LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Laura Albert	Novelist	1965		The infamous JT LeRoy
Rafid Ahmed Alwan	Hoaxer	1968		"Curveball"
Anna Ayala	Criminal	22-Dec-1965		Wendy's chili-finger woman
P. T. Barnum	Hoaxer	5-Jul-1810	7-Apr-1891	Circus showman
Thomas Chatterton	Poet	20-Nov-1752	24-Aug-1770	Fabricated as Thomas Rowley
Sacha Baron Cohen	Comic	13-Oct-1971		Boyakasha! Respec
Janet Cooke	Journalist	23-Jul-1954		Caught writing fake news
Bear Grylls	TV Personality	7-Jun-1974		Man vs. Wild
Barney Hill	Hoaxer	20-Jul-1922	25-Feb-1969	Self-proclaimed UFO abductee
Betty Hill	Hoaxer	28-Jun-1919	17-Oct-2004	Self-proclaimed UFO abductee
William Henry Ireland	Hoaxer	1777	1835	Forger of Shakespearian manuscripts
Clifford Irving	Hoaxer	5-Nov-1930		Howard Hughes autobiography hoax
Norma Khouri	Hoaxer	c. 1970		Author of Forbidden Love
Trofim Lysenko	Scientist	29-Sep-1898	20-Nov-1976	Dazzled Stalin with false genetic theory
James Macpherson	Hoaxer	27-Oct-1736	17-Feb-1796	So-called translations of Ossian
Phineas P. Quimby	Hoaxer	16-Feb-1802	16-Jan-1866	Father of New Thought movement
Rael	Hoaxer	30-Sep-1946		UFO cult leader maintains cloning laboratory
Joey Skaggs	Hoaxer	1945		Inveterate media prankster
Alan Sokal	Hoaxer	1955		Transgressing the Boundaries
Perkin Warbeck	Hoaxer	c. 1474	23-Nov-1499	Pretender to English throne

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