Five most important people that never lived?

[MNDude]

Recently, Time magazine had an issue titled "The One Hundred Most Influential People Who Never Lived" where they ranked the most important fictional characters of all time such as Santa Claus, Kinta Kunta, Homer Simpson, etcetera. In your opinion, who are the five most influential fictional characters of all time?

[Nowhere Man]

BTW, I see Vic Morrow too, one of my favorite actors, enjoyed him in “Combat!”

[Fiji Hill]

Influential Americans who never lived:

• Captain Ahab (from Moby Dick or the Whale by Herman Melville--New York: Harper, 1851)

• Philip Dru (from Philip Dru, Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow by Edward Mandell House--New York: Huebsch, 1912)

• Elsie Stoneman (from The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon--New York: Doubleday, 1905 and the film "The Birth of a Nation" (1915)

• Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard (from Black No More by George S. Schuyler--New York: Macaulay, 1931)

• Julian West (from Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy-Boston: Ticknor, 1888)

[crazycatlady]

Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
Dagny Taggart
Dracula
Hamlet
Cinderella
The Joads

Just a few off the top of my head.

[DCBryan1]

Henry Bowman

[Chode]

John Galt, 100% and Howard Roark

[Spunky]

Popeye & Olive Oil :-)

[Cvengr]

My mistake,...I thought it read ‘who ever lived’.

[JRios1968]

Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Jim Thompson, the guy who recorded Barack Obama’s birth in Hawaii, and the guy who beats Chuck Norris

[luvbach1]

Huckleberry Finn.

[luvbach1]

Did someone mention John Henry?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I thought it was Kunta Kinta.

[Clay Moore]

Sum Ting Wong

Wi Tu Lo

Ho Lee Fuk

Bang Ding Ow

mohammed

[GeronL]

Ozzie & Harriet

June & Ward Cleaver

[John Valentine]

Rollo Tomasi, Kaiser Söze, Ned Pepper, Anton Chigurh, and last but not least, Hannibal Lecter.

[KarlInOhio]

Amazon's page for this book: http://www.amazon.com/TIME-Influential-People-Never-Lived/dp/1618930710 allows you to look inside to see the table of contents and therefore the full list.

The one which stuck out for me was Big Brother from 1984.

Some of the more recent ones are silly. Lisabeth Salander? Don Draper? Bother are interesting characters, but will they still be considered important in ten years?

[Shadowstrike]

Luke Skywalker, maybe Force Command could get Obama out of the White House, God knows our Senators and Congressman aint working on it.

[Free Vulcan]

Kinte Kunta

Kunta Kinte's REALLY bitchy girl cousin...

[Shadowstrike]

Jesus Christ, Adam, Abraham, Moses, David

you can say they are not real, but have true faith in Christ in your tagline? Kinda hypocritical ain't ya?

[Toespi]

Barry Sotero

[Shadowstrike]

dang it, that should have said THRU faith in Christ.

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