Nonexistent people used in hoaxes

Myths about a Ukrainian fighter pilot during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

thumb|upright=1.2|Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787

Polish Wikipedia article on a fake person for whom a street was apparently named

male chimpanzee painter, subject of a 1964 hoax

pen name used by Stephen King

Wikipedia hoax in 2012

Indian religious leader

Wikipedia hoax

person who was said to have invented eyeglasses

fake NHL draft pick

Portuguese Wikipedia hoax article

lonelygirl15 is an American science fiction thriller web series created by Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, Greg Goodfried, and Amanda Goodfried. It was independently released on YouTube from June 16, 2006, to August 1, 2008, and was also briefly released on Revver and Myspace. The series revolves around the initially mundane life of homeschooled 16-year-old Bree Avery (Jessica Lee Rose), who uses the username Lonelygirl15 online. She goes on the run with her friend Daniel (Yousef Abu-Taleb) after her parents' mysterious religion is revealed to be The Order, a blood-harvesting operation that want

Welsh homeless man who posthumously served in World War Two as Major William Martin

digital personality

Congolese politician; possibly fictitious, claimed to be the Vice-president of UNAFEC and the Minister of Foreign Trade

fictional persona of a blog by Tom MacMaster

literary persona adopted by writer Laura Albert

Allegedly officer:Polish Army/commander of the Jewish Military Union Żydowski Związek Wojskowy

flying ace

non-existent Czech student

fictitious cancer-suffering teenager portrayed on the Internet by an American woman

fictional character

Fictional Nazi Poet Created by Anti-Putin activists

fictional French philosopher created in 1995 as part of a literary hoax

thumb|1956 Soviet stamp presenting Kryakutnoy as a real person Kryakutnoy () or Furtzel () was a fictional early 18th-century Russian inventor, who allegedly invented the hot air balloon fifty years before the Montgolfier brothers.

Fictional poet

fake film critic