Person Or Being In Fiction
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The "person or being in fiction" type allows people, deities, and other
beings that are not actually fictional to be modeled as characters in
fictional works that treat them in a fictional manner or that include
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| Adam Worth |
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Person | Professor Moriarty |
Adam Worth (1844-1902) was a German-born gentleman criminal. Scotland Yard detective Robert Anderson gave him a nickname, "the Napoleon of the criminal world", and he is commonly referred to as "the Napoleon of Crime". It has been widely speculated...
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| David Gerrold | Person | David Gerrold |
David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman (January 24, 1944), in Chicago, Illinois, is a science fiction author who started his career in 1966 as a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series Star Trek. He...
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| Nikola Tesla |
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Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: ) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor, a mechanical and an electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatian Krajina, Austrian Empire, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an...
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| Dee Dee Myers |
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Person | C. J. Cregg |
Dee Dee Myers (born Margaret Jane Myers on 1 September 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island) served as White House Press Secretary for the first two years of the Clinton administration, from January 20, 1993 to December 22, 1994. In the first months of...
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| Horatio Hornblower |
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Fictional Character | James T. Kirk |
Admiral of the Fleet Horatio Hornblower, 1st Baron Hornblower RN, is a fictional protagonist of a series of novel by C. S. Forester, and later the subject of film and television programs. Ernest Hemingway is quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester...
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| Hamlet (legend) |
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Theater Character | Prince Hamlet |
Hamlet is a striking figure in Scandinavian romance and the hero of Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
The chief authority for the legend of Hamlet is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his...
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| Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald |
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Person | Horatio Hornblower |
Admiral of the Fleet Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquês do Maranhão GCB RN (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a naval officer and radical politician. He was one of the most daring and...
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| James Alexander Gordon |
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Person | Horatio Hornblower |
Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, KCB, RN (6 October 1782 – 8 January 1869) was a distinguished British officer in the Royal Navy. His 75 years in the service, from Midshipman to Admiral of the Fleet was unprecedented in its duration....
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| Frank DeSimone | Person | Tom Hagen |
Frank DeSimone (1909 – August 4, 1967) was the boss, or don, of the Los Angeles mafia from 1957 to 1967. DeSimone, who was born and died in Los Angeles, California, was the son of former don Rosario DeSimone and underboss to Jack Dragna.
DeSimone...
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| Jack Kerouac |
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Musical Artist | Sal Paradise |
Jack Kerouac (March 12 1922 – October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist from Lowell, Massachusetts. Along with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is amongst the best known of the writers (and friends) known as the...
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| Person | Jack Duluoz | |||
| Author | Leo Percepied | |||
| Deceased Person | Ti Jean Duluoz | |||
| Fictional Character Creator | Ray Smith | |||
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| Neal Cassady |
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Person | Dean Moriarty |
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was an icon of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac classic On the Road.
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| Mary Carney | Person | Maggie Cassidy | ||
| William S. Burroughs |
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Film writer | Frank Carmody |
William Seward Burroughs II ( – ; ) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer.Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the...
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| Gérard Kerouac | Person | Gerard Duluoz | ||
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| Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque | Person | Ange Duluoz | ||
| Jerry Holkins |
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Person | Tycho |
Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins (born February 6,1976), is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade. Holkins goes by the pseudonym "Tycho Brahe". This is also the name of one of the two main characters of Penny Arcade, who is a cartoonized self...
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| Theodore Sturgeon |
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Person | Kilgore Trout |
Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo on February 26, 1918; died May 8, 1985) was an American science fiction author.
Though his mainstream success was relatively limited, Sturgeon is now widely recognized as one of the most important and...
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| Steve Rubell |
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Person | Steve Rubell |
Steve Rubell (December 2, 1943 - July 25, 1989) was an American entrepreneur and part owner (along with friend Ian Schrager) of the New York disco Studio 54.
Rubell and his brother Don spent their childhoods with their parents in Brooklyn, New York...
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| Bernard Sumner |
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Musical Artist | Bernard Sumner |
Bernard Sumner (born 4 January 1956 in Lower Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, England) is a British singer, guitarist and keyboardist. He is best known as a founding member of two highly influential bands, Joy Division and New Order.
Sumner was a...
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| Tony Wilson |
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Person | Tony Wilson |
Anthony Howard Wilson (20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007) was an English record label owner, radio presenter, TV show host, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC.
Wilson, commonly known as Tony Wilson, was...
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| John Forbes Nash |
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Person | John Nash |
\t John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13 1928), is an American mathematician who works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University. He shared the 1994...
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| Dan Marino |
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Person | Dan Marino |
Daniel Constantine Marino, Jr. (born September 15, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American Hall of Fame quarterback who played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League. The last quarterback of the legendary Quarterback...
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| Alexander Nevsky |
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Person | Alexander Nevsky |
Saint Alexander Nevsky (Алекса́ндр Яросла́вич Не́вский in Russian; transliteration: Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevskij) (May 30, 1220? – November 14, 1263) was the Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir during some of the most trying times in the country...
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| Howard Cosell |
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Person | Howard Cosell |
Howard William Cosell (born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 - April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist.
Cosell was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina of Jew heritage, the son of Nellie and Isidore Cohen, who was an accountant. He...
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| Muhammad Ali |
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Person | Muhammad Ali |
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion. To date, he remains the only man to have won the linear heavyweight championship three times (the linear...
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| Antonio Salieri |
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Film music contributor | Antonio Salieri |
Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 – May 7, 1825), was an Italian composer and conductor. As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was one of the most important and famous musicians of his time.
Raised in a prosperous family of...
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| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Film music contributor | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (, full name Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His over 600 compositions include works widely acknowledged as...
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| Fred Haise |
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Person | Fred Haise |
Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (pronounced 'Hayes') (born November 14 1933) is a former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 men to have flown to the Moon.
Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He attended Biloxi High School and Perkinston Junior College...
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| Gene Kranz |
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Person | Gene Kranz |
Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (born 17 August, 1933) is a retired NASA Flight Director and manager. Kranz served as a Flight Director, the successor to NASA founding Flight Director Chris Kraft, during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and is best known...
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| Jack Swigert |
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Person | Jack Swigert |
John Leonard 'Jack' Swigert, Jr., (August 30, 1931 – December 27, 1982) was a NASA astronaut. He was one of only 24 men to have flown to the Moon.
Born in Denver, Colorado, Swigert attended the Blessed Sacrament School, Regis Jesuit High School,...
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