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A Literary Saloon and Site of Review
Index of Real People
in Works of Fiction
under review
at
the complete review
Fiction is often based on reality, and works of fiction are often based on actual events.
Real people appear, in fictionalized form, as characters in many novels, stories, plays, and poems.
This Index provides a guide to the works of fiction (and drama and poetry) under review at the complete review that in some way focus on real people.
(Note that this index is by no means comprehensive, and that, for example, individual poems and stories are generally not included.)
The Index is listed by person, not author -- i.e. the focus is on the fictionalized "celebrity".
So, for all works dealing with a fictional Hitler look under Adolf HITLER.
In parentheses -- after the person, title, and author -- there is a number bewtween 1 and 3.
These indicate how significant a figure the person is in any given book, according to the following rough estimate:
- (1) - one of the central figures of the work
- (2) - a significant presence in the work, but not central
- (3) - a peripheral figure in the book
For non-fiction accounts of real people please refer to the Biography-Index.
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- Alhaji Adegoke ADELABU: Adelabu, Ogali OGALI (1)
- Idi AMIN:
- Kingsley AMIS: Still Life, A.S.BYATT (3)
- Kofi ANNAN: Stuff Happens, David HARE (2)
- APULEIUS: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- ARCHIMEDES: The Fourth Circle, Zoran IVKOVIĆ (3)
- Michael BAKUNIN The Coast of Utopia, Tom STOPPARD (1)
- J.M.BARRIE: Kensington Gardens, Rodrigo FRESÁN (1)
- Vissarion BELINSKY The Coast of Utopia, Tom STOPPARD (2)
- Saul BELLOW: Ravelstein, Saul BELLOW (1)
- Sarah BERNHARD: A Samba for Sherlock, Jô SOARES (2)
- Tony BLAIR:
- Hans BLIX: Stuff Happens, David HARE (2)
- Allan BLOOM: Ravelstein, Saul BELLOW (1)
- Anthony BLUNT: A Question of Attribution, Alan BENNETT (1)
- Niels BOHR: Copenhagen, Michael FRAYN (1)
- Jean-Baptiste BOKASSA: A Play of Giants, Wole SOYINKA (2)
- Jorge Luis BORGES: Borges and the Eternal Orangutans, Luis Fernando VERISSIMO (1)
- Marlon BRANDO: Sydänkohtauksia, Kari HOTAKAINEN (1)
- Willy BRANDT: Democracy, Michael FRAYN (1)
- Eva BRAUN: Siegfried, Harry MULISCH (2)
- Bertolt BRECHT:
- Leonid BREZHNEV: Monumental Propaganda, Vladimir VOINOVICH (3)
- Pieter BRUEGHEL: Headlong, Michael FRAYN (2)
- Guy BURGESS: An Englishman Abroad, Alan BENNETT (1)
- Richard Francis BURTON: Der Weltensammler, Ilija TROJANOW (1)
- George BUSH jr.:
- Laura BUSH: [American Wife, Curtis SITTENFELD (1)]
- Lord BYRON: Arcadia, Tom STOPPARD (3)
- Al CAPONE: Twelve Fingers, Jô SOARES (3)
- CARAVAGGIO: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- CASANOVA: In Lucia's Eyes, Arthur JAPIN (1)
- Anton CHEKHOV: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- Dick CHENEY: Stuff Happens, David HARE (2)
- King CHRISTIAN VII: Livläkarens Besök, Per Olov ENQUIST (1)
- CICERO: Imperium, Robert HARRIS (1)
- Bill CLINTON: Blinding Light, Paul THEROUX (3)
- Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE:
- Christopher COLUMBUS: The Silence, Jens BJØRNEBOE (2)
- Francis Ford COPPOLA: Sydänkohtauksia, Kari HOTAKAINEN (1)
- Marie CURIE:
- DAEDALUS: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- DANTE Alighieri: Inferno, Peter WEISS (1)
- Rubén DARÍO:
- Charles DARWIN:
- Simone DE BEAUVOIR: Madah-Sartre, Alek Baylee TOUMI (2)
- Claude DEBUSSY: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- John DEE: Digital Leatherette, Steve BEARD (2)
- Daniel DEFOE: Dark Matter, Philip KERR (2)
- René DESCARTES: Vom Schnee, Durs GRÜNBEIN (1)
- Denis DIDEROT: Dialoge zwischen Unsterblichen, Lebendigen und Toten, Hans Magnus ENZENSBERGER (2)
- Marlene DIETRICH: Fredy Neptune, Les MURRAY (3)
- Walt DISNEY: The Perfect American, Peter Stephan JUNGK (1)
- E.L.DOCTOROW: U.S. !, Chris BACHELDER (3)
- Arthur Conan DOYLE: Arthur & George, Julian BARNES (1)
- Marguerite DURAS :París no se acaba nunca, Enrique VILA-MATAS (2)
- Rudi DUTSCHKE: The Warlord of the Air, Michael MOORCOCK (2)
- Leon EDEL: Hotel Honolulu, Paul THEROUX (3)
- Thomas Alva EDISON: Electric Flesh, CLARO (2)
- Adolf EICHMANN:
- Albert EINSTEIN:
- Mircea ELIADE: Ravelstein, Saul BELLOW (2)
- T.S.ELIOT: The Secret History of Modernism, C.K.STEAD (3)
- Queen ELIZABETH I: Digital Leatherette, Steve BEARD (2)
- Queen ELIZABETH II:
- Gnassingbé EYADEMA: Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals, Ahmadou KOUROUMA (1)
- Richard FEYNMANN: Insect Dreams, Marc ESTRIN (3)
- Robert FITZROY: After Darwin, Timberlake WERTENABKER (1)
- Ian FLEMING: Any Human Heart, William BOYD (3)
- Errol FLYNN: The Errol Flynn Novel, Geoff NICHOLSON (1)
- Jonathan Safran FOER, : Das bin doch ich, Thomas GLAVINIC (3)
- E.M.FORSTER: Still Life, A.S.BYATT (3)
- Archduke FRANZ FERDINAND: Twelve Fingers, Jô SOARES (3)
- Emperor FRANZ JOSEF: Flashman and the Tiger, G.M. FRASER (2)
- Jonathan FRANZEN, : Das bin doch ich, Thomas GLAVINIC (3)
- Sigmund FREUD:
- Erich FRIED: The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas, Dannie ABSE (3)
- Leo FROBENIUS: Bound to Violence (B+), Yambo OUOLOGUEM (2)
- Évariste GALOIS: The French Mathematician, Tom PETSINIS (1)
- Francis GALTON: The Biographer's Tale, A.S.BYATT (3)
- GANDHI: The Land Leviathan, Michael MOORCOCK (2)
- Federico GARCIÁ LORCA: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- Paul GAUGIN: The Way to Paradise, Mario VARGAS LLOSA (1)
- Carl GAUSS: Die Vermessung der Welt, Daniel KEHLMANN (1)
- Hans-Dietrich GENSCHER: Democracy, Michael FRAYN (2)
- Francisco GOYA: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- Ulysses S. GRANT: A Few Stout Individuals, John GUARE (1)
- Graham GREENE: Loving Graham Greene, Gloria EMERSON (2)
- Günter GUILLAUME: Democracy, Michael FRAYN (1)
- al-HAKIM, :The Theocrat, Bensalem HIMMICH (1)
- J.B.S. HALDANE: The Cambridge Quintet, John L. CASTI (1)
- Dag HAMMARSKJÖLD:
- Werner HEISENBERG: Copenhagen, Michael FRAYN (1)
- Ernest HEMINGWAY::
- Lars HERTERVIG:
- Alexander HERZEN The Coast of Utopia, Tom STOPPARD (1)
- Heinrich HIMMLER:
The Kindly Ones, Jonathan LITTELL (2)
- Adolf HITLER:
- Sherlock HOLMES:
- Robert HOOKE: Quicksilver, Neal STEPHENSON (2)
- J. Edgar HOOVER: American Tabloid, James ELLROY (2)
- Ödön von HORVÁTH: Tales from Hollywood, Christopher HAMPTON (1)
- Harry HOUDINI: Electric Flesh, CLARO (1)
- Alexander von HUMBOLDT: Die Vermessung der Welt, Daniel KEHLMANN (1)
- Christiaan HUYGENS: Quicksilver, Neal STEPHENSON (2)
- IBN KHALDUN :The Polymath, Bensalem HIMMICH (1)
- Henrik IBSEN: The Biographer's Tale, A.S.BYATT (3)
- Charles IVES: Insect Dreams, Marc ESTRIN (2)
- JAMES II: Quicksilver, Neal STEPHENSON (3)
- Henry JAMES: Lions at Lamb House, Edwin M. YODER jr. (1)
- David JONES :Landor's Tower, Iain SINCLAIR (3)
- C.G. JUNG :The Talking Cure, Christopher HAMPTON (1)
- Franz KAFKA: Atom, Steve AYLETT (3)
- Buster KEATON: Buster Keaton, Kari HOTAKAINEN (1)
- Daniel KEHLMANN, : Das bin doch ich, Thomas GLAVINIC (2)
- Ned KELLY: True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter CAREY (1)
- John F. KENNEDY: American Tabloid, James ELLROY (2)
- Robert KENNEDY: American Tabloid, James ELLROY (2)
- Nikita KHRUSHCHEV: Patrice Lumumba, Ogali OGALI (3)
- Søren KIERKEGAARD:
- Herny KISSINGER: Les mauvaises pensées, Laurent SEKSIK (3)
- Walter Savage LANDOR :Landor's Tower, Iain SINCLAIR (3)
- T.E. LAWRENCE ("of Arabia"): Fredy Neptune, Les MURRAY (3)
- LED ZEPPELIN: Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me, Martin MILLAR (2)
- Gottfried Wilhelm LEIBNIZ:
- LENIN: The Warlord of the Air, Michael MOORCOCK (3)
- Giacomo LEOPARDI: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- Gordon LIDDY:
- Charles LINDBERGH: The Plot Against America, Philip ROTH (2)
- Carl LINNAEUS: The Biographer's Tale, A.S.BYATT (3)
- LOUIS XIV: Quicksilver, Neal STEPHENSON (3)
- LOUIS XVI: Farewell, My Queen, Chantal THOMAS (2)
- Lord LUCAN: Aiding and Abetting, Muriel SPARK (1)
- Patrice LUMUMBA:
- Peter Wilhelm LUND: The Road to Lagoa Santa, Henrik STANGERUP (1)
- Yo-Yo MA: Stuff Happens, David HARE (3)
- Norman MAILER: Fullalove, Gordon BURN (3)
- Nestor MAKHNO: The Steel Tsar, Michael MOORCOCK (2)
- Winnie MANDELA: The Cry of Winnie Mandela, Njabulo S. NDEBELE (1)
- Heinrich MANN: Tales from Hollywood, Christopher HAMPTON (2)
- Thomas MANN: Tales from Hollywood, Christopher HAMPTON (2)
- Jean-Paul MARAT: Marat/Sade, Peter WEISS (1)
- MARIE-ANTOINETTE: Farewell, My Queen, Chantal THOMAS (1)
- Karl MARX:
- MATA HARI: Twelve Fingers, Jô SOARES (3)
- Vladimir MAYAKOVSKY: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- Samuel MENASSEH ben Israel: Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle, Robert MENASSE (1)
- Josef MENGELE : A Quiet Flame Philip KERR (2)
- John MILTON: Milton in America, Peter ACKROYD (1)
- François MITTERAND: Vie Française (UK: A French Life), Jean-Paul DUBOIS (3)
- MOBUTO Sese Seko:
- Peder Ludvig MØLLER: The Seducer, Henrik STANGERUP (1)
- MORRISSEY: Digital Leatherette, Steve BEARD (2)
- Robert MUSIL: Insect Dreams, Marc ESTRIN (3)
- Robert NAPIER: Flashman on the March, George MacDonald FRASER (3)
- Isaac NEWTON:
- Macias NGUEMA: A Play of Giants, Wole SOYINKA (2)
- Cees NOOTEBOOM: Television, Jean-Philippe TOUSSAINT (3)
- Nicholas OGAREV The Coast of Utopia, Tom STOPPARD (2)
- Christopher OKIGBO: The Trial of Christopher Okigbo, Ali A. MAZRUI (1)
- Sylvanus OLYMPIO: Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals, Ahmadou KOUROUMA (3)
- J. Robert OPPENHEIMER: Insect Dreams, Marc ESTRIN (3)
- OVID:
- Alice PAUL: Insect Dreams, Marc ESTRIN (2)
- Emperor PEDRO II: A Samba for Sherlock, Jô SOARES (2)
- Charles PÉGUY: The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy, G. HILL (1)
- Samuel PEPYS:
- Georges PEREC :París no se acaba nunca, Enrique VILA-MATAS (3)
- Eva PERÓN : A Quiet Flame Philip KERR (2)
- Juan PERÓN : A Quiet Flame Philip KERR (3)
- Fernando PESSOA:
- PETER the Great: The System of the World, Neal STEPHENSON (3)
- Pablo PICASSO:
- PLATO: The Athenian Murders, José Carlos SOMOZA (2)
- PLINY the Elder: Pompeii, Robert HARRIS (1)
- Edgar Allan POE: The American Boy, Andrew TAYLOR (2)
- Colin POWELL: Stuff Happens, David HARE (1)
- Gavrilo PRINCIP: Twelve Fingers, Jô SOARES (3)
- François RABELAIS: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- Maurice RAVEL:
Ravel
, Jean ECHENOZ (1)
- Ronald REAGAN: The Warlord of the Air, Michael MOORCOCK (3)
- Wilhelm REICH: Wilhelm Reich in Hell, Robert Anton WILSON (1)
- Arthur RIMBAUD: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- ROBESPIERRE: The Silence, Jens BJØRNEBOE (3)
- Wilhelm ROENTGEN: Insect Dreams, Marc ESTRIN (3)
- Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT:
- Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU: The Only Son, Stéphane AUDEGUY (2)
- Johan Moritz RUGENDAS: An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, César AIRA (1)
- D.A.F. de SADE:
- Rafael SÁNCHEZ MAZAS: Soldiers of Salamis, Javier CERCAS (1)
- Jean-Paul SARTRE: Madah-Sartre, Alek Baylee TOUMI (1)
- Egon SCHIELE: The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, Mario VARGAS LLOSA (2)
- Helmut SCHMIDT:
- Erwin SCHRÖDINGER: The Cambridge Quintet, John L. CASTI (1)
- Bruno SCHULZ: The Messiah of Stockholm, Cynthia OZICK (1)
- Upton SINCLAIR: U.S. !, Chris BACHELDER (1)
- C.P. SNOW: The Cambridge Quintet, John L. CASTI (1)
- Anastasio SOMOZA:
Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, Sergio RAMÍREZ (2)
- Robert SOUTHEY: Madoc, Paul MULDOON (1)
- Albert SPEER:
The Kindly Ones, Jonathan LITTELL (2)
- Sabina SPIELREIN :The Talking Cure, Christopher HAMPTON (1)
- Baruch SPINOZA: Conversation with Spinoza, Goce SMILEVSKI (1)
- Joseph STALIN:
- Henry Morton STANLEY: The Rear Column, Simon GRAY (2)
- Christina STEAD: The Secret History of Modernism, C.K.STEAD (3)
- Robert Louis STEVENSON:
- August STRINDBERG: The Night of the Tribades, Per Olov ENQUIST (1)
- Queen SUPAYALAT: The Glass Palace (B), Amitav GHOSH (2)
- Leo SZILLARD: Insect Dreams, Marc ESTRIN (3)
- Edward TELLER: Insect Dreams, Marc ESTRIN (3)
- King THEBAW: The Glass Palace, Amitav GHOSH (2)
- King THEODORE II of Abyssinia: Flashman on the March, George MacDonald FRASER (2)
- Henri TOULOUSE-LAUTREC: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- Flora TRISTÁN: The Way to Paradise, Mario VARGAS LLOSA (1)
- Rafael TRUJILLO: The Feast of the Goat, Mario VARGAS LLOSA (1)
- Ivan TURGENEV The Coast of Utopia, Tom STOPPARD (2)
- Alan TURING:
- Mark TWAIN: A Few Stout Individuals, John GUARE (1)
- Getúlio VARGAS: Twelve Fingers, Jô SOARES (2)
- VATSAYANA (author of the Kama Sutra):
- François VILLON: Dreams of Dreams, Antonio TABUCCHI (2)
- VIRGIL: Inferno, Peter WEISS (2)
- VOLTAIRE: El calígrafo de Voltaire, Pablo DE SANTIS (2)
- Andy WARHOL: The Perfect American, Peter Stephan JUNGK (3)
- John WILKINS: Quicksilver, Neal STEPHENSON (2)
- Edmund WILSON: The Romantics, Pankaj MISHRA (2)
- Walter WINCHELL: The Plot Against America, Philip ROTH (2)
- Duke and Duchess of WINDSOR: Any Human Heart, William BOYD (3)
- Blanche WITTMAN: The Book about Blanche and Marie, Per Olov ENQUIST (1)
- Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN:
- Paul WITTGENSTEIN:
Ravel
, Jean ECHENOZ (2)
- Virginia WOOLF: Any Human Heart, William BOYD (3)
- Frank Lloyd WRIGHT, : Shining Brow, Paul MULDOON (1)
- Emil ZATOPEK: Running, Jean ECHENOZ (1)
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