The Man with the Palindromic Name

If you omit his middle name or use his middle initial rather than his middle name, classical scholar Revilo Pendleton Oliver (1910-1994) has a palindromic name (Revilo Oliver, Revilo P. Oliver), one that reads the same backwards as forwards.

Oliver, who taught for many years at the University of Illinois, did some solid work in classics, e.g.

• "The First Medicean MS of Tacitus and the Titulature of Ancient Books," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 82 (1951)
• Niccolo Perotti's Version of the Enchiridion of Epictetus (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1954)
• "The Second Medicean Ms. and the Text of Tacitus," Illinois Classical Studies 1 (1976)
  

Unfortunately, his enduring legacy is not likely to be his classical scholarship, but the racist, anti-Semitic essays that he penned in his later years. I won't dignify them by linking to them.