$100 for every real person's name you can remember

A genie offers you a deal: He will give you $100 for every real person you can name, with 1 catch: you have to call your shot with how many you can do before you start.

Here's how it works: if you accept, you will be transported to a hallway with a door. You have ten minutes to predict how many real people you can name. Once you tell the genie your number, you enter the room, and you must name at least that many people to get paid. If you get to any number of names less than your prediction, you get no reward. You are allowed to list more names than your prediction, but you only get $10 for every name above your prediction.

In the room, there are dozens of tables, each with stacks of lined paper and no. 2 pencils. You can organize the names you list however you want, but they must be real people. You must stay in the room until you give up. There is a drinking fountain and a stall with a toilet in the room, but no food. You can stay in the room as long as you want to try to think of more names, but you will get hungry and tired like you normally would. You will not have any personal items in the room other than your clothes, and any brand names on your clothes have magically disappeared.

Above the door where you entered is a scoreboard. Every time you write a valid name on a piece of paper, you will hear a ding, and the number one the scoreboard will go up by 1. If you make a mistake on a name, like you write "Bill," when the guy's name was actually "Phil," there is no penalty, but the scoreboard will not go up.

These are the rules for the names you provide:

1. You have to know who the person is. You can't just write Edward Smith and assume there must be someone with that name. You don't need to know their entire life story, but you should be able to say something about them, like "Edward Smith, he was on my soccer team", or if it's a famous person, "Pat Burke, he was a pro basketball player." The genie is omniscient and will know if you're trying to cheat.

2. You need to write down the first and last name of the person for it to count. You can't just say "Christine from the 7th grade." If your spelling is off by a little, but it's clear who you're referring to, it will still count.

3. It can be any living or dead person, but not a ficticious person.

4. If the person legally changed their name at some point of their life, you can use either the old or new name.

Now that you've read the rules, your ten minutes to make a prediction for your number of names starts now. How many do you think you can remember, and what's your strategy once you're in the room?