List of real people appearing in fictional context

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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 alternate histories, secret histories, Bangsian fantasy, historical fiction, and just general fiction.

People not to put on this list are mythical 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.

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.

Contents

[edit] World leaders and politicians

[edit] Ancient world

Caesar Augustus

Marcus Junius Brutus

Julius Caesar

Caligula

Cassius

Cleopatra VII of Egypt

Draco

Gilgamesh

See also: Gilgamesh in popular culture

Nero

Pompey

Scipio Metellus

Vercingetorix

[edit] Middle ages

Joan of Arc

Kublai Khan

Saladin

[edit] Modern world

Hans Blix

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

Fidel Castro

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Mikhail Gorbachev

Adolf Hitler

See also Cultural representations of Hitler

Saddam Hussein

Floriano Peixoto

Ivan the Terrible

Kim Jong-Il

Louis XVI of France

Marguerite de Valois

Möngke Khan

Napoleon I of France

Oda Nobunaga

Olof Palme

Philip IV of Spain

Puyi

Cardinal Richelieu

Tipu Sultan

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Wányán Āgǔdǎ

Yēlǜ Chǔcái

Zhu Yuanzhang

[edit] Popes

Pope Alexander VI

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Boniface VIII

Pope Celestine V

Pope Clement V

Pope John Paul II

Pope Nicholas III

Pope Pius XII

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] Royalty

King Arthur

Diana, Princess of Wales

Queen Elizabeth I of England

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Edward, the Black Prince

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

George III of the United Kingdom

George IV of the United Kingdom

James VI of Scotland and I of England

John Lackland

Macbeth of Scotland

Richard the Lionheart

Queen Victoria

[edit] Politicians

Winston Churchill

Margaret Thatcher

Frederick, Lord North

[edit] United States of America

[edit] Presidents of the United States

George H.W. Bush

George W. Bush

Jimmy Carter

Bill Clinton

Gerald Ford

Ulysses S. Grant

Thomas Jefferson

Lyndon Baines Johnson

John F. Kennedy

Abraham Lincoln See also: Lincoln in popular culture

Richard Nixon

Ronald Reagan

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

George Washington

Woodrow Wilson

[edit] Other politicians

Barbara Bush

Dick Cheney

Benjamin Franklin

J. Edgar Hoover

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ralph Nader

Arnold Schwarzenegger

John H. Sununu

William Marcy "Boss" Tweed

Booker T. Washington

Burton K. Wheeler

[edit] Artists, Writers, Musicians

Ahmad ibn Fadlan

Maya Angelou

Isaac Asimov

Dave Barry

Ludwig van Beethoven

William Blake

William S. Burroughs

Richard Francis Burton

Lord Byron

Calandrino, Bruno, and Buonamico Buffalmacco

Lewis Carroll

Johnny Cash

June Carter Cash

Ray Charles

Geoffrey Chaucer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bing Crosby

Philip K. Dick

Charles Dickens

Arthur Conan Doyle

Vincent van Gogh

Carl Hiaasen

Robert Greene

Bill Haley

  • Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
  • Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe

José Iturbi

Samuel Johnson

James Joyce

R. Kelly

Stephen King

Rudyard Kipling

Stan Lee

H.P. Lovecraft

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wayne Newton

George Orwell

Wilfred Owen

Pablo Picasso

Edgar Allan Poe

Jackson Pollack

Elvis Presley

William Rivers

Siegfried Sassoon

William Shakespeare

Mary Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Frank Sinatra

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Mark Twain

Shania Twain

Tristan Tzara

Virgil

Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

H. G. Wells

Oscar Wilde

Walter Winchell

Weird Al Yankovic

William Butler Yeats

[edit] Actors & entertainers

Woody Allen

Gillian Anderson

Ursula Andress

Alec Baldwin

Sonny Bono

Bruce Campbell

Johnny Carson

Cher

George Clooney

Glenn Close

Bill Cosby

Wes Craven

Tom Cruise

Matt Damon

Shannen Doherty

Phil Donahue

Michael Dorn

Olympia Dukakis

James Earl Jones

John Edward

Peter Falk

Brendan Fraser

Harrison Ford

Jeff Foxworthy

  • Hard Drinkin' Lincoln

Judy Garland

Janeane Garofalo

Danny Glover

Whoopi Goldberg

Frank Gorshin

Elliott Gould

Merv Griffin

Mark Hamill

Ethan Hawke

Mariel Hemingway

Florence Henderson

Katharine Hepburn

Charlton Heston

Paris Hilton

Harry Houdini

Helen Hunt

Izumo no Okuni

Samuel L. Jackson

Peter Jennings

Andy Kaufman

Heather Langenkamp

John Lennon

Jay Leno

David Letterman

George Lucas

Isaac Mizrahi

Bill Murray

Julie Newmar

Rosie O'Donnell

Gwyneth Paltrow

Sean Penn

Judge Reinhold

Regis Philbin

Rob Reiner

Michael Richards

Tim Robbins

Mickey Rooney

Winona Ryder

Susan Sarandon

Rob Schneider

Joel Schumacher

Jerry Seinfeld

Martin Sheen

Kevin Smith

Steven Spielberg

Meryl Streep

Sally Struthers

Patrick Swayze

Elizabeth Taylor

Jennifer Tilly

Liv Tyler

Racquel Welch

Vanna White

Henry Winkler

Oprah Winfrey

James Woods

[edit] Scientists & Thinkers

Aristotle

Confucius

Aleister Crowley

see also Aleister Crowley in popular culture

Maria Skłodowska-Curie

Charles Darwin

John Dee

Frederick Douglass

  • Hard Drinkin' Lincoln

Albert Einstein

Philo T. Farnsworth

  • Carter Beats the Devil

Sigmund Freud

Stephen Hawking

Robert Ingersoll

Alfred Kinsey

Vladimir Lenin

Lawrence Lessig

Leonardo Da Vinci

See also Leonardo da Vinci in popular culture

Ada Lovelace

Sir Thomas More

Sir Isaac Newton

Tom Paine

Jean Rostand

Michael Scot

Socrates

Nikola Tesla

Alan Turing

Adam Weishaupt

[edit] Explorers

Captain William Bligh

Christopher Columbus

Amelia Earhart

Catalina de Erauso

Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Dr. Livingstone

Marco Polo

[edit] Military people

General Douglas MacArthur

General George Armstrong Custer

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring

Generaloberst Heinz Guderian

Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III

Field-Marshall Douglas Haig

General George Patton

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler

Hattori Hanzō

General Robert E. Lee

Admiral Horatio Nelson

Baron Manfred von Richthofen

Conquistador Francisco Pizarro

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

[edit] Samurai

Hijikata Toshizo

Miyamoto Musashi

Sasaki Kojiro

Okita Sōji

Saito Hajime

Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi

Ryoma Sakamoto

[edit] Criminals and Outlaws

Billy the Kid

John Wilkes Booth

Al Capone

The Daltons

John Dillinger

Mata Hari

Matthew Hopkins

Ishikawa Goemon

Osama bin Laden

Gilles de Rais

Jack the Ripper

Peter Sutcliffe

[edit] Sports figures

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Charles Barkley

Larry Bird

Muggsy Bogues

Brian Boitano

Shawn Bradley

Lou Gehrig

Patrick Ewing

Grant Hill

Allen Iverson

Reggie Jackson

Larry Johnson

Michael Jordan

Reggie Miller

George Steinbrenner

[edit] Unclassified

Abe no Seimei

Erzsébet Báthory

Todd Beamer

Mark Bingham

Eva Braun

Tom Burnett

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Morgan, Virgil, and Wyatt Earp

Bill Gates

See also List of portrayals and references of Bill Gates

Jeremy Glick

Hugh Hefner

Phil Hellmuth Jr

LeRoy Homer

Esteban Huertas

Helen Keller

Kenny Kramer

Ilse Koch

Alice Liddell Hargreaves

Simon Magus

Marshall McLuhan

Joseph Merrick

Michael Moore

Baron Munchhausen

Emperor Norton

Ty Olsson

Rosa Parks

Rupert Murdoch

Billy Sunday

Mother Teresa

Stephen Ward

Brigham Young

Olga Benario

  • Olga

Henry the Fowler

Wang Chongyang

Qiu Chuji

Wang Chuyi

Hao Datong

Sun Bu'er

Yin Zhiping

Zhang Sanfeng

Chen Youliang

Xu Da

Cangrande I della Scala

[edit] See also