The arts-centered Vault 92 holds a number of musical and sound-related references;
• The Overseer of Vault 92 is named "Richard Rubin", who is likely named after music producer Rick Rubin.
• "Zoe Hammerstein" gets her name from Broadway lyricist and songwriter Oscar Hammerstein II, who helped make the song "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy", which is played in-game on the GNR Radio Station.
• "Gordon Sumner" is actually the real name of the musician known as Sting.
• "Professor John Malleus" is named after the one of the three auditory ossicles, (small bones located in the middle ear) which transmit sounds from the air to the inner ear. The Malleus is the "hammer" in the set of "hammer, anvil, and stirrup," so named after their shapes.