Ahasuerus
Ahasuerus (Hebrew: אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ, Standard Aḥašveroš Tiberian ʾĂḥašwērôš, Latin:Xerxes, Persian: Khashayarsha, commonly transliterated Achashverosh) is a name used several times in the Hebrew Bible, as well as related legends and apocrypha.
Third among the harpooners was Daggoo, a gigantic, coal-black negro-savage, with a lion-like tread - an Ahasuerus to behold.
Moby Dick, Herman Melville pg 131.