Sacred82
Self-Ejected
Your point was he's not only a name, but a face. My point is: Not really. He isn't totally unknown, he's known to a little group of people, but he's not a "name", not really. The idea of someone being a name is they're known to a lot of people, not just a smallish group. Few people in video games are names.
he's a name to the people he's relevant to as far as his work is concerned. How does that not make him a name?
Gary Gygax may be a name to people who don't even care about roleplaying games. That fact doesn't help you sell roleplaying related materials though.