list of real people appearing in fictional context

This is a list of real people appearing in a fictional context. In such settings, real people, whether alive or dead at the time of the authorship of the piece, will be involved in fictional settings and meet fictional characters. Such settings are alternative histories, secret histories, Bangsian fantasy, historical fiction, and just general fiction.

People not to put on this list are mythical and/or religious figures, such as Satan - they go on the List of mythical and religious beings appearing in fictional context. An exception to this rule are Popes. Note also the existence of List of celebrities on The Simpsons - added to this list, these would obscure the other entries.

The top 5 most used real people are listed below. A 'use' does not count any work based strictly on history (although different 'interpretations' of an event may be counted as fiction). Remakes, books made into movies, remakes of books made into movies (rule of thumb: this is when they all have the same title) and different books in the same series (although not different books by the same author) are counted as one use. Also discount magazines and political cartoons.

Example: Mark Twain is used multiple times in the Riverworld novels, but is counted only once because they are a series. Captain William Bligh appears in three works called Mutiny on the Bounty, but since the two movies are based on the book, it, in total, counts only as one use.

Rank	Name	Uses Recorded	Category	Description
1	Adolf Hitler	36	World Leaders	Nazi dictator; ruler of Germany from 1933 to 1945.
2	William Shakespeare	16	Authors	English playwright of the 16th and 17th centuries AD.
3	Abraham Lincoln	14	World Leaders	President of the United States
4	Napoleon I of France	10	World Leaders	French general and emperor
4	Richard Nixon	10	World Leaders	President of the United States
6	Bill Clinton	9	World Leaders	President of the United States
6	Elvis Presley	9	Musicians	Rock and roll singer
8	King Arthur	8	World Leaders	legendary British ruler
8	Genghis Khan	8	World Leaders	Mongolian conqueror
8	Jack the Ripper	8	Criminal	English serial killer
8	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	8	World Leaders	President of the United States

list of real people appearing in fictional context

Top Ten Real People Used Most in Fiction[edit]

Contents

World Leaders & Politicians[edit]

Wikipedia:King Arthur[edit]

Wikipedia:Caesar Augustus[edit]

Wikipedia:Hans Blix[edit]

Wikipedia:Marcus Junius Brutus[edit]

Wikipedia:Julius Caesar[edit]

Wikipedia:Caligula[edit]

Wikipedia:Gaius Cassius Longinus[edit]

Fidel Castro[edit]

Wikipedia:Winston Churchill[edit]

Wikipedia:Cleopatra VII of Egypt[edit]

Wikipedia:Draco[edit]

Queen Elizabeth I of England[edit]

Wikipedia:Benjamin Franklin[edit]

Mohandas K. Gandhi[edit]

Wikipedia:George IV of the United Kingdom[edit]

Mikhail Gorbachev[edit]

Adolf Hitler[edit]

Saddam Hussein[edit]

Wikipedia:Ivan the Terrible[edit]

Joan of Arc[edit]

Wikipedia:Martin Luther King, Jr.[edit]

Wikipedia:John Lackland[edit]

Wikipedia:Genghis Khan[edit]

Wikipedia:Kublai Khan[edit]

Wikipedia:Kim Jong-Il[edit]

Wikipedia:Louis XVI of France[edit]

Wikipedia:Macbeth of Scotland[edit]

Wikipedia:Marguerite de Valois[edit]

Wikipedia:Baron Munchhausen[edit]

Wikipedia:Ralph Nader[edit]

Wikipedia:Napoleon I of France[edit]

Wikipedia:Philip IV of Spain[edit]

Wikipedia:Pompey[edit]

Richard the Lionhearted[edit]

Wikipedia:Cardinal Richelieu[edit]

Wikipedia:Arnold Schwarzenegger[edit]

Wikipedia:Scipio Metellus[edit]

Wikipedia:Tipu Sultan[edit]

Wikipedia:Margaret Thatcher[edit]

William Marcy "Boss" Tweed[edit]

Wikipedia:Vercingetorix[edit]

Queen Victoria[edit]

Wikipedia:Burton K. Wheeler[edit]

Catholic Popes[edit]

Wikipedia:Pope Alexander VI[edit]

Wikipedia:Pope Benedict XVI[edit]

Wikipedia:Pope Boniface VIII[edit]

Wikipedia:Pope Celestine V[edit]

Wikipedia:Pope Clement V[edit]

Wikipedia:Pope John Paul II[edit]

Wikipedia:Pope Nicholas III[edit]

Wikipedia:Pope Pius XII[edit]

Presidents of Wikipedia:the United States[edit]

George H.W. Bush[edit]

George W. Bush[edit]

Wikipedia:Jimmy Carter[edit]

Bill Clinton[edit]

Wikipedia:Ulysses S. Grant[edit]

Thomas Jefferson[edit]

Lyndon Baines Johnson[edit]

John F. Kennedy[edit]

Abraham Lincoln[edit]

Richard Nixon[edit]

Ronald Reagan[edit]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt[edit]

Theodore Roosevelt[edit]

Harry S. Truman[edit]

George Washington[edit]

Woodrow Wilson[edit]

Artists, Writers, Musicians[edit]

Wikipedia:Ahmad ibn Fadlan[edit]

Wikipedia:Dave Barry[edit]

Wikipedia:Ludwig van Beethoven[edit]

William Blake[edit]

William S. Burroughs[edit]

Wikipedia:Richard Francis Burton[edit]