Unidentified people

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation. As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database. Nakamoto was active in the development of bitcoin until December 2010.

anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests

Greek philosopher

man with a mysterious history (1812–1833)

prophet mentioned in the Quran

17th century prisoner, among the most famous in French history

18th-century European adventurer and intellectual

12th-century chronicler of Polish history

alleged time-traveler; fictional human described on bulletin boards

anonymous woman famous for a purported death mask that may in fact have been a life mask, and associated with an apocryphal cause of death as drowing

character on the British motoring television show Top Gear

indigenous man living alone in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest

Pseudo-Isidore is the conventional name for the unknown Carolingian-era author (or authors) behind an extensive corpus of influential forgeries. Pseudo-Isidore's main object was to provide accused bishops with an array of legal protections amounting to de facto immunity from trial and conviction; to secure episcopal autonomy within the diocese; and to defend the integrity of church property. The forgeries accomplished this goal, in part, by aiming to expand the legal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome.

Egyptian pharaoh whose name was illegible by the time of the 19. dynasty already

notary and chronicler of Hungarian King Béla III

Pseudo-Plutarch is the conventional name given to the actual, but unknown, authors of a number of pseudepigrapha attributed to Plutarch but now known not to have been written by him. Some of these works were included in editions of Plutarch's Moralia.

iconic photograph picturing the imminent execution of a Jewish man by a Nazi

Anonymous Iraqi sniper

Fulcanelli (fl. 1920s) was the name used by a French alchemist and esoteric writer, whose identity is still debated. The name Fulcanelli seems to be a play on words: Vulcan, the ancient Roman god of fire, plus El, a Canaanite name for God and so the Sacred Fire.

video game repacker

Serbian leader

unsent love letter written by Ludwig van Beethoven

unknown priest in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Spanish saint

Japanese light novelist

aXXo is the Internet alias of an individual who released and standardized commercial film DVDs as free downloads on the Internet between 2005 and 2009. The files, which were usually new films, were popular among the file sharing community using peer-to-peer file sharing protocols such as BitTorrent. A download-tracking firm BigChampagne found — in a sampling period in late 2008 — that almost 33.5% of all movie downloads were aXXo torrents. aXXo encoded files to approximately 700 MB – the same size for a compact disc. Due to the re-encoded quality of an aXXo file, the suffix "aXXo" was often us

alias

name used to refer to the anonymous Byzantine author of two treatises

man who became internet phenomenon

French rabbi (1889-1968)

thumb | right After the emperor Nero committed suicide near the villa of his freedman Phaon in June of 68 AD, various Nero impostors appeared between the autumn of 69 AD and the reign of the emperor Domitian. Most scholars set the number of Nero impostors to two or three, although St. Augustine wrote of the popularity of the belief that Nero would return in his day, known as the Nero Redivivus legend. In addition to the three documented Pseudo-Neros, Suetonius refers to imperial edicts forged in the dead Nero's name that encouraged his followers and promised his imminent return to avenge himse

anonymous author or authors

unidentified Christian pilgrim

picture of a man dancing on the street in Sydney, Australia

Sedjes is an ancient Egyptian cartouche "name" for a king (pharaoh), who is said to have ruled during the 3rd Dynasty (Old Kingdom period). The lexeme appears only once in the Abydos King List as cartouche No. 18, presented as if it were the name of the direct follower of king Sekhemkhet (here named Teti) and the direct predecessor of king Neferkara I.

ruler of Qin

Uketsu (Japanese: 雨穴, romanized as Uketsu) is a Japanese YouTuber and author of unknown identity. He creates surreal short films and writes mystery and horror fiction.

historic photograph

Late first century Chanyu of the Xiongnu Empire

video game cracker

Spanish crypto-Muslim author

Italian YouTuber, writer, and science communicator (1987–)

writer of a treatise of medieval music theory

Spanish chess player

Greek philosopher

American magician and writer

The fish-man of Liérganes () is an entity of the mythology of Cantabria, located in the north of Spain. The fish-man would be an amphibian human-looking being, who looked a lot like a metamorphosis of a real human being who was lost at sea. His story was examined by Enlightenment writer Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, who claimed that the story was true.

notorious judicial and media affair in Italy