dangerous cars. I'm not sure how this actually ties into the story.
Desmond David Hume - David Hume. Hume rejected the standard form of Enlightenment positivism, which believed in the power of Reason to determine all truths, moral, scientific, and other. Partly for this, and partly for his attacks on fundamental concepts like "causation", he has often been considered a skeptic. Hume is often grouped with John Locke and a handful of others as a British Empiricist
Charlotte Staples Lewis - Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.
John Locke/Jeremy Bentham - Locke is considered the first of the British empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers, classical republicans, and contributors to liberal theory. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau. Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin for modern conceptions of identity and "the self", figuring prominently in the later works of philosophers such as David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. Locke was the first philosopher to define the self through a continuity of "consciousness". He also postulated that the mind was a "blank slate" or "tabula rasa"; that is, contrary to Cartesian or Christian philosophy, Locke maintained that people are born without innate ideas.
John Locke/Jeremy Bentham - He is best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism, for the concept of animal rights,[1][2] and his opposition to the idea of natural rights, with his oft-quoted statement that the idea of such rights is "nonsense upon stilts."[3] He also influenced the development of welfarism.[4] He is probably best known in popular society as the originator of the concept of the panopticon. Bentham's position included arguments in favour of individual and economic freedom.
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes - Victor Hugo. Hugo's religious views changed radically over the course of his life. In his youth, he identified as a Catholic and professed respect for Church hierarchy and authority. From there he evolved into a non-practising Catholic, and expressed increasingly violent anti-catholic and anti-clerical views. He dabbled in Spiritualism during his exile (where he participated also in seances), and in later years settled into a Rationalist Deism similar to that espoused by Voltaire. When a census-taker asked Hugo in 1872 if he was a Catholic, he replied, "No. A Freethinker".
Danielle Rousseau - Jean Jacques Rousseau's ideas centered on an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection.
Ben Linus - Linus was one of the sons of Apollo in Greek mythology.
Shannon Rutherford - Ernest Rutherford who became known as the father of nuclear physics. He discovered that atoms have a small charged nucleus, and thereby pioneered the Rutherford model (or planetary model, which later evolved into the Bohr model or orbital model) of the atom, through his discovery of Rutherford scattering with his gold foil experiment. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
Daniel Faraday - A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure formed by conducting material, or by a mesh of such material. Such an enclosure blocks out external static electrical fields.
Eko - named after authot Umberto Eco who wrote the book The Island of the Day Before.
Miles Straume - maelstrom
Ethan Rom - Other Man
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