http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Temples

Scroll to the bottom to 'annotations' to see the humble begginings of TES gods.

Akatosh

Named after another beta tester (Lawrence Szydlowski), who liked to sign "also known as the old Smaug himself".

Arkay

Arkay was named after one of the original beta testers, R. K. Deutsch, who died in 1998.

Dibella

Named after one of the beta testers, Mary Jo DiBella.

Julianos

Julianos was named after Julian Lefay, project leader of Daggerfall and the following Elder Scrolls games.

Kynareth

Kynareth is not named after anyone, but was already present in Arena.

Mara

Possibly named after beta tester Marilyn Wassermann.

Stendarr

Named after beta tester Daniel Starr.

Zenithar

Named after Stephen "Zen" Zepp, an Arena beta tester.

Haha, nice trivia info. How nice of them to give props to the testers.

That's really cool