People - Real or Fictional?

Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen/

There was a cat that really was gone/

Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine/

It was a shame how he carried on

I've had better luck swinging my sword side to side, but to each his own, I guess. :)

His name wasn't really Johnny Appleseed but he was a real person.

Yeah, he is just a no one to me.

'John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia.'

The fact that his score is so close to 50% says a lot!

Yeah, I imagine he's not very well-known outside of the US, and I'm not even sure how much his story is told to kids here anymore.

Jetpunk often gets accused of being too US-centric, which I personally think is mostly unfair, but this, I would say, is an actual piece of trivia that would be considered very obscure outside of the US. But maybe it's also just a gap in this German's general knowledge.

presumably someone who was running out of room to store normal sized heads

A quick wikipedia search says that they thought you could harness the person's spirit and make it serve you, or stop it from avenging itself, as they believed that all enemies killed it battle would haunt the victor.

Where are you getting that from? I can't find anything suggesting he was anything more than a mythological character

Another correction: he is not.

Being loosely (EXTREMELY loosely) based on another person who might not have even existed in the first place does not make some "real" as opposed to "fictional".

Gandalf has his character roots in Merlin. He is still fictional.