1. Ian Fleming named James Bond after an ornithologist because it was the "dullest name" he'd ever heard.

伊恩•弗莱明用一个鸟类学家的名字来给詹姆斯·邦德取名，因为这是他听过的最呆滞的名字。

Fleming spoke to The New Yorker and explained:

弗莱明对《纽约客》解释道：

When I wrote the first one, in 1953. I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened ... One of the bibles of my youth was Birds of the West Indies, by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard, so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one. Mrs. Bond once wrote me a letter thanking me for using it.

当我在1953年创作第一部小说时，我希望邦德是个非常无趣，对事物的反应也很迟钝的男人……我年轻时的圣经是詹姆斯·邦德写的《西印度群岛的鸟》，他是一名十分出名的鸟类学家，当我纠结于给我的主角取什么名字好的时候，我想到，天哪，这真是我听过的最呆滞的名字了。如今，这个乏味的名字在国际上已经变成了一个激动人心的名字。邦德夫人曾写过一次信给我，感谢我使用这个名字。