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- In The United States, every February, President's Day is celebrated. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln's birth-dates are within a week of each other (though 77 years apart), so President's Day was introduced to turn the two holidays into one. While the purpose it to remember them, watching the TV that month would make you think our forefathers wanted nothing more than to sell you discount cars and mattresses.
- "Victory by Computer": During the school trip to Metropolis Museum of Science and Industry, Ms. Leigh introduces the kids to William Shockley, Walter Brattain and John Bardeen, the transistor's inventors.
Music
- Several of The Foxy Bard's personas are based on real people.
- Shmuel Pallache, the Sephardi pirate rabbi, was a real person
. It's unknown if he was also a musician. - Christopher Hatton, the Elizabethan courtier, was also real.
- Shmuel Pallache, the Sephardi pirate rabbi, was a real person
Pinball
- Magic Girl have Isaac Newton and Nikola Tesla as supporting characters for the protagonist.
Podcasts
- Pretty much the entire cast of 1865 is this. Just to name a few we have Edwin Stanton, Andrew Johnson, Robert Todd Lincoln, Gideon Wells, and Mary Surratt all making appearances. Abraham Lincoln appears in flashbacks, and John Wilkes Booth is the focus of a three episode prequel series.
- Less is Morgue: Has the ghost of Blackbeard as a surprisingly brilliant financial expert, and the ghost of Tarrare - a legendary French weirdo - as a tragic figure with unresolved familial issues.
- The Magnus Archives features a large number of historical figures in a number of contexts; most of them fall under Beethoven Was an Alien Spy, but occasionally they show up as normal humans who had the misfortune to run across various monsters.
- Pretending to Be People
- Ursula Kemp, an accused witch from St. Osyth, works for Marvin Glass.
- Politicians Paul Simon and Robert Byrd played a role in the history of the Circle of Knowledge.
- Ursula Kemp
- The Springheel Saga features numerous well-known personages such as The Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Disraeli and Queen Victoria, as well as more obscure figures involved in the actual Spring-Heeled Jack case, including victims Lucy Scales, Jane Alsop and Mary Stevens, main suspect Thomas Millbank and magistrate, Mr. Hardwick. Series 2's Unreliable Narrator and Sidekick, James Malcolm Rymer, was the real-life creator of Varney the Vampire and Sweeney Todd.
Tabletop Games
- Being an alternate history Rocket Age is awash with them, frankly too many to list here.
- 7th Sea has a fair share of them too, not only just royalty ones.
- Atmosfear: Khufu rises from his grave to turn Egypt into a Los Vegas style gambling destination.
Web Original
- This is much of the point of Epic Rap Battles of History, where figures such as Genghis Khan, Bruce Lee, Nikola Tesla or even Justin Bieber can wind up as part of the latest battle. That said, fictional characters have also been a part of the mix since Episode 2, which featured Darth Vader vs. Adolf Hitler.
- Many unpublished Alternate History stories, such as those on Alternate History.com, also include appearances by historical figures. For example, A World of Laughter, a World of Tears has its point of divergence from actual history with Walt Disney becoming President of the United States.
- Chrono Hustle includes Imhotep and Nikola Tesla as main characters, and a few other historical people pop up throughout.
- The Cartographer's Handbook involves Ulysses S. Grant still serving as President and Annie Oakley working as a Cartographer.
