diff --git a/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go b/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go
index c5bcd25b41..372fad6d68 100644
--- a/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go
+++ b/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go
@@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ var (
 		// Alfred Nobel - a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer (inventor of dynamite) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel
 		"nobel",
 
+		// Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was an astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
+		"payne",
+
 		// Ambroise Pare invented modern surgery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Par%C3%A9
 		"pare",