People

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