Jacques Derrida was named for the actor who played Uncle Fester in the Addams Family.

Maybe.

Evil man or productive charlatan is unclear but it is hard to see any beneficial influence today from Jacques Derrida, one of the founding fathers of deconstructionism and more generally of postmodernism. From Wikipedia.

Jacques Derrida (/ˈdɛrɪdə/; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida; July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy.

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He became a well-known and influential public figure, while his approach to philosophy and the notorious abstruseness of his work made him controversial.

Incomprehensible might be a better description.

Further in to the Wikipedia article there is this history which almost certainly has to be a subtle prank by a pseudo-deconstructionist but which I would dearly like to be true.

Derrida was born on July 15, 1930, in a summer home in El Biar (Algiers), Algeria, into a Sephardic Jewish family (originally from Toledo) that became French in 1870 when the Crémieux Decree granted full French citizenship to the indigenous Arabic-speaking Jews of Algeria. His parents, Haïm Aaron Prosper Charles (Aimé) Derrida (1896–1970)[22] and Georgette Sultana Esther Safar (1901–1991), named him "Jackie", "which they considered to be an American name", though he would later adopt a more "correct" version of his first name when he moved to Paris; some reports indicate that he was named Jackie after the American child actor Jackie Coogan, who had become well-known around the world via his role in the 1921 Charlie Chaplin film The Kid. He was also given the middle name Élie after his paternal uncle Eugène Eliahou, at his circumcision; this name was not recorded on his birth certificate unlike those of his siblings, and he would later call it his "hidden name".

Jackie Coogan, well, yes, The Kid. But also famous for his role as Uncle Fester in The Addams Family.

It would be entirely fitting and appropriate that Jacques Derrida, father of a bumbling school of pseudo-philosophy, should be named after the actor famous for his role as Uncle Fester, a bumbling uncle in a monster family.

Jacques Derrida

or Uncle Fester

You decide.