| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |
