Identities assumed by Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1921-1982), “The Great Impostor”:

• sailor
• civil engineer
• sheriff’s deputy
• assistant prison warden
• doctor of applied psychology
• hospital orderly
• lawyer
• child-care expert
• monk (Benedictine and Trappist)
• editor
• cancer researcher
• teacher
• surgeon
• hospital priest

When asked for his motivation, he said, “Rascality, pure rascality.”