I guess it's subtle if you're Japanese...?

[silentstep]

Like, you've lived in Japan all your life and speak only Japanese and don't run into a lot of foreign names?

Because, well, King Bradley's first name is, uh, King. I've been trying really hard to remind myself that in Japan, it's just another foreign-sounding name. Well, Kingo, but still. It's like if he were named "Rex," basically. Rex

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[vixenofargentum]

Van Hohenheim is taken from the name of a very famous medieval alchemist of the 1500's, better known as Paracelsus.

In particular Paracelsus was born with the name Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.

<3

[silentstep]

Oh Eru, the poor man! =)

But I'm glad that there is at least an explanation.