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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[edit]

(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[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]

Lightning (novel by Wikipedia:Dean Koontz)

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]

See also Wikipedia:Cultural representations of Hitler


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]

Lord Byron[edit]

Wikipedia:Lewis Carroll[edit]

Wikipedia:Samuel Taylor Coleridge[edit]

Wikipedia:Charles Dickens[edit]

Wikipedia:Arthur Conan Doyle[edit]

Wikipedia:Carl Hiaasen[edit]

Wikipedia:Robert Greene[edit]

Wikipedia:José Iturbi[edit]

Wikipedia:Samuel Johnson[edit]

Wikipedia:R. Kelly[edit]

H.P. Lovecraft[edit]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[edit]

Wilfred Owen[edit]

Pablo Picasso[edit]

Wikipedia:Edgar Allan Poe[edit]

Wikipedia:Elvis Presley[edit]

William Rivers[edit]

Wikipedia:Siegfried Sassoon[edit]

Wikipedia:William Shakespeare[edit]

Wikipedia:Mary Shelley[edit]

Wikipedia:Percy Bysshe Shelley[edit]

Wikipedia:Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec[edit]

Wikipedia:Mark Twain[edit]

Wikipedia:Shania Twain[edit]

Wikipedia:Virgil[edit]

Wikipedia:Voltaire[edit]

Wikipedia:H. G. Wells[edit]

Oscar Wilde[edit]

Wikipedia:Walter Winchell[edit]

Wikipedia:William Butler Yeats[edit]

Actors & entertainers[edit]

Wikipedia:Ursula Andress[edit]

Wikipedia:Alec Baldwin[edit]

Wikipedia:George Clooney[edit]

Wikipedia:Matt Damon[edit]

Wikipedia:Michael Dorn[edit]

Wikipedia:John Edward[edit]

Wikipedia:Peter Falk[edit]

Wikipedia:Judy Garland[edit]

Wikipedia:Janeane Garofalo[edit]

Wikipedia:Danny Glover[edit]

Wikipedia:Ethan Hawke[edit]

Wikipedia:Charlton Heston[edit]

Wikipedia:Paris Hilton[edit]

Wikipedia:Harry Houdini[edit]

Wikipedia:Helen Hunt[edit]

Wikipedia:Samuel L. Jackson[edit]

Wikipedia:Peter Jennings[edit]

Wikipedia:Rosie O'Donnell[edit]

Wikipedia:Sean Penn[edit]

Wikipedia:Tim Robbins[edit]

Wikipedia:Mickey Rooney[edit]

Wikipedia:Winona Ryder[edit]

Wikipedia:Susan Sarandon[edit]

Wikipedia:Rob Schneider[edit]

Wikipedia:Martin Sheen[edit]

Wikipedia:Sally Struthers[edit]

Wikipedia:Liv Tyler[edit]

Wikipedia:James Woods[edit]

Scientists & Thinkers[edit]

Wikipedia:Aristotle[edit]

Wikipedia:Confucius[edit]

Aleister Crowley[edit]

see also Wikipedia:Aleister Crowley in popular culture

Maria Skłodowska-Curie[edit]

Charles Darwin[edit]

Wikipedia:John Dee[edit]

Albert Einstein[edit]

Wikipedia:Philo T. Farnsworth[edit]

Sigmund Freud[edit]

Stephen Hawking[edit]

Wikipedia:Robert Ingersoll[edit]

Wikipedia:Alfred Kinsey[edit]

Wikipedia:Lawrence Lessig[edit]

Leonardo Da Vinci[edit]

Wikipedia:Ada Lovelace[edit]

Sir Isaac Newton[edit]

Tom Paine[edit]

Wikipedia:Michael Scot[edit]

Wikipedia:Socrates[edit]

Wikipedia:Alan Turing[edit]

Adam Weishaupt[edit]

Explorers[edit]

Captain Wikipedia:William Bligh[edit]

Wikipedia:Christopher Columbus[edit]

Wikipedia:Amelia Earhart[edit]

Wikipedia:Charles Lindbergh and Wikipedia:Anne Morrow Lindbergh[edit]

Wikipedia:Dr. Livingstone[edit]

Wikipedia:Marco Polo[edit]

Military people[edit]

General Wikipedia:Douglas MacArthur[edit]

General Wikipedia:George Armstrong Custer[edit]

General Wikipedia:Robert E. Lee[edit]

Admiral Horatio Nelson[edit]

Baron Wikipedia:Manfred von Richthofen[edit]

Conquistador Wikipedia:Francisco Pizarro[edit]

Criminals and Outlaws[edit]

Wikipedia:Billy the Kid[edit]

Wikipedia:Al Capone[edit]

Wikipedia:The Daltons[edit]

John Dillinger[edit]

Wikipedia:Matthew Hopkins[edit]

Wikipedia:Osama bin Laden[edit]

Wikipedia:Gilles de Rais[edit]

Wikipedia:Jack the Ripper[edit]

Unclassified[edit]

Wikipedia:Erzsébet Báthory[edit]

Wikipedia:Brian Boitano[edit]

Wikipedia:Eva Braun[edit]

Wikipedia:Isambard Kingdom Brunel[edit]

Bill Gates[edit]

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

Phil Hellmuth Jr[edit]

Wikipedia:Esteban Huertas[edit]

Wikipedia:Ilse Koch[edit]

Alice Liddell/Alice Hargreaves[edit]

Wikipedia:Simon Magus[edit]

Wikipedia:Marshall McLuhan[edit]

Wikipedia:Joseph Merrick[edit]

Wikipedia:Rosa Parks[edit]

Wikipedia:Billy Sunday[edit]

See also[edit]

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