Editing List of impostors (section)

===Military impostors===
{{Main|Military impostors}}
* [[Joseph A. Cafasso]] (born 1956), former [[Fox News]] military analyst who claimed to have been a highly decorated [[U.S. Army Special Forces]] soldier and [[Vietnam War]] veteran, but actually served in the army for only 44 days in 1976<ref name="Cafasso NYT">{{cite news |first=Jim |last=Rutenberg |title=At Fox News, The Colonel Who Wasn't |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/business/media/29HOAX.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 29, 2002 }}</ref>
* [[Brian Dennehy]] (1938–2020), American actor who enlisted in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in 1958, served in Okinawa, and never saw combat, but later falsely claimed to have been wounded in action in the Vietnam War<ref name="ehrenberg">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fake-war-stories-exposed/|title=Fake War Stories Exposed|last=Ehrenberg|first=Nicholas|date=November 11, 2005|work=CBS News|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="burk">{{cite book|last=Burkett|first=B. G.|title=Stolen Valor : How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History|edition=1st|date=September 2, 1998|publisher=Verity Pr Inc.|isbn=096670360X}}</ref> 
* [[George Dupre]] (1903–1982), who claimed that he worked for the [[Special Operations Executive]] (SOE) and the [[French Resistance]] during [[World War II]] (WWII); Dupre served in World War II, but he was never in France, nor with the SOE
* [[Frank Dux]] (born 1956), Canadian-American martial artist who served in the [[United States Marine Corps Reserve]] in non-combat roles, but claimed in his memoir ''[[The Secret Man (book)|The Secret Man]]'' that he had fought in covert [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) [[special operations]] in Southeast Asia, Nicaragua, the [[Iran–Iraq War]] and the [[Gulf War]]; his claims drew a rare public denial from the CIA describing them as "preposterous".<ref>{{cite magazine | last1 = McColl | first1 = Alexander | date = 1996-08-01 | title = Full Mental Jacket | url = https://archive.org/details/soldieroffortunemagazine/Soldier%20of%20Fortune%20%5B1996%2708%5D/page/n37/mode/1up | magazine = [[Soldier of Fortune (magazine)|Soldier of Fortune]] | language = en | volume = 21 | issue = 8 | pages = 37{{hyphen}}39 | issn = 0145-6784 | lccn = 76647216 | oclc = 2778757 | via = [[Internet Archive]] | df = dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Ellis]] (born 1943), American professor and historian who claimed a tour of duty in the Vietnam War, but who actually obtained an academic deferral of service and then taught history at [[West Point]]<ref name=PI>{{cite news | first=Marshall | last=John |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/books/202551_ellis07.html| title=Ellis doesn't want to revisit his own past| work=Seattle Post Intelligencer| date=2004-12-07| access-date=2008-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | first=Joseph | last=Ellis |url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/ellisstatement.html| title=Further Statement of Joseph J. Ellis| publisher=mountholyoke.edu| date=2001-08-17| access-date=2006-08-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715135033/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/ellisstatement.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2006-07-15}}</ref>
* [[Jack Livesey (impostor)|Jack Livesey]] (born 1954), British historian, military advisor on film productions, and author who claimed to have a distinguished twenty-year career in the [[Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)|Parachute Regiment]], but actually served as a cook in the [[Army Catering Corps]] for three years<ref name="BBC News">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8130351.stm |title=Historian 'posed as a war hero' |newspaper=BBC News |date=3 July 2009}}</ref>
* [[Jesse Macbeth]] (born 1984), [[Anti-war movement|anti-war activist]] who claimed to be a [[United States Army Ranger]] and veteran of the [[Iraq War]], but was actually discharged from the army before completing basic training<ref>{{cite web|author=Brian Ross and Vic Walter|title=Anti-War YouTube 'Vet' Admits He Is Faker|publisher=ABC News|date=September 21, 2007|url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/anti-war-youtub.html|access-date=2007-09-22}}</ref>
* [[Joseph McCarthy]] (1908–1957), [[U.S. senator]] who served in the Marine Corps during World War II as a [[Douglas SBD Dauntless]] tail gunner; broadly embellished his military accomplishments, notably by exaggerating his number of combat missions flown, falsifying official records to reflect these claims, obtaining combat decorations based on the falsified documents, and claiming that he broke his leg in action when the injury was sustained in a non-combat stairwell fall<ref>{{cite web |first=David M. |last=Oshinsky |date=March 17, 2020 |title=Fact from Fiction: Joseph McCarthy the Tail Gunner |website=HistoryNet.com |url=https://www.historynet.com/fact-from-fiction-joseph-mccarthy-the-tail-gunner/ |access-date=July 14, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Alan Mcilwraith]] (born 1978), a [[call centre]] worker from [[Glasgow]] who, among other things, claimed that he was a decorated captain in the [[British Army]]; he never served in the military<ref>{{cite news|last1=Seenan|first1=Gerard|title=Captain Sir Alan KBE - call-centre worker|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/apr/12/military.gerardseenan|work=the Guardian|date=11 April 2006}}</ref>
* [[Sgt. Slaughter]] (born 1948 as Robert Remus), a [[Professional wrestling|professional wrestler]] with the [[gimmick (professional wrestling)|gimmick]] of being a former U.S. Marine who fought in the Vietnam War, but never served in the military. Despite this, he has talked about military service while seeming to be speaking as himself, and not in [[kayfabe]] character.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ziezulewicz |first1=Geoff |title=The man behind pro wrestling legend Sgt. Slaughter tells stories of combat tours in Vietnam. But he never served |url=http://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2020/02/27/the-man-behind-pro-wrestling-legend-sgt-slaughter-tells-stories-of-combat-tours-in-vietnam-but-he-never-served/ |website=Military Times |date=27 February 2020 |access-date=5 June 2020}}</ref>
* [[Eric von Stroheim]], film director (''The Merry Widow'', 1925) and actor (''Sunset Boulevard'', 1950), who claimed to have been an Austrian imperial military officer, but never served in the military. He did portray German officers on-screen.
* [[Wilhelm Voigt|Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt]] (1849–1922), German impostor who masqueraded as a Prussian officer in 1906 and became famous as "The Captain of Köpenick"
* [[Micah Wright]] (born 1974), anti-war activist who claimed to have been an Army Ranger involved in the [[United States invasion of Panama]] and several special operations; he was a [[Reserve Officers' Training Corps]] student in college, but never served in the military<ref>{{cite news|title=Micah Wright Comes Clean, Ranger Story a Hoax|url=https://www.cbr.com/micah-wright-comes-clean-ranger-story-a-hoax/|work=CBR|date=2 May 2004}}</ref>