Frank Abagnale

Frank Abagnale

male, 61 years old
Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (born April 27, 1948) is a former cheque forger and impostor for five years in the 1960s. Currently he runs Abagnale...
Elmyr de Hory

Elmyr de Hory

male, deceased (1976)
Elmyr de Hory (born Elmyr Dory-Boutin was a famous Hungarian-born painter and art forger. He claimed to have sold over a thousand forgeries to...
Thomas Chatterton

Thomas Chatterton

male, deceased (1770)
Thomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. Committing suicide by arsenic rather than die of starvation at the...
William Henry Ireland

William Henry Ireland

male, deceased (1835)
Samuel William Henry Ireland was a forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays. He is less well-known as a poet, writer of gothic novels...
Iolo Morganwg

Iolo Morganwg

male
Iolo Morganwg (or "Morgannwg" in modern spelling; pronounced) was the bardic name of Edward Williams (Llancarfan, Glamorgan, Wales 1747-1826), an...

William Dodd

male, deceased (1777)
William Dodd (29 May 1729 - 27 June 1777) was an English Anglican clergyman and a man of letters. He lived extravagantly, and was nicknamed the...
Jean de Sperati

Jean de Sperati

male, deceased (1957)
Jean de Sperati (1884-1957) was a French forger who had to expose his own stamp forgeries. In 1942, when Sperati sent a package of supposedly...
Fritz Kreisler

Fritz Kreisler

male, deceased (1962)
Fritz Kreisler was an Austrian (later American) violinist and composer, one of the most famous violinists of his day. Kreisler was noted for his...

William Lauder

male, deceased (1771)
William Lauder (died 1771) was a Scottish literary forger, the second son of Dr William Lauder (1652 - 1724), one of the original 21 Fellows of the...

James Townsend Saward

male, 210 years old
James Townsend Saward (born 1799) was a Victorian English barrister and forger also known by the nickname of Jim the Penman. In addition to his...