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Farewell Andromeda is the name of a 1973 song and album by John Denver :-)

Candy Southern is the name of Angel's girlfriend in the original X-Men comics starting in the 60s.
Roy Thomas and Werner Roth named her after the book Candy by Southern and Hoffenberg - another Candy namesake.

"Caroline, No" is a 1966 single by Brian Wilson, also featured on The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.

Charles "Charley" Stowe was Harriet Beecher Stowe's youngest child, as well as the subject of her book Our Charley: And What to Do with Him.

"Darcy Farrow" is a 1965 song by Steve Gillette and Tom Campbell, covered by John Denver. The Darcy in the song is female.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's husband and first son both bore this as a second given name - Calvin Ellis Stowe and Henry Ellis Beecher Stowe, respectively :-)

Harold Russell fought in WWII and lost both of his hands, so he was given hooks as prosthetics. He played Homer in the Best Years of Our Lives and won a special Academy Award.
(You should look him up. The hooks are pretty cool.)

One of Harriet Beecher Stowe's daughters was also named Harriet Beecher Stowe - the younger usually went by Hattie :-)

The Sundance Kid’s real name was Harry Longabaugh. He was played by the lovely Robert Redford in the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

"I'm Mandy Fly Me" is the name of a 1976 song by 10cc, written by band members Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, and Kevin Godley.

"Rosanna" is the name of a Gordon Lightfoot song on his 1967 album The Way I Feel.

Eliza Tyler Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe's daughter, had this as a middle name.
She was named in honor of her father Calvin's first wife.