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  2. List of fictitious people - Wikipedia

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    Alan Smithee, name used by film directors who wish to disown a project. Andreas Karavis, nonexistent Greek poet. B. Traven, adventure novelist. Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakhstani journalist created by Sacha Baron Cohen, see also Ali G and Brüno Gehard. Buck Hammer, a fictitious blues pianist created by comedian and musician Steve Allen.

  3. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    On documents or forms requiring a first and last name, 山田 太郎 Yamada Tarō and 山田 花子 Yamada Hanako are very commonly used example names for men and women respectively, [29] comparable to John and Jane Smith in English. Both are generic but possible names in Japanese.

  4. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge ...

  5. Pseudonym - Wikipedia

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    A pseudonym (/ ˈ sj uː d ə n ɪ m /; from Ancient Greek ψευδώνυμος (pseudṓnumos) 'lit. falsely named') or alias (/ ˈ eɪ l i. ə s /) is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true meaning ().

  6. List of pseudonyms - Wikipedia

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    A pseudonym is a name adopted by a person for a particular purpose, which differs from their true name. A pseudonym may be used by social activists or politicians for political purposes or by others for religious purposes. It may be a soldier's nom de guerre or an author's nom de plume.

  7. List of fictional dictators - Wikipedia

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    A version of Heinz Doofenshmirtz who has overtaken the Tri-state area in a future altered by a grown-up Candace. Some of his notable policies include making labcoats a mandatory uniform, and renaming everyone to Joe in order to not have to remember names. Sheldon Plankton: Bikini Bottom: Chum Bucket Restaurant: SpongeBob SquarePants

  8. List of fictional detectives - Wikipedia

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    Cormoran Strike – created by Robert Galbraith (a pen name of J.K. Rowling) Jack Taylor - based on Ken Bruen's crime-drama books an Irish ex-cop as a maverick private investigator; The Continental Op – created by Dashiell Hammett; Philo Vance – created by S. S. Van Dine; V. I. Warshawski – created by Sara Paretsky; Nero Wolfe – created ...

  9. Fictitious entry - Wikipedia

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    The novels also references the fictitious entry "Lillian Mountweazel" with the name of the Spiegelman family's dog, Myrna Mountweazel. In Eley Williams's novel The Liar's Dictionary (2020), the protagonist is tasked with hunting down several fictitious entries inserted in Swansby's New Encyclopaedic Dictionary before the work is digitized.

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