Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24218038-20131129060101/@comment-15108745-20131129061029

Things like this are on each character's page in the trivia section.

Weiss is Snow White. Blake is Beauty and the Beast. Yang is Goldilocks. Jaune is Joan of Arc. Nora is most likely Thor. Ren is most likely Mulan. Pyrrha is most likely Achilles. Ozpin is also from Wizard of Oz. Roman could refer to Candlewick from Pinocchio.