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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.

Top Ten Real People Used Most in Fiction

(so far; the list is never 'finished'):

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

Contents

World Leaders & Politicians

Wikipedia:King Arthur

Wikipedia:Caesar Augustus

Wikipedia:Hans Blix

Wikipedia:Marcus Junius Brutus

Wikipedia:Julius Caesar

Wikipedia:Caligula

Wikipedia:Gaius Cassius Longinus

Fidel Castro

Wikipedia:Winston Churchill

Lightning (novel by Wikipedia:Dean Koontz)

Wikipedia:Cleopatra VII of Egypt

Wikipedia:Draco

Queen Elizabeth I of England

Wikipedia:Benjamin Franklin

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Wikipedia:George IV of the United Kingdom

Mikhail Gorbachev

Adolf Hitler

See also Wikipedia:Cultural representations of Hitler


Saddam Hussein

Wikipedia:Ivan the Terrible

Joan of Arc

Wikipedia:Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wikipedia:John Lackland

Wikipedia:Genghis Khan

Wikipedia:Kublai Khan

Wikipedia:Kim Jong-Il

Wikipedia:Louis XVI of France

Wikipedia:Macbeth of Scotland

Wikipedia:Marguerite de Valois

Wikipedia:Baron Munchhausen

Wikipedia:Ralph Nader

Wikipedia:Napoleon I of France

Wikipedia:Philip IV of Spain

Wikipedia:Pompey

Richard the Lionhearted

Wikipedia:Cardinal Richelieu

Wikipedia:Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wikipedia:Scipio Metellus

Wikipedia:Tipu Sultan

Wikipedia:Margaret Thatcher

William Marcy "Boss" Tweed

Wikipedia:Vercingetorix

Queen Victoria

Wikipedia:Burton K. Wheeler

Catholic Popes

Wikipedia:Pope Alexander VI

Wikipedia:Pope Benedict XVI

Wikipedia:Pope Boniface VIII

Wikipedia:Pope Celestine V

Wikipedia:Pope Clement V

Wikipedia:Pope John Paul II

Wikipedia:Pope Nicholas III

Wikipedia:Pope Pius XII

Presidents of Wikipedia:the United States

George H.W. Bush

George W. Bush

Wikipedia:Jimmy Carter

Bill Clinton

Wikipedia:Ulysses S. Grant

Thomas Jefferson

Lyndon Baines Johnson

John F. Kennedy

Abraham Lincoln

Richard Nixon

Ronald Reagan

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

George Washington

Woodrow Wilson


Artists, Writers, Musicians

Wikipedia:Ahmad ibn Fadlan

Wikipedia:Dave Barry

Wikipedia:Ludwig van Beethoven

William Blake

William S. Burroughs

Wikipedia:Richard Francis Burton

Lord Byron

Wikipedia:Lewis Carroll

Wikipedia:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wikipedia:Charles Dickens

Wikipedia:Arthur Conan Doyle

Wikipedia:Carl Hiaasen

Wikipedia:Robert Greene

Wikipedia:José Iturbi

Wikipedia:Samuel Johnson

Wikipedia:R. Kelly

H.P. Lovecraft

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wilfred Owen

Pablo Picasso

Wikipedia:Edgar Allan Poe

Wikipedia:Elvis Presley

William Rivers

Wikipedia:Siegfried Sassoon

Wikipedia:William Shakespeare

Wikipedia:Mary Shelley

Wikipedia:Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wikipedia:Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Wikipedia:Mark Twain

Wikipedia:Shania Twain

Wikipedia:Virgil

Wikipedia:Voltaire

Wikipedia:H. G. Wells

Oscar Wilde

Wikipedia:Walter Winchell

Wikipedia:William Butler Yeats

Actors & entertainers

Wikipedia:Ursula Andress

Wikipedia:Alec Baldwin

Wikipedia:George Clooney

Wikipedia:Matt Damon

Wikipedia:Michael Dorn

Wikipedia:John Edward

Wikipedia:Peter Falk

Wikipedia:Judy Garland

Wikipedia:Janeane Garofalo

Wikipedia:Danny Glover

Wikipedia:Ethan Hawke

Wikipedia:Charlton Heston

Wikipedia:Paris Hilton

Wikipedia:Harry Houdini

Wikipedia:Helen Hunt

Wikipedia:Samuel L. Jackson

Wikipedia:Peter Jennings

Wikipedia:Rosie O'Donnell

Wikipedia:Sean Penn

Wikipedia:Tim Robbins

Wikipedia:Mickey Rooney

Wikipedia:Winona Ryder

Wikipedia:Susan Sarandon

Wikipedia:Rob Schneider

Wikipedia:Martin Sheen

Wikipedia:Sally Struthers

Wikipedia:Liv Tyler

Wikipedia:James Woods

Scientists & Thinkers

Wikipedia:Aristotle

Wikipedia:Confucius

Aleister Crowley

see also Wikipedia:Aleister Crowley in popular culture

Maria Skłodowska-Curie

Charles Darwin

Wikipedia:John Dee

Albert Einstein

Wikipedia:Philo T. Farnsworth

Sigmund Freud

Stephen Hawking

Wikipedia:Robert Ingersoll

Wikipedia:Alfred Kinsey

Wikipedia:Lawrence Lessig

Leonardo Da Vinci

Wikipedia:Ada Lovelace

Sir Isaac Newton

Tom Paine

Wikipedia:Michael Scot

Wikipedia:Socrates

Wikipedia:Alan Turing

Adam Weishaupt

Explorers

Captain Wikipedia:William Bligh

Wikipedia:Christopher Columbus

Wikipedia:Amelia Earhart

Wikipedia:Charles Lindbergh and Wikipedia:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Wikipedia:Dr. Livingstone

Wikipedia:Marco Polo

Military people

General Wikipedia:Douglas MacArthur

General Wikipedia:George Armstrong Custer

General Wikipedia:Robert E. Lee

Admiral Horatio Nelson

Baron Wikipedia:Manfred von Richthofen

Conquistador Wikipedia:Francisco Pizarro

Criminals and Outlaws

Wikipedia:Billy the Kid

Wikipedia:Al Capone

Wikipedia:The Daltons

John Dillinger

Wikipedia:Matthew Hopkins

Wikipedia:Osama bin Laden

Wikipedia:Gilles de Rais

Wikipedia:Jack the Ripper

Unclassified

Wikipedia:Erzsébet Báthory

Wikipedia:Brian Boitano

Wikipedia:Eva Braun

Wikipedia:Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Bill Gates

See also Wikipedia:List of portrayals and references of Bill Gates

Phil Hellmuth Jr

Wikipedia:Esteban Huertas

Wikipedia:Ilse Koch

Alice Liddell/Alice Hargreaves

Wikipedia:Simon Magus

Wikipedia:Marshall McLuhan

Wikipedia:Joseph Merrick

Wikipedia:Rosa Parks

Wikipedia:Billy Sunday

See also

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