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.

A

 * Abigail Adams
 * Abraham Beame
 * Abraham Lincoln
 * Abraham Zapruder
 * Abul-Abbas
 * Adam Weishaupt
 * Adolf Hitler
 * Pope Adrian I
 * Aetios (eunuch)
 * Akhenaten
 * Alan Grant
 * Alan Ladd
 * Alan Moore
 * Albert Einstein
 * Albert Speer
 * Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
 * Al Capone
 * Alcuin
 * Alessandro Cagliostro
 * Alexander Hamilton
 * Alexander Herrmann
 * Alexander the Great
 * Alfred Nobel
 * Alfred the Great
 * Allan Pinkerton
 * Al Milgrom
 * Alois Hitler
 * Alphonse Bertillon
 * Alphonse James de Rothschild
 * Amédé Ardoin
 * Amelia Earhart
 * Amos Lawrence
 * Andrew Jackson
 * Andrew Johnson
 * Andy Warhol
 * Angus MacAskill
 * Ann Blyth
 * Anne Bonny
 * Anne of Austria
 * Annie Leibovitz
 * Annie Oakley
 * Ann Sheridan
 * Anthony Wayne
 * Antonino Rocca
 * Archie Goodwin
 * Archimedes
 * Aristotle
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger
 * Attila
 * Augustus
 * Aurelian

B

 * Babe Ruth
 * Barack Obama
 * Bat Masterson
 * Belle Boyd
 * Benedict Arnold
 * Benito Mussolini
 * Benjamin Franklin
 * Benny Leonard
 * Bernard Montgomery
 * Bernie Sanders
 * Bert Lahr
 * Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair
 * Betsy Ross
 * Betty Grable
 * Bill Clinton
 * Bill Hicks
 * Billy Dixon
 * Billy the Kid
 * Bing Crosby
 * Blackbeard
 * Bob Barker
 * Bob Haney
 * Bob Hope
 * Bonnie Barker
 * Boris Yeltsin
 * Boudica
 * Bruce Willis
 * Bruno Premiani
 * Bucephalus
 * Bud Abbott
 * Buffalo Bill
 * Bugsy Siegel
 * Buster Crabbe

C

 * Calamity Jane
 * Caligula
 * Calvin Coolidge
 * Cardinal Richelieu
 * Carl Jung
 * Carrie Nation
 * Cary Grant
 * Casey Jones
 * Caspar Weinberger
 * Cecil B. DeMille
 * Cesare Borgia
 * Charlemagne
 * Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
 * Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan
 * Charles I of England
 * Charles J. Guiteau
 * Charles L. Robinson
 * Charles Martel
 * Charles Minthorn Murphy
 * Charles Proteus Steinmetz
 * Charles Sumner
 * Charles the Younger
 * Charlie Chaplin
 * Charlie Meyerson
 * Charley Paddock
 * Cherry Boone
 * Cherry Sisters
 * Chester W. Nimitz
 * Chet Atkins
 * Chiang Kai-shek
 * Chris Farley
 * Christine de Pizan
 * Christopher Columbus
 * Clara Barton
 * Clark Gable
 * Claudius Gothicus
 * Cleopatra
 * Clyde Barrow
 * Cole Younger
 * Comte de Troisville
 * Constantine VI
 * Cordell Hull
 * Crazy Horse
 * Crispus Attucks
 * Croesus
 * Curt Swan
 * Cyrano de Bergerac
 * Cyrus the Great

D

 * Dan Blocker
 * Dan DiDio
 * Dan Jurgens
 * Dan Quayle
 * Dan Raspler
 * Daniel Boone
 * Daniel C. Carpenter
 * Daniel Read Anthony
 * Daniel Webster
 * Danny Thomas
 * Darius III
 * Dashiell Hammett
 * David Bowie
 * David Niven
 * David Bushnell
 * David Rice Atchison
 * Davy Crockett
 * Dean Martin
 * Debby Boone
 * Demades
 * Deborah Sampson
 * Denis
 * Desi Arnaz
 * Diamond Jim Brady
 * Diana, Princess of Wales
 * Dick Giordano
 * Don Adams
 * Donald Trump
 * Don Rickles
 * Douglas Fairbanks
 * Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
 * Douglas MacArthur
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower

E

 * Eddie Berganza
 * Ed Koch
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Edith Cavell
 * Edwin M. Stanton
 * Edward I of England
 * Edward Smith (sea captain)
 * Eleanor Clift
 * Eleanor Roosevelt
 * Eliot Ness
 * Elizabeth Báthory
 * Elizabeth Blackwell
 * Elizabeth I of England
 * Elizabeth II
 * Elizabeth Kenny
 * Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
 * Ellen Swallow Richards
 * Elliot S! Maggin
 * Elmer E. Ellsworth
 * Elvis Presley
 * Eli Thayer
 * Enrico Fermi
 * Erik the Red
 * Ernest Borgnine
 * Ernest Hemingway
 * Erwin Rommel
 * Ethan Allen
 * Étienne Montgolfier
 * Eugen Sandow
 * Eva Braun
 * Evangeline Booth

F

 * Fala
 * Fastrada
 * Fate Marable
 * Ferdinand II of Aragon
 * Fidel Castro
 * Fiorello H. La Guardia
 * Fletcher Christian
 * Florence Nightingale
 * Pope Francis
 * Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer
 * Francis Drake
 * Frank Gotch
 * Frank James
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * Franklin Pierce
 * Frank Sinatra
 * Franz Mesmer
 * Frédéric Chopin
 * Frederick Abberline
 * Frederick Douglass
 * Frederick the Great

G

 * Galileo Galilei
 * Gavrilo Princip
 * Gary Cooper
 * Genghis Khan
 * Gerd von Rundstedt
 * Geoffrey Chaucer
 * George Armstrong Custer
 * George Burns
 * George Foreman
 * George Harrison
 * George H. W. Bush
 * George Lucas
 * George Marshall
 * George S. Patton
 * George Raft
 * George Reeves
 * George Schultz
 * George VI
 * George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
 * George Washington
 * George W. Bush
 * Gerald Ford
 * Geronimo
 * G. Gordon Liddy
 * Giacomo Casanova
 * Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
 * Gilles de Rais
 * Gil Kane
 * Goliath
 * Gordon Cooper
 * Gotthard Heinrici
 * Gracie Allen
 * Grant Morrison
 * Grigori Rasputin
 * Groucho Marx
 * Grover Cleveland
 * Grover Whalen
 * Guy Fawkes
 * Guy of Lusignan

H

 * Hamnet Shakespeare
 * Hannibal
 * Harland Sanders
 * Harold Godwinson
 * Harold Lloyd
 * Harriet Tubman
 * Harry Carey (actor)
 * Harry Greb
 * Harry Hopkins
 * Harry Houdini
 * Harry Rawson
 * Harry S. Truman
 * Harun al-Rashid
 * Harvey Levin
 * Hatshepsut
 * Hedy Lamarr
 * Heinrich Himmler
 * Helena Blavatsky
 * Helen Keller
 * Hengist
 * Henry II of England
 * Henry V of England
 * Henry VI of England
 * Henry A. Wallace
 * Henry Condell
 * Harry Hines Woodring
 * Henry Kissinger
 * Henry L. Stimson
 * Henry Morgan
 * Henry Morton Stanley
 * Henry the Fowler
 * Herbert Hoover
 * Herman Melville
 * Hermann Göring
 * Hermann von Helmholtz
 * Hernán Cortés
 * H. G. Wells
 * Hideki Tojo
 * Hillary Clinton
 * Hippocrates
 * Hirohito
 * Ho Chi Minh
 * Horatius Cocles
 * Howard Cosell
 * Howard Thurston
 * Howard Hill
 * Hubert Humphrey
 * Humphrey Bogart

I

 * Irene of Athens
 * Isaac Newton
 * Isabella I of Castile

J

 * Jack Benny
 * Jack Broughton
 * Jack Kirby
 * Jack Larson
 * Jack the Ripper
 * Jack Williamson
 * Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
 * Ja Lama
 * James II of England
 * James VI and I
 * James Abercrombie (British Army colonel)
 * James Bowie
 * James Buchanan
 * James Forrestal
 * James Garfield
 * James J. Corbett
 * James J. Jeffries
 * James Madison
 * James Monroe
 * James Mott
 * Jane Addams
 * Jane Austen
 * Jann Jones
 * Jeanine Schaefer
 * Jeb Bush
 * J. Edgar Hoover
 * Jenette Kahn
 * Jenny Lind
 * Jerry Lewis
 * Jerry Siegel
 * Jesse James
 * Jesse Owens
 * Jesus of Nazareth
 * Jim Aparo
 * Jim Bridger
 * Jim Morrison
 * Jimmy Carter
 * Jimmy Durante
 * J.E.B. Stuart
 * Joan of Arc
 * Joaquin Miller
 * Joe DiMaggio
 * Joe Grim
 * Joe Shuster
 * Joe Simon
 * Johann Martin Schleyer
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * John Adams
 * Jonathan Ross
 * John Brown
 * John Connally
 * John C. Calhoun
 * John C. Pemberton
 * John Dillinger
 * John Ericsson
 * John Fitzgerald Kennedy
 * John Glenn
 * John Hancock
 * John Hatfield (baseball)
 * John Hathorne
 * John Jacob Astor
 * John, King of England
 * John Lennon
 * John L. Sullivan
 * John Marshall
 * John McLaughlin (host)
 * John of Gaunt
 * Pope John Paul II
 * John Paul Jones
 * John Quincy Adams
 * John Solomon Rarey
 * John the Baptist
 * John Wesley Hardin
 * John Wilkes Booth
 * John Wayne
 * John W. Cannon
 * Johnny Carson
 * Josef Stalin
 * Joseph Goebbels
 * Joseph Kony
 * Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
 * Joseph Montgolfier
 * Joseph Pulitzer
 * Joseph Stilwell
 * J. Robert Oppenheimer
 * Juan Ponce de León
 * Judas Iscariot
 * Jules Verne
 * Julia Ward Howe
 * Julie d'Aubigny
 * Juliette Gordon Low
 * Julius Caesar
 * Julius Schwartz
 * Junípero Serra
 * Justinian I

K

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

L

 * Lafayette C. Baker
 * Lauren Bacall
 * Larry Varvel
 * Lee Iacocca
 * Legs Diamond
 * Leif Erikson
 * Leonardo da Vinci
 * Leon Czolgosz
 * Leonidas I
 * Leonid Brezhnev
 * Leslie Groves
 * L. Frank Baum
 * Lillian Russell
 * Lillian Wald
 * Liver-Eating Johnson
 * Lizabeth Scott
 * Lord Byron
 * Lew Dockstader
 * Loretta Lynn
 * Lorne Greene
 * Lou Costello
 * Lou Gehrig
 * Louis Pasteur
 * Louis the Pious
 * Louis XIII of France
 * Louis XIV of France
 * Louise Simonson
 * Lucille Ball
 * Luitgard (Frankish queen)
 * Lucretia Mott
 * Lucky Luciano
 * Lucrezia Borgia
 * Ludovico Sforza
 * Lyndon Johnson

M

 * Madonna
 * Maffeo Polo
 * Mamie Eisenhower
 * Manuel Noriega
 * Marie Curie
 * Mao Zedong
 * Mahatma Gandhi
 * Mileva Marić
 * Man o' War
 * Manuel García (baritone)
 * Marco Polo
 * Marcus Licinius Crassus
 * Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
 * Margaret Thatcher
 * Marie Antoinette
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * Mark Antony
 * Mark Hamill
 * Mark Twain
 * Martin Bormann
 * Martin Johnson
 * Martin Luther King Jr.
 * Mary Shelley
 * Mary Todd Lincoln
 * Matthew Hopkins
 * Maximilien Robespierre
 * Meyer Lansky
 * Micajah "Big" Harpe
 * Michael Jackson
 * Michael Jordan
 * Michele Patrick
 * Mickey Cohen
 * Mick Jagger
 * Mike Carlin
 * Mike Fink
 * Mikhail Gorbachev
 * Milo of Croton
 * Moctezuma II
 * Monty Hall
 * Moses
 * Muammar Gaddafi
 * Muhammad Ali
 * Murray Boltinoff
 * Myrna Loy

N

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

O

 * Oliver Hardy
 * Oprah Winfrey
 * Orson Welles
 * Orville Wright
 * Oscar Wilde
 * Osceola
 * Otto von Bismarck

P

 * Paddy Ryan
 * Pancho Villa
 * Pat Boone
 * Pat Buchanan
 * Pat Nixon
 * Patrick Henry
 * Pat Sajak
 * Paul Levitz
 * Paul McCartney
 * Paul Revere
 * Paul von Hindenburg


 * Pepin of Italy
 * Pepin the Hunchback
 * Peter Lorre
 * Pheidippides
 * Phil McGraw
 * Philip II of Spain
 * Phyllis Coates
 * Pocahontas
 * Pol Pot
 * Porfirio Díaz
 * Preston Brooks
 * Psamtik III
 * P.T. Barnum
 * Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator

R

 * Raisa Gorbachova
 * Ralph Edwards
 * Ramesses I
 * Ramesses II
 * Rembrandt
 * Raquel Welch
 * Richard Burbage
 * Richard Chamberlain
 * Richard Cowley
 * Richard Harding Davis
 * Richard I of England
 * Richard III of England
 * Richard Nixon
 * Ringo Starr
 * Rin Tin Tin
 * Rita Hayworth
 * Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
 * Robert Cummings
 * Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
 * Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
 * Robert E. Lee
 * Robert F. Kennedy
 * Robert Ford
 * Robert Loren Fleming
 * Robert Maynard
 * Robert Peary
 * Robert Rogers (soldier)
 * Robert Todd Lincoln
 * Robert Wagner
 * Rock Hudson
 * Roger Bacon
 * Rollo
 * Ronald Reagan
 * Rosa Bonheur
 * Rosalynn Carter
 * Roy Clark
 * Rudy Giuliani
 * Ruhollah Khomeini
 * Prince Rupert of the Rhine
 * Russell Means
 * Rustichello da Pisa
 * Rutherford B. Hayes

S

 * Saddam Hussein
 * Saladin
 * Sam Houston
 * Sammy Baugh
 * Sammy Davis Jr.
 * Samuel Adams
 * Samuel Colt
 * Samuel J. Jones
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * Sappho
 * Sarah Bernhardt
 * Sejanus
 * Sergio Aragonés
 * Shanti Devi
 * Sigmund Freud
 * Simón Bolívar
 * Simon Girty
 * Sitting Bull
 * Sneferu
 * Snooky Lanson
 * Socrates
 * Sojourner Truth
 * Solomon
 * Solon
 * Soong Mei-ling
 * Spartacus
 * Stanislaus Zbyszko
 * Stanisław I
 * Stan Laurel
 * Stephen Decatur
 * Pope Stephen II
 * Stephen Schwartz
 * Stevie Wonder
 * Sting
 * Stonewall Jackson
 * Stuart Sutcliffe
 * Sylvester Stallone

T

 * Tallulah Bankhead
 * Tecumseh
 * Ted Koppel
 * Tenskwatawa
 * Theodora (wife of Justinian I)
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Theodote
 * Thomas Becket
 * Thomas Blood
 * Thomas De Quincey
 * Thomas Edison
 * Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves
 * Thomas Jefferson
 * Thomas Paine
 * Tom Jones (singer)
 * Tiglath-Pileser III
 * Tilpin
 * Tokugawa Iemitsu
 * Tomás de Torquemada
 * Tom Brokaw
 * Tom Fagan
 * Tom Hyer
 * Tommy Dorsey
 * Tom Sayers
 * Tony Curtis
 * Truman Capote
 * Tutankhamun

U

 * Ulysses Grant

V

 * Valerian (emperor)
 * Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
 * Vasco da Gama
 * Vercingetorix
 * Veronica Lake
 * Vinnie Ream
 * Virginia Hill
 * Virginia Mayo
 * Virginia Tighe
 * Vladimir Lenin

W

 * Walter Butler
 * Walter Raleigh
 * Warren E. Burger
 * Warren Harding
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic
 * Wendy Barrie
 * Wernher von Braun
 * Widukind
 * Wilbur Underhill Jr.
 * Wilbur Wright
 * Wild Bill Hickok
 * Wiley "Little" Harpe
 * Wiley Post
 * Wilhelm II, German Emperor
 * Wilhelm Keitel
 * Wilhelm Röntgen
 * William B. Travis
 * William B. Williams (DJ)
 * William Henry Harrison
 * William Howard Taft
 * William II of England
 * William Kempe
 * William Kidd
 * William McKinley
 * William M. Tweed
 * William Pinkerton
 * William Powell
 * William Quantrill
 * William Randolph Hearst
 * William Shakespeare
 * William Stephenson
 * William Tecumseh Sherman
 * William the Conqueror
 * William the Silent
 * Winnie Holzman
 * Wilson Shannon
 * Winston Churchill
 * Woodrow Wilson
 * Woody Allen
 * Wyatt Earp

X

 * Xanthippe

Y

 * Young Griffo
 * Yoweri Museveni
 * Yusuf İsmail
 * Yuri Gagarin

Z

 * Zenobia
 * Zishe Breitbart