[timwis]

Not the OP, but I've got a "Names to remember" evergreen note in my Reference folder. Within it, I have a few headings (e.g. neighbours, or locations), and a bullet point for each person, with context that will trigger the memory. That might sound like there's a lot of structure, but it's really the act of writing it down in the first place that helps me remember.

[acidburnNSA]

It'd be cool to write a little script that dumps them out into an Anki deck for spaced repetition.

[dns_snek]

There's plugins for that: https://obsidian.md/plugins?search=anki