Category:Mysterious people

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This category is for people about whom there is (or was for a long period) a mystery as to their identity, immediate origins, or life.

It should not include people merely because few facts are known about their lives due to a lack of documentation. Also, just because a person is reclusive or hides his activities is not a reason to include him in this category, nor would a simple lack of surviving records justify inclusion in the category. The category should include unidentified criminals only if a better category in which they fit in does not exist.

Finally, the category should not include pseudonyms, nonexistent people, characters from folklore, unidentified murder victims, or people probably created through a work of fiction (even if the author claims that the person is real, unless there is evidence outside of the work that the person exists).

This category may inappropriately label persons. See Wikipedia:categorization of people for advice on how to apply categorization to articles relating to people.