Perkin Warbeck

Perkin Warbeck

male, deceased (1499)
Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 - November 23, 1499) was a pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII of England. He was an...
Lambert Simnel

Lambert Simnel

male, deceased (1534)
Lambert Simnel (c. 1477 - c. 1534) was a child pretender to the throne of England. He and Perkin Warbeck were two impostors who threatened the rule...
Anna Anderson

Anna Anderson

female, deceased (1984)
Anastasia Manahan, usually known as Anna Anderson (c. 1900 — 4 February 1984), was the best known of several women who claimed to be Grand Du...
Hilda Toledano

Hilda Toledano

female, deceased (1995)
Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo-Bragança, also known as Hilda Toledano, the pseudonym she used to write books, claimed to be an illegitimate child of K...
Princess Caraboo

Princess Caraboo

female, deceased (1864)
Princess Caraboo (1791 - January 4, 1865), a noted impostor, pretended to be from a faraway island and fooled a British town for some time. On...
Alexis Brimeyer

Alexis Brimeyer

male, deceased (1995)
Alexis Brimeyer (1946-1995) was a false pretender who claimed connection to various European thrones. He used fraudulent combined titles like...

Eugenio Lascorz

male, 123 years old
Eugenio Lascorz y Labastida (March 26 1886 -?) was a pretender who claimed connection to the royal house of the Byzantine Empire. Eugenio Lascorz...
Yemelyan Pugachev

Yemelyan Pugachev

male, deceased (1775)
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev, also transliterated Emelian Pugachev, born in 1740 or 1742 and executed in 1775, was a pretender to the Russian throne...
Karl Wilhelm Naundorff

Karl Wilhelm Naundorff

male, deceased (1845)
Karl Wilhelm Naundorff (1785? - August 10, 1845) was a German clock- and-watchmaker who until his death claimed to be Prince Louis-Charles....
Eugenia Smith

Eugenia Smith

female, deceased (1997)
Eugenia Smith, of Chicago, also known as Eugenia Drabek Smetisko, (1899 - January 31 1997) was the author of the "Autobiography of HIH Anastasia...