Games - List of Seinfeld references to actual people

• Bud Abbott - "What are you, Bud Abbott? What are you calling me an idiot for?" (George, "The Jacket")
• Dante Alighieri - George: "My worst nightmare's come true, every day is a date." Jerry: "That's one of Dante's nine stages of hell, isn't it?" ("The Stranded")
• Woody Allen - as Woody Allen, who directs a movie near Jerry's and Kramer's apartment. ("The Alternate Side")
• Idi Amin - Kramer cites an example of a dictator to George, after George suggests that the act of double-parking leads to anarchy and dictatorships. ("The Dinner Party")
• Loni Anderson - Morty suggests "Loni Anderson" as Jerry's imaginary love interest: "How about Loni Anderson?" ("The Stakeout").
• Maya Angelou - "Maya Angelou, the poet?" (Susan, "The Sponge")
• Susan B. Anthony - "Susan B. Anthony I think I'd have a problem with." (George, "The Junior Mint")
• Neil Armstrong - Jerry and George discuss the possibility of a crucial detail about Neil, his new girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, which gives him an edge that could make her leave George and go back to him. Jerry: "What if it's Neil Armstrong?" George: "Then I'm going to Mars!" ("The English Patient")
• Clara Barton - Jerry: "Clara Nightingale? I think you mean Clara Barton." George: "Clara Barton? What did she do?" Jerry: "I'm not sure, but I think she was nice." ("The Junior Mint")
• Hank Bauer - berates Kramer for punching out Mickey Mantle during a bench-clearing brawl in baseball fantasy camp, then chases him, trips over third base and knocks over Clete Boyer. ("The Visa")
• Ed Begley, Jr. - George: "When are they gonna have the flying cars, already?" Jerry: "I think Ed Begley, Jr. has one." ("The Dealership")
• Lloyd Bentsen - "I don't know what to do, so I just stood there. Like, remember how Quayle looked when Bentsen gave him that Kennedy line? That's what I looked like." (George, "The Phone Message")
• David Berkowitz - Newman takes over his mail route and pays off Kramer's gambling debt with his old mail carrier bag. ("The Diplomats Club")
• Bobby Bonilla - "No hitting? They got hitting! Bonilla, Murray. They got no defense." (Naked guy to Jerry, "The Subway")
• Shirley Booth - "You know, my mother used to walk around on our apartment just in her bra and panties. She didn't look anything like you, she was really disgusting, really bad body. If you could imagine an uglier and fatter version of Shirley Booth." (George, "The Subway")
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali - Jerry: "Jane's topless." Kramer: "Yo Yo Ma." Jerry: "Boutros Boutros-Ghali." ("The Hamptons")
• Boxcar Willie - Upon learning that Elaine has decided to dump her indigent boyfriend: "So, when are you giving Boxcar Willie his walking papers?" (Jerry, "The Strongbox")
• Clete Boyer - former New York Yankee player, knocked over by Hank Bauer during the bench-clearing brawl initiated by Kramer's plunking of Joe Pepitone in baseball fantasy camp. ("The Visa")
• Bozo the Clown - George is amazed to find than no one know who Bozo is ("The Fire")
• Napoleon Bonaparte - "Napoleon? Who's he to have a cake? He was a ruthless warmonger." (Elaine, "The Dinner Party")
• Eva Braun - Chelsea, an aspiring actress, to Kramer: "They're trying to put together a mini-series for me on Eva Braun." ("The Trip, Part 1")
• Leonid Brezhnev - suggested as the ugliest all-time world leader. (Jerry, "The Outing")
• Lenny Bruce - "So my shrink wants me to bring my mother in for a session. This guy is a brilliant man. Lenny Bruce used to go to him, and I think, uh, Geraldo." (Joel Horneck to Jerry, "Male-Unbonding")
• James Caan - "I don't opt for happiness? James Caan doesn't opt for happiness!" (Jerry, in reference to a plagiarised letter sent to him after a fall-out with his girlfriend, "The Letter")
• Caligula - "I'll tell you what you did, Caligula, you combined food and sex in to one disgusting uncontrollable urge." (Jerry to George, "The Blood"); Jerry: "Is this guy a dentist or Caligula?" ("The Jimmy")
• Thomas Carlyle - George's girlfriend, Patrice: "Thomas Carlyle, 1864." George: "Tommy C." ("The Truth")
• Carrot Top - Jerry explains to his mother, Helen, that he has to make an impromptu trip to Atlantic City because a scheduled guest who is to perform at Bally's, a comedy club, has cancelled on them at the last minute. Helen: "Who cancelled?" Jerry: "Carrot Top. I told you, my career's fine." ("The Money")
• Johnny Carson
  - Uncle Leo tells Jerry that he thinks Johnny was rude to Jerry and didn't let him talk on the Tonight Show ("The Pen"). Jerry also worries if he insulted Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show ("The Heart Attack"). George tries to win favour with Susan Ross's father with a comedic impression of Carson, which fails to amuse. ("The Cheever Letters")
• George Washington Carver - Man at party: "On the other hand, you take a guy like George Washington Carver. The man devoted his whole life to the peanut. Imagine having so much passion for something." ("The Stranded")
• Fidel Castro - Walter, a work colleague, to Elaine: "Hey, your coffee stain looks like Fidel Castro." ("The Merv Griffin Show")
• Nicolae Ceauşescu - "She's Romanian. What am I gonna talk to her about? Ceauşescu? (Jerry, "The Gymnast")
• Coco Chanel - "I'm a comedian. How can I go out with a girl with a laugh like that? It's like Coco Chanel going out with a fishmonger." (Jerry, "The Bubble Boy")
• Neville Chamberlain - Jerry: "Vomiting is not a deal breaker. If Hitler had vomited on Chamberlain, Chamberlain still would have given him Czechoslovakia." George: "Chamberlain. You could hold his head in the toilet and he'd still give you half of Europe." ("The Pitch, Part 1")
• Richard Chamberlain - "George, with which one of the Chamberlains would you rather spend time on a desert island: Richard, Neville or Wilt?" (Jerry, "The ?")
• Wilt Chamberlain - Jerry: "Who would order a license plate that says 'ASSMAN'? "George: "Maybe they're Wilt Chamberlain's." ("The Fusilli Jerry")
• John Cheever - revealed to have been a lover of Susan Ross's father, following the discovery of love letters in a tin found after a cabin fire. ("The Cheever Letters")
• Grover Cleveland - "Why do presidents all have these bad names? Woodrow, Grover, Millard." (Jerry, "The Van Buren Boys")
• Vince Coleman - "Speed? They got Coleman. They need a bullpen." (Naked guy to Jerry, "The Subway")
• Ted Danson - George: "Is Ted Danson's deal standard?" Susan: "Ted Danson?" George: "You know, the guy from Cheers." Susan: "Yeah, I know who he is. (laughs) You're not Ted Danson." (George tries to negotiate a deal for the TV pilot.) ("The Wallet")
• Christopher Columbus - Jerry, while referring to a book about the 15th-16th century explorer with Elaine, refers to it as "eurotrash." ("The Library")
• Sammy Davis - Kramer explaining to Elaine what katra is: "Your spirit, your, uh, being. The part of you that says, 'Yes, I can!'" Jerry: "Sammy Davis had it." ("The Foundation")
• Richard Dawson - when numerous women kiss Jerry when they greet him, Jerry compares himself to the Family Feud
  host who kissed every woman on the show. (Jerry, "The Kiss Hello")
• Charles de Gaulle - suggested as the ugliest all-time world leader. (Elaine, "The Outing")
• Hernando de Soto - Referred to as 'de Soto'; George's favorite explorer. ("The Boyfriend, Part 2")
• Neil Diamond - Jerry and George discuss the possibility of a crucial detail about Neil, his new girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, which gives him an edge that could make her leave George and go back to him. Jerry: "What if it's Neil Diamond?" George: "Aw, shut up Jerry! Just shut up!" ("The English Patient")
• Joe DiMaggio - Kramer claims he saw him sitting down in a 'Dinky Donuts' eatery. ("The Note")
• David Dinkins - Mayor of New York who loses his re-election due to Kramer's mishaps in a laboratory ("The Non-Fat Yogurt")
• Plácido Domingo - one of the Three Tenors. Not the Maestro's favorite. Jerry: "It's not Pavarotti... it's not Domingo..." Elaine: "The other guy?!" ("The Doll")
• David Duke - white supremacist. "I think I got David Duke and Farrakhan down there." (Jerry, "The Dinner Party")
• Edward VIII - "Yeah, it's like Edward VIII abdicating the throne and marrying Mrs. Simpson." (Elaine, "The Conversion"); "Inside that small college boy minifridge is my latest acquisition. A slice of cake from the wedding of King Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson, circa 1937, price: $29,000." (J. Peterman, "The Frogger")
• Albert Einstein - The subject of the episode's title sarcastically refers to Jerry as Einstein in "The Old Man". Another reference to Einstein appears in "The Big Salad".
• Patrick Ewing - Bank customer: "Oh great, Ewing's hurt." George: "Ewing's hurt? How long is he going to be out?" ("Male-Unbonding")
• Louis Farrakhan - head of the Nation of Islam "I think I got David Duke and Farrakhan down there." (Jerry, "The Dinner Party")
• Millard Fillmore - "Why do presidents all have these bad names? Woodrow, Grover, Millard." (Jerry, "The Van Buren Boys")
• Larry Fine - Larry of the Three Stooges. "Elaine, no woman walks into a beauty parlor and says, 'Give me the Larry Fine.'" (George, "The Beard")
• Art Garfunkel - George, looking at the oddly-shaped coffee stain on Elaine's jacket sleeve: "Art Garfunkel?" ("The Merv Griffin Show")
• Jeff Gillooly - Upon accusations that he and George orchestrated the accident that incapacitated Bette Midler on the baseball field: "Hey, I'm being heckled on stage. People are yelling out 'Gillooly'!" (Jerry, "The Understudy")
• Joseph Goebbels - Uncle Leo: "Look at this, I told them medium rare, it's medium. I bet that cook is an anti-Semite. They don't just overcook a hamburger, Jerry." Jerry: "All right. Anyway, the point I was making before Goebbels made your hamburger is a man like you could be dating women twenty years younger." ("The Shower Head")
• Bernhard Goetz - Leslie, George's pregnant ex-girlfriend, to another woman at a baby shower: "We just bought an apartment on Riverside Drive. Bernhard Goetz's mother used to live there." ("The Baby Shower")
• Dwight Gooden - "They still have no pitching. Gooden's a question mark. You don't recover from those rotator cuffs so fast." (Naked guy to Jerry, "The Subway")
• Dick Gregory - "I understand. I like good breakfast. As long as you don't wind up trapped in a room with bib overalls and pigtails, being counseled by Dick Gregory." (Jerry, "The Subway")
• Johann Gutenberg - "I understand Gutenberg used to spend a lot of time in there " (Jerry, "The Bookstore")
• Buddy Hackett - Jerry: "Organic. So's Buddy Hackett." Kramer: "Buddy Hackett?" Jerry: "He's a comedian." Kramer: "I know." ("The Parking Garage")
• Katherine Hepburn - George entertains the thought of him and Marisa Tomei together: "I, George Costanza, could be on a date with an Oscar winner! An Oscar winner, Jerry! You know what that's like? It's like if fifty years ago, someone fixed me up with Katherine Hepburn!" ("The Cadillac, Part 1")
• William Holden - "Oh my God, an affair. That's so adult. It's like with stockings and martinis, and William Holden." (George, "The Good Samaritan")
• Lena Horne - she was the woman who Kramer always thought Jerry looked like. ("The Cartoon")
• John Houseman - "Alec Berg. He's got a good John Houseman name. Alec Buurg. Mr. Buuurg." (Jerry, "The Face Painter")
• Moe Howard - Moe of The Three Stooges. "He'd (Aldon Benes) clunk our heads together like Moe." (Jerry, "The Jacket")
• Saddam Hussein - George and Kramer are blocked in by a double-parked car. They confuse the mustachioed, beret-wearing man (who speaks with a British accent) who returns to the car with the dictator. ("The Dinner Party")
• Mick Jagger - Jerry's girlfriend, Lena, who works in a soup kitchen: "Guess who volunteered last week?" George: "Mick Jagger?" ("The Sponge")
• Rick James - As Jerry is fretting over what he plans to talk about for two hours in front of the entire junior high, his Personal Assistant Katie says: "It is already in the school paper. They cancelled Rick James." ("The Abstinence")
• Elton John - Jerry refers to George as "Elton", in reference to George's feminine glasses. ("The Glasses")
• Lyndon Johnson - Kramer insists that a baby looks like Johnson ("The Boyfriend"). Also suggested as the ugliest all-time world leader. (George, "The Outing")
• Michael Jordan - Kramer's friend Mike Moffit claiming that saying the opposite of what is really meant is slang, and thus uses it in a sentence to convince Jerry: "Man, that Michael Jordan is so phony!" ("The Parking Space")
• Ethel Kennedy - Elaine's boss Mr. Pitt was to play a tennis match against her with an expensive racquet that Elaine had lent out to a prospective employer. "He needs a $300 Bruline to beat Ethel Kennedy?" (Jerry, "The Switch") Another of Elaine's bosses, J. Peterman, was to assist Ethel Kennedy in inaugurating John F. Kennedy's golf clubs that he'd won in an auction. "A woman whose triumph in the face of tragedy is exceeded only by her proclivity to procreate." (J. Peterman, "The Bottle Deposit, Part 2")
• Ayatollah Khomeini - "Can you believe this guy? He holds a grudge like Khomeini." (Jerry to Elaine, in reference to George, "The Baby Shower")
• C. Everett Koop - Elaine explains to Jerry the reason why she dumped Keith Hernandez; "Oh, smoking! You know, you're like going out with C. Everett Koop." (Jerry, "The Boyfriend, Part 2")
• Spike Lee - Sat with Kramer during an Indiana Pacers-New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden. ("The Susie")
• Lewis and Clark - "You need a little pioneer spirit. You know, you don't have any of that Lewis and Clark in you." (Jerry, "The Virgin")
• Abraham Lincoln - In reference to Presidents' Day, when George suggests Jerry's new girlfriend decided to celebrate her birthday on the Monday after the weekend. Jerry's retort: "She's not Lincoln." ("The Van Buren Boys")
• Rich Little - the impressionist. Jerry: "Yeah, but what was the tone in her voice? How did she sound?" Helen Seinfeld: "Who am I, Rich Little?" ("The Stakeout")
• Trini Lopez - Jerry: "'Lemon Tree.'" George: "Peter, Paul and Mary?" Jerry: "No, Trini Lopez." ("The Phone Message")
• Sophia Loren - Helen to Jerry: "So who're you looking for, Sophia Loren?" ("The Stakeout")
• Peter Lorre - George: "I'm gonna slip him a mickey." Jerry: "What? In his drink? Are you out of your mind? What are you, Peter Lorre?" ("The Revenge")
• Yo Yo Ma - the cellist, in Kramer's exclamation, "Yo Yo Ma!" ("The Hamptons", "The Opera")
• Elle MacPherson - the supermodel; Kramer meets her at a Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot at the hotel as a subsequence of using George's plane ticket to the Cayman Islands. ("The Suicide")
• Ferdinand Magellan - Jerry's favorite explorer ("The Boyfriend, Part 2")
• Mickey Mantle - Kramer clobbers him during a brawl at baseball fantasy camp ("The Visa"). George wants to name his child Seven in honor of Mantle, who wore that on his jersey.
• Marsha Mason - "So is it all over between you and Marsha Mason?" (George, "The Letter")
• Don Mattingly - "Mattingly just split his pants!" (Yankees TV announcer, "The Chaperone")
• Roger McDowell - Allegedly spit on Kramer after a Mets loss on June 14, 1987. ("The Boyfriend")
• Golda Meir - Israeli leader, agreed upon by George, Elaine, and Jerry as the world's ugliest all-time leader ("The Outing")
• Josef Mengele - Infamous concentration camp doctor. "Napoleon? Who's he to have a cake? He was a ruthless warmonger. Might as well get a Mengele." (Elaine, "The Dinner Party")
• Ethel Merman - "Yes! You don't understand. I'm living with Ethel Merman without the talent." (Elaine, "The Robbery")
• Russ Meyer - "It's like a Russ Meyer film in here." (Coffee shop girls all have large breasts and are the owner's daughters)
• Cheryl Miller - female basketball player; Elaine discovers that she is the sister of Reggie Miller whom she did not know also played basketball. ("The Susie")
• Henry Miller- Author; Jerry is under investigation from a library cop named bookman for a large fine on the still missing "Tropic of Cancer" a book he lent to George so George could enjoy the books sexual content. The book is shown to be in the possesion of their former gym teacher who is now a homeless man living outside the library. "Bookman"
• Reggie Miller - Indiana Pacers basketball player; had a hot dog thrown at him by Kramer during a game because Reggie and Spike Lee were jawing at each other. After they are thrown out of the arena the three of them go to a strip club. ("The Susie")
• Liza Minnelli - Kramer: "I've been partying all night. I saw the sunrise at Liza's!" George: "What, Minnelli's?!" Kramer: "No." ("The Summer of George"); George: "I need a nickname that makes people light up." Jerry: "You mean like 'Liza'!" ("The Maid")
• Ricardo Montalbán - Estelle Costanza receiving a recommendation for a doctor; "He's good. He's very good. He worked on this kid from Guatemala with no nose. Turned him into Ricardo Montalbán." (Kramer, "The Fusilli Jerry")
• Sun Myung Moon - "Yeah, he once bumped into reverend Sun Myung Moon." (George, "The Understudy")
• Demi Moore - George and Jerry ponder over the correct pronunciation of her first name. "I've never heard of a 'semee' tractor-trailer." (George, "The Secretary")
• Eddie Murray - "No hitting? They got hitting! Bonilla, Murray. They got no defence." (Naked guy to Jerry, "The Subway")
• Benito Mussolini - "This how dictators start. Do you think Mussolini would circle the block six times looking for a spot?" asks George after he and Kramer are blocked in by a double-parker. ("The Dinner Party") "I let fly like Mussolini from the balcony!" (George, "The Tape")
• Liam Neeson - "Don't you see, that's the genius of it. If he had said Liam Neeson, you'd know he's making it up." (Jerry, "The Mom and Pop Store.") Later in the same show, when George's idea to have a "Jon Voight" day is rebuffed, George remarks, "I suppose if I had suggested Liam Neeson Day, you'd all be patting me on the back."
• Richard Nixon - Jerry: "Who was the last president to have a beard?" George: "Nixon." ("The Van Buren Boys"); Jerry's ex-girlfriend, Nikki: "What's the M stand for in Richard M. Nixon?" Elaine: "Milhouse." ("The Calzone")
• Hakeem Olajuwon - Houston Rockets basketball player; Kramer states that he has a real attitude problem. ("The Susie")
• Jackie Onassis - "Ooh, I gotta check my machine. I'm waiting to hear about an interview. Doubleday is looking for somebody to replace Jackie Onassis." (Elaine, "The Chaperone")
• Louis Pasteur - George uses the example of the successful marriage between Louis Pasteur and his wife and their having nothing in common to convince Susan Ross that they too can make their relationship work. ("The Pick")
• Luciano Pavarotti - In response to Jerry's plea to help him beat a lie detector test: "Jerry, I can't. It's like saying to Pavarotti, 'Teach me to sing like you.'" (George, "The Beard")
• Joe Pepitone - Kramer plunks him during baseball fantasy camp, starting a bench-clearing brawl. ("The Visa")
• George Peppard - "Well, not really. After all, she did get together with George Peppard. I mean, Fred" says George, disagreeing with a fellow book club member that Holly Golightly's most important part of her life was her independence in Breakfast at Tiffany's. ("The Couch"). George reassuring Jerry Seinfeld that a conversation with Jerry Lewis will go well between them because they have the same first name; "Well, it worked when I met George Peppard last week." ("The Strongbox")
• Peter, Paul and Mary - Jerry: "'Lemon Tree.'" George: "Peter, Paul and Mary?" ("The Phone Message")
• James Polk - Jerry, looking at a potential date's stats on the back of her photograph: "Favorite president: James Polk!" ("The Bizarro Jerry")
• Dan Quayle - "I don't know what to do, so I just stood there. Like, remember how Quayle looked when Bentsen gave him that Kennedy line? That's what I looked like." (George, "The Phone Message")
• John Ritter - Elaine: "You know, Jerry, I really like this guy who's playing the butler." Jerry: "Oh yeah. He's good. You know, he's John Ritter's cousin." ("The Pilot")
• Diana Ross - "We're going on a two-day trip. What are you, Diana Ross?" - Jerry to George, who's carrying several stuffed suitcases and backpacks, as they prepare to go to California. ("The Trip", two-part episode)
• Salman Rushdie - Kramer sees him at the health club (it turns out it's really just a similar-looking gentleman named "Sal Bass"). Kramer: "You know who I saw at the health club? Salman Rushdie." Elaine: "Yeah right, Salman Rushdie. Yeah well, I can see that - you got five millions Moslems after you, you wanna stay in pretty good shape." ("The Implant")
• Robert Schumann - Jerry mentions that Schumann could not get a note out of his head and had to be institutionalized. ("The Jacket")
• Maria Shriver - "Let Maria Shriver give her a baby shower" says George, bitter about the news of an old flame's pregnancy. ("The Baby Shower")
• Neil Simon - American screenwriter and playwright; lines from his 1979 film, Chapter Two, plagiarised by Jerry's girlfriend in a confronting letter she wrote him. ("The Letter")
• Moose Skowron - Kramer tries to pull him off of one of his teammates during a bench-clearing brawl in baseball fantasy camp, prior to turning around and punching Mickey Mantle. ("The Visa")
• Wallis Simpson - (See Edward VIII above)
• Mira Sorvino - George holding up a magazine cover to Jerry; "Mira Sorvino. Do you think she'd go out with me?" ("The Junk Mail")
• Joseph Stalin - "I would have been friends with Stalin if he had a ping pong table." (Jerry, "Male-Unbonding"); Ping, translating for George what the Hair Restoration Clinic in Beijing is saying about their cure for baldness, "They say you grow hair. Look-a like Stalin!" ("The Tape")
• James Thurber - "Then we ended up going out to lunch and he had some great gossip about James Thurber." (Elaine, "The Cartoon")
• Uma Thurman - Kramer acquires her phone number, only to have it smudged from a ticket by his triple-action moisturizing lotion. Banya gets her number instead. ("The Secretary")
• Arturo Toscanini - "This is your dressing room? They treat you like Toscanini!" (Frank Costanza, "The Shower Head")
• Martin Van Buren - "The Van Buren Boys? There's a street gang named after President Martin Van Buren?" (Jerry, "The Van Buren Boys")
• Sunny von Bülow - Sitting at his neighbour's hospital bed after an unsuccessful suicide attempt: "It's not like a Sunny von Bülow coma. The doctor said he should snap out of it anytime." (Jerry to Kramer, "The Suicide")
• Robert Wagner - "I love the mirror in that bathroom! I don't know what in the hell it is. I look terrific in that mirror. I don't know if it's the tile or the lighting... I feel like Robert Wagner." (George, "The Robbery")
• Slappy White - "Well, I can't stay under my own name. I was registered under Slappy White." (Jerry, "The Money")
• George Will - Kramer admits he is an attractive man, but doesn't find him all that bright. ("The Jimmy")
• Woodrow Wilson - "Why do presidents all have these bad names? Woodrow, Grover, Millard." (Jerry, "The Van Buren Boys")

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