Role-playing games often use a common set of creatures that are easily recognizeable and have pre-determined traits. Most are based on mythology in some form or other. The Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual contains many of these as well.
... Hanning Speke, (1827-1864), discovered Lake Victoria
Henry Morton Stanley, (1841-1904), found back Livingstone; later explored Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and ...