On February 11, 2006 the town of Goshiki, from Tsuna District, merged with the old city of Sumoto to form the new city of Sumoto.

* Amaki Suwa, a fictional character from the light novel version series Strike Witches

* Masuzu Suwa, a fictional character from the light novel version series Strike Witches

Although originally considered a subspecies of A. ramidus, in 2004 anthropologists Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Gen Suwa, and Tim D. White published an article elevating A. kadabba to species level on the basis of newly-discovered teeth from Ethiopia.

* Suwa clan ( 諏訪氏 )-descended from Seiwa Genji.

Lake Suwa from Shimosuwa Town

It was created out of development work that Shinshu Seiki Co. did for Suwa Seikosha Co., Ltd ( now known as Seiko Instruments, Inc .) when they became the official time-keepers for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games and needed a machine that could print out times they gathered from their time-pieces.

Noah admitted one wrestler from the independents, Daisuke Ikeda, to its ranks as well ( Ikeda has since left, but other wrestlers from the independents that were signed included Akitoshi Saito, Takahiro Suwa, and Taiji Ishimori ).

The siege of Kuwabara took place the day after the siege of Uehara ; Takeda Shingen continued to gain power in Shinano Province by seizing Kuwabara castle from Suwa Yorishige.

In the curtain shooter series Touhou, the goddess Suwako is a reference to Lake Suwa.

* Steve Austin, fictional character in Martin Caidin's novel Cyborg, which inspired the television series The Six Million Dollar Man

* Austin Moon, fictional character in Austin & Ally, portrayed by Ross Lynch

* Austin Powers, fictional character in films, created and portrayed by Mike Myers

* Atlas, a fictional character from Marvel Comics, also known as Erik Josten ( formerly a member of the Thunderbolts )

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

* Atlas, a fictional character in the 2007 video game BioShock

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ).

* Alphonso MacKenzie, fictional character in the Marvel Universe

* Alphonse Mephisto, fictional character in the animated television series South Park

Selkirk's story aroused great interest at home, and Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based in part on him.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

* Benjamin Franklin " Hawkeye " Pierce, the fictional character from the M * A * S * H novels, film, and television program

* Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, fictional character from the Muppet Show

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Obviously as a fictional character he ’ s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.

* Blitz ( character ), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action / comedy cartoon Road Rovers

The Bastard Operator From Hell ( BOFH ), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users ( often referred to as lusers ), colleagues, bosses, and anyone else who gets in his way.

Mickey Mouse is perhaps the most famous cartoon character and fictional mouse in the world.

* Cepheus Daidalos, a fictional character in the manga and anime, Saint Seiya

It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.

Gazing at her husband's drugged body, his chest rising and falling in mindless rhythms, she saw the grandeur of his fictional world, that lush garden from which he plucked flowers and herbs.

The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set.

His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.

Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

* Ajax ( comics ), the name of two fictional characters from the Marvel Universe

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

* Bug ( Starship Troopers ), a fictional alien race from the novel and film Starship Troopers

His writings from this period included a series of historical novels, featuring a fictional naval officer from Guernsey, Richard Delancey, during the Napoleonic era.

There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).

A baseball team from the fictional town of Mudville ( implied to be the home team ) is losing by two runs with two outs in their last inning.

* Charon ( The Three Worlds ), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle

* Cyril O ' Reily fictional character from television series Oz

Another similarity to Jane Eyre was the use of aspects from her own life as inspiration for fictional events, in particular reworking the time she spent at the pensionnat in Brussels into Lucy teaching at the boarding school, and falling in love with Constantin Heger into Lucy falling in love with ' Paul Emanuel '.

As well as the guest vocalists from the singles, the album featured the fictional George Jetson and Mark E Smith.

* Cortez, alias Manny Chavez ( Red Kin ), a fictional character from The Longest Journey and Dreamfall

' The sentient ocean that covers much of the surface of Solaris in Stanislaw Lem's eponymous novel also seems, from much of the fictional research quoted and discussed in the book, to be based on some element other than carbon.

Captain America uses several shields throughout his history, the most prevalent of which is a nigh-indestructible disc-shaped shield made from an experimental alloy of steel and the fictional vibranium.

The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.