Try contacting the department of the Navy.
I think my father, Robert thoroton Pocklington and his brothers were there during World War Two and would dnot be surprised to find that they had something to do with the naming!
There is no complete or comprehensive listing of US medals below the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Marine Corps Brevet Medal. Your father's name is not likely to appear on any list you will find on the internet unless he put it there.
If you know the name of his unit, his rank, and dates of service you should be able to find it through an veterans office. I know here in the states that with that info we can track down a service record.
Yes, Joe Kennedy, the father of the later president John F. Kennedy.
Dewey Kerrigan's father's name in "The Green Glass Sea" is Dr. Kerrigan. He is a scientist working on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
In the book "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud's new name is "Bud Caldwell." He chooses this name for himself as he searches for his father and strives to find his place in the world.
Gloria Estefan's father's name is Jose` Fajardo (pronounced; Hos-eh Fahardo) Find me on Youtube! Shiny23101
That information is confidential.
The only reference I could find was to him being called General Gabler.
His mother's name was Rose I can't find his father's name anywhere!
We know his father was Nabopolassar, but I cannot find out the name of his mother.
The winner of Miss World 2011 was Ivian Sarcos from Venezeula. Her father's name is unknown - she was an orphan at the age of 8 as her parents died, and she was raised by the nuns in a convent in Cojedes.