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 Nonexistent fictional characters 4 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.
• Yardis Alpolfo, a nonexistent soccer player, an anagram of April Fools Day
• William Ashbless, a 19th-century fictitious poet and adventurer
• Harry Q. Bovik, eternal Carnegie Mellon computer science researcer
• 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
• 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, non-existent 112-year-old Viennese percussionist, created in December 1997 by John Sessions for Michael Berkeley's BBC Radio 3 programme Private Passions
• Piotr Zak, non-existent Polish composer, created for a BBC programme by Hans Keller and others

[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

[edit] Nonexistent fictional characters

• David J. Broadfoot, the Member of Parliament from Kicking Horse Pass
• Hyuck E, fake staff member of Ed, Edd n Eddy
• Betty Crocker, fake spokesperson for The Washburn Crosby Company of Minneapolis

[edit] Unclassified

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• Captain Oldman RN. Georgian guano trader and notorious bounder - chronicled by the Historical Maritime Society
• Carl Brandon, a fictional fan of color, for whom the Carl Brandon Society was named
• Pierre Brassau, avant-garde artist (in reality, a chimpanzee named Peter)
• 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).
• Josiah Carberry, professor of psychoceramics at Brown University
• Jára da Cimrman, fictional Czech genius and polymath
• Donald Kaufman, fictional brother of Adaptation writer Charlie Kaufman, gained "writing credits" and co-won a Oscar.
• Axel Eklund, mid 50's fictional chemistry student and inventor
• Sidd Finch, nonexistent baseball prodigy created by George Plimpton for an April Fool's Day prank.
• Honorable J. Fortescue, fake US physician
• Bruno Hat, nonexistent painter
• Andreas Karavis, nonexistent Greek poet
• Kodee Kennings, nonexistent 8-year-old girl whose letters were published in the Daily Egyptian, a student newspaper for Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• Kobuk, nonexistent Inuit author and playwright (invented by the Austrian comedian Helmut Qualtinger)
• Wanda Koolmatrie, nonexistent Australian aboriginal author
• Chimezie Kudu, nonexistent 7-foot-11 basketball player (ESPN.com readers' responses)
• JT LeRoy, fictional American author and literary celebrity.
• 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
• David Manning, a nonexistent film critic created by Sony Corporation.
• Dr. Irving Joshua Matrix, numerologist, invented by Martin Gardner
• Jeremy McNeil, fictional film writer/ director credited with several independent film productions.
• S. Morgenstern, whom William Goldman claims originally wrote The Princess Bride.
• Kaycee Nicole, fictional leukemia sufferer and Internet personality
• Rupert Peasley, fictional music producer credited with producing several Weezer albums.
• R. E. Straith, who wrote a fictitious letter to George Adamski (Moseley and Pflock, 2002:124-127)
• Phil Raven, fictitious pro-wrestler created by Phil Parent
• Henry Root, fictitious correspondent, and Henry Raddick (possibly the same person)
• Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakhstani journalist created by Sacha Baron-Cohen, see also Ali G and Bruno
• H. Rochester Sneath, nonexistent headmaster of the nonexistent Selhurst School
• Nat Tate, fake 1950's American artist
• B. Traven, Adventure novelist
• Udo of Aachen, fictional monk
• Francis Wagstaffe, fictitious postulant for priesthood
• Edna Welthorpe, nonexistent morality campaigner
• Hajime Yadate, credited as the creator of most of the anime works of Japanese animation studio Sunrise.
• Araki Yasusada, fake Hiroshima survivor and author
• Holt Dillenbiesel - German porn model/star of 1990's.