American/English famous names for each playing card

I want to create a book and possibly a practice deck of playing cards with the picture of a different famous person on each card.

My thread for China and India magicians has not gotten much response, probably due to the English language issue and different cultures therefore I am switching attention to this thread which is sticking with the American / English culture for the naming conventions.

The purpose of doing this is to be able to later utilize the Person, Action memory system.
The "Action" will come later but first we need a strong association of each card to a famous person or occupation.

My current scheme uses a lot of famous people names and could have copyright issues so I could replace those names by using the names below.

Copyright free names, I think:
Scrooge, Cinderella, Snow White witch, thumbelina, Red Riding Hood, Big Bad Wolf, Hansel and Gretel, Beauty, Beast, Jack and the beanstalk, Three musketeers, Paul Bunyan, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun. Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Brutus, Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Martin Luther King, Jefferson, Merlin, Houdini, Thurston, Bess Houdini, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Samuel Morse, Philo Farnsworth (the true inventor of TV), Sherlock Holmes, Jack the ripper, emperor Ming, Magellan, Samson, Delilah, Adam, Eve, Moses, Noah, Pharaoh, Marie Antoinette, Christopher Columbus, Crazy Horse, Colonel Custer, Paul Bunyan, Amelia Earhart, Yeti, Bigfoot, Al Capone, Santa (sled), Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, Gladiator, Annie Oakley, Beethoven, Mozart, Ponce de Leon (fountain of youth), Joan of Arc, Molly pitcher, Rapunzel long golden hair, Rumpelstiltskin. Frog (tongue). Whale blow water, King Arthur, Gulliver,

Hmmm, instead of coming up with totally new people, I could use my existing scheme but just give each card a funny similar parody name and replace Igor with Frankenstein simply because Frankenstein is easier to remember. Historic names are mostly copyright free, but some can be branded to a specific product or service.

The following names should be clear of copyright issues (especially since not being used here in association with any product).

Spades (Ace through King):
Red Baron, Leprechaun, Stooges, Admiral, Sheriff, Lizzie Borden, Samurai, Snowman, Cat
woman, Farmer, JFK, La Teeth Ah, Henry VII.

Hearts (Ace through King):
Cupid, Dr Hoot, Dandy sisters, Beet Lentils, Spicy Cinnamon, Milly Cyprus, Cruising moms, Magnificent Marilyn, Colonel Clanker, Tin Man, John Voltage, Dolly Partridge, Elvis Pretzel.

Clubs (Ace through King):
Jackie Bird, Fred Caveman, Frankenstein, Shiva, Grim Reaper, Rusting Stubs, Frank Singer, Goliath, Baby Ruthless, Bowler, Pirate, Dr Joyce Sisters, Policeman.

Diamonds (Ace through King):
Randy Duckworth, General Patton, Golfer (Bengal Forest), Elizabeth Eloper, Magic Dribbler, Coach, Quarterback, Tim ate Her, Macbeth, Tennis player, Jack Tut, Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill.

I have pretty strong mnemonic links of the names to each playing card but some are weaker and less well known, but these can easily be overcome with a little bit of true and fictitious associations.

Weakly linked cards (and mnemonic associations to improve the mental link):

4S Admiral Yamamoto sunk 4 battleships but were dug up (Spades) and reused.

5S Sheriff Gary Cooper during shootout killed and buried five criminals using five shovels.

6S Lizzie Borden used an ax to kill six people and bury them with a spade (not true but pretend).

9H German General who does not like Valentines and says "nein hearts".

3C Frankenstein monster has three club shaped stitches in his forehead.

6C Rusty Staub was a baseball player that played for six different clubs and had red hair and a rusty bat.

7C Frank Sinatra performed at Vegas clubs where 7 is a lucky number.

QC Doctor Joyce Brothers was an expert on boxing (Queen about boxing clubs).

3D pretend that Tiger Woods has three large diamonds embedded in the handle of his golf clubs.

4D pretend that Elizabeth Taylor wears four diamond rings on one hand.

9D pretend that Macbeth has a crown with nine diamonds in it (also the playing card nine of diamonds is associated with Scottish myth).

The other playing cards have strong mental associations to a famous person.

I plan to specify them later.

I'm thinking about some improvements:
Even though Shiva officially has four arms most images show six arms (or more).

Golfers yell the word "Four" a lot and golfers use clubs.

Am thinking about having Shiva be for the six of clubs (thus wiping out Rusty Staub) and having Golfer be for the four of clubs.

If I do that then the three of diamonds needs a new person and I'm thinking of using Dracula and having his pendant have three diamonds on it.
Eventually Dracula's action will be "Biting".

But if I do all that then I will miss the nice mental link on my Tritium stack for position 18 which by pure chance happens to be the three of diamonds which is currently the golfer (18 hole golf course is a wonderful mental link).

Since no one else is using my Tritium stack I think I can afford to make the overall naming convention better and therefore make the above changes. I can easily adjust my Tritium mnemonic stories.

I also looked to see if the Tamariz Mnemonica Stack or the Aaronson Stack happen to have the three of diamonds in position 18 and of course they don't so no loss there.

Reminder that this famous person naming convention that I am proposing can eventually be used with any stack and the benefit of using it is that a running mnemonic story can be mentally created so the magician can more quickly rattle off a series of cards without having to mentally think of the position numbers each time.