The problem is that, in any organization past a few people, someone will eventually wonder if they were the inspiration for a particular name, and not in a good way, or someone might introduce politics or something else divisive.
It's better to have arbitrary names that are memorable in some way but not common enough to be associated with someone living within recent memory.
It's better to have arbitrary names that are memorable in some way but not common enough to be associated with someone living within recent memory.
IMHO, YMMV, yada yada