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Jure Grando (Croatia) first real person described as a vampire in historical records; Ghoul (Arabic lore) – "The Arabic stories of the ghole spread east and were adopted by the people of the Orient, where it evolved as a type of vampiric spirit called a ghoul."
Adlet – Vampiric dog-human hybrid; Adroanzi – Nature spirit. Adze – African vampiric-forest being. Aerico – Disease demon. Æsir – Norse deities. Aeternae – Saw-horned monster. Afanc – Lake monster (exact lake varies by story). Agni – God of fire and sacrifices.
Makara (Hindu mythology) – half terrestrial animal in the frontal part (stag, deer, or elephant) and half aquatic animal in the hind part (usually of a fish, a seal, or a snake, though sometimes a peacock or even a floral tail is depicted) Sea goat – Half goat, half fish; Selkie – Shapeshifting seal people
This is a list of vampires found in literary fiction; film and television; comics and manga; video games and board games; musical theatre, opera and theatre; and originating in folklore or mythology. It does not include the concept of dhampirs .
Vârcolac – Vampire or werewolf; Vardøger (Scandinavian) – Ghostly double; Vedrfolnir – Hawk sitting between the eyes of an eagle in the crown of the World Tree Yggdrasil; Veļi – Ghost, shade, formed after a death of a human; Věri Şělen – Chuvash dragon; Vetala – Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits
That said, there certainly are people who consider themselves vampires. And, yes, they drink blood. There are energy vampires as well, like Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), the emotionally-draining ...
Impundulu (Southern Africa) – Avian, vampiric lightning spirit; Imugi – Flightless, dragon-like creatures (sometimes thought of as proto-dragons) Inapertwa – Simple organisms, used by creator-gods to make everything else; Incubus (Medieval folklore) – Male night-demon and seducer; Indrik – One-horned horse-bull hybrid
Jack-o'-lantern (Medieval folklore) – Vegetal lantern; Jaculus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Winged serpent or small dragon; Jasconius (Medieval folklore) – Island-sized fish; Jasy Jaterei – Nature guardian and bogeyman; Jatayu (Hindu mythology) – Vulture demigod; Jaud – Vampirised premature baby; Jenglot – Vampiric little people