http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._famous_people

There are hundreds here!

yeah, dosn't a million bob dylans songs name check famous people.

in the album highway 61 almost all songs name check someone. (though quite a few are fictional people)

there's too many to even get started.

kid606 - luke vibert can kiss my indie-punk whiteboy ***

buck owens-melvins

Sonic Youth - Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Songs: Ohia - Steve Albini's Blues
L.A. Style - James Brown is Dead
Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair - I Met Roky Erickson
Sublime - Romeo
DJ Green Lantern - Impeach The President
John Lennon - John Sinclair
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Devendra Banhart - The Beatles
Vincent Gallo - I Wrote This Song For The Girl Paris Hilton
Bill Fay - Pictures of Adolph Again
Belle & Sebastian - Dylan In The Movies