It should be possible to add a menu plugin (similar to my Market Favs) that:
1) Populates the search field with names from an easy to edit file
2) Selects the first match in the results table
3) And Presses the "Enter" button
The last step is potentially a problem since the first match may not actually be the person you want to visit, but as long as you give the exact full name, it should work.
I'll probably add this to my set after the 8.0 release
Another alternative would be to replace the menu with a listbox on the side, but I'm partial to the space savings offered by menus.