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* ''[[Bill and Teds Bogus Journey]]'' opens with Rufus bringing important historical figures to the future as guest lecturers for his class, including historical figures from [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].

* Lampshaded in ''[[The Last Starfighter]]'', when Centauri brings up three people, but Alex doesn't recognize the last one.

'''Centauri:''' Never mind. }}

* In the [[Film of the Book]] ''[[A Sound of Thunder]]'', Ben Kingsley's character is [[Large Ham|hamming up]] a speech for the Time Safari tourists, with the last name a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Capricorn One]]''.

* An example that may not even be found anymore, but when the ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' film was released, the accompanying website which contained a lot of character bios and historical information listed the Mobile Infantry alongside historically [[Elites Are More Glamorous|prestigious military units]] such as [[The Knights Templar]], [[Poles With Poleaxes|the Winged Hussars]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and the Navy Seals]].

 

* In [[David Brin]]'s ''[[Uplift]]'' saga, it is mentioned that, as any animal may possibly become intelligent at some point in the future, making species extinct is a serious crime in galaxy, akin to genocide. Humanity managed to clear up their biology and history textbooks to prevent aliens from knowing what they did to lamantines, dodos and ''orang-outangs''.

* ''[[This Perfect Day]]'' by Ira Levin has a nursery rhyme paying tribute to the four people who are considered the spiritual forefathers of the society in which the book is set. The pattern of the rhyme requires four names, so there's two past people and two future people:

led us to this perfect day... }}

* ''[[Diaspora]]'' by [[Greg Egan]] is a story of exploration and discovery by our virtualised descendants. It has physicists front and centre. The real-world Planck and Wheeler are joined in 2055 by Renata Kozuch. Wheeler suggested the vacuum is made out of a maze of microscopic quantum wormholes. Kozuch takes this idea and tranforms it into the foundation of particles physics: all ''particles'' are wormhole mouths. This is a rare example where the future member of the trio explicitly builds on the work of the real-world pair.

* From the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe:

** ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' was formerly the [[Trope Namer]].

** Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the first warp drive, frequently gets name-dropped along with scientific pioneers and explorers from the 20th century and earlier.

** ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "Whom Gods Destroy".

** An inversion on ''[[Star Trek]]'' occurs in the original series episode "The Savage Curtain," where a battle between good and evil has "good" represented by Vulcan sage Surak, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and [[Abraham Lincoln]]. Evil, in turn, is represented by future warlord Colonel Green, [[Mad Scientist]] Zora, the Klingon warrior Kahless, and [[Genghis Khan]].

** The novels get in on this too. From the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine relaunch]]: "He had learned all he could about Earth's eminent explorers -- Leif Eriksson, Ferdinand Magellan, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Neil Armstrong, [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Jonathan Archer]]..."

* In the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "Infection", it's mentioned that Dr Franklin aspires to become one of the great names of medicine, alongside Fleming, Salk, Jenner, and Takahashi.

** In the third-season episode "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place":

** Although the nuclear terrorist attack on San Diego had been mentioned several times and the abandoned city seen once, so it was simply keeping in step with that.

* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] had the one in the season 6 where there is a banner celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice and "Garthak's Ascension".