Possible Clues:

• "Succession" family name
• "The Natural" protagonist Hobbs
• Romanow, for one
• First name among the ''Hee Haw'' cast
• 'The God of Small Things' author Arundhati
• Bean of the American frontier
• Crooner Orbison
• Brooklyn Dodgers legend Campanella
• Scheider of "Jaws"
• Civil rights leader Wilkins