Legends
These goos are from the Legends category, people famous for their part in folklore, mythology, or other well-known tales. Browse another way.
Alexander Selkirk
They say no man is an island, but this man spent four years proving otherwise. Go »
Calamity Jane
It would be a disaster if I tried to sing about this legend of the frontier. Go »
Catherine Douglas
Body parts aren't meant to take the place of door locks, even if a king's life hangs in the balance. Go »
Countess Bathory
Hungary's bloodiest murderess met her match in David Dawson. Go »
Davy Crockett
Pioneer, patriot, soldier, trapper, explorer, state legislator, congressman, martyred at the Alamo. 1786-1836. Go »
Dick Turpin
While his four years as an infamous thief (on and of horses) in the 1730s made him a popular and romantic figure in British folklore, in reality he was kind of a dick. Go »
Doc Holliday
This gunslinger, gambler, adventurer, and legend of the Old West wouldn't have had such an exciting life if he'd stuck to his nickname and been a dentist. Go »
Gilgamesh
If this Kiengien god-king had his way, this goo would never expire. Go »
Grace Sherwood
not even Robin Hood would cross this witch Go »
Greyfriars Bobby
This terrier became a Scottish legend by demonstrating loyalty and perseverance well after he no longer had a master to whom to demonstrate them. Go »
Griselda Steevens
She had the heart of an angel to build a hospital, but folklore says she had the face of a Piglet. Go »
Grizzly Adams
He wasn't a lawyer from Massachusetts. He was an outdoorsman who risked death many times to get up close and personal with the beasts who would become his legacy, turning up years later in such places as the Bronx Zoo, an NBC TV series, and the flag of California. Go »
Hachiko
The story of a commuter's best friend has become an iconic tale in Japan, where loyalty is a virtue. Go »
Helen
A thousand ships set sail for war over the beauty of this daughter of the king of gods. Go »
Hiawatha
The top 'hawk was immortalized in a popular song of the mid-1800s. Go »
Hua Mulan
When it's time to take your father's place in the Army, you don't let a little thing like gender (or a dragon voiced by Eddie Murphy) stand in your way. Go »
Imhotep
This doctor became a deity when his pharaoh declared it so. He also became a mummy when Universal Studios declared it so. Go »
Inalchuq
Be careful that you don't try to steal from Mongolians, or you might end up like the Beggar King that died in Vaes Dothrak. Go »
Jazbo Brown
Jazz might have been named after this Mississippi delta blues musician, if he actually existed. Go »
Jim Bowie
Despite making a living as a slave smuggler, killing a sheriff in a knife fight, becoming a Mexican citizen, and dying in bed during a notorious loss in Texan military history, he remains an icon of American history, forever associated with his namesake blade. Go »
John Brown
This Kansas folk hero raised holy hell to further his abolitionist cause. Go »
John Henry
This goo been on workin' on the railroad, all the short-lived day. Go »
Johnny Appleseed
his teachings took root across the Midwest Go »
Joseph Campbell
This scholar's powerful knowledge of the field was, well, legendary and mythic. Go »
King Arthur
Getting a Golden Imelda on this goo is probably harder than finding the Holy Grail. Who's the king? Go »
King Midas
Not the muffler repair guy. Who's the king? Go »
Lady Godiva
This naked noblewoman gave new meaning to the phrase "riding bareback." Go »
Lady Liberty
Yet another European who settled in New York, she turns the world green with envy. Go »
Mary Sawyer
Little lamb, big story. Go »
Miyamoto Musashi
This dueling swordsman and collector of five rings remains big in Japan to this day. Go »
Molly Pitcher
Revolutionary War historians cannot agree on which actual combatant she was, but they have achieved consensus that the yankees wanted her and not a belly itcher. Go »
Paul Revere
Listen my friends of Longfellow's writeWhich was mostly a lie of this fellow's flight Go »
Petrus Gonsalvus
It ain't easy being the hairiest guy on the planet. Someone should write a book. Go »
Pocahontas
Her singing kid-friendly songs with talking forest animals is probably more historically accurate than John Smith's tall tale of her saving his life. Go »
Pocahontas
The real teenager was treated so brutally by her captors that the incredibly hulking gap between the truth and the family-friendly legend is enough to make you want to smash something. Go »
Rob Roy MacGregor
He's been many things: A criminal, a folk hero, a town in Iowa, an operetta, a whiskey drink, and Liam Neeson. Go »
Santa Claus
It wouldn't be Christmas without this goo. Go »
Sarah Winchester
If you have to share a house with the ghosts of your husband's shooting victims, you may as well make it a weird one. Go »
Sawney Bean
This Scotsman had so many people for dinner in his unusual home that it took "Man Cave" to a new level. Go »
Spartacus
Historians cannot agree whether this gladiator sparred with an empire to end all slavery, or whether he just wanted his own freedom. He's... Go »
Tiamat
This baby alone ain't no Eartha Kitt. Go »
Vlad Ţepeş
Don't feel sheepish if you get stuck on this real-life Dracula. Go »
Wild Bill Hickok
This Illinoisan was a stagecoach driver, a sheriff, a soldier, a gambler, a gunfighter, an actor, a scout, a spy, and more... or maybe none of the above, because he became a legend of the "wild" west by making up stories about himself. Go »
William Tell
Like the cheese famously produced by his country, this father of the year (1307) put a lot of holes in things, but not as many as historians have put into the veracity of his legend, much to the burning resentment of his people. Go »
William Wallace
This brave Scottish folk hero had the heart to lead his people against English invasion. Go »
