Orlando, Florida

===Orlando (''As You Like It'')===
[[File:Lake Lucerne, Orlando, FL.jpg|thumb|Lake Lucerne, c. 1905]]

The final variation has the city named after [[Orlando (As You Like It)|the protagonist]] in the Shakespeare play ''[[As You Like It]]''.<ref name=Andrews1998 />

In 1975, Judge Donald A. Cheney put forth a new version of the story in an ''[[Orlando Sentinel]]'' article.<ref name="Dickinson, Cheney"/> Cheney (a local historian and then chairman of the county historical commission<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=http://cflhistory.org/about/#:~:text=In%201957%2C%20when%20the%20red%2Dbrick%20courthouse%20was%20demolished%2C%20the%20Orange%20County%20Board%20of%20County%20Commissioners%20established%20a%20historical%20commission%20to%20manage%20the%20museum%20collection%20and%20tapped%20Judge%20Donald%20Cheney%20to%20be%20its%20first%20chairman. |website=Historical Society of Central Florida |access-date=April 17, 2022}}</ref>) recounted a story told to him by his father, Judge [[John Moses Cheney]] (a major figure in Orlando's history, who arrived in Orlando in 1885).

The elder Cheney recounted that another gentleman at that time, James Speer, proposed the name Orlando after the character in ''As You Like It''.<ref name=Andrews1998 /> According to Cheney, Speer, "was a gentleman of culture and an admirer of William Shakespeare ..."<ref name="Dickinson, Cheney" /> Quoting a letter that Speer wrote, "Orlando was a veritable [[Arden, Warwickshire|Forest of Arden]], the locale of ''As You Like It''."<ref name=Reflections>[http://www.thehistorycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Reflections_Fall2015-_lr.pdf ''Reflections'']. Fall 2015 Vol. 13 No. 4. {{Retrieved|access-date= March 1, 2017}}</ref> Speer's descendants have also confirmed this version of the naming and the legend has continued to grow.<ref name="Dickinson, Cheney" />

This account also has some validity in that, as mentioned above, Speer was instrumental in changing the name of the settlement from Jernigan to Orlando, though he may have used the Orlando Reeves legend in lieu of his true intent to use the Shakespearean character. According to yet another version of the story, Orlando may have been the name of one of his employees.<ref name=Andrews1998 /><ref name=travel /> One of [[downtown Orlando]]'s major streets is named Rosalind Avenue; [[Rosalind (As You Like It)|Rosalind]] is the heroine of ''As You Like It'', but this could also be a coincidence.