Skip to content
Category

Hoaxers

page 1
Sacha Baron Cohen
British comedian and actor
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
Jim Jones
American cult leader (1931–1978)
Alan Sokal
American physicist and mathematician
Wolfgang von Kempelen
Austrian dramatic, graphic, constructer, linguist, painter, writer, inventor and nobleman (1734-1804)
Léo Taxil
French writer (1854–1907)
Joe Orton
English playwright (1933–1967)
Mary Toft
English medical hoaxer
T. B. Joshua
Nigerian Christian leader and televangelist (1963–2021)
Jussie Smollett
American actor
George Adamski
American ufologist (1891–1965)
Charles Dawson
British archaeological forger (1864-1916)
Q292973
British writer, presenter and poker player
Theodore Hook
British writer
Janet Cooke
American journalist
Nicolas Notovitch
Russian journalist
Peter Boghossian
American philosophy professor and author
Ira Einhorn
American murderer (1940–2020)
Eduardo Sánchez
Cuban-born American film director
Daniel Myrick
American film director, screenwriter and film producer
Donald Crowhurst
British yacht racer (1932–1969)
James A. Lindsay
American mathematician, author, and cultural critic
Horace de Vere Cole
Irish prankster (1881–1936)
Luther Blissett
collective pseudonym used by cultural activists
Jayson Blair
American journalist
Peter Popoff
German-American televangelist
M. A. Wetherell
British actor
Jean Shepherd
American writer and radio host (1921–1999)
Brigitte Boisselier
French chemist
Gray Barker
American writer (1925-1984)
Helen Pluckrose
British author and cultural writer
Alan Abel
(1924-2018) American prankster
Georges Montandon
French anthropologist
Laura Albert
American writer
Ian Colin
British actor (1910–1987)
Christopher Rufo
American conservative activist (1984-)
Elizabeth Cotton, Lady Hope
British activist (1842–1922)
Beatrice Sparks
American writer