Famous urban legends often involve famous people, names from the history books, some very

old and some not so old.

But one thing many of them have in common is that a lot of us might not be completely

sure whether they were actually real living people.

Today we've got a quiz for you.

Let's see how many of these 16 famous names you can correctly guess whether they were

real people or not.

You ready?

Well let's do it right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Are they real or are they fictional?

Consistently cited as favorite episodes are those in which we looked at famous names

from history and challenged you to guess whether each was real or fictional.

We've done it with famous men, famous women, famous names from food and fashion brands,

and even famous places.

Today we have a mishmash of names that didn't get included in the previous shows, but were

requested afterwards by listeners.

So let's dive right into the history books and see how solid is your knowledge of famous

characters.

Starting with...

Apostle to Jesus...

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