For missing people, see: Conspiracies, Myths, and Mysteries
For people generally known because of crime-related events, see: Crime
For people related to WWII, see: Conflicts, War, WWII
| Agatha Christie | ● World famous crime writer who mysteriously disappeared for 11 days in 1926 |
| Banksy | ● 🐇 Pseudonymous British street artist |
| Bethnal Green trio | Three British teenage girls who joined Islamic State in 2015 |
| Bryan Johnson | Entrepreneur known for his attempts to stop aging |
| Christopher Lee | British actor with iconic life |
| Colette | French author; following their divorce her husband owned the copyright to all her works |
| Collyer brothers | Prolific hoarders; at their deaths their house contained over 120 tonnes of items, including fourteen pianos, eight cats, a car chassis, and jars of pickled human organs |
| Daryl Davis | Black American musician known for helping men leave the KKK |
| Dorian Corey | ❗ Drag icon with a corpse in her wardrobe |
| Durek Verrett | Conspiracy theorist and Neoshaman; controversially married a member of the Norwegian royal family |
| Genie | ❗● Child kept in isolation by her father, later became a research subject until her mother eventually forbade the testing |
| Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia | Youngest daughter of Nicholas II; later murdered with her family, though speculation that she survived led to multiple people claiming to be her |
| Grigori Rasputin | Supposed mystic and friend to the Russian royal family; later assassinated |
| Jean-Paul Marat | ❗ French journalist who supported radical opinions during the French Revolution; later assassinated and martyred |
| Joseph Ducreux | French artist and painter known for his unconventional portraits |
| Julia Pastrana | Indigenous Mexican woman with hypertrichosis |
| List of coupled cousins | There was a lot of cousin marrying amongst European royalty |
| List of longest-reigning monarchs | Elizabeth II was 625 days off the top spot |
| List of monarchs by nickname | 🐇 Imagine escaping poverty only to be known for eating cabbage |
| Lists of people by epithet | 🐇 A category of lists of people known by an epithet, e.g. ~the Great, ~the Mad |
| List of people considered father or mother of a field | 🐇 Everyone thank Gary Thuerk for Spam mail |
| List of people with dwarfism | 🐇 Typically, those with dwarfism have a height under 147 cm (4ft 10) |
| Madalyn Murray O’Hair | ❗ Called ‘the most hated women in America’ by a 2017 documentary; American atheist who fought for the separation of church and state; later murdered |
| Madam C. J. Walker | First female self-made millionaire in the US; developed cosmetics for black women |
| Marcy Borders | Known as ‘the Dust Lady’, Borders was photographed evacuating the North Tower during the 9/11 World Trade Center attack |
| Marina Abramović, and Rhythm 0 | ❗ Serbian endurance artist |
| Marquis de Sade | ❗● French writer and activist known for sex scandals; the word ‘sadism’ derives from his name |
| Mary Seacole | British Jamaican nurse and businesswoman; largely forgotten about until the late 1900s |
| Mary I of England | ❗ First Queen of England and known affectionately as Bloody Mary; reversed her father’s legacy, killed Protestants, faked a pregnancy, bish bash bosh |
| Mehran Karimi Nasseri | Iranian refugee who lived in a French airport for 13 years |
| Misquotations | Let them eat cake! |
| Native Americans in the United States | History and demographics of Native Americans in the US |
| Old Etonians, and Stowe School: Notable Alumni | Two prestigious private boys schools in the UK; you may find some familiar names on these lists |
| P. T. Barnum | American showman known for his unusual museum displays, usually people |
| Radium Girls | 🐇 Factory workers who ingested deadly amounts of radium after being told the luminous paint was harmless |
| Robert Hanssen | Asked to find a mole in the FBI… it was him, he was the mole |
| Ron Stallworth | ○ Black American police officer who infiltrated the KKK |
| Sarah Rector | Known as the ‘Richest Colored Girl in the World’, she inherited oil-rich land unwanted by white people for being unsuitable for farming |
| Stanislav Petrov | Soviet soldier credited with saving the world from nuclear war |
| Tarrare | Frenchman who ate… well, absolutely anything |
| T. E. Lawrence | ● Lawrence of Arabia |
| Tonya Harding | US figure skater who was involved in a controversial attack on her skating rival |
| Uncontacted peoples | Also me during my annual leave |
| Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild | British banker who built a massive zoological collection |
| Yoo Seung-jun | Successful Korean singer who was banned from South Korea after purportedly evading military service |
| Zheng Yi Sao | Chinese pirate; at one point she commanded around 24 ships and 1,400 pirates |