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Name Description Angus imaginary companion of the anchorite St Ungulant in the novel Small Gods by Terry Pratchett: The Bear: from a book of the same name by Raymond Briggs [3] Booby unicorn in the short story The Unicorn in the Garden by James Thurber: Budo novel Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks [4] Dorothy Spinner's imaginary ...
A person whose name is used to name something else is an eponym. The asterisk (*) section contains lists of things named after people by type of person. The plus (+) section contains lists of things named after people by subject.
An archetypal name is a proper name of a real person or mythological or fictional character that has become a designation for an archetype of a certain personal trait. [1] It is a form of antonomasia. Archetypal names are a literary device used to allude to certain traits of a character or a plot. [1]
Fictitious people are nonexistent people, who, unlike fictional characters, have been claimed to actually exist. Usually this is done as a practical joke or hoax, but sometimes fictitious people are 'created' as part of a fraud. A pseudonym may also be considered by some to be a "fictitious person", although this is not the correct definition.
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This list is part of the list of organisms named after famous people, and includes organisms named after famous individuals born on or after 1 January 1950. It also includes ensembles (including bands and comedy troupes) in which at least one member was born after that date; but excludes companies, institutions, ethnic groups or nationalities ...
This category contains lists of people by name. See also: Category:Human name disambiguation pages. Subcategories.
Imaginary friends can be people, but they can also take the shape of other characters such as animals or other abstract ideas such as ghosts, monsters, robots, aliens or angels. [4] [6] These characters can be created at any point during a lifetime, though Western culture suggests they are most acceptable in preschool- and school-age children.