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* Alan Turing is mostly remembered for being a homosexual scientist who killed himself with a poisoned apple. Of his actual scientific career, only [[Turing Test]] is somewhat common knowledge.
* [[Nikola Tesla]], sometimes called "the man who invented the modern world". Just about any modern appliance that uses electricity requires the use of a device that was invented by him, or is an adaptation of a Tesla design. What's he remembered the most for? "Inventing" the [[Death Ray]], or other such fanciful weapons of mass destruction. In fact, modern interpretations of him tend to [[Flanderise]] into a [[Mad Scientist]], despite the many, ''many'' legitimate contributions he made to the utilization of electricity.
* J. Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line who happened to be the highest-ranking White Star official to survive the ''[[RMS Titanic]]'' sinking. One day a chairman of a premier shipping line (which was at some point acquired by JP Morgan who wished to build an [[Mega Corp|international shipping conglomerate]]), a day or two later an overnight pariah in the eyes of the public, no thanks to sensationalist coverage especially in America, where the anti-Ismay smear campaign was orchestrated by William Randolph Hearst who was [[Strawman News Media|in control of the press]] back in the day and had a falling out with Ismay, bashing the living daylights out of the beleaguered chairman with derisive nicknames like "Coward of the Titanic" or "J. Brute Ismay". Ismay was since haunted by the spectre the ''Titanic'' incident brought on him, and was unable to recover from it since. His reputation was damaged so much that most if not all portrayals of him in ''Titanic''-related media cast him in a wholly negative light, either as a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] bent at chasing the fabled Blue Ribald maritime speed record and thus attract more investors (in reality, the White Star Line was more after passenger comfort and luxury than pure speed) as in the case of the 1943 [[Nazi]] [[Propaganda Machine|propaganda film]] ''[[Titanic (1943 film)|Titanic]]'', or just some White Star figurehead who should have known better. To his credit though, he was far from the callous villain he was often portrayed to be, as the ''Titanic'' did have more than enough lifeboats (or at least more than enough according to the outdated standards of the time), and that he too helped usher many other passengers into lifeboats before finding a spot for himself. To this day, Ismay's (undeserving) notoriety [[Sins of Our Fathers|spilled over to his family]], who apparently received hate mail in relation to Bruce's indiscretions.
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