List of fictitious people

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This article lists the fictitious people, i.e., nonexistent people, which, unlike fictional people, are those somebody has claimed to actually exist. Usually this is done for purposes of practical joke or hoax, but sometimes for purposes of committing fraud or as a pseudonym. Sometimes the line between the two categories is blurred, e.g., as in the case of Abdul Alhazred.

Contents 1 Hoaxes 2 Pseudonyms 3 Arts & entertainment 4 Academia 5 Unclassified

[edit] Hoaxes

• Abdul Alhazred, author of the equally fictitious Necronomicon created by H. P. Lovecraft. His pseudobiography was published in A History of the Necronomicon. [1]
• Pierre Brassau, avant-garde artist (in reality, a chimpanzee named Peter)
• Yardis Alpolfo, a nonexistent soccer player, an anagram of April Fools Day
• William Ashbless, a 19th-century fictitious poet and adventurer
• Bilitis, nonexistent Ancient Greek poet. Supposed author of The Songs of Bilitis, a collection of erotic poetry "discovered" by Pierre Louÿs.
• Margaret Thatcher, this is, in fact, a hoax itself. Margaret Thatcher does, in fact, exist.
• Harry Q. Bovik, eternal Carnegie Mellon computer science researcher
• George P. Burdell, eternal Georgia Tech student
• Eddie Burrup, fake Australian aboriginal painter
• Allegra Coleman, nonexistent supermodel
• Helen Demidenko, nonexistent Ukrainian author, created by Australian writer Helen Darville
• Anthony Godby Johnson, (probably) fictitious author of Rock and a Hard Place : One Boy's Triumphant Story
• Kilroy, a nonexistent legendary World War II US army major who inspired millions during the war and became part of American popular culture.
• Ern Malley, nonexistent Australian poet, created by Australian poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart
• Simonya Popova, nonexistent tennis player created by Sports Illustrated
• Manfred Sturmer, nonexistent 112-year-old Viennese percussionist, created in December 1997 by John Sessions for Michael Berkeley's BBC Radio 3 programme Private Passions
• Piotr Zak, nonexistent Polish composer, created for a BBC programme by Hans Keller and others
• Georg Paul Thomann, nonexistent Austrian conceptual artist, created by art group monochrom to represent Austria at the 2002 Sao Paulo Art Biennial. Georg Paul Thomann is featured in RE/Search's "Pranks 2" book.

[edit] Pseudonyms

This list includes pseudonyms supplied with a biography suggesting the existence of a person distinct from the actual person with the pseudonym in question, often with the purpose of a hoax.

See also Category:Collective pseudonyms (many of them were not claimed as "real" people).

• Nicolas Bourbaki, a 20th century French mathematician with credited publications
• Kozma Prutkov, nonexistent Russian writer
• Lemony Snicket, pseudonym of Daniel Handler and character in Handler's (or "Snicket's") Series of Unfortunate Events
• Gerald Wiley, pseudonym used by comedy performer and writer Ronnie Barker so that his sketches would be judged on merit.

[edit] Arts & entertainment

• David J. Broadfoot, the Member of Parliament from Kicking Horse Pass, representing the New Apathetic Party, a character played by Canadian comedian Dave Broadfoot.
• Dame Edna Everage, a character played by Australian comedian Barry Humphries
• Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakhstani journalist created by Sacha Baron-Cohen, see also Ali G and Bruno
• Rusty Shackelford, pseudonym of Dale Gribble from the animated program King of the Hill.
• Sven - occasional stand in for Samantha, above, on BBC radio comedy I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
• Hyuck E, fake staff member of Ed, Edd n Eddy
• Gerald Bostock, writer of the lyrics for the Jethro Tull album Thick as a Brick.
• Ponsonby Britt executive producer of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. In the credits of George of the Jungle, a later offering from the same production company, "Britt" had been promoted to "Ponsonby Britt OBE" (recipient of the Order of the British Empire).
• Holt Dillenbiesel - German porn model/star of 1990's
• Bruno Hat, nonexistent painter
• Margaret B. Jones, fictitious half white, half Native American foster child and Bloods gang member in South Central Los Angeles
• Andreas Karavis, nonexistent Greek poet
• Donald Kaufman, fictional brother of Adaptation writer Charlie Kaufman, gained "writing credits" and co-won an Oscar
• Kobuk, nonexistent Inuit author and playwright (invented by the Austrian comedian Helmut Qualtinger)
• Wanda Koolmatrie, nonexistent Australian aboriginal author
• JT LeRoy, fictional American author and literary celebrity.
• David Manning, a nonexistent film critic created by Sony Corporation.
• Jeremy McNeil, fictional film writer/ director credited with several independent film productions.
• S. Morgenstern, whom William Goldman claims originally wrote The Princess Bride.
• Rupert Peasley, fictional music producer credited with producing several Weezer albums.
• Phil Raven, fictitious pro-wrestler created by Phil Parent
• Nat Tate, fake 1950's American artist
• B. Traven, adventure novelist
• Mrs. Trellis of North Wales - regular correspondent to BBC radio comedy I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• Kilgore Trout Fake author of "Venus on the Halfshell". Created by Kurt Vonnegut. Book written by Philip Jose Farmer
• Hajime Yadate, credited as the creator of most of the anime works of Japanese animation studio Sunrise.
• (The lovely) Samantha - fictitious scorer on BBC radio comedy I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

[edit] Academia

• Jára da Cimrman, fictional Czech genius and polymath
• Axel Eklund, mid 50's fictional chemistry student and inventor
• Honorable J. Fortescue, fake US physician
• Dr. Irving Joshua Matrix, numerologist, invented by Martin Gardner
• Josiah Carberry, professor of psychoceramics at Brown University
• Vladimir Reguspatoff, Russia's most prolific inventor (from Reg. US. Pat. Off.)

[edit] Unclassified

Please help in putting them into appropriate sections.

• Carl Brandon, a fictional fan of color, for whom the Carl Brandon Society was named
• Betty Crocker, fake spokesperson for The Washburn Crosby Company of Minneapolis
• Sidd Finch, nonexistent baseball prodigy created by George Plimpton for an April Fool's Day prank.
• Kodee Kennings, nonexistent 8-year-old girl whose letters were published in the Daily Egyptian, a student newspaper for Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• Chimezie Kudu, nonexistent 7-foot-11 basketball player (ESPN.com readers' responses)
• Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre, volumetric namesake.
• Pedro Lopez, the world's most prolific serial killer.
• Andrew MacDonald, a pseudonym for William Luther Pierce, white supremacist and author of The Turner Diaries
• Kaycee Nicole, fictional leukemia sufferer and Internet personality
• Captain Oldman RN. Georgian guano trader and notorious bounder - chronicled by the Historical Maritime Society
• Henry Root, fictitious correspondent, and Henry Raddick (possibly the same person)
• H. Rochester Sneath, nonexistent headmaster of the nonexistent Selhurst School
• R. E. Straith, who wrote a fictitious letter to George Adamski (Moseley and Pflock, 2002:124-127)
• Udo of Aachen, fictional monk
• Francis Wagstaffe, fictitious postulant for priesthood
• Edna Welthorpe, nonexistent morality campaigner
• Araki Yasusada, fake Hiroshima survivor and author
• Robert Peacock, outlaw and gunfighter