Real People

The following is a list of actual people who have made appearances in DC Comics. Most appearances by individual characters are fictionalized accounts of their real-world counterparts. While many characters have made appearances in mainstream DCU continuity, others have appeared only in Vertigo titles and assorted non-canon comic projects. ''See also, Real People category and the List of comics that Real People appear in.

A

 * Abraham Beame
 * Abraham Lincoln
 * Abraham Zapruder
 * Adam Weishaupt
 * Adolf Hitler
 * Alan Ladd
 * Alan Moore
 * Albert Einstein
 * Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
 * Al Capone
 * Alessandro Cagliostro
 * Alexander Hamilton
 * Alexander the Great
 * Allan Pinkerton
 * Al Milgrom
 * Alphonse James de Rothschild
 * Amelia Earhart
 * Amos Lawrence
 * Andrew Jackson
 * Andrew Johnson
 * Andy Warhol
 * Angus MacAskill
 * Ann Blyth
 * Anne Bonny
 * Annie Leibovitz
 * Anthony Wayne
 * Antonino Rocca
 * Archie Goodwin
 * Attila
 * Aurelian

B

 * Babe Ruth
 * Barack Obama
 * Baron Munchausen
 * Benedict Arnold
 * Benito Mussolini
 * Benjamin Franklin
 * Bert Lahr
 * Bill Clinton
 * Billy the Kid
 * Blackbeard
 * Bob Haney
 * Bob Hope
 * Bonnie Barker
 * Boris Yeltsin
 * Bruno Premiani
 * Bud Abbott
 * Bugsy Siegel
 * Buster Crabbe

C

 * Caligula
 * Calvin Coolidge
 * Carl Jung
 * Casey Jones
 * Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
 * Charlie Meyerson
 * Chiang Kai-shek
 * Caspar Weinberger
 * Cesare Borgia
 * Charles L. Robinson
 * Charles Sumner
 * Chester W. Nimitz
 * Christopher Columbus
 * Clark Gable
 * Cleopatra
 * Clyde Barrow
 * Cole Younger
 * Curt Swan

D

 * Dan DiDio
 * Dan Jurgens
 * Dan Quayle
 * Daniel Boone
 * Daniel Read Anthony
 * Danny Thomas
 * Darius III
 * Dashiell Hammett
 * David Bowie
 * David Niven
 * David Rice Atchison
 * Davy Crockett
 * Dean Martin
 * Demades
 * Deborah Sampson
 * Desi Arnaz
 * Dick Giordano
 * Douglas MacArthur
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower

E

 * Eddie Berganza
 * Ed Koch
 * Edwin M. Stanton
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Eleanor Roosevelt
 * Eliot Ness
 * Elizabeth I of England
 * Elizabeth II
 * Elliot S! Maggin
 * Elvis Presley
 * Eli Thayer
 * Erik the Red
 * Erszebet Bathory
 * Erwin Rommel
 * Ethan Allen
 * Étienne Montgolfier
 * Eva Braun

F

 * Fala (dog)
 * Ferdinand II of Aragon
 * Fidel Castro
 * Fiorello H. La Guardia
 * Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer
 * Francis Drake
 * Frank James
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * Franklin Pierce
 * Frank Sinatra
 * Frederick Abberline
 * Frederick Douglass

G

 * Galileo Galilei
 * Gary Cooper
 * Genghis Khan
 * Gerd von Rundstedt
 * George Armstrong Custer
 * George Burns
 * George Foreman
 * George Harrison
 * George Herbert Walker Bush
 * George Marshall
 * George S. Patton
 * George Raft
 * George Reeves
 * George Schultz
 * George VI
 * George Washington
 * Gerald Ford
 * G. Gordon Liddy
 * Giacomo Casanova
 * Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
 * Gil Kane
 * Gordon Cooper
 * Gracie Allen
 * Grant Morrison
 * Grigori Rasputin
 * Groucho Marx
 * Grover Cleveland
 * Grover Whalen
 * Guy of Lusignan

H

 * Hannibal
 * Harland Sanders
 * Harriet Tubman
 * Harry Hopkins
 * Harry Houdini
 * Harry Rawson
 * Harry S. Truman
 * Harvey Levin
 * Hatshepsut
 * Heinrich Himmler
 * Helena Blavatsky
 * Hengist
 * Henry VI of England
 * Henry A. Wallace
 * Henry Kissinger
 * Henry L. Stimson
 * Herbert Hoover
 * Hermann Göring
 * H. G. Wells
 * Hideki Tojo
 * Ho Chi Minh
 * Howard Cosell
 * Howard Thurston
 * Howard Hill
 * Humphrey Bogart

I

 * Isaac Newton
 * Isabella I of Castile

J

 * Jack Benny
 * Jack Kirby
 * Jack Larson
 * Jack the Ripper
 * Jack Williamson
 * Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
 * Ja Lama
 * James Abercrombie (British Army colonel)
 * James Buchanan
 * James Forrestal
 * James Garfield
 * James J. Corbett ref> 
 * James J. Jeffries
 * James Madison
 * James Monroe
 * James VI and I
 * Jann Jones
 * Jeanine Schaefer
 * J. Edgar Hoover
 * Jenette Kahn
 * Jerry Lewis
 * Jerry Siegel
 * Jesse James
 * Jesus of Nazareth
 * Jim Aparo
 * Jim Morrison
 * Jimmy Carter
 * Jimmy Durante
 * J.E.B. Stuart
 * Joan of Arc
 * Joe DiMaggio
 * Joe Shuster
 * Joe Simon
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * John Adams
 * John Brown
 * John Connally
 * John C. Pemberton
 * John Fitzgerald Kennedy
 * John Glenn
 * John Hancock
 * John Lennon
 * John "Liver-Eating" Johnson
 * John L. Sullivan
 * John McLaughlin
 * Pope John Paul II
 * John Paul Jones
 * John Quincy Adams
 * John the Baptist
 * John Wesley Hardin
 * John Wilkes Booth
 * John Wayne
 * Johnny Carson
 * Josef Stalin
 * Joseph Goebbels
 * Joseph Kony
 * Joseph Montgolfier
 * Joseph Pulitzer
 * Joseph Stilwell
 * J. Robert Oppenheimer
 * Juan Ponce de León
 * Judas Iscariot
 * Justinian I
 * Julius Caesar
 * Julius Schwartz

K

 * Karl Freiherr von Müffling
 * Kate Warne
 * Kay Kyser
 * Keith Giffen
 * Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar
 * Khufu
 * Kirk Alyn
 * Kit Carson
 * Kublai Khan

L

 * Larry Varvel
 * Leonardo da Vinci
 * Leif Erikson
 * Leonid Brezhnev
 * Leslie Groves
 * L. Frank Baum
 * Lizabeth Scott
 * Lou Costello
 * Louis XIV of France
 * Louise Simonson
 * Lucille Ball
 * Lucky Luciano
 * Lyndon Johnson

M

 * Madonna
 * Maffeo Polo
 * Mao Zedong
 * Mahatma Gandhi
 * Marco Polo
 * Mark Antony
 * Margaret Thatcher
 * Marie Antoinette
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * Martin Luther King Jr.
 * Mary Shelley
 * Mary Todd Lincoln
 * Meyer Lansky
 * Micajah "Big" Harpe
 * Michael Jackson
 * Michael Jordan
 * Mickey Cohen
 * Mick Jagger
 * Mike Carlin
 * Mikhail Gorbachev
 * Moses
 * Muammar Gaddafi
 * Muhammad Ali
 * Murray Boltinoff

N

 * Nancy Reagan
 * Napoleon Bonaparte
 * Nathan Hale
 * Neil Armstrong
 * Neil deGrasse Tyson
 * Nellie Bly
 * Nelson Mandela
 * Nero
 * Niccolò Polo
 * Saint Nicholas
 * Nicolas Flamel
 * Nikola Tesla
 * Nostradamus
 * Nunnally Johnson

O

 * Oprah Winfrey
 * Orson Welles
 * Orville Wright
 * Oscar Wilde

P

 * Pancho Villa
 * Paul Levitz
 * Paul McCartney
 * Paul Revere
 * Pat Boone
 * Pat Buchanan
 * Pat Nixon
 * Pat Sajak
 * Pheidippides
 * Philip II of Spain
 * Phyllis Coates
 * Pocahontas
 * Pol Pot
 * Porfirio Díaz
 * Preston Brooks
 * Psamtik III
 * Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator

R

 * Raisa Gorbachova
 * Ramesses II
 * Richard I of England
 * Richard III of England
 * Richard Nixon
 * Ringo Starr
 * Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
 * Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
 * Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
 * Robert E. Lee
 * Robert F. Kennedy
 * Robert Ford
 * Robert Loren Fleming
 * Robert Peary
 * Robert Maynard
 * Ronald Reagan
 * Rudy Giuliani
 * Ruhollah Khomeini
 * Prince Rupert of the Rhine
 * Russell Means
 * Rustichello da Pisa
 * Rutherford B. Hayes

S

 * Saladin
 * Sammy Baugh
 * Sammy Davis Jr.
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * Sejanus
 * Sergio Aragonés
 * Sigmund Freud
 * Simon Girty
 * Sitting Bull
 * Sneferu
 * Snooky Lanson
 * Spartacus
 * Stanislaus Zbyszko
 * Stanisław I
 * Stephen Schwartz
 * Stevie Wonder
 * Sting
 * Stonewall Jackson
 * Stuart Sutcliffe

T

 * Tallulah Bankhead
 * Theodora (wife of Justinian I)
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Thomas Blood
 * Thomas De Quincey
 * Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves
 * Thomas Jefferson
 * Tom Fagan
 * Thomas Paine
 * Tomás de Torquemada
 * Tom Brokaw
 * Tommy Dorsey
 * Truman Capote

U

 * Ulysses Grant

V

 * Vasco da Gama
 * Vercingetorix
 * Virginia Hill
 * Virginia Mayo
 * Vladimir Lenin

W

 * Walter Butler
 * Walter Raleigh
 * Warren Harding
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic
 * Wendy Barrie
 * Wernher von Braun
 * Wilbur Wright
 * Wild Bill Hickok
 * Wiley "Little" Harpe
 * William "Buffalo Bill" Cody
 * William Harrison
 * William Howard Taft
 * William McKinley
 * William M. Tweed
 * William Pinkerton
 * William Powell
 * William Quantrill
 * William Randolph Hearst
 * William Shakespeare
 * William Stephenson
 * William Tecumseh Sherman
 * Winnie Holzman
 * Wilson Shannon
 * Winston Churchill
 * Woodrow Wilson
 * Woody Allen
 * Wyatt Earp

Y

 * Yoweri Museveni
 * Yuri Gagarin

Z

 * Zenobia