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- C.S.I.: NY: A murder victim in Season 2 episode "Youngblood" was afflicted with Paget's disease.
- Retired Boston Red Sox center fielder Dom DiMaggio suffered from Paget's disease and served as a member of the board of directors of the Paget Foundation.
- Robot Chicken: Season 5: Kramer vs. Showgirls: The 90's Revisited: We learn that "Brain" of Pinky and the Brain was not a genius but his enlarged cranium is the result of Paget's disease, which has also left him blind.
- Egil, the main character in Egils Saga, may have suffered from this disease: he is described as being abnormally large and strong, and after death his skull was said to have been covered in ridges.
- Professor James Moriarty, a character in the Sherlock Holmes canon by Sir Srthur Conan Doyle, may have suffered from this disease. In The Final Problem (The Strand Magazine, Dec. 1893), he is described thus: "...his forehead domes out in a white curve", and that "...his face protrudes forward and is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion". (Egil, above, is similarly described as having his head sway from side to side like a horse's, presumably from the extra weight of the bone.)
- The X-Files: Fox Mulder's mother commits suicide in Season 7, Episode 10 "Sein und Zeit", after being diagnosed with Paget's disease (called "Paget's Carcinoma" by Scully, but is likely Paget's Disease of Bone, not Paget's Disease of Breast, even though the latter is sometimes called "Paget's Carcinoma", since Scully describes the diseases highly disfiguring to explain the suicide).
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