Name-drops
- W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan in The Edge of Destruction
- Pyrrho in The Keys of Marinus
- King Henry VIII in The Sensorites
- Beau Brummel in The Sensorites
- Hans Christian Andersen in The Romans
- James Watt in The Space Museum
- Joseph Lister in The Moonbase
- King Edward VII in Inferno
- Sir Walter Raleigh in The Mind of Evil
- Chairman Mao Zedong in The Mind of Evil
- Adolf Hitler in The Dæmons (possibly)
- Genghis Khan in The Dæmons (possibly) and "Rose" (at least his assembled hordes)
- Napoleon Bonaparte in Day of the Daleks
- Queen Elizabeth I of England in The Curse of Peladon - the Doctor thinks he may have been to her coronation (predates "The Shakespeare Code)
- Queen Victoria in The Curse of Peladon (predates "Tooth and Claw")
- Horatio Nelson in The Sea Devils
- John L. Sullivan in Carnival of Monsters
- Harry Houdini in Planet of the Spiders, Revenge of the Cybermen, Planet of the Ood and The Vampires of Venice
- William Shakespeare in Planet of Evil, City of Death and The Mark of the Rani
- Marie Antoinette in Pyramids of Mars
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough in The Android Invasion
- Leonardo da Vinci in The Masque of Mandragora, City of Death and Doctor Who (1996)
- Florence Nightingale in The Masque of Mandrgora
- William Tell in The Face of Evil
- Bede in The Talons of Weng-Chiang
- Galileo in The Sun Makers
- Ulysses in Underworld
- Jason in Underworld
- Maskelyne (unspecified which one) in The Ribos Operation
- Sir Isaac Newton in The Pirate Planet and Shada
- Allan Ramsay in The Stones of Blood (implied only)
- Albert Einstein in The Stones of Blood (pre-dating Time and the Rani)
- John Aubrey in The Stones of Blood (implied only)
- Izaak Walton in The Androids of Tara
- José Raúl Capablanca in The Androids of Tara
- Alexander Alekhine in The Androids of Tara
- Dame Nellie Melba in The Power of Kroll
- Theseus in The Creature from the Pit and The Horns of Nimon
- Thomas Huxley in Logopolis
- Sir Francis Drake in Four to Doomsday
- Puccini in Doctor Who (1996)
- Sigmund Freud in Doctor Who (1996) and in "The Curse of the Black Spot"
- Marie Curie in Doctor Who (1996)
- David Lloyd George in "Aliens of London"
- Cleopatra in "The Girl in the Fireplace"
- Benjamin Franklin in "Smith and Jones"
- Emmeline Pankhurst in "Smith and Jones"
- Janis Joplin in "Gridlock"
- Ludwig van Beethoven in "The Lazarus Experiment"
- Thomas Jefferson in a deleted scene from "The Lazarus Experiment" (included on the DVD release of the 2007 season)
- Virginia Woolfe in "Time of Angels"
- Giacomo Casanova in "The Vampires of Venice"
- Michelangelo and Pablo Picasso in "Vincent and the Doctor"
- Marilyn Monroe in "A Christmas Carol"
- Stevie Wonder in "A Good Man Goes to War"
See also List of Doctor Who supporting characters.
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