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 (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 that Arthur Conan Doyle used Worth as the prototype for Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, Professor Moriarty.
Adam Worth was born into a poor Jew family in Germany in 1844. His original surname might have been Werth. When he was five years old, his family...
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| David Gerrold | Topic | David Gerrold |
David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman (January 24, 1944), in Chicago, Illinois, is an award-winning 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 was invited to submit several premises, and the one chosen by Star Trek was filmed as "The Trouble with Tribbles".
After his early success with "The Trouble with Tribbles" Gerrold continued writing television scripts (mostly for...
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| Nikola Tesla |
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Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: ) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatian Krajina, Austrian Empire, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen. An example of Tesla's views regarding his ethnic origin is the quote "I'm equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland." Tesla is best known for his many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity...
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| Dee Dee Myers |
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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 the Clinton Administration she was widely seen as something of a spokesperson, as Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos actually conducted the daily press briefings instead of Myers. However, after a few verbal missteps by Stephanopoulos early in the...
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| Horatio Hornblower |
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Horatio Hornblower 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 to everyone literate I know."
Hornblower is iconic in Age of Sail traditional naval fiction, and any writer in the genre must deal with comparisons to Forester. There are many parallels between Hornblower and real naval officers of the period, especially Thomas Cochrane and Horatio Nelson. The...
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| Hamlet (legend) |
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Topic | 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 Gesta Danorum, completed at the beginning of the 13th century. It is supposed that the story of Hamlet, Amleth or Amlóði, was contained in the lost Skjöldunga saga, but we have no means of determining whether Saxo derived his information in this case...
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| Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald |
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Topic | Horatio Hornblower |
Admiral 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 radical politician and naval officer. He was one of the most daring and successful captains of the Napoleonic Wars, leading the French to nickname him "le loup de mer" ("the sea wolf"). After being dismissed from the Royal Navy, he served in the rebel navies of Chile, Brazil and Greece during their wars of independence, before being...
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| James Alexander Gordon |
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Topic | 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. He served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Historian Bryan Perrett has suggested that his career was the model for events in the Horatio Hornblower novels of C. S. Forester.
Gordon came of a family of minor Highland gentry of Jacobite...
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| Frank DeSimone | Topic | 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 became a lawyer in May 1933. After Dragna died of a heart attack in 1956, DeSimone became the third boss of the Los Angeles outfit of La Cosa Nostra. One of his first acts as boss was attending the 1957 Appalachian New York mob convention along with...
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| Jack Kerouac |
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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 Beat Generation.
Kerouac's work was very popular, but received little critical acclaim during his lifetime. Today, he is considered an important and influential writer who inspired others, including Tom Robbins, Lester Bangs, Richard Brautigan,...
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| Neal Cassady |
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Topic | 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.
Cassady was born in Missouri and raised in Salt Lake City, the son of Maude Jean (née Scheuer) and Neal Marshall Cassady. Raised by an alcoholic father in Denver, Cassady spent much of his youth bouncing between skid-row hotels with his father and reform...
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| William S. Burroughs |
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William Seward Burroughs II ( – ; ) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer.Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life. A primary member of the Beat Generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected popular culture as well as literature. In 1984, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Burroughs was...
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| Gérard Kerouac | Person | Gerard Duluoz | ||
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| Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque | Person | Ange Duluoz | ||
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| Jerry Holkins |
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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-insertion of Holkins. However, as the character of Tycho was not originally meant to represent Holkins, the two have few physical similarities, where Holkins is somewhat corpulent and bald, Tycho is slim and endowed with a luxuriant head of hair; they are...
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| Theodore Sturgeon |
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Theodore Sturgeon (February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American science fiction author. He was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York; in 1929, after a divorce, his mother married William Sturgeon, and Edward changed his name to Theodore the better to match his nickname, "Ted".
Sturgeon died on May 8 1985, of lung fibrosis, in Eugene, Oregon. Sturgeon lived for several years in the neighboring city of Springfield.
He sold his first story in 1938 to the newspaper McClure's...
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| Steve Rubell |
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Topic | Steve Rubell |
Steve Rubell (December 2, 1943 in Brooklyn - July 25, 1989) was 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. His father worked for the U.S. Postal Service and later became a tennis pro. Rubell attended Wingate High School, and was also an avid tennis player, but decided against playing professionally.
He entered Syracuse University with the intention of becoming a...
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| Bernard Sumner |
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Topic | Bernard Sumner |
Bernard Sumner (born 4 January 1956 in Lower Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, England) is a British singer, guitarist and keyboardist, originally with Joy Division and a member of New Order.
Sumner was a founding member of Joy Division, a post punk band formed in 1977. The band enjoyed moderate commercial success but is credited with being one of the most influential bands of the era. Primarily known as the band's lead guitarist (his main guitars were a Gibson SG and a Shergold Custom...
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| Tony Wilson |
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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 the music mogul behind some of Manchester's most successful bands. He was the founder and manager of The Haçienda nightclub, and was one of the five co-founders of Factory Records. Wilson was also known as Mr. Manchester, dubbed as such for his work...
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| John Forbes Nash |
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\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 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.
Nash is also the subject of the Hollywood movie, A Beautiful Mind, which was nominated for eight Oscars, and was based on the biography of the same name...
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| Dan Marino |
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Daniel Constantine Marino, Jr. (born September 15, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a Hall of Fame quarterback who played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League. The last quarterback of the legendary Quarterback Class of 1983 to be taken in the first round, Marino became one of the most prolific quarterbacks in league history, holding or having held almost every major NFL passing record. Despite never being on a Super Bowl-winning team, he is recognized as one of the...
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| Alexander Nevsky |
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Topic | 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's history. Commonly regarded as the key figure of medieval Russia, Alexander was the grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military victories over the German invaders while employing shrewd conciliatory...
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| Howard Cosell |
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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 was raised in Brooklyn, New York. His parents had wanted him to become a lawyer. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from New York University, where he was a member of Pi Lambda Phi. He then went to the New York University School of Law...
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| Muhammad Ali |
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Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion and winner of an Olympic Light-heavyweight gold medal. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and the BBC.
Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who was named for the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Clay. Ali changed his name after joining...
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| Antonio Salieri |
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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 merchants in Legnago, Salieri studied violin and harpsichord with his brother Francesco, who was a student of Giuseppe Tartini. After the early death of his parents, he moved to Padua, then to Venice, where he studied thoroughbass with Giovanni...
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| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (, baptize Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His 600 compositions include works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, opera, and choral music. Mozart is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and many of his works are part of the standard concert repertoire.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold...
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| Fred Haise |
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Topic | Fred Haise |
Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (pronounced 'Hayes') (born November 14 1933) is a former NASA astronaut.
Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He attended Biloxi High School and Perkinston Junior College (now Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College). He graduated with honors in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959. He completed post graduate courses in the USAF Aerospace Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1964 and the Harvard Business School PMD Program in...
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| Gene Kranz |
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