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Occupation: Hoaxer

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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Laura Albert
Novelist
1965   The infamous JT LeRoy
Rafid Ahmed Alwan
Hoaxer
1968   "Curveball"
Anna Ayala
Criminal
22-Dec-1965   Wendy's chili-finger woman
P. T. Barnum
Hoaxer
5-Jul-1810 7-Apr-1891 Circus showman
Thomas Chatterton
Poet
20-Nov-1752 24-Aug-1770 Fabricated as Thomas Rowley
Sacha Baron Cohen
Comic
13-Oct-1971   Boyakasha! Respec
Janet Cooke
Journalist
23-Jul-1954   Caught writing fake news
Bear Grylls
TV Personality
7-Jun-1974   Man vs. Wild
Barney Hill
Hoaxer
20-Jul-1922 25-Feb-1969 Self-proclaimed UFO abductee
Betty Hill
Hoaxer
28-Jun-1919 17-Oct-2004 Self-proclaimed UFO abductee
William Henry Ireland
Hoaxer
1777 1835 Forger of Shakespearian manuscripts
Clifford Irving
Hoaxer
5-Nov-1930   Howard Hughes autobiography hoax
Norma Khouri
Hoaxer
c. 1970   Author of Forbidden Love
Trofim Lysenko
Scientist
29-Sep-1898 20-Nov-1976 Dazzled Stalin with false genetic theory
James Macpherson
Hoaxer
27-Oct-1736 17-Feb-1796 So-called translations of Ossian
Phineas P. Quimby
Hoaxer
16-Feb-1802 16-Jan-1866 Father of New Thought movement
Rael
Hoaxer
30-Sep-1946   UFO cult leader maintains cloning laboratory
Joey Skaggs
Hoaxer
1945   Inveterate media prankster
Alan Sokal
Hoaxer
1955   Transgressing the Boundaries
Perkin Warbeck
Hoaxer
c. 1474 23-Nov-1499 Pretender to English throne



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