This is a list of notable people from the real world (whether deceased or living, both past and present) who have been prominently featured in works of fiction, mass media, and popular culture in general.
Groups of people
General categories
Arts/media/entertainment groups
Military/political organizations
- The 47 Ronin
- The Cathars
- The Crusading Orders:
- The French Revolution:
- The Hashshashin
- The Illuminati
- Ku Klux Klan
- The Shinsengumi
National/political leaders (monarchs and royalty)
- The British Monarchy
- French Monarchies
- The Korean Monarchy
- The Monégasque Royal Family
- The Popes (in general)
- Notable Popes (specific individuals)
- Prussian Kings
- Roman Emperors
- Russian Tsars
- Swedish Kings
- Other Royal Families
National/political leaders (presidents and prime ministers)
- Leaders of Germany
- The Presidents of France
- The Presidents of the United States
- Prime Ministers of Canada
- Prime Ministers of Ireland (though the correct title is Taoiseach, plural Taoisigh)
- Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
- Russian Heads of State
- Supreme Leaders of North Korea
Miscellaneous groups of people
Individual people
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A
- Aaliyah
- John Adams
- John Quincy Adams
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Ćthelflćd
- Spiro Agnew
- Julius Agricola
- Juan del Águila
- Lope de Aguirre
- Akechi Mitsuhide
- The Duke of Alba
- Madeleine Albright
- Louisa May Alcott
- Buzz Aldrin
- Alexander the Great
- Alfred the Great
- Akhenaten
- Muhammad Ali (AKA Cassius Clay)
- Dante Alighieri
- Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias
- Idi Amin
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Pamela Anderson
- Ancus Marcius
- André the Giant
- Yuri Andropov
- Mark Antony
- Johnny Appleseed
- Thomas Aquinas
- Yolande Of Aragon
- Aristophanes
- Aristotle
- Louis Armstrong
- Neil Armstrong
- Benedict Arnold
- Matthew Arnold
- François-Marie "Voltaire" Arouet
- Chester A. Arthur
- Herbert Henry Asquith
- Bashar al-Assad
- Attila the Hun
- Clement Attlee
- Julie d'Aubigny
- Augustine of Hippo
- Augustus
- Jane Austen
- John of Austria
- Margaret of Austria
- Jerónimo de Ayanz
B
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ralph Bagnold
- Josephine Baker
- Stanley Baldwin
- Arthur Balfour
- Lucille Ball
- Honoré de Balzac
- Charles Baudelaire
- Anne De Beaujeu
- Hannibal Barca
- Antonio Barceló
- Roland Barthes
- Elizabeth Báthory
- Fulgencio Batista
- Álvaro de Bazán
- Flavius Belisarius
- Thomas Becket
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Dido Elizabeth Belle
- Hilaire Belloc
- John Belushi
- David Ben-Gurion
- Robert Hugh Benson
- Götz von Berlichingen
- Hector Berlioz
- Joe Biden
- Osama bin Laden
- Otto von Bismarck
- Eric "George Orwell" Blair
- Tony Blair
- William Blake
- Helena Blavatsky
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Boethius
- Anne Boleyn
- Simón Bolívar
- Jair Bolsonaro
- Napoléon Bonaparte
- Anne Bonny
- Salvatore "Sonny" Bono
- John Wilkes Booth
- Lizzie Borden
- The Borgias
- Pope Alexander VI (born Rodrigo Borgia)
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Boudica
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Clara Bow
- David Bowie
- Johannes Brahms
- Louis Braille
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Gordon Brown
- James Brown
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Marcus Junius Brutus
- William Jennings Bryan
- James Buchanan
C
- Julius Caesar
- Caligula
- James Callaghan
- Cab Calloway
- David Cameron
- George Canning
- Al Capone
- Carolus Rex
- Thomas Carlyle
- Jimmy Carter
- Francisco de Carvajal
- Giacomo Casanova
- Joanna of Castile
- Fidel Castro
- Lord Castlereagh
- Catherine of Aragon
- Catherine the Great
- Caterina de Medici
- The Catholic Monarchs (Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile)
- Neville Chamberlain
- Charles V
- Coco Chanel
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlemagne
- Charles I
- Charles II
- Charles II of Spain
- Charles III
- Charles III of Spain
- Charles, Duke of Burgundy
- Ray Charles
- Chevy Chase
- Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Cesar Chavez
- Hugo Chávez
- Dick Cheney
- Konstantin Chernenko
- Leonard Chess
- G. K. Chesterton
- Fryderyk Chopin
- Winston Churchill
- Cicero
- El Cid Campeador
- Claudius
- Henry Clay
- Nick Clegg
- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
- Cleopatra VII
- Grover Cleveland
- Anne of Cleves
- Bill Clinton
- Hillary Clinton
- William "Buffalo Bill" Cody
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Christopher Columbus
- Calvin Coolidge
- Confucius (AKA Kong Fuzi)
- Alonso de Contreras
- Charlotte Corday
- Hernán Cortés
- The Count of St. Germain
- Jacques Cousteau
- Marcus Licinius Crassus
- Davy Crockett
- Oliver Cromwell
- Aleister Crowley (AKA Edward Crowley)
- Marie Curie (AKA Maria Sklodowska)
- Cyrus the Great
D
- Jefferson Davis
- Date Masamune
- James Dean
- Eugene Debs
- Claude Debussy
- Deng Xiaoping
- Christina of Denmark
- Jacques Derrida
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- Charles Dickens
- John Dillinger
- Walt Disney
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Bob Dole
- John Donne
- Gustave Doré
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Black Douglas
- Alec Douglas-Home
- Frederick Douglass
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sir Francis Drake
- Michael Dukakis
- Alberto Santos Dumont
- Alexandre Dumas
- Antonín Dvořák
- Bob Dylan
E
F
- Alexander Farnese
- Faust
- Farrah Fawcett
- Guy Fawkes
- Ferdinand VI
- Ferdinand VII
- Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
- Geraldine Ferraro
- Richard Feynman
- Millard Fillmore
- Ian Fleming
- Betty Ford
- Carole Ann Ford
- Gerald Ford
- Benjamin Franklin
- Francisco Franco (still dead)
- Claude François
- Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- Frederick the Great
- Sigmund Freud
- Fuuma Kotaro
G
- Muammar Gaddafi
- Yuri Gagarin
- Galileo Galilei
- Bernardo de Gálvez
- Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
- Blasco de Garay
- Diego García de Paredes
- Carlos Gardel
- James A Garfield
- Judy Garland
- Marcus Garvey
- Charles de Gaulle
- Lou Gehrig
- Ed Gein
- Genghis Khan (AKA Temujin)
- George III
- David Lloyd George
- Einar Gerhardsen
- Newt Gingrich
- William Gladstone
- Hugh Glass
- John Glenn
- Vincent van Gogh
- Barry Goldwater
- Giovanni Gonnelli
- Dick Goodwin
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Al Gore
- Hermann Göring
- James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
- Ray Gricar
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Gus Grissom
- Guan Yu
- Christopher Guest
- Che Guevara
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta "El Santo"
H
- Hadrian
- Alexander Hamilton
- George Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen
- Hammurabi
- Hatshepsut
- George Frederic Handel
- Warren G. Harding
- Kamala Harris
- Benjamin Harrison
- William Henry Harrison
- William Hartnell
- Willi Herold
- Hattori Hanzō
- Stephen Hawking
- Joseph Haydn
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Simo Häyhä
- Henry VIII
- Edward Heath
- Jimi Hendrix
- Herodotus
- Hesiod
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Jacqueline Hill
- Heinrich Himmler
- Adolf Hitler
- Jimmy Hoffa
- Hulk Hogan
- Charles "Buddy" Holly
- Homer
- Honda Tadakatsu
- Catherine Howard
- Herbert Hoover
- Horace
- Harry Houdini
- Whitney Houston
- Lafayette Ronald "L. Ron" Hubbard
- Howard Hughes
- Victor Hugo
- Hubert Humphrey
- Saddam Hussein
I
J
- Jack the Ripper
- Andrew Jackson
- Janet Jackson
- Kate Jackson
- Michael Jackson
- Grand Vizier Jafar
- James I
- James II
- Jesse James
- Sidney James
- Janosik
- Thomas Jefferson
- Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
- Jesus Christ
- Joan Jett
- Joan of Arc
- Steve Jobs
- King John of England
- Andrew Johnson
- Boris Johnson
- Dwayne Johnson
- Katherine Johnson
- Lyndon Johnson
- Rocky Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
- Jim Jones
- Michael Jordan
- James Joyce
- Pope Julius II (AKA Giuliano Rovere)
- Carl Jung
- Decimus Junius "Juvenal" Juvenalis
K
L
- Marquis de La Fayette
- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
- Verity Lambert
- Laozi
- Cyndi Lauper
- Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- Andrew Bonar Law
- Thomas Edward "T.E." Lawrence (AKA "Lawrence of Arabia")
- Bruce Lee
- Vladimir Lenin
- John Lennon
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Clive Staples "C.S." Lewis
- John Lewis
- Blas de Lezo
- Abraham Lincoln
- Franz Liszt
- Huey Long
- Louis XI
- Louis XIII
- Louis XIV
- Louis XV
- Louis XVI
- Howard Phillips "H.P." Lovecraft
- Lü Bu
- Lucretia
- Ludwig II of Bavaria
M
- Ramsay Mac Donald
- Niccolň Machiavelli
- Fitzroy Maclean
- Harold Macmillan
- James Madison
- Ferdinand Magellan
- René Magritte
- Gustav Mahler
- John Major
- Léo Major
- Georgy Malenkov
- La Malinche
- Nelson Mandela
- Gustav Mannerheim
- Ferdinand Marcos
- Margaret of York
- Maria Theresa
- Marie Antoinette
- Christopher Marlowe
- The Virgin Mary
- Charles Manson
- Mao Zedong
- Karl Marx
- Mary I
- Mary, Duchess of Burgundy
- Mary of Hungary
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Bat Masterson
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Brian May
- Karl May
- Theresa May
- John McCain
- Henry "Billy the Kid" McCarty
- Joseph McCarthy
- Paul McCartney
- George McGovern
- William McKinley
- Vince McMahon
- Robert McNamara
- Catharine De Medici
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Josef Mengele
- Freddie Mercury (AKA Farrokh Bulsara)
- Angela Merkel
- Harvey Milk
- Slobodan Miloević
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Moličre
- Walter Mondale
- James Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe
- Bernard Law Montgomery
- Thomas More
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Muhammad
- Muramasa
- Audie Murphy
- Bill Murray
- Edward R. Murrow
- Musashibo Benkei
- Benito Mussolini
- Modest Mussorgsky
N
O
P
- Manny Pacquiao
- Cardinal Mazarin
- Paige
- Thomas Paine
- Sarah Palin
- Colonel Tom Parker
- Catherine Parr
- Blaise Pascal
- Ron Paul
- Quintus Pedius
- Pedro II
- Robert Peel
- Nancy Pelosi
- Mike Pence
- Spencer Perceval
- Isaac Peral
- Pericles
- Eva Perón
- Juan Domingo Perón
- Ross Perot
- Charles Perrault
- Peter the Great
- Philip II
- Philip III
- Philip IV
- Pablo Picasso
- Franklin Pierce
- Jada Pinkett Smith
- Augusto Pinochet
- William Pitt The Elder
- William Pitt The Younger
- Pope Pius XII (AKA Eugenio Pacelli)
- Francisco Pizarro
- Plato
- Plautus
- Pocahontas
- Edgar Allan Poe
- James K. Polk
- Pompey the Great
- Alexander Pope
- Cole Porter
- Beatrix Potter
- Colin Powell
- Elvis Presley
- Marcel Proust
- Giacomo Puccini
- Vladimir Putin
Q
R
- Gilda Radner
- Gilles de Rais
- Harold Ramis
- Ramses II
- Grigori Rasputin
- Maurice Ravel
- Romulus
- Ronald Reagan
- Harry Reid
- Paracelsus
- Paul Revere
- Richard the Lionheart
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Cardinal Richelieu
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Robert the Bruce
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
- Jackie Robinson
- Chris Rock
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Norman Rockwell
- Auguste Rodin
- Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova
- Julián Romero
- Erwin Rommel
- Mitt Romney
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Betsy Ross
- Hassan Rouhani
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Gioachino Rossini
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Donald Rumsfeld
- John Ruskin
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
- William Russell
- Babe Ruth
- Leo Ryan
S
- Marquis de Sade
- Crown Prince Sado
- Carl Sagan
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Sakamoto Ryōma
- António de Oliveira Salazar
- Shirley Chisholm
- José de San Martín
- Sanada Yukimura
- Bernie Sanders
- Sappho
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
- Sasaki Kojiro
- Erik Satie
- Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud
- Franz Schubert
- Robert Schumann
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Seneca
- Seondeok
- Jane Seymour (Royalty)
- Shaka Zulu
- William Shakespeare
- Tupac Shakur (AKA Lesane Parish Crooks)
- George Bernard Shaw
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Virgulino "Lampião" da Silva
- Georges Simenon
- Orenthal James "O.J." Simpson
- Skanderbeg
- Adam Smith
- Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
- Jaclyn Smith
- Socrates
- Sophocles
- Aaron Spelling
- Servius Tullius
- Ambrogio Spinola
- Josef Stalin (AKA Iosif Dzhugashvili)
- Alexander Stephens
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Adlai Stevenson I
- Adlai Stevenson II
- Igor Stravinsky
- Suetonius Paulinus
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Anne Sullivan
- Arthur Sullivan
- Jonathan Swift
T
- Titus Tatius
- William Howard Taft
- Takeda Shingen
- Dom Justo Takayama
- Tarrare
- Tarquinius Priscus
- Tarquinius Superbus
- Sharon Tate
- Zachary Taylor
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Edward "Blackbeard" Teach
- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Nikola Tesla
- Margaret Thatcher
- Theodosius I
- Thucydides
- Timur the Lame (AKA Tamerlane)
- Josip Broz Tito
- Hideki Tojo
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Tokyo Rose
- John Ronald Reuel "J.R.R." Tolkien
- Leo Tolstoy
- Tomoe Gozen
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Tomás de Torquemada
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Trajan
- Leon Trotsky
- Patrick Troughton
- Pierre Trudeau
- Harry S. Truman
- Donald Trump
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Alan Turing
- John Doman Turner
- Desmond Tutu
- Tullia Minor
- Tullus Hostilius
- Tutankhamun
- John Tyler
U
V
W
- Richard Wagner
- Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Robert Walpole
- Andy Warhol
- George Washington
- John Wayne
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Orson Welles
- Herbert George "H.G." Wells
- Oscar Wilde
- Harold Wilson
- Woodrow Wilson
- Barbara Windsor
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Virginia Woolf
- Wong Fei-hung
- Wilbur and Orville Wright
- Wu Zetian
X
- Malcolm X (AKA Malcolm Little)
- Xi Jinping
- Xenophon
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