Real life references

Monty Python were infamous for referencing many historical, cultural and other people and animals in their sketches, most of them randomly picked from encyclopaedias. Many of these references only make sense to intellectuals, people who lived in the same ages these sketches first aired or a British audience. To help out all the other Pythonphiles: this category lists all these throwaway references and explains in short who these people are and in which sketches they are mentioned.