- 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...
- male, 485 years old
- Martin Guerre, a French peasant of the 16th century, was at the center of a famous case of identity theft. Several years after he had left his...
- male, 50 years old
- James Hogue (born October 22, 1959) is a US impostor who most famously entered Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphan. James Arthur...
- male, 39 years old
- Shane Brolly (born March 6, 1970) is a British actor. Brolly comes from a family of Irish actors, although he's done most of his film work in the...
- 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...
- male, deceased (1938)
- Grey Owl (or Wa-sha-quon-asin, from the Ojibwe wenjiganoozhiinh, meaning "great horned owl" or "great grey owl") was the name Archibald Belaney...
- 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...
- female
- Azia Kim is an imposter caught in late May 2007 for posing as a Stanford University freshman student for eight months. Kim graduated from Troy High...
- male, 40 years old
- James Christopher Frey (born September 12, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio USA) is an American writer. He graduated from Denison University and also...
- male, deceased (1763)
- George Psalmanazar (1679?-May 3 1763) claimed to be the first Formosan to visit Europe. For some years he convinced many in Britain, but was later...
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