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| x Witch doctor |
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Dr. Bombay |
A witch doctor originally referred to a type of cunning man who treated ailments believed to be caused by witchcraft. It is currently used to refer to healers in some third world regions, who use traditional healing rather than contemporary medicine...
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| x Detective |
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Sherlock Holmes |
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators (P.I.s or "Private I's", hence the play-on-words, "Private Eyes"). Informally, and primarily in fiction, a...
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| Nancy Drew | |||
| Hercule Poirot | |||
| Miss Marple | |||
| Jessica Fletcher | |||
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| x Spy | Austin Powers | ||
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| x Scarer | Randall Boggs | ||
| x Triangle musician | Ed Grimley | ||
| x Physician |
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Dr. Gregory House |
A physician — also known as medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, medical doctor, or simply doctor — practices the ancient profession of medicine, which is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and...
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| Doctor Watson | |||
| Professor Challenger | |||
| John Dorian | |||
| Igor | |||
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| x Author | Jessica Fletcher |
An author (sometimes, in reference to a woman author, authoress) is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. The second entry goes on to clarify...
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| Kilgore Trout | |||
| Carrie Bradshaw | |||
| Lucas Scott | |||
| Balph Eubank | |||
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| x Bounty hunter |
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Hanharr |
A bounty hunter captures fugitives for a monetary reward (bounty). Other names, mainly used in the United States, include, bail enforcement agent, fugitive recovery agent, and bail fugitive investigator. Other countries do not have bounty hunters;...
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| Barb Wire | |||
| Boba Fett | |||
| Jango Fett | |||
| Samus Aran | |||
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| x Reporter |
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Shaktiman |
A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media.
Reporters gather their information in a variety of ways, including tips, press releases, sources (those with newsworthy information) and...
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| Clark Kent | |||
| Daisy Duck | |||
| Fethry Duck | |||
| Lois Lane | |||
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| x Bricklayer |
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Brian "Bomber" Busbridge |
A bricklayer or mason is a tradesman who lays bricks to construct brickwork. The term also refers to personnel who use blocks to construct blockwork walls and other forms of masonry. In British and Australian English, a bricklayer is colloquially...
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| Leonard "Oz" Osbourne | |||
| Neville Hope | |||
| x Superhero |
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Captain America |
A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a fictional character of "extraordinary or superhuman powers" dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes...
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| Batman | |||
| Dick Grayson | |||
| Tim Drake | |||
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| x Hacker |
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Case |
In computing, a hacker is a person in one of several distinct (but not completely disjoint) communities and subcultures:
Today, mainstream usage mostly refers to computer criminals, due to the mass media usage of the word since the 1980s. This...
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| Hiro Protagonist | |||
| Mad Al | |||
| Sane Alex | |||
| Undecided Adrian | |||
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| x Mortician | David Fisher | ||
| Nate Fisher | |||
| x Emperor |
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Shaddam Corrino IV |
An emperor (from the Latin "imperator") is a (male) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the female equivalent. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor (empress consort) or...
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| Leto Atreides II | |||
| Shell Thropp | |||
| Charles Di Britannia | |||
| x White House Communications Director | Toby Ziegler |
The White House Director of Communications, also known as Assistant to the President for Communications, is part of the senior staff of the President of the United States, and is responsible for developing and promoting the agenda of the President...
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| Louise Thornton | |||
| x First Lady of the United States |
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Abbey Bartlet |
First Lady of the United States is the title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position is traditionally filled by the wife of the President of the United States, the title is most often applied to the wife of a sitting president....
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| Helen Santos | |||
| x Comedian |
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Simon Stiles |
A comedian (comedienne is used sometimes if female) or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or...
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| Tom Jeter | |||
| Tracy Jordan | |||
| Bernie McCullough | |||
| Rick Spleen | |||
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| x Executive Producer | Matt Albie |
An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the filmmaking or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically an executive producer handles business and legal issues. See also...
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| Danny Tripp | |||
| Adam Wilson | |||
| x Writer | Matt Albie |
A writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.
The word is almost synonymous with author, though somebody who...
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| Abdul Alhazred | |||
| Clark Kent | |||
| Beverly Crusher | |||
| William Ashbless | |||
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| x Last of the freelance hackers and Greatest swordfighter in the world | Hiro Protagonist | ||
| x Pizza delivery |
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Hiro Protagonist |
Pizza delivery is a service in which a pizzeria delivers a pizza to a customer, usually ordered by telephone or Internet. Delivery is normally made with an automobile or motor scooter, with the pizza temporarily stored in a "hotbag". While free...
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| Uncle Art | |||
| x Courier |
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Y.T. |
A courier is a person or company employed to deliver messages, packages and mail. Couriers are distinguished from ordinary mail services by features such as speed, security, tracking, signature, specialization and individualization of services, and...
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| x Smith |
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Eöl |
A metalsmith, often shortened to smith, is a person involved in the shaping of metal objects.
In pre-industrialized times, smiths held high or special social standing since they supplied the metal tools needed for farming (especially the plough) and...
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| x Starship captain | James T. Kirk | ||
| Mavra Chang | |||
| Malcolm Reynolds | |||
| x Lawyer |
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Tom Hagen |
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to...
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| Lionel Hutz | |||
| Daredevil | |||
| Rowley Birkin | |||
| Perry Mason | |||
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| x Secretary | Carol |
A secretary is an administrative assistant in business office administration.
The executive secretary (sometimes called administrative assistant or associate) has a myriad of administrative duties. Traditionally, these duties were mostly related to...
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| Sadie Burke | |||
| Janine Melnitz | |||
| Venus Ardanowski | |||
| Adela Corinthos | |||
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| x Engineer |
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Dilbert |
Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints. The term is derived from the Latin root "ingenium," meaning ...
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| Alice | |||
| B'Elanna Torres | |||
| Geordi La Forge | |||
| Iron Man | |||
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| x Garbageman | The World's Smartest Garbageman | ||
| x Wedgie Enforcer | Bob | ||
| x Chief Technology Officer | Sid Dabster |
Apple Computer / IT consultant
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| x System Administrator | Mike Floyd |
A system administrator, systems administrator, or sysadmin, is a person employed to maintain and operate a computer system and/or network. System administrators may be members of an information technology department.
The duties of a system...
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| Miranda Cornielle | |||
| Pitr Dubovich | |||
| x Web designer | A.J. Garrett | ||
| x Technical support |
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Greg Flemming |
Technical support (also tech support) is a range of services providing assistance with technology products such as mobile phones, televisions, computers, or other electronic or mechanical goods. In general, technical support services attempt to help...
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| Steve Gonzales | |||
| x Corporate Sales Manager | Stef Murky | ||
| x Programmer | Pitr Dubovich |
A programmer is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. One who practices or professes a formal...
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| Hiro Nakamura | |||
| Da5id Meier | |||
| Hiro Protagonist | |||
| x Controller | Smiling Man |
Controller is a type of accountant who maintains and audits business accounts in an organization or business. The term is typically used in the United States for a corporate officer who deals with the financial accounting.
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| x Business Analyst | Pearl Dabster |
The term Business Analyst (BA) is used to describe a person who practices the discipline of business analysis. A business analyst or "BA" is responsible for analyzing the business needs of clients to help identify business problems and propose...
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| x Project manager | Pearl Dabster |
A project manager is a professional in the field of project management. Project managers can have the responsibility of the planning, execution, and closing of any project, typically relating to construction industry, architecture, computer...
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| x Plumber |
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Mario |
The word plumber dates from the Roman Empire. In Roman times, some roofs were made of lead, or plumbum in Latin (hence the periodic table of the elements symbol of 'Pb' for lead). Lead roofs were waterproof, and the workers on such roofs were what...
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| Mike Delfino | |||
| Alan Jackson | |||
| Nick Cotton | |||
| x Stock broker | Anji Kapoor |
A stock broker or stockbroker is a regulated professional broker who buys and sells shares and other securities through market makers or Agency Only Firms on behalf of investors.
While the term stockbroker is still in use, it is more commonly...
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| Pacey Witter | |||
| x Soldier |
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Quintus Lucinius Cato |
A soldier is a member of the land component of national armed forces; whereas a soldier hired for service in a foreign army would be termed a mercenary. In most languages, "soldier" includes commissioned and non-commissioned officers in national...
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| Lucius Cornelius Macro | |||
| Titus Flavius Vespasian | |||
| Captain America | |||
| Jack Ryan | |||
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| x Principal | Richard Belding |
Principal or Head of School is the title of the head administrator of an elementary school, middle school, or high school in some English-speaking countries, including the United States, India and Australia. Public schools in the United States...
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| Sally Fletcher | |||
| Cinnamon J. Scudworth | |||
| Mr. Lynn Butlertron | |||
| Scott Guber | |||
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| x Scientist |
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Dr. Lancet |
A scientist, in the broadest sense, is any person who engages in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices and traditions that are linked to schools of thought or philosophy. In a more restricted...
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| David Bowman | |||
| Professor X | |||
| Davros | |||
| Lex Luthor | |||
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| x Astronaut |
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David Bowman |
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. While generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels...
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| John Crichton | |||
| Thing | |||
| Mister Fantastic | |||
| Dan Dare | |||
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| x Governess |
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Susan Sto Helit |
A governess is a woman employed to teach and train children in a private household. In contrast to a nanny (formerly called a nurse) or a babysitter, she concentrates on teaching children, not their physical needs. Her charges are of school age, not...
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| Jane Eyre | |||
| Maria | |||
| x Criminal | Carmen Sandiego | ||
| Steve McBride | |||
| Fergal Maguire | |||
| Fagin | |||
| Buster Edwards | |||
| x Prosthetist | Rudy Cooper |
A prosthetist, as defined by The American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics, Inc., is a person who measures, designs, fabricates, fits, or services a prosthesis as prescribed by a licensed physician, and who assists in...
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| x Bloodstain pattern analyst | Dexter Morgan | ||
| x Butler | Igor |
A butler is a servant in a large household. In the great houses of the past, the household was sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantries. Some also have charge of the entire parlour...
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| Albert | |||
| Mr. Lynn Butlertron | |||
| Edgar Balthazar | |||
| x Mathematician |
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You Bastard |
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with particular problems related to logic, space, transformations, numbers and more general ideas which encompass these...
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| Hari Seldon | |||
| Dyhianna Selei | |||
| Nathan Stark | |||
| Beremiz Samir | |||
| x Patrician | Havelock Vetinari | ||
| x Captain |
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Captain Ahab |
The Captain or Master of a merchant vessel is a licensed mariner in ultimate command of the vessel. A Ship's Captain, also called Shipmaster or Skipper, is responsible for its safe and efficient operation, including cargo operations, navigation,...
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| Zapp Brannigan | |||
| Cap'n Crunch | |||
| Guardians in A Series of Unfortunate Events | |||
| Captain B. McCrea | |||
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| x Archeologist | Indiana Jones | ||
| x Clack operator | Mad Al | ||
| Sane Alex | |||
| x Student |
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Stephen Dedalus |
The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb studēre, meaning "to direct one's zeal at"; hence a student could be described as "one who directs zeal at a subject". In its widest use,...
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| Victor Tugelbend | |||
| Cass Mastern | |||
| Bart Simpson | |||
| Harry Potter | |||
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| x Salesman | Leopold Bloom | ||
| Jim Halpert | |||
| Demetrius | |||
| Bert | |||
| George Juergens | |||
| x Unsuccessful entrepreneur | Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler | ||
| x Jedi |
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Anakin Skywalker |
The Jedi are fictional characters in the Star Wars universe, and the series' main protagonists.
The Jedi are first introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as an order of warrior monks who serve as "the guardians of peace and justice in the...
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| Yoda | |||
| Qui-Gon Jinn | |||
| Mace Windu | |||
| Obi-Wan Kenobi | |||
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| x Philosopher |
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Vroomfondle |
A philosopher is a person who offers views or theories on questions in logic, ethics, aesthetics, and related fields.
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| G’Kar | |||
| Hugh Akston | |||
| Simon Pritchett | |||
| x Civil servant | Sam Lowry | ||
