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 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.
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.
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World Leaders & Politicians
- The Sandman
- Rome - As Gaius Octavian
- I, Claudius
- Caligula, play by Albert Camus
- Caligula - film
- Demetrius and the Gladiators
- I, Claudius
- Red Dwarf
- The Robe
- Clone High
- Civilization III
- Hard Drinkin' Lincoln
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (cameo in Hell)
- Star Trek: Voyager (Darkling)
- Time Squad
- Celebrity Deathmatch
- UHF
- Gilgamesh the King
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- How Like a God (book based on the epic above)
- Gilgamesh (opera based on above epic)
- Final Fantasy video game series.
- Xena: Warrior Princess
- Gilgamesh (anime)
- Various Marvel Comics (as himself and a character called "the Forgotten One")
- Fate/Stay Night
- Gilgamesh (2007 movie)
- Highlander: The Series
See also: Gilgamesh in popular culture
- Faraway, So Close!
- The Simpsons
- Street Fighter II (cameo in Zangief's ending)
- Win, Lose or Die
- Between Time and Timbuktu
- The Bunker
- Doctor Who:Timewyrm Exodus and Shadow in the Glass
- Dragonball Z
- Education for Death
- Fallen Angel (as Dolf, a "retired European ruler" and owner of a bar called Furors)
- Family Guy
- Futurama
- God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
- Hey Arnold!
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days
- Hitler: The Rise of Evil
- Hogan's Heroes as impersonated by Sgt. Carter
- 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
- The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
- Persona 2: Innocent Sin
- 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
- Family Guy
- Hot Shots!, Hot Shots! Part Deux
- The Simpsons
- South Park (regular character), South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
- Pinky and the Brain
- Age of Empires II
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Civilization III
- Clone High
- Histeria!
- The Simpsons
- Time Squad
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Clone High
- The Conqueror
- Johnny Bravo
- The Legend of the Condor Heroes
- Monty Python ("Famous deaths" sketch)
- Star Trek (The Savage Curtain)
- Time Squad
- The Fairly Oddparents
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Return of the Condor Heroes
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Time Squad
- 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
- Blood Reign:Curse of the Yoma
- Flame of Recca
- Hideyoshi
- Hikaru no Go (metafictional appearance as a character in a historical play)
- Inu Yasha
- Kagemusha
- Black Lion
- Kessen
- Mister Zipangu
- Nobunaga's Ambition video game series
- Onimusha video game series
- Sakura Taisen V
- Samurai Deeper Kyo
- Samurai Warriors
- Sengoku Basara
- Taiko
- Taikou Risshiden
- Throne of Darkness
- Vasara 2
- The Three Musketeers
- The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
- Monty Python's Flying Circus (episode 13 only, pantomiming to a Petula Clark record)
- Civilization computer game series
- Hideyoshi
- Kagemusha
- Kessen
- Mister Zipangu
- Nobunaga's Ambition video game series
- Rikyu
- Riverworld
- Samurai Deeper Kyo
- Samurai Warriors
- Shogun
- Taiko
- Taikou Risshiden
- Throne of Darkness
- The Cantos (as Messier Undertree)
- Hideyoshi
- Kagemusha
- Kessen
- Mister Zipangu
- Nobunaga's Ambition video game series
- Onimusha video game series
- Samurai Warriors
- Taiko
- Taikou Risshiden
- Throne of Darkness
- Vasara 2
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Catholic Popes
- The Antipope (Part of The Brentford Trilogy)
- The Divine Comedy, Part 1 (Inferno), by Dante Alighieri
- The Divine Comedy, Part 1 (Inferno), by Dante Alighieri
- Sunsets and Glories, by Peter Barnes
- The Divine Comedy, Part 1 (Inferno), by Dante Alighieri
- The Divine Comedy, Part 1 (Inferno), by Dante Alighieri
- The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth
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United Kingdom
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Royalty
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Arthur, King of Time and Space
- Fate/Stay Night (as Saber)
- 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
- 1601, Mark Twain
- Marvel 1602, by Neil Gaiman
- Blackadder II
- Civilization III
- Shakespeare in Love
- Elizabeth
George IV of the United Kingdom
- Doctor Who serial The Crusade
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- The Talisman 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
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Politicians
- Jane
- Lightning (novel by Dean Koontz)
- The Winds of War and War and Remembrance (novels by Herman Wouk)
- For Your Eyes Only (movie)
- Win, Lose or Die
- You Don't Have To Be Mad... by Kim Newman
- The Comic Strip
- Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
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United States of America
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Presidents of the United States
- Futurama
- The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
- De Pias van het Pentagon
- The Simpsons
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- Win, Lose or Die
- Animaniacs
- Beavis and Butt-head Do America
- Eek! the Cat
- Family Guy
- Freakazoid
- Futurama
- Road Rovers
- The Simpsons
- South Park
- Pinky and the Brain
- Forrest Gump
- MacBird by Barbara Garson
- "Superbird" by Country Joe and the Fish
- Bubba Ho-tep
- Clone High
- Forrest Gump
- Heaven
- Red Dwarf
- The Two Georges
- The New Twilight Zone, episode "Profile in Silver"
- All That
- Animaniacs
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Civilization III
- Clone High
- Family Guy
- Flaming Carrot comics
- Futurama
- Hard Drinkin' Lincoln
- Histeria!
- How Few Remain
- Red Dwarf
- 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
- 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
- Annie
- Histeria!
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- The Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair
- "Nick Danger", sketch by the Firesign Theatre
- Settling Accounts
- The Plot Against America
- The Simpsons
- The Three Stooges
- The Winds of War and War and Remembrance
- 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
- Futurama
- Histeria!
- A House-Boat on the Styx
- South Park
- Stormwatch: Team Achilles
- The Fairly Oddparents
- Time Squad (three times so far)
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Other politicians
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Artists, Writers, Musicians
- Animaniacs
- Beethoven Lives Upstairs
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Monty Python's Flying Circus "Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity"
- Read or Die
- Time Squad
- The Riverworld series by Philip José Farmer
- 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
- Dreamchild
- Conned Again, Watson by Colin Bruce
- "The Artful Dodgson" in the Mornington Crescent Almanac
- Nightmare Abbey, novel by Thomas Love Peacock
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, novel by Douglas Adams
- The Anubis Gates, novel by Tim Powers
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- "The Artful Dodgson" in the Mornington Crescent Almanac
- Doctor Who episode "The Unquiet Dead"
- 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
- Dreams (in the "Crows" sequence)
- Family Guy
- Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "A Groatsworth of Wit"
- Monty Python ("Famous Deaths" sketch)
- Riverworld
- Amadeus
- 7th Heaven
- Full House
- Here's Lucy
- My Wife and Kids
- Perfect Strangers (sitcom)
- Roseanne
- Switch (TV series)
- The Lucy Show
- The Pretender
- The Real Las Vegas
- Vega$
- Vegas Vacation
- Regeneration trilogy of novels by Pat Barker
- Bluebeard (novel by Kurt Vonnegut)
- Monty Python (making a painting while riding on a bicycle)
- Heaven
- Time Squad
- "I Am The Walrus" - by The Beatles (is mentioned being kicked by Penguins who are singing the Hare Krishna)
- Bluebeard (novel by Kurt Vonnegut)
- Angels with Angles
- Bubba Ho-tep
- The Elvis and Jack Mysteries
- Good Omens
- Mostly Harmless
- Armageddon: The Musical and sequels by Robert Rankin
- Quantum Leap
- Married... with Children
- Forrest Gump
- Red Dwarf
- Regeneration trilogy of novels by Pat Barker
- Regeneration trilogy of novels by Pat Barker
- 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 Treehouse
- Celebrity Deathmatch
- Gothic
- The Stress of Her Regard, novel by Tim Powers
- Johnny Bravo
- Heavenly Discourse
- Riverworld
- The Sandman
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (Time's Arrow)
- The Dancers at the End of Time
- The Time Ships
- Time After Time
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
- Doctor Who serial "Timelash"
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Actors & entertainers
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (original novel)
- The Boondocks
- Fat Albert - live-action film version
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Scientists & Thinkers
- 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
- Animaniacs
- Family Guy
- Heaven
- Red Dwarf
- Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Descent")
- Time Squad
- Young Einstein
- 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
Sir Isaac Newton
- 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
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Explorers
Captain William Bligh
- Mutiny on the Bounty - Book and movies
- The Bounty - a musical about Bligh and the Bounty.
- Circumpolar! by Richard A. Lupoff
- Family Guy
- Fluke
- Flying Blind by Max Allan Collins
- Star Trek Voyager ("The 37s")
- Time Squad
Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Military people
General Douglas MacArthur
General George Armstrong Custer
- Little Big Man
- How Few Remain and the following Great War trilogy
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring
- Kage no Gundan
- Koga Ninpocho
- Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls (anime based on above book)
- Ninja Burger
- Nobunaga's Ambition II
- Samurai Deeper Kyo
- Samurai Shodown video game series
- Samurai Warriors video game series
- World Heroes video game series
General Robert E. Lee
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
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
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Samurai
- Musashi
- Shura no Toki
- Onimusha: Blade Warriors (extra character)
- Brave Fencer Musashi game series
- Musashi
- Onimusha: Blade Warriors (extra character)
- Brave Fencer Musashi game series
- Fate/Stay Night (as Assassin)
- Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba
- Kaze Hikaru
- Peacemaker Kurogane
- Rurouni Kenshin (recurring character in OVAs)
- Taboo
- Kaze Hikaru
- Peacemaker Kurogane
- Rurouni Kenshin (recurring character)
- Darkside Reborn
- The Death of Jūbei Yagyu
- Jubei-chan the Ninja Girl (recurring character)
- Lone Wolf and Cub
- Samurai Legend
- Makai Tensho
- Ninja Resurrection (anime based on the above book)
- Ninja Scroll (anime based on the above book)
- Samurai Shodown game series
- Shogun's Samurai
- The Yagyu Conspiracy (TV series version of the film)
- Shura no Toki
- Yaiba
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Criminals and Outlaws
- Tintin in America
- USSA series by Kim Newman
- The Death of Jack Hamilton (short story by Stephen King)
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- Mata Hari
- R.O.D. series
- Shadow Hearts
- Legend of the Mystical Ninja video game series
- Samurai Warriors
- Bluebeard, the fairy tale, readapted many times
- 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
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Sports figures
- Seinfeld, as George Costanza's boss
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Unclassified
- The Great Yokai War (2005 remake)
- Hana to Utage
- Harukanaru Toki no Naka de
- Konjaku Monogatari
- Magical☆Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
- Onmyoji film series
- Otogi 2
- Otogi Zoshi
- Spirit Warrior: Festival of the Ogre's Revival
- Teito Monogatari
- Doomed Megalopolis (anime based on the above book)
- Yumemakura Baku
- Onmyoji (TV series version of Yumemakura Baku, unrelated to above movie series)
See also List of portrayals and references of Bill Gates
- "Midsummer Night's Doom", a James Bond short story
- Jesse May novel Shut up and Deal
- The Legend of the Condor Heroes
- The Return of the Condor Heroes
- The Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Saber
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