the 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived

The 101 (in Rank Order) is our list of most influential characters

The Marlboro Man
Big Brother
King Arthur
Santa Claus (Saint Nick}
Hamlet
Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster
Siegfried
Sherlock Holmes
Romeo and Juliet
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Uncle Tom
Robin Hood
Jim Crow
Oedipus
Lady Chatterly
Ebenezer Scrooge
Don Quixote
Mickey Mouse
The American Cowboy
Prince Charming
Smokey Bear
Robinson Crusoe
Apollo and Dionysus
Odysseus
Nora Helmer
Cinderella
Shylock
Rosie the Riveter
Midas
Hester Prynne
The Little Engine That Could
Archie Bunker
Dracula
Alice in Wonderland
Citizen Kane
Faust
Figaro
Godzilla
Mary Richards
Don Juan
Bambi
William Tell
Barbie
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Venus and Cupid
Prometheus
Pandora
G.I. Joe
Tarzan
Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock
James Bond
Hansel and Gretel
Captain Ahab
Richard Blaine
The Ugly Duckling
Loch Ness Monster {Nessie}
Atticus Finch
Saint Valentine
Helen of Troy
Batman
Uncle Sam
Nancy Drew
J. R. Ewing
Superman
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
HAL 9000
Kermit the Frog
Sam Spade
The Pied Piper
Peter Pan
Hiawatha
Othello
The Little Tramp
King Kong
Norman Bates
Hercules {Herakles]
Dick Tracy
Joe Camel
The Cat in the Hat
Icarus
Mammy
Sindbad
Amos ‘n’ Andy
Buck Rogers
Luke Skywalker
Perry Mason
Dr. Strangelove
Pygmalion
Madame Butterfly
Hans Beckert
Dorothy Gale
The Wandering Jew
The Great Gatsby
Buck {Jack London, The Call of the Wild}
Willy Loman
Betty Boop
Ivanhoe
Elmer Gantry
Lilith
John Doe
Paul Bunyan

Also-Rans and Near-Misses

Beowulf
Bugs Bunny
Genrge Milton and Lenny Small
Golem, the
Gulliver
Harry Callahan [Dirty Harry)
Holden Caulfield
Homerr Simpson
Jewish American Princess
Lancelot
Lolita
Medea
Mother Goose
The Phoenix
Pinocchio
Raskolnikov
Tom Joad
Uncle Remus
Walter Mitty
Winnie-the-Pooh