Secret Service code names
TIME magazine provides a list of 11 Great Secret Service Code Names. I don't love their discussions and presentation of the names, but I like the names themselves, from Paul Ryan's “Bowhunter” to Barack Obama's “Renegade” to Cindy McCain's “Parasol.” And yes, the gender differences are especially interesting.
2600.com has a better and longer list without the annoying annotations, though also presumably without the fact-checking. That list has a fair bit of overlap with a list from the NNDB, though I don't know whether either of those two lists used the other as a source. Some of the ones I like from those lists:
- Driller
- Todd Palin
- Dynamo
- Amy Carter
- Evergreen
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Kittyhawk
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Napoleon
- Frank Sinatra
- Rhyme
- Maureen Reagan
- Scorecard
- Dan Quayle
- Snowstorm
- George H. W. Bush
- Stardust
- John Anderson
- Tempo
- Laura Bush
- Unicorn
- Prince Charles
For more code names, and more info, see Wikipedia.