8th SS has a naming principle where you choose a german name, if possible that of a "good" (And i use the term exceedingly lightly) german soldier. No far from leading us to having dozens of the famous names, we've only got a few.
My personal name is Thomas Bottcher, a briton by the name of Thomas Cooper originally, who moved to germany before the war on the basis of a job there, which actually wasn't available when he finally arrived. He wasn't able to return to england as the war had started by that time so he changed his name to Bottcher, the germanic form of Cooper, and joined the 1st SS, rising to the rank of MG training officer and moving from the 1st to the 3rd and then the 4th. His last action was at the battle of Leningrad where he was wounded and later awarded the wound badge in black, making him the only british soldier in the german army to receive a german medal (That i know of at least.)
So yes, that's me:
Oberscharfuhrer Thomas Bottcher,
8th SS Kavallerie,
Gruppen fuhrer des RO unter Kav.