If you have
author_sort="copy"
Then you can enter the name of the author as:
Smith John
And everything will work as you want it to work.
Test it by making a small test library with just 2-3 books and see.
You can use bulk metadata edit and search and replace, using regular expressions to automatically convert the current names in bulk. Provided they all use the exact same naming convention. Either fn ln or ln, fn.
You will also have to request calibre to update the author sort field.
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