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.

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

World Leaders & Politicians

King Arthur

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• Arthur, King of Time and Space
• Gargoyles
• King Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
• The Once and Future King
• The Sword in the Stone

Caesar Augustus

• The Sandman
• Rome (TV series) - As Gaius Octavian
• I, Claudius

Hans Blix

• Team America: World Police

Marcus Junius Brutus

• Asterix
• Divine Comedy
• Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

• Asterix
• Julius Caesar
• Time Squad
• Rome (TV series)

Caligula

• Caligula, play by Albert Camus
• Caligula - film
• Demetrius and the Gladiators
• I, Claudius
• Red Dwarf
• The Robe

Cassius

• Asterix

Fidel Castro

• Family Guy
• South Park
• The Simpsons
• Celebrity Deathmatch
• Married with Children

Winston Churchill

Lightning (novel by Dean Koontz)

Cleopatra VII of Egypt

• Asterix
• Anthony and Cleopatra
• Clone High
• Time Squad
• Xena: Warrior Princess
• Cleopatra (movie)

Draco

• Xena: Warrior Princess

Queen Elizabeth I of England

• 1601, Mark Twain
• 1602, by Neil Gaiman
• Blackadder II
• Civilization III

Benjamin Franklin

• Ben and Me
• Bewitched
• Danny Dunn, Time Traveller
• The Fairly Oddparents
• Quicksilver
• Time Squad

Mohandas K. Gandhi

• Clone High
• Civilization III
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (cameo in Hell)
• Star Trek: Voyager (Darkling)
• Time Squad
• Celebrity Deathmatch
• UHF (movie)

George IV of the United Kingdom

• Blackadder the Third (see Prince George (Blackadder character))

Mikhail Gorbachev

• Faraway, So Close!
• Win, Lose or Die

Adolf Hitler

• Between Time and Timbuktu
• Blazing Saddles
• The Bunker
• Doctor Who:Timewyrm Exodus and Shadow in the Glass
• Dragonball Z
• Education for Death
• Family Guy
• Futurama
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
• Hey Arnold!
• Hitler: The Last Ten Days
• Hitler: The Rise of Evil
• Monty Python's Flying Circus (he uses the name Mr. Hilter)
• The Fox in the Attic
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Inside the Third Reich
• The Iron Dream
• Justice League: The Savage Time
• Lightning (novel by Dean Koontz)
• Little Nicky
• Max
• Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, The
• Red Dwarf
• Soap (as an elderly waiter in Ecuador)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (cameo in Hell)
• Springtime for Hitler
• Star Trek: Enterprise (Storm Front, Part II)
• The Simpsons
• Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect
• The Tomorrow People
• The Twilight Zone ("He's Alive")
• Der Untergang
• The Winds of War and War and Remembrance
• Wizards
• The Worldwar novels

See also Cultural representations of Hitler

Saddam Hussein

• Family Guy
• Hot Shots! Part Deux
• The Simpsons
• South Park (regular character), South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
• Pinky and the Brain

Ivan the Terrible

• Laughter!, by Peter Barnes
• Time Squad

Joan of Arc

• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Civilization III
• Clone High
• Time Squad
• The Simpsons
• Age of Empires II

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• The Boondocks (television series)

John Lackland

• Riverworld
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Genghis Khan

• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Clone High
• The Conqueror
• Johnny Bravo
• Monty Python (Famous deaths sketch)
• Star Trek (The Savage Curtain)
• Time Squad
• The Fairly Oddparents

Kublai Khan

• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• Time Squad

Kim Jong-Il

• Team America: World Police

Louis XVI of France

• History of the World, Part I

Macbeth of Scotland

• Gargoyles
• Macbeth
• Throne of Blood

Marguerite de Valois

• Queen Margot

Baron Munchhausen

• A House-Boat on the Styx

Ralph Nader

• Still Life with Woodpecker

Napoleon I of France

• The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
• Bewitched
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• El Chavo del 8
• Háry János, by Zoltán Kodály
• I Dream of Jeannie
• Psychonauts (in the mind of Fred Bonaparte)
• Red Dwarf
• Time Bandits
• Time Squad
  • See also, Napoleon in popular culture

Philip IV of Spain

• The Bewitched, by Peter Barnes

Pompey

• Asterix

Richard the Lionhearted

• Doctor Who serial The Crusade
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• Maid Marian and her Merry Men
• Many traditional tales of Robin Hood
• The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• Robin of Sherwood

Cardinal Richelieu

• The Three Musketeers
• The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
• Monty Python's Flying Circus (episode 13 only, pantomiming to a Petula Clark record)

Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Opus (comic strip)

Scipio Metellus

• Asterix

Tipu Sultan

• Mysterious Island

Margaret Thatcher

• For Your Eyes Only (movie)
• Win, Lose or Die
• You Don't Have To Be Mad... by Kim Newman

William Marcy "Boss" Tweed

• Gangs of New York

Vercingetorix

• Asterix

Queen Victoria

• From Hell
• Red Dwarf

Burton K. Wheeler

• The Plot Against America

Catholic Popes

Pope Alexander VI

• The Antipope (Part of The Brentford Trilogy)

Pope Benedict XVI

• South Park

Pope Boniface VIII

• The Divine Comedy, Part 1 (Inferno), by Dante Alighieri

Pope Celestine V

• The Divine Comedy, Part 1 (Inferno), by Dante Alighieri
• Sunsets and Glories, by Peter Barnes

Pope Clement V

• The Divine Comedy, Part 1 (Inferno), by Dante Alighieri

Pope John Paul II

• South Park
• The Incredible Popeman
• Family Guy
• The Simpsons
• Hudson Hawk

Pope Nicholas III

• The Divine Comedy, Part 1 (Inferno), by Dante Alighieri

Pope Pius XII

• The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth

Presidents of the United States

George H.W. Bush

• Futurama
• The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
• De Pias van het Pentagon
• The Simpsons
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Win, Lose or Die

George W. Bush

• Family Guy
• Opus (comic strip)
• That's My Bush!

Jimmy Carter

• Orange Crush (novel)

Bill Clinton

• Family Guy
• Futurama
• The Simpsons
• South Park
• Road Rovers
• Eek! the Cat
• Pinky and the Brain
• Animaniacs
• Freakazoid

Ulysses S. Grant

• The Guns of the South
• Wild Wild West, The Wild Wild West

Thomas Jefferson

• The True Account
• South Park
• The Fairly Oddparents
• Family Guy

Lyndon Baines Johnson

• Forrest Gump
• MacBird by Barbara Garson
• "Superbird" by Country Joe and the Fish

John F. Kennedy

• Bubba Ho-tep
• Clone High
• Forrest Gump
• Red Dwarf (television)
• The Two Georges
• The New Twilight Zone, episode "Profile in Silver"

Abraham Lincoln

• All That
• Animaniacs
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Civilization III
• Clone High
• Flaming Carrot comics
• Futurama
• Histeria!
• How Few Remain
• Star Trek (The Savage Curtain)
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show
• Time Squad
• Tiny Toon Adventures

Richard Nixon

• Cold Turkey
• Dick
• Forrest Gump
• Futurama
• Hot Shots! Part Deux
• I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
• Nixon in China
• The Simpsons
• The Two Georges
• Watchmen

Ronald Reagan

• Cryptonomicon
• Family Guy

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Annie
• Histeria!
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• Nick Danger, sketch by the Firesign Theatre
• The Plot Against America
• The Simpsons
• The Three Stooges
• The Winds of War and War and Remembrance

Theodore Roosevelt

• Heavenly Discourse
• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, and other Scrooge McDuck stories from Keno Don Rosa.
• How Few Remain and the following Great War trilogy

Harry S. Truman

• Futurama

George Washington

• Futurama
• Histeria!
• A House-Boat on the Styx
• South Park
• Stormwatch: Team Achilles
• The Fairly Oddparents
• Time Squad (three times so far)

Woodrow Wilson

• Histeria!

Artists, Writers, Musicians

Ahmad ibn Fadlan

• Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
• The 13th Warrior

Dave Barry

• Florida Roadkill

Ludwig van Beethoven

• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Beethoven Lives Upstairs
• Time Squad
• Animaniacs
• Monty Python's Flying Circus (Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity)

William Blake

• From Hell

William S. Burroughs

• The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Richard Francis Burton

• The Riverworld series by Philip José Farmer

Lord Byron

• Gothic, movie by Ken Russell
• Star Trek: Voyager (Darkling)
• The Anubis Gates, novel by Tim Powers
• The Stress of Her Regard, novel by Tim Powers

Lewis Carroll

• Dreamchild
• Conned Again, Watson by Colin Bruce
• "The Artful Dodgson" in the Mornington Crescent Almanac

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Nightmare Abbey, novel by Thomas Love Peacock
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, novel by Douglas Adams
• The Anubis Gates, novel by Tim Powers

Charles Dickens

• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• "The Artful Dodgson" in the Mornington Crescent Almanac
• Doctor Who episode "The Unquiet Dead"

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Doctor Who:Evolution
• Fairy Tale: A True Story
• Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
• The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
• Shanghai Knights

Carl Hiaasen

• Florida Roadkill

Robert Greene

• • Doctor Who Magazine comic strip A Groatsworth of Wit

José Iturbi

• Thousands Cheer

Samuel Johnson

• Blackadder the Third

R. Kelly

• The Boondocks (television series)

H.P. Lovecraft

• The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Monty Python (Famous Deaths Sketch)
• Riverworld
• Amadeus

Wilfred Owen

• The Ghost Road trilogy of novels by Pat Barker

Pablo Picasso

• Bluebeard
• Monty Python (making a painting while riding on a bicycle)

Edgar Allan Poe

• Time Squad
• I Am The Walrus - by The Beatles (is mentioned being kicked by Penguins who are singing the Hare Krishna)

Elvis Presley

• Angels with Angles
• Bubba Ho-tep
• Good Omens
• Mostly Harmless
• Armageddon: The Musical and sequels by Robert Rankin
• Quantum Leap
• Married... with Children
• Forrest Gump
• Red Dwarf

William Rivers

• The Ghost Road trilogy of novels by Pat Barker

Siegfried Sassoon

• The Ghost Road trilogy of novels by Pat Barker

William Shakespeare

• A House-Boat on the Styx
• Pursuit of the House-Boat
• Blackadder Back and Forth
• Doctor Who The Chase
• Doctor Who Magazine comic strip A Groatsworth of Wit
• The Catalogue of Men by David Pownall
• "The Immortal Bard", short story by Isaac Asimov
• The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show, Episode 6: "Shakespeare's Little Known Trip To America"
• The Sandman
• Shakespeare in Love
• The Shakespeare Stealer
• Time Squad
• The Science of Discworld II: The Globe
• 1601, Mark Twain
• King of Shadows
• Magic tree house
• Celebrity Deathmatch

Mary Shelley

• Gothic

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Gothic
• The Stress of Her Regard, novel by Tim Powers

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

• Moulin Rouge!
• Monty Python

Mark Twain

• Johnny Bravo
• Heavenly Discourse
• Riverworld
• The Sandman
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (Time's Arrow)

Shania Twain

• I ♥ Huckabees

Virgil

• The Divine Comedy
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Voltaire

• Heavenly Discourse

H. G. Wells

• The Dancers at the End of Time
• The Time Ships
• Time After Time
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
• Doctor Who serial "Timelash"

Oscar Wilde

• From Hell
• Monty Python

Walter Winchell

• The Plot Against America

William Butler Yeats

• From Hell

Actors & entertainers

Ursula Andress

• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (original novel)

Alec Baldwin

• Team America: World Police

George Clooney

• Team America: World Police

Matt Damon

• Team America: World Police
• Kid Notorius

Michael Dorn

• South Park

John Edward

• South Park

Peter Falk

• Wings of Desire

Judy Garland

• Thousands Cheer
• Words and Music

Janeane Garofalo

• Team America: World Police

Danny Glover

• Team America: World Police

Ethan Hawke

• Team America: World Police

Charlton Heston

• Family Guy
• That's My Bush
• The Man Show

Paris Hilton

• South Park

Harry Houdini

• Ragtime
• Spawn

Helen Hunt

• Team America: World Police

Samuel L. Jackson

• Team America: World Police
• Chapelle's Show

Peter Jennings

• Team America: World Police

Rosie O'Donnell

• South Park

Sean Penn

• Team America: World Police

Tim Robbins

• Team America: World Police

Mickey Rooney

• Thousands Cheer

Winona Ryder

• Family Guy
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Susan Sarandon

• Team America: World Police

Rob Schneider

• South Park

Martin Sheen

• Team America: World Police

Sally Struthers

• South Park

Liv Tyler

• Team America: World Police

James Woods

• Family Guy

Scientists & Thinkers

Aristotle

• Time Squad

Confucius

• A House-Boat on the Styx
• Clone High
• Time Squad

Aleister Crowley

• From Hell
• Heaven's War (comic book by Micah Harris and Michael Gaydos)
• Hellblazer
• Masks of the Illuminati
• Promethea
• The Woman Between the Worlds (novel by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre)

see also Aleister Crowley in popular culture

Maria Skłodowska-Curie

• Young Einstein
• Clone High

Charles Darwin

• The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch

John Dee

• Maxie's Demon by Michael Scott Rohan
• The Science of Discworld II: The Globe

Albert Einstein

• Family Guy
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (Descent)
• Time Squad
• Young Einstein
• Animaniacs
• Red Dwarf

Philo T. Farnsworth

• Carter Beats the Devil

Sigmund Freud

• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Time Squad
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Stephen Hawking

• Family Guy
• Futurama
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (Descent)
• The Simpsons

Robert Ingersoll

• Heavenly Discourse

Alfred Kinsey

• The Inner Circle
• Kinsey (movie)

Lawrence Lessig

• The West Wing

Leonardo Da Vinci

• The Da Vinci Code
• History of the World, Part I
• Leonardo's Last Supper, by Peter Barnes
• Quest of the Delta Knights
• Hudson Hawk
• The Memory Cathedral by Jack Dann
• Thorn by Brian Saberhagen

Ada Lovelace

• The Difference Engine

Sir Isaac Newton

• The Da Vinci Code
• Quicksilver
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (Descent)

Tom Paine

• Heavenly Discourse

Michael Scot

• The Adept and The Adept Book Two: The Lodge of the Lynx by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris
• Dante's The Divine Comedy
• The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott
• The Lord of Middle Air by Michael Scot Rohan
• Shoebox Zoo
• Tartan Magic by Jane Yolen

Socrates

• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Alan Turing

• Cryptonomicon

Adam Weishaupt

• Cerebus
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Explorers

Captain William Bligh

• Mutiny on the Bounty - Book and movies
• The Bounty - a musical about Bligh and the Bounty.

Christopher Columbus

• Family Guy
• The Flintstones
• Carry On Columbus

Amelia Earhart

• Circumpolar! by Richard A. Lupoff
• Family Guy
• Fluke (book)
• Flying Blind (novel) by Max Allan Collins
• Star Trek Voyager (The 37s)
• Time Squad

Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• Circumpolar! by Richard A. Lupoff
• The Plot Against America
• Family Guy

Dr. Livingstone

• A House-Boat on the Styx
• Time Squad

Marco Polo

• Invisible Cities
• Messer Marco Polo
• The Sandman

Military people

General Douglas MacArthur

• M*A*S*H (TV series)

General George Armstrong Custer

• Little Big Man
• How Few Remain and the following Great War trilogy

General Robert E. Lee

• The Guns of the South
• Lincoln's Dreams

Admiral Horatio Nelson

• Monty Python (Famous Deaths sketch)

Baron Manfred von Richthofen

• Blackadder Goes Forth
• The Bloody Red Baron (Anno Dracula series) by Kim Newman
• Circumpolar! by Richard A. Lupoff

Conquistador Francisco Pizarro

• The Mysterious Cities of Gold

Criminals and Outlaws

Billy the Kid

• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Lucky Luke
• Young Guns
• Time Squad

Al Capone

• Tintin in America
• USSA series by Kim Newman

The Daltons

• Lucky Luke
• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

John Dillinger

• The Death of Jack Hamilton (short story by Stephen King)
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Matthew Hopkins

• The Conqueror Worm

Osama bin Laden

• Family Guy
• South Park
• Team America: World Police

Gilles de Rais

• Bluebeard, the fairy tale, readapted many times

Jack the Ripper

• From Hell
• Lulu
• Babylon 5
• A Night in the Lonesome October
• Celebrity Deathmatch
• Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Wolf in the Fold"
• Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
• Wonder Woman: Amazonia

Unclassified

Erzsébet Báthory

• The Blood Countess
• Daughters of Darkness (1971 movie)
• Doctor Who: Managra

Brian Boitano

• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Eva Braun

• Family Guy

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

• Signal and Noise
• Doctor Who: Reckless Engineering

Bill Gates

• Family Guy
• Frasier
• Nothing So Strange
• Opus (comic strip)
• The Simpsons
• South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
• 2DTV

See also List of portrayals and references of Bill Gates

Phil Hellmuth Jr

• Jesse May novel Shut up and Deal

Esteban Huertas

• Scrooge McDuck

Ilse Koch

• Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS

Alice Liddell/Alice Hargreaves

• Riverworld
• Dreamchild

Simon Magus

• The Silver Chalice

Marshall McLuhan

• Annie Hall

Joseph Merrick

• From Hell

Rosa Parks

• The Boondocks (television series)

Billy Sunday

• Heavenly Discourse

See also

• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
• List of historical people portrayed as villains
• Scrooge McDuck's Encounters with real people

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