Top-10 of ludologists with extraordinary names:

1. Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett
2. Krysia M. Yardley-Matwiejczuk
3. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
4. Ana Marjanovic-Shane
5. Pirjo Korkiakangas
6. Frederik J. J. Buytendijk
7. Tanya Krzywinska
8. Paul V. Gump
9. Gerd Gigerenzer
10. Johan Huizinga

Just below the list we find names like Greg Costikyan, Roger Caillois, Brian Sutton-Smith and Clifford Geertz.