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* ''Literature/InfernoLarryNivenAndJerryPournelle'': While a large portion of the people met in Hell are fictitious, Allen's travels bring him across numerous notable figures from history. In addition to [[spoiler:being guided around by Benito Mussolini]] and picking up Billy the Kid as a traveling companion, the sinners encountered in the first book include such folks as Jesse James, Henry the Eighth, Vlad Țepeș, L. Ron Hubbard and Al Capone. In the second novel, the traveling party includes the poet Sylvia Plath and the radio preacher Aimee McPherson; on the way, they come across Charles Francis Adams preaching to the heretics, J. Edgar Hoover among the Malebranche, numerous WWII military leaders among the evil counselors, Pontius Pilate on his own peregrination, and several others.
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* Spanish novelist and war journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte noticed that his 12-year-old daughter's History book had only a paragraph for the 17th century, the Spanish Golden Century. Wanting to solve the situation, he wrote a series of adventure books starring a fictional sword-for-hire, ''Captain Literature/{{Alatriste}}'', who gets involved in state conspiracies and meets kings and important figure and fights in important battles. Spanish writer Francisco De Quevedo is a recurrent character as Alatriste's personal friend. [[TheFilmOfTheBook They made a movie of the series.]]
* Philippa Ballantine's novel ''Literature/ChasingTheBard'' is about [[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples Will Shakespeare]] saving not one but two worlds from an Eldritch Abomination type being.
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* Spanish novelist and war journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte noticed that his 12-year-old daughter's History book had only a paragraph for the 17th century, the Spanish Golden Century. Wanting to solve the situation, he wrote a series of adventure books starring a fictional sword-for-hire, ''Captain Literature/{{Alatriste}}'', who gets involved in state conspiracies and meets kings and important figure and fights in important battles. Spanish writer Francisco De Quevedo is a recurrent character as Alatriste's personal friend. [[TheFilmOfTheBook They made a movie of the series.]]
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* Low-key example in Literature/TheEnglishPatient: Almasy and the Cliftons. Real people, with minor historical significance.
** This use of minor historical figures as characters happens again in Michael Ondaatje's other works: ''The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'' (yes, that UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid), mysterious disappeared Canadian businessman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Small Ambrose Small]] in ''In The Skin of A Lion,'' Buddy Bolden (jazz musician) in ''Coming Through Slaughter,'' and so on.
** This use of minor historical figures as characters happens again in Michael Ondaatje's other works: ''The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'' (yes, that UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid), mysterious disappeared Canadian businessman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Small Ambrose Small]] in ''In The Skin of A Lion,'' Buddy Bolden (jazz musician) in ''Coming Through Slaughter,'' and so on.
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** * This use of minor historical figures as characters happens again in Michael Ondaatje's other works: ''The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'' (yes, that UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid), mysterious disappeared Canadian businessman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Small Ambrose Small]] in ''In The Skin of A Lion,'' Buddy Bolden (jazz musician) in ''Coming Through Slaughter,'' and so on.
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** The Roman poet Creator/{{Virgil}} serves as the guide for Dante in the first two parts of the ''Comedy''. Fittingly, the ''Comedy'' is in the same genre as Virgil's ''Literature/TheAeneid''. As a pagan, he's condemned to Hell, but Dante acknowledges his virtue by putting him in the relatively benign first circle.
** Those arriving in Purgatory are greeted by [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Cato the Younger]], who so faithfully followed the cardinal virtues that it is almost as if he was graced by God. It's unclear if Cato is an occupant of Limbo or if he is destined to be saved.
** Those arriving in Purgatory are greeted by [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Cato the Younger]], who so faithfully followed the cardinal virtues that it is almost as if he was graced by God. It's unclear if Cato is an occupant of Limbo or if he is destined to be saved.
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** Those arriving in Purgatory are greeted by[[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Cato the Younger]], Younger, who so faithfully followed the cardinal virtues that it is almost as if he was graced by God. It's unclear if Cato is an occupant of Limbo or if he is destined to be saved.
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* Almost the entire cast of Hilary Mantel's ''Wolf Hall,'' which stars Thomas Cromwell (a ThirdPersonPerson) and features, among others, Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII, UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn, Jane Seymour, and so on, and so on. Includes an extensive TakeThat against Thomas More. In fact there is only one fictional named character in the entire book, a French serving boy in Cromwell's employ.
** Similarly, the entire cast of Hilary Mantel's ''Series/APlaceOfGreaterSafety,'' which stars Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Danton, and many others.
* Robespierre, Danton, and Marat appear in Victor Hugo's ''Literature/NinetyThree''.
** Similarly, the entire cast of Hilary Mantel's ''Series/APlaceOfGreaterSafety,'' which stars Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Danton, and many others.
* Robespierre, Danton, and Marat appear in Victor Hugo's ''Literature/NinetyThree''.
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* Almost ''Literature/TheSwordOfSaintFerdinand'': In this historical novel, King Ferdinand III of Castile is one of the entire cast of main characters.
* Hilary Mantel's''Wolf Hall,'' which stars Thomas Cromwell (a ThirdPersonPerson) and features, among others, Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII, UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn, Jane Seymour, and so on, and so on. Includes an extensive TakeThat against Thomas More. In fact there is only one fictional named character in the entire book, a French serving boy in Cromwell's employ.
** Similarly, the entire''Series/APlaceOfGreaterSafety'': The cast of Hilary Mantel's ''Series/APlaceOfGreaterSafety,'' which stars Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Danton, and many others.
* Victor Hugo's ''Literature/NinetyThree'': Robespierre, Danton, and Marat appear inVictor Hugo's ''Literature/NinetyThree''.the novel.
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* Creator/AlexandreDumas was also fond of this:
** Charles de Batz de Castelmore, Count d'Artagnan was heavily fictionalised as the lead character of ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. Porthos, Athos and Aramis are entirely fictional, although Captain Tréville was real, as of course were King Louis XIII, Queen Anne and Cardinal Richelieu.
** ''Joseph Balsamo'' and ''Le Collier de la Reine'' both feature the eponymous Joseph Balsamo, better known as the Count of Caligostro.
** The main character of ''The Black Tulip'' is the [[HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative godson]] of Cornelis de Witt, a historical figure who was executed for treason against William of Orange, and suffers GuiltByAssociation as a result.
* ''Literature/TheBaroqueCycle'' includes UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton, the rest of the Royal Society, several British kings, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, a very young Creator/BenjaminFranklin, and many, many others. ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'' has UsefulNotes/AlanTuring and UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur, amongst not ''quite'' as many others.
* Creator/AlexandreDumas was also fond of this:
** Charles de Batz de Castelmore, Count d'Artagnan was heavily fictionalised as the lead character of ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. Porthos, Athos and Aramis are entirely fictional, although Captain Tréville was real, as of course were King Louis XIII, Queen Anne and Cardinal Richelieu.
** ''Joseph Balsamo'' and ''Le Collier de la Reine'' both feature the eponymous Joseph Balsamo, better known as the Count of Caligostro.
** The main character of ''The Black Tulip'' is the [[HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative godson]] of Cornelis de Witt, a historical figure who was executed for treason against William of Orange, and suffers GuiltByAssociation as a result.
* ''Literature/TheBaroqueCycle'' includes UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton, the rest of the Royal Society, several British kings, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, a very young Creator/BenjaminFranklin, and many, many others. ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'' has UsefulNotes/AlanTuring and UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur, amongst not ''quite'' as many others.
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* There is a very odd tendency lately to turn historical people into detectives. This includes UsefulNotes/{{ElizabethI}}, Abigail Adams, and Creator/JaneAusten of all people. The TropeMaker for this sub genre may be Theodore Mathieson, 1950s author of "Captain Cook: Detective", "Creator/LeonardoDaVinci: Detective", "Florence Nightingale: Detective" ''etc., etc.'''
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* There is a very odd tendency lately to turn historical people into detectives. This includes UsefulNotes/{{ElizabethI}}, Abigail Adams, and Creator/JaneAusten of all people.Creator/JaneAusten. The TropeMaker for this sub genre may be Theodore Mathieson, 1950s author of "Captain Cook: Detective", "Creator/LeonardoDaVinci: Detective", "Florence Nightingale: Detective" ''etc., etc.'''
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* ''Literature/TheLordOfBembibre'' features or mentions several important and influential rulers of the early fourteenth century: Infante John of Castile, Lord of Valencia de Campos -and one of the personal enemies of the main character-, his nephew King Ferdinand IV of Castile, King James I of Aragon, King Philip the IV Fair of France, Pope Clement V...
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* Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's ''Literature/TheBlackArrow'' is set during the Wars of the Roses and features King Richard III of England -back when he was still Richard "Crookback" Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester- and his retainer Sir William Catesby.
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* Although most characters in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' with dialogue were just acquaintances of Dante's, the ''Comedy'' features a handful of famous historical figures in significant roles.
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* Sir Creator/WalterScott was fond of including real people in his novels.
** ''Literature/OldMortality'' features [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John Balfour]] (who really did murder [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sharp_(bishop) Archbishop Sharp]]), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Paterson_(stonemason) Old Mortality himself]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graham,_1st_Viscount_Dundee John Grahame of Claverhouse]] among others.
** ''Literature/RobRoy'': The title character, Rob Roy [=MacGregor=].
** ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'': UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart and Prince John
** ''The Abbot'': UsefulNotes/MaryOfScotland
** ''Literature/{{Waverley}}'' and ''Redgauntlet'' both feature Charles Edward Stuart ([=AKA=] Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender)
** ''Kenilworth'' has UsefulNotes/ElizabethI, among others
** ''Literature/OldMortality'' features [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John Balfour]] (who really did murder [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sharp_(bishop) Archbishop Sharp]]), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Paterson_(stonemason) Old Mortality himself]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graham,_1st_Viscount_Dundee John Grahame of Claverhouse]] among others.
** ''Literature/RobRoy'': The title character, Rob Roy [=MacGregor=].
** ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'': UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart and Prince John
** ''The Abbot'': UsefulNotes/MaryOfScotland
** ''Literature/{{Waverley}}'' and ''Redgauntlet'' both feature Charles Edward Stuart ([=AKA=] Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender)
** ''Kenilworth'' has UsefulNotes/ElizabethI, among others
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* ''Literature/ALongPetalOfTheSea'':
** Poet Creator/PabloNeruda convinces the Chilean President to grant asylum to Civil War refugees. He ends up filling up the SS ''Winnipeg'' with 2000 Spanish refugees, which arrives in Chile in 1939. Later, Víctor Dalmau, one of those refugees, finds himself offering him shelter when Neruda has to hide from the police.
** Minister of Health Salvador Allende is among the figures that greet the ''Winnipeg'' upon arrival. He is a friend to Felipe del Solar and later intervenes so that Víctor can get credit for his medicine studies in Spain and finish in three years. He ends up becoming friends with Victor; sadly, after the 1973 coup, that friendship causes Victor to spend time in a concentration camp.
** UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco's rule after the Civil War ends in a dictatorship. Roster mentions that he prohibited speaking Catalan. After he dies [[spoiler:Víctor and his wife Roser move back to Spain but only stay for six months because there is really no place for them.]]
** Poet Creator/PabloNeruda convinces the Chilean President to grant asylum to Civil War refugees. He ends up filling up the SS ''Winnipeg'' with 2000 Spanish refugees, which arrives in Chile in 1939. Later, Víctor Dalmau, one of those refugees, finds himself offering him shelter when Neruda has to hide from the police.
** Minister of Health Salvador Allende is among the figures that greet the ''Winnipeg'' upon arrival. He is a friend to Felipe del Solar and later intervenes so that Víctor can get credit for his medicine studies in Spain and finish in three years. He ends up becoming friends with Victor; sadly, after the 1973 coup, that friendship causes Victor to spend time in a concentration camp.
** UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco's rule after the Civil War ends in a dictatorship. Roster mentions that he prohibited speaking Catalan. After he dies [[spoiler:Víctor and his wife Roser move back to Spain but only stay for six months because there is really no place for them.]]
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* Creator/ThomasMalory appears in Literature/{{Phenomena}}, where he is [[spoiler: aparently King Veha, the king of a country called Aldra, in the planet Erda. He is also a prophet of sorts and a vizard. He also is a huge {{Fanboy}} of modern version of his books. Supposedly based [[Literature/LeMorteDarthur Le Morte D'Arthur]] on Phenomena]]. And apparently it's even [[http://norwegianfantasia.tumblr.com/post/75184426430/phenomena-1--edition-special-authors-foreword true]].
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* Creator/ThomasMalory [[Literature/LeMorteDArthur Thomas Malory]] appears in Literature/{{Phenomena}}, where he is [[spoiler: aparently King Veha, the king of a country called Aldra, in the planet Erda. He is also a prophet of sorts and a vizard. He also is a huge {{Fanboy}} of modern version of his books. Supposedly based [[Literature/LeMorteDarthur Le ''Le Morte D'Arthur]] d'Arthur'' on Phenomena]]. And apparently it's even [[http://norwegianfantasia.tumblr.com/post/75184426430/phenomena-1--edition-special-authors-foreword true]].
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* ''Literature/PortraitInSepia'': Madam [[HumanTraffickers Ah Toy]] had appeared already in ''Literature/DaughterOfFortune''. She reappears as an antagonist to Tao Chi'en in ''PortraitInSepia''.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaldina_Cameron Donaldina]] and an associate contact Tao Chi'en for his assistance in helping enslaved Chinese women and girls escape.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaldina_Cameron Donaldina]] and an associate contact Tao Chi'en for his assistance in helping enslaved Chinese women and girls escape.
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* ''Literature/IslandBeneathTheSea'' takes place in Saint Domingue (modern-day UsefulNotes/Haiti) and then in New Orleans, before and after it joins the United States.
** In Saint Domingue, Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution appears in a few chapters. Gambo, Zarité's FirstLove, eventually becomes his right-hand man.
** In New Orleans, Antonio de Sedella, better known as Père Antoine, helps Teté finally become a freewoman.
** In Saint Domingue, Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution appears in a few chapters. Gambo, Zarité's FirstLove, eventually becomes his right-hand man.
** In New Orleans, Antonio de Sedella, better known as Père Antoine, helps Teté finally become a freewoman.
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* Creator/KimNewman's ''Literature/BadDreams'' features several flashbacks to the immortal BigBad's activities in earlier eras, which include appearances by UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy, and Creator/AynRand, among others.
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* Creator/KimNewman's ''Literature/BadDreams'' features several flashbacks to the immortal BigBad's activities in earlier eras, which include appearances by UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy, and Creator/AynRand, among others. ''Literature/SomethingMoreThanNight'', ambiguously a prequel, features Creator/RaymondChandler and Creator/BorisKarloff as protagonists.
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* ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce'':
** Creator/GeorgeMacDonald, Lewis's favorite author, appears as his SpiritAdvisor in heaven.
** UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}} also makes a cameo in Hell, and several other historical figures from Hell are discussed.
** [[http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan Emperor Trajan]] is mentioned as one of the damned who ultimately left Hell for {{Heaven}}.
** Creator/GeorgeMacDonald, Lewis's favorite author, appears as his SpiritAdvisor in heaven.
** UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}} also makes a cameo in Hell, and several other historical figures from Hell are discussed.
** [[http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan Emperor Trajan]] is mentioned as one of the damned who ultimately left Hell for {{Heaven}}.
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** ** In "The Christmas Conspiracy", Holmes and Watson attend a dinner party where Erskine Childers, author of ''Literature/TheRiddleOfTheSands'', in another guest.
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** In "The Adventure of the Dying Ship", Holmes travels on board the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'' and meets authors Jacques Futrelle (creator of Literature/TheThinkingMachine) and his wife May.
** In "The Adventure of the Dying Ship", Holmes travels on board the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'' and meets authors Jacques Futrelle (creator of Literature/TheThinkingMachine) and his wife May.
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* ''Literature/TheSherlockHolmesStoriesOfEdwardDHoch'': In "The Christmas Client", Creator/LewisCarroll calls on Holmes on Christmas Day. He is being blackmailed by Professor Moriarty over his photographic activities.
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** In "The Christmas Client", Creator/LewisCarroll calls on Holmes on Christmas Day. He is being blackmailed by Professor Moriarty over his photographicactivities.activities.
** ** In "The Christmas Conspiracy", Holmes and Watson attend a dinner party where Erskine Childers, author of ''Literature/TheRiddleOfTheSands'', in another guest.
** In "The Christmas Client", Creator/LewisCarroll calls on Holmes on Christmas Day. He is being blackmailed by Professor Moriarty over his photographic
** ** In "The Christmas Conspiracy", Holmes and Watson attend a dinner party where Erskine Childers, author of ''Literature/TheRiddleOfTheSands'', in another guest.
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* In Michael Logan's ''World War Moo'', the follow-up to ''Apocalypse Cow'', TheVirus that was previously only affecting animals had mutated and turned the United Kingdom into horny, rage-induced maniacs a la ComicBook/{{Crossed}}. Ex-prime minister Tony Blair is one of these infected and tries to gnaw on a Tory.
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* In Michael Logan's ''World War Moo'', the follow-up to ''Apocalypse Cow'', TheVirus that was previously only affecting animals had mutated and turned the United Kingdom into horny, rage-induced maniacs a la ComicBook/{{Crossed}}. ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}''. Ex-prime minister Tony Blair is one of these infected and tries to gnaw on a Tory.Tory.
* ''Literature/TheSherlockHolmesStoriesOfEdwardDHoch'': In "The Christmas Client", Creator/LewisCarroll calls on Holmes on Christmas Day. He is being blackmailed by Professor Moriarty over his photographic activities.
* ''Literature/TheSherlockHolmesStoriesOfEdwardDHoch'': In "The Christmas Client", Creator/LewisCarroll calls on Holmes on Christmas Day. He is being blackmailed by Professor Moriarty over his photographic activities.
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* ''Literature/SevenStars'':
** "The Mummy's Heart" has a cameo by Creator/ArthurMachen.
** "The Magician and the Matinee Idol" is set during the filming of Creator/JohnBarrymore's 1922 movie version of ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes'', with a significant guest-starring role for Barrymore himself and smaller appearances by various other people involved with the filming.
** Barrymore returns in "The Trouble With Barrymore", set in 1940s Hollywood, along with appearances by Creator/PeterLorre, Creator/JohnCarradine, Creator/ErrolFlynn, Creator/MichaelCurtiz, and Creator/HumphreyBogart.
** "The Mummy's Heart" has a cameo by Creator/ArthurMachen.
** "The Magician and the Matinee Idol" is set during the filming of Creator/JohnBarrymore's 1922 movie version of ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes'', with a significant guest-starring role for Barrymore himself and smaller appearances by various other people involved with the filming.
** Barrymore returns in "The Trouble With Barrymore", set in 1940s Hollywood, along with appearances by Creator/PeterLorre, Creator/JohnCarradine, Creator/ErrolFlynn, Creator/MichaelCurtiz, and Creator/HumphreyBogart.
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* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheImmortalBard": {{UsefulNotes/Archimedes}} is one of several people Dr Welch brought to the present-day with [[TimeTravel temporal transference]]. He was the most fascinated by present-day science, but [[FishOutOfTemporalWater became lonely and frightened away from his culture]]. He also brought UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton and UsefulNotes/GalileoGalilei.
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* Philippa Ballantine's novel ''Literature/ChasingTheBard'' is about [[JustForFun/ZerothLaw Will Shakespeare]] saving not one but two worlds from an Eldritch Abomination type being.
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* Philippa Ballantine's novel ''Literature/ChasingTheBard'' is about [[JustForFun/ZerothLaw [[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples Will Shakespeare]] saving not one but two worlds from an Eldritch Abomination type being.
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* As the titles suggest, Creator/WilliamShakespeare appears in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld II: The Globe'' and UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin appears in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld III: Darwin's Watch''.
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* As the titles suggest, Creator/WilliamShakespeare appears in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld II: The Globe'' and UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin appears in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld III: Darwin's Watch''.
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* Most of the characters in ''Literature/{{Conqueror}}''. The {{protagonist}} is UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
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* ''Literature/QueenOfZazzau'' is a HistoricalFantasy novel based on the legends surrounding the life of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina Amina]], a warrior-queen who ruled parts of Hausaland (modern-day northern Nigeria) in the 16th century.
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* In "Literature/AngelDownSussex", Creator/ArthurConanDoyle and Creator/AleisterCrowley separately turn up to investigate the same paranormal event the protagonists are investigating. Conan Doyle is convinced it's fairies at work, Crowley interprets it in the light of his spiritual beliefs, and both are more of a hindrance than a help.
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* In ''Literature/SherlockHolmesAndDoctorWasNot'', real world doctors who get paired with Holmes include Doc Holliday, Doctor John John Dee, Doctor Theodore Moriarty (a Victorian spiritualist and occultist), and Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.
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* ''Literature/WWWTrilogy'': Creator/StephenHawking is a character in the novel. He's a visiting scholar at the same institute Caitlin's dad works in, and they watch a recorded speech he gives. The US President isn't named, but pretty clearly he's UsefulNotes/BarackObama (which he really was at the time of the novels). A few more actual scientists also get mentioned as being characters, and meet with the protagonists (offscreen).
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* ''Literature/EuricoThePresbyter'': Most of the cast except for the main protagonist are historical figures associated with the Umayyad conquest of the Iberian Penisula such as Tariq, King Roderic and Pelagius of Asturias. There are also semi-fictional characters like Pelagius' sister whose historicity is questionable, but she is a major character in the book as the main protagonist's love interest.
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* Of course, many AlternateHistory stories feature real historical figures, both major and minor.
** The ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' series has a whole [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Temeraire_characters#Historical_Figures list]] of them in various supporting roles.
** Creator/HarryTurtledove's Literature/{{Worldwar}} series features Molotov among the major characters, as well as more minor historical personages as Walter Dornberger and Mordechai Anielewicz. Some big figures (such as Einstein and UsefulNotes/MaoZedong) get cameos.
** Turtledove's Literature/Timeline191 also uses a number of real-life historical figures in roles both major and minor, including [[Creator/MarkTwain Samuel Clemens]], UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, George Armstrong Custer, James Longstreet, James G. Blaine, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, Clarence Darrow, UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, Upton Sinclair, UsefulNotes/CalvinCoolidge, UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover, Music/LouisArmstrong, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and even an unnamed ([[WordofGod identity confirmed by the author, though]]) cameo by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
** ''Literature/BackInTheUSSA'', an AlternateHistory where UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates had a [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] revolution, has many, including the Socialist Party of America Presidential candidate UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs as the leader of said revolution.
* Creator/ThomasMalory appears in Literature/{{Phenomena}}, where he is [[spoiler: aparently King Veha, the king of a country called Aldra, in the planet Erda. He is also a prophet of sorts and a vizard. He also is a huge {{Fanboy}} of modern version of his books. Supposedly based [[Literature/LeMorteDarthur Le Morte D'Arthur]] on Phenomena]]. And apparently it's even [[http://norwegianfantasia.tumblr.com/post/75184426430/phenomena-1--edition-special-authors-foreword true]].
* There is a very odd tendency lately to turn historical people into detectives. This includes UsefulNotes/{{ElizabethI}}, Abigail Adams, and Creator/JaneAusten of all people. The TropeMaker for this sub genre may be Theodore Mathieson, 1950s author of "Captain Cook: Detective", "Creator/LeonardoDaVinci: Detective", "Florence Nightingale: Detective" ''etc., etc.'''
** [[OlderThanTheyThink Much earlier]], before the detective novel as we understand it even existed, [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker E. T. A. Hoffmann]] wrote the novella ''Das Fräulein von Scuderi'' (1819/1821), in which the aged writer Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) investigates a string of mysterious murders in Paris in the year 1680.
** The still-more recent tendency to turn historical people into monsters and/or monster hunters is even odder.
* Spanish novelist and war journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte noticed that his 12-year-old daughter's History book had only a paragraph for the 17th century, the Spanish Golden Century. Wanting to solve the situation, he wrote a series of adventure books starring a fictional sword-for-hire, ''Captain Literature/{{Alatriste}}'', who gets involved in state conspiracies and meets kings and important figure and fights in important battles. Spanish writer Francisco De Quevedo is a recurrent character as Alatriste's personal friend. [[TheFilmOfTheBook They made a movie of the series.]]
* Philippa Ballantine's novel ''Literature/ChasingTheBard'' is about [[JustForFun/ZerothLaw Will Shakespeare]] saving not one but two worlds from an Eldritch Abomination type being.
* Most of the characters in ''Literature/{{Conqueror}}''. The {{protagonist}} is UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
* Low-key example in Literature/TheEnglishPatient: Almasy and the Cliftons. Real people, with minor historical significance.
** This use of minor historical figures as characters happens again in Michael Ondaatje's other works: ''The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'' (yes, that UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid), mysterious disappeared Canadian businessman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Small Ambrose Small]] in ''In The Skin of A Lion,'' Buddy Bolden (jazz musician) in ''Coming Through Slaughter,'' and so on.
* "Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy," by Peter F Hamilton, brings back 2 characters from the past as souls possessing bodies of the living: Fletcher Christian and... wait for it... Al Capone.
* Stephen Baxter's and Creator/ArthurCClarke's novel, ''Time's Eye'', has a large host of characters from various time periods: UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, and UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, to name several.
* Although most characters in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' with dialogue were just acquaintances of Dante's, the ''Comedy'' features a handful of famous historical figures in significant roles.
** The Roman poet Creator/{{Virgil}} serves as the guide for Dante in the first two parts of the ''Comedy''. Fittingly, the ''Comedy'' is in the same genre as Virgil's ''Literature/TheAeneid''. As a pagan, he's condemned to Hell, but Dante acknowledges his virtue by putting him in the relatively benign first circle.
** Those arriving in Purgatory are greeted by [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Cato the Younger]], who so faithfully followed the cardinal virtues that it is almost as if he was graced by God. It's unclear if Cato is an occupant of Limbo or if he is destined to be saved.
** The [[UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire Byzantine Emperor]] Justinian appears in the Heaven of Mercury to make it clear to Dante that even if the saints are given different graces, they are all as happy as they could possibly be in God's love.
* Creator/GeorgeEliot's ''Literature/{{Romola}}'', set in fifteenth-century Florence, features Savonarola in a prominent role. It also includes walk-ons by figures like a very young Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli.
* Almost the entire cast of Hilary Mantel's ''Wolf Hall,'' which stars Thomas Cromwell (a ThirdPersonPerson) and features, among others, Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII, UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn, Jane Seymour, and so on, and so on. Includes an extensive TakeThat against Thomas More. In fact there is only one fictional named character in the entire book, a French serving boy in Cromwell's employ.
** Similarly, the entire cast of Hilary Mantel's ''Series/APlaceOfGreaterSafety,'' which stars Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Danton, and many others.
* Robespierre, Danton, and Marat appear in Victor Hugo's ''Literature/NinetyThree''.
* Teddy Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and Franz Boas appear in Literature/TheAlienist.
* As the titles suggest, Creator/WilliamShakespeare appears in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld II: The Globe'' and UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin appears in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld III: Darwin's Watch''.
* In Scott Westerfeld's Literature/{{Leviathan}}, Charles Darwin not only creates the theory of evolution by means of natural selection, but also the 'Life threads' or DNA and how to [[LegoGenetics genetically enhance]] and [[MixAndMatchCritters manipulate/combine elements of animals]]. Also, Nora Barlow, [[spoiler: his granddaughter]], is a major character. Though they have yet to appear, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph, then first lord of the admiralty UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, and several other major political leaders have had a bearing on the plot.
* ''Literature/TheGrimnoirChronicles'' has John Joseph Pershing and John Moses Browning as major characters, and Sullivan has some unpleasant dealings with J. Edgar Hoover near the beginning.
* The ''Literature/SanoIchiro'' series, which takes place in [[JidaiGeki Edo-period Japan]] and uses at least two real-life figures from that period in every book: Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, who employs Sano as his ''[[TheExoticDetective sosakan]]'', and [[EvilChancellor Chamberlain]] Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, who has received a HistoricalVillainUpgrade and serves as Sano's main antagonist for most of the books. The Shogun's real-life mother, Keisho-in, also makes several appearances throughout the series, and in later books the shogun's nephew Tokugawa Ienobu joins the court.
* Several appear in the novels of Creator/JTEdson. UsefulNotes/CalamityJane got her own series, and Belle Starr plays a major role in several novels. Outlaw John Wesley Hardin and CattleBaron Charles Goodnight play significant roles in individual novels.
* With the exception of [[DirtyCoward Flashman]], his [[ObfuscatingStupidity wife]] and his [[TheScrooge father-in-law]], nearly every major and minor character in the Literature/{{Flashman}} series is one of these. Well, perhaps not - Flashman's father, his nemesis, John Charity Spring, and (as far as I know) Rudi Von Starnberg were all creations of Fraser. And there appear to be plenty of, erm, "love" interests that are not based on real people.
* Arthur Wellesley, 1st UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfWellington, plays a role in the GaslampFantasy ''Literature/SorceryAndCecelia.''.
* Hiob von Luzern and UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat appear in ''Literature/DirgeForPresterJohn''.
* Some real life Hollywood people would show up at the parties described in ''Literature/BrideOfTheRatGod''.
* Almost all humans in ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'' except the two main characters Sophie and Josh.
* The ''Shardlake'' books, by C.J. Sansom, are set during the reign of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII and feature real people and events mixed in with the ficticious ones - with a handy postscript by the author to assist the reader in distinguishing the one from the other, and explaining any anachronisms the author has knowingly committed. Sansom was a historian before becoming a writer, and likes to show his work.
* Most of Creator/TimPowers works rely heavily on this trope or its subtropes.
** ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheDark'' has John Zapolya, the soon-to-be King of Hungary, show up at the Zimmermann in disguise for a not-so-friendly chat with Duffy.
** ''Literature/OnStrangerTides'' has UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, UsefulNotes/AnneBonny, and other historical pirates.
** ''Literature/TheStressOfHerRegard'' has numerous romantic poets, including Creator/LordByron, Creator/JohnKeats and Creator/MaryShelley.
** ''Literature/{{Declare}}'' has Kim Philby and his father, St. John Philby.
* ''Literature/TheTomeOfBill'' has a number of these. It's implied that all of the First Coven are this. There's Alexander [[spoiler: as in, UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat]] and The Khan (actually [[spoiler: Ogedei Khan, Genghis' son]]). "Joshua" is all but directly stated to actually be [[spoiler: Jesus]]. James wasn't anyone famous in particular, but he mentions having sailed with UsefulNotes/MarcoPolo.
* ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' uses many historical figures, mostly officers from the real Royal Navy with some kings and czars thrown in. You can find a full list [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower#Historical_figures_in_the_novels here]].
* In Literature/DangerousSpirits, Nicholas II makes several appearances in flashbacks to Konstantine's life.
* ''Literature/GentlemanRanker'': Trent joins General Braddock's expedition to Virginia, meets George Washington's brother and engages in a fistfight and later a target shooting match with UsefulNotes/DanielBoone, among many others with more minor roles.
* There are many of them throughout the {{Literature/Kydd}} series, most of them in supporting or background roles. Some of the more famous ones include Lord Nelson, and even some of the lesser-known figures make an appearance, such as Zephaniah Job in ''The Admiral's Daughter''.
* The works of Creator/GaryJennings make liberal use of this trope, with both major and minor figures as characters. Justified, as his novels are historical fiction. Thematically, each novel is the story of a character set in the middle of an empire. Examples: ''Literature/{{Aztec}}'' featured several rulers including Montezuma and Nezahaulpili and made mention of a number of royal family members, as well as Malintzin (who acted as interpreter for Cortez) and many of the Conquistadors (Cortez, Geronimo de Aguilar, King Carlos of Spain, etc.). ''Literature/TheJourneyer'' was the story of Marco Polo's life, beginning with his childhood in Venice and continuing through his travels to the Far East and eventually back to Venice. Some historical characters in ''The Journeyer'' include Kublai Khan, a number of rulers, and of course Marco himself. ''Literature/{{Raptor}}'' is set during the Gothic empire and follows a similar pattern (Theodoric the Great and other figures from the time period).
* Magnus, Duke of Östergötland appears in ''Literature/KingdomOfLittleWounds''. He marries Princess Sophia and quickly leaves after she dies.
* Many of the characters in both ''Literature/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'' and ''Literature/TheLastAmericanVampire'' are real historical people of varying degrees of fame. Henry Sturges (significant in [=ALVH=] and protagonist of [=TLAV=]) is probably the least generally known, and yes, he's a real person and appears on real-life lists of Roanoke colonists.
* In [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Theodor Fontane]]'s novella ''Schach von Wuthenow'', which is set in the year 1806, a number of real-life persons including Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Queen Louise, the military publicist Dietrich von Bülow, interact with the main characters. Family-minded Frederick William III for instance orders Schach to marry Victoire von Carayon, the woman he got pregnant.
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' has a time-travelling episode where they run into the likes of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, UsefulNotes/HenryV, UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson and UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. However, there is very little interaction with the first three (George is too busy trying not to freeze to death, Henry is seen making a RousingSpeech, and Nelson's ship is sunk when a spark hits the powder magazine). They do instinctively try to cut Hitler's throat... but due to the messed-up timeline, he was only a corporal in [=WW2=], with the allied French and Germans pushing back the US (who still belonged to England) on DDay.
* Except for the protagonist and his closest associates, almost every character in ''Literature/TheSageAdairHistoricalMysteries'' is either a real person or an {{Expy}} of one.
* John Winthrop, Samuel Gorton, and Mononotto in ''Literature/HopeLeslie''.
* ''Literature/TheDragonWaiting'' is an AlternateHistory novel with a large cast of familiar names, with Lorenzo de Medici and Richard III just the tip of the iceberg.
* ''Literature/TheObituaryWriter'' features John F. and Jackie Kennedy as characters of interest to Claire Fontaine and her friends, who comment about their seemingly perfect and glamorous relationship (unlike Claire's loveless marriage). Jack London also briefly appears in Vivien Lowe's story, as an attendee at the restaurant she and David Gardner meet at.
* Creator/KimNewman's ''Literature/BadDreams'' features several flashbacks to the immortal BigBad's activities in earlier eras, which include appearances by UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy, and Creator/AynRand, among others.
* Swedish author Leif G.W. Persson, in one of his NordicNoir novels featuring the appalling DirtyCop ''Literature/{{Backstrom}}'', fictionalises the unsolved real-life murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme and advances an AuthorTract that the killers were rogue policemen belonging to his own security services and personal protection squad -- who knew exactly how to foul, obscure and cover up the subsequent investigation.
* Steve Bein's ''Fated Blades'' series has Toyotomi Hideyoshi as a prominent minor character whose actions in Warring States Japan has repercussions in Modern Day Tokyo. Also this Hideyoshi was regularly sticking himself in the butthole of his fictional minion, General Shishio. This was a source of tension as Hideyoshi thinks it's shameful for a grown man to be anally penetrated, but he can't resist Shishio's supernatural seductiveness and masterful sex techniques. Shishio however has no shame being Hideyoshi's bottom and knows the power he has over the regent of Japan.
* MonsterMash neo-noir ''Literature/WolfmanConfidential'' features real-life gangsters Mickey Cohen, Jack Whalen, and Johnny Stompanato in major roles, and cameos from Audrey Hepburn and Rock Hudson.
* ''Literature/{{Gatling}}'': Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont, leaders of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Rebellion North-West Rebellion]], are major characters in ''Border War'', where Gatling is hired to deliver modern weapons to Riel's metis forces.
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* Of course, many AlternateHistory stories feature real historical figures, both major and minor.
** The ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' series has a whole [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Temeraire_characters#Historical_Figures list]] of them in various supporting roles.
** Creator/HarryTurtledove's Literature/{{Worldwar}} series features Molotov among the major characters, as well as more minor historical personages as Walter Dornberger and Mordechai Anielewicz. Some big figures (such as Einstein and UsefulNotes/MaoZedong) get cameos.
** Turtledove's Literature/Timeline191 also uses a number of real-life historical figures in roles both major and minor, including [[Creator/MarkTwain Samuel Clemens]], UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, George Armstrong Custer, James Longstreet, James G. Blaine, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, Clarence Darrow, UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, Upton Sinclair, UsefulNotes/CalvinCoolidge, UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover, Music/LouisArmstrong, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and even an unnamed ([[WordofGod identity confirmed by the author, though]]) cameo by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
** ''Literature/BackInTheUSSA'', an AlternateHistory where UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates had a [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Socialist]] revolution, has many, including the Socialist Party of America Presidential candidate UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs as the leader of said revolution.
* Creator/ThomasMalory appears in Literature/{{Phenomena}}, where he is [[spoiler: aparently King Veha, the king of a country called Aldra, in the planet Erda. He is also a prophet of sorts and a vizard. He also is a huge {{Fanboy}} of modern version of his books. Supposedly based [[Literature/LeMorteDarthur Le Morte D'Arthur]] on Phenomena]]. And apparently it's even [[http://norwegianfantasia.tumblr.com/post/75184426430/phenomena-1--edition-special-authors-foreword true]].
* There is a very odd tendency lately to turn historical people into detectives. This includes UsefulNotes/{{ElizabethI}}, Abigail Adams, and Creator/JaneAusten of all people. The TropeMaker for this sub genre may be Theodore Mathieson, 1950s author of "Captain Cook: Detective", "Creator/LeonardoDaVinci: Detective", "Florence Nightingale: Detective" ''etc., etc.'''
** [[OlderThanTheyThink Much earlier]], before the detective novel as we understand it even existed, [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker E. T. A. Hoffmann]] wrote the novella ''Das Fräulein von Scuderi'' (1819/1821), in which the aged writer Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) investigates a string of mysterious murders in Paris in the year 1680.
** The still-more recent tendency to turn historical people into monsters and/or monster hunters is even odder.
* Spanish novelist and war journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte noticed that his 12-year-old daughter's History book had only a paragraph for the 17th century, the Spanish Golden Century. Wanting to solve the situation, he wrote a series of adventure books starring a fictional sword-for-hire, ''Captain Literature/{{Alatriste}}'', who gets involved in state conspiracies and meets kings and important figure and fights in important battles. Spanish writer Francisco De Quevedo is a recurrent character as Alatriste's personal friend. [[TheFilmOfTheBook They made a movie of the series.]]
* Philippa Ballantine's novel ''Literature/ChasingTheBard'' is about [[JustForFun/ZerothLaw Will Shakespeare]] saving not one but two worlds from an Eldritch Abomination type being.
* Most of the characters in ''Literature/{{Conqueror}}''. The {{protagonist}} is UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
* Low-key example in Literature/TheEnglishPatient: Almasy and the Cliftons. Real people, with minor historical significance.
** This use of minor historical figures as characters happens again in Michael Ondaatje's other works: ''The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'' (yes, that UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid), mysterious disappeared Canadian businessman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Small Ambrose Small]] in ''In The Skin of A Lion,'' Buddy Bolden (jazz musician) in ''Coming Through Slaughter,'' and so on.
* "Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy," by Peter F Hamilton, brings back 2 characters from the past as souls possessing bodies of the living: Fletcher Christian and... wait for it... Al Capone.
* Stephen Baxter's and Creator/ArthurCClarke's novel, ''Time's Eye'', has a large host of characters from various time periods: UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, and UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, to name several.
* Although most characters in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' with dialogue were just acquaintances of Dante's, the ''Comedy'' features a handful of famous historical figures in significant roles.
** The Roman poet Creator/{{Virgil}} serves as the guide for Dante in the first two parts of the ''Comedy''. Fittingly, the ''Comedy'' is in the same genre as Virgil's ''Literature/TheAeneid''. As a pagan, he's condemned to Hell, but Dante acknowledges his virtue by putting him in the relatively benign first circle.
** Those arriving in Purgatory are greeted by [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Cato the Younger]], who so faithfully followed the cardinal virtues that it is almost as if he was graced by God. It's unclear if Cato is an occupant of Limbo or if he is destined to be saved.
** The [[UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire Byzantine Emperor]] Justinian appears in the Heaven of Mercury to make it clear to Dante that even if the saints are given different graces, they are all as happy as they could possibly be in God's love.
* Creator/GeorgeEliot's ''Literature/{{Romola}}'', set in fifteenth-century Florence, features Savonarola in a prominent role. It also includes walk-ons by figures like a very young Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli.
* Almost the entire cast of Hilary Mantel's ''Wolf Hall,'' which stars Thomas Cromwell (a ThirdPersonPerson) and features, among others, Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII, UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn, Jane Seymour, and so on, and so on. Includes an extensive TakeThat against Thomas More. In fact there is only one fictional named character in the entire book, a French serving boy in Cromwell's employ.
** Similarly, the entire cast of Hilary Mantel's ''Series/APlaceOfGreaterSafety,'' which stars Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Danton, and many others.
* Robespierre, Danton, and Marat appear in Victor Hugo's ''Literature/NinetyThree''.
* Teddy Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and Franz Boas appear in Literature/TheAlienist.
* As the titles suggest, Creator/WilliamShakespeare appears in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld II: The Globe'' and UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin appears in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld III: Darwin's Watch''.
* In Scott Westerfeld's Literature/{{Leviathan}}, Charles Darwin not only creates the theory of evolution by means of natural selection, but also the 'Life threads' or DNA and how to [[LegoGenetics genetically enhance]] and [[MixAndMatchCritters manipulate/combine elements of animals]]. Also, Nora Barlow, [[spoiler: his granddaughter]], is a major character. Though they have yet to appear, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph, then first lord of the admiralty UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, and several other major political leaders have had a bearing on the plot.
* ''Literature/TheGrimnoirChronicles'' has John Joseph Pershing and John Moses Browning as major characters, and Sullivan has some unpleasant dealings with J. Edgar Hoover near the beginning.
* The ''Literature/SanoIchiro'' series, which takes place in [[JidaiGeki Edo-period Japan]] and uses at least two real-life figures from that period in every book: Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, who employs Sano as his ''[[TheExoticDetective sosakan]]'', and [[EvilChancellor Chamberlain]] Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, who has received a HistoricalVillainUpgrade and serves as Sano's main antagonist for most of the books. The Shogun's real-life mother, Keisho-in, also makes several appearances throughout the series, and in later books the shogun's nephew Tokugawa Ienobu joins the court.
* Several appear in the novels of Creator/JTEdson. UsefulNotes/CalamityJane got her own series, and Belle Starr plays a major role in several novels. Outlaw John Wesley Hardin and CattleBaron Charles Goodnight play significant roles in individual novels.
* With the exception of [[DirtyCoward Flashman]], his [[ObfuscatingStupidity wife]] and his [[TheScrooge father-in-law]], nearly every major and minor character in the Literature/{{Flashman}} series is one of these. Well, perhaps not - Flashman's father, his nemesis, John Charity Spring, and (as far as I know) Rudi Von Starnberg were all creations of Fraser. And there appear to be plenty of, erm, "love" interests that are not based on real people.
* Arthur Wellesley, 1st UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfWellington, plays a role in the GaslampFantasy ''Literature/SorceryAndCecelia.''.
* Hiob von Luzern and UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat appear in ''Literature/DirgeForPresterJohn''.
* Some real life Hollywood people would show up at the parties described in ''Literature/BrideOfTheRatGod''.
* Almost all humans in ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'' except the two main characters Sophie and Josh.
* The ''Shardlake'' books, by C.J. Sansom, are set during the reign of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII and feature real people and events mixed in with the ficticious ones - with a handy postscript by the author to assist the reader in distinguishing the one from the other, and explaining any anachronisms the author has knowingly committed. Sansom was a historian before becoming a writer, and likes to show his work.
* Most of Creator/TimPowers works rely heavily on this trope or its subtropes.
** ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheDark'' has John Zapolya, the soon-to-be King of Hungary, show up at the Zimmermann in disguise for a not-so-friendly chat with Duffy.
** ''Literature/OnStrangerTides'' has UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, UsefulNotes/AnneBonny, and other historical pirates.
** ''Literature/TheStressOfHerRegard'' has numerous romantic poets, including Creator/LordByron, Creator/JohnKeats and Creator/MaryShelley.
** ''Literature/{{Declare}}'' has Kim Philby and his father, St. John Philby.
* ''Literature/TheTomeOfBill'' has a number of these. It's implied that all of the First Coven are this. There's Alexander [[spoiler: as in, UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat]] and The Khan (actually [[spoiler: Ogedei Khan, Genghis' son]]). "Joshua" is all but directly stated to actually be [[spoiler: Jesus]]. James wasn't anyone famous in particular, but he mentions having sailed with UsefulNotes/MarcoPolo.
* ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' uses many historical figures, mostly officers from the real Royal Navy with some kings and czars thrown in. You can find a full list [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower#Historical_figures_in_the_novels here]].
* In Literature/DangerousSpirits, Nicholas II makes several appearances in flashbacks to Konstantine's life.
* ''Literature/GentlemanRanker'': Trent joins General Braddock's expedition to Virginia, meets George Washington's brother and engages in a fistfight and later a target shooting match with UsefulNotes/DanielBoone, among many others with more minor roles.
* There are many of them throughout the {{Literature/Kydd}} series, most of them in supporting or background roles. Some of the more famous ones include Lord Nelson, and even some of the lesser-known figures make an appearance, such as Zephaniah Job in ''The Admiral's Daughter''.
* The works of Creator/GaryJennings make liberal use of this trope, with both major and minor figures as characters. Justified, as his novels are historical fiction. Thematically, each novel is the story of a character set in the middle of an empire. Examples: ''Literature/{{Aztec}}'' featured several rulers including Montezuma and Nezahaulpili and made mention of a number of royal family members, as well as Malintzin (who acted as interpreter for Cortez) and many of the Conquistadors (Cortez, Geronimo de Aguilar, King Carlos of Spain, etc.). ''Literature/TheJourneyer'' was the story of Marco Polo's life, beginning with his childhood in Venice and continuing through his travels to the Far East and eventually back to Venice. Some historical characters in ''The Journeyer'' include Kublai Khan, a number of rulers, and of course Marco himself. ''Literature/{{Raptor}}'' is set during the Gothic empire and follows a similar pattern (Theodoric the Great and other figures from the time period).
* Magnus, Duke of Östergötland appears in ''Literature/KingdomOfLittleWounds''. He marries Princess Sophia and quickly leaves after she dies.
* Many of the characters in both ''Literature/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'' and ''Literature/TheLastAmericanVampire'' are real historical people of varying degrees of fame. Henry Sturges (significant in [=ALVH=] and protagonist of [=TLAV=]) is probably the least generally known, and yes, he's a real person and appears on real-life lists of Roanoke colonists.
* In [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Theodor Fontane]]'s novella ''Schach von Wuthenow'', which is set in the year 1806, a number of real-life persons including Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Queen Louise, the military publicist Dietrich von Bülow, interact with the main characters. Family-minded Frederick William III for instance orders Schach to marry Victoire von Carayon, the woman he got pregnant.
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' has a time-travelling episode where they run into the likes of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, UsefulNotes/HenryV, UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson and UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. However, there is very little interaction with the first three (George is too busy trying not to freeze to death, Henry is seen making a RousingSpeech, and Nelson's ship is sunk when a spark hits the powder magazine). They do instinctively try to cut Hitler's throat... but due to the messed-up timeline, he was only a corporal in [=WW2=], with the allied French and Germans pushing back the US (who still belonged to England) on DDay.
* Except for the protagonist and his closest associates, almost every character in ''Literature/TheSageAdairHistoricalMysteries'' is either a real person or an {{Expy}} of one.
* John Winthrop, Samuel Gorton, and Mononotto in ''Literature/HopeLeslie''.
* ''Literature/TheDragonWaiting'' is an AlternateHistory novel with a large cast of familiar names, with Lorenzo de Medici and Richard III just the tip of the iceberg.
* ''Literature/TheObituaryWriter'' features John F. and Jackie Kennedy as characters of interest to Claire Fontaine and her friends, who comment about their seemingly perfect and glamorous relationship (unlike Claire's loveless marriage). Jack London also briefly appears in Vivien Lowe's story, as an attendee at the restaurant she and David Gardner meet at.
* Creator/KimNewman's ''Literature/BadDreams'' features several flashbacks to the immortal BigBad's activities in earlier eras, which include appearances by UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy, and Creator/AynRand, among others.
* Swedish author Leif G.W. Persson, in one of his NordicNoir novels featuring the appalling DirtyCop ''Literature/{{Backstrom}}'', fictionalises the unsolved real-life murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme and advances an AuthorTract that the killers were rogue policemen belonging to his own security services and personal protection squad -- who knew exactly how to foul, obscure and cover up the subsequent investigation.
* Steve Bein's ''Fated Blades'' series has Toyotomi Hideyoshi as a prominent minor character whose actions in Warring States Japan has repercussions in Modern Day Tokyo. Also this Hideyoshi was regularly sticking himself in the butthole of his fictional minion, General Shishio. This was a source of tension as Hideyoshi thinks it's shameful for a grown man to be anally penetrated, but he can't resist Shishio's supernatural seductiveness and masterful sex techniques. Shishio however has no shame being Hideyoshi's bottom and knows the power he has over the regent of Japan.
* MonsterMash neo-noir ''Literature/WolfmanConfidential'' features real-life gangsters Mickey Cohen, Jack Whalen, and Johnny Stompanato in major roles, and cameos from Audrey Hepburn and Rock Hudson.
* ''Literature/{{Gatling}}'': Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont, leaders of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Rebellion North-West Rebellion]], are major characters in ''Border War'', where Gatling is hired to deliver modern weapons to Riel's metis forces.
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