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A number of real-life inspirations have been suggested for James Bond, the sophisticated fictional character and British spy created by Ian Fleming. Although the Bond stories were often fantasy-driven, they did incorporate some real places, incidents and, occasionally, organisations such as SMERSH. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... 007 redirects here. ... Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... This article is about the author. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Ian Fleming

Many Ian Fleming biographers agree that James Bond is largely based on Fleming himself. The author was known for his glamorous and licentious lifestyle. Fleming has also been said to have been inspired by his contemporaries in British Intelligence during World War II. During the war Fleming was the personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence starting as a lieutenant then rising to the rank of commander, the same rank as James Bond throughout Fleming's series. He was also the instigator of special ops unit 30 Commando Assault Unit (30AU) a unit he called his "Red Indians". This article is about the author. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Naval Intelligence Department (NID) in the United Kingdom, otherwise known as Room 39. ... The 30 Assault Unit (aka No. ...

Other incidents in Fleming's books that possibly aren't derived from the author's own life are completely fictional, perhaps owing to various spy novel conventions of the period.

Bond, James Bond

Every year from the publication of Fleming's first Bond novel Casino Royale in 1953 until his death in 1964, Fleming would take a vacation to an estate he owned in Jamaica known as Goldeneye where he would write a James Bond novel. While in Jamaica Fleming was a keen bird watcher and owned a copy of Birds of the West Indies written by an American ornithologist by the name of James Bond. He later explained that the man's name was "brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon, and yet very masculine - just what I needed." In the film Die Another Day, Bond (Pierce Brosnan) picks up the very same book in Cuba and poses as an ornithologist as an homage to ornithologist, James Bond. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming was the first James Bond novel. ... January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Cover of Birds of the West Indies Birds of the West Indies (ISBN 0618002103) is a book containing exhaustive coverage of the 400+ species of birds found in the Caribbean Sea, excluding the ABC Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago, which were considered part of South America. ... Ornithology (from the Greek ornitha = chicken and logos = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ... James Bond (January 4, 1900 – February 14, 1989) was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy James Bond. ... Old English redirects here. ... “Manliness” redirects here. ... For the theme song of the same movie, performed by Madonna, see Die Another Day (song). ... Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. ...

While Fleming has never claimed there was any other source for the name of Bond besides the ornithologist, there was another real life James Bond who actually attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, Scotland. Fettes is the second school that the fictional James Bond is credited with attending after leaving Eton College due to an incident with a maid. This incident actually parallels Fleming's life who also left Eton after an incident with a girl. The Fettes alumnus, James Bond, was a frogman with the Special Boat Service, much as the fictional character Bond also has a naval background. The school actually has his Who's Who entry copied and framed in one of its main corridors. Fettes College is an independent boarding and day school in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and... The Special Boat Service (SBS) is the British Royal Navys special forces unit. ... Whos Who, ISBN 0-713-662-751, is an annual British publication by A & C Black of very short biographies of about 30,000 famous and/or important Britons, published since 1849. ...

Also notable is the mid-1920s story "The Rajah's Emerald", by Agatha Christie, which is centered on a proper British character named James Bond. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ...

On Avenue Road just north of Eglinton Avenue in Toronto, Ontario stands St James Bond Church. Fleming himself perpetuated the myth that he trained in Canada for special operations during the Second World War, leading to the suggestion^{[citation needed]} that he derived the name of his hero from that of the church; in actual fact, no record exists of his ever visiting Camp X as he claimed.^[1] Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 107 Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Camp X was the unofficial name of a World War II paramilitary and commando training installation, on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada. ...

Character inspirations

Many real-life personalities who were involved in espionage have been cited as models for the character by some news reports. Most notably was William Stephenson, who was a Canadian spymaster, best known by his code name, Intrepid. Stephenson was the senior representative of British Intelligence for the entire western hemisphere during World War II. Regarding him, Ian Fleming wrote in The Times, October 21, 1962: Sir William Samuel Stephenson, OC, MC, DFC, (January 23, 1897 – January 31, 1989) was a Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence for the entire western hemisphere during World War II. Stephenson is best-known by his wartime intelligence codename of Intrepid. ... A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom (and the Kingdom of Great Britain before the United Kingdom existed) since 1788 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. ... is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

"James Bond is a highly romanticized version of a true spy. The real thing is... William Stephenson"

Although other names have been mentioned by the media, none have ever been confirmed by Fleming, Ian Fleming Publications or any of Ian Fleming's biographers such as Fleming's assistant and friend, John Pearson. Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose. ... John Pearson (born May 10, 1930) is a writer best associated with James Bond creator Ian Fleming. ...

• According to the BBC's obituary, (14 October, 2003), the late Commander Patrick Dalzel-Job was said to have been another inspiration. Dalzel-Job "ran special operations in Norway in World War II... [and] later in the war he joined the future writer, Ian Fleming, as part of a top secret intelligence unit 30 Commando Assault Unit — Ian Fleming's 'Red Indians' in France, Belgium and Germany — often far in advance of Allied lines." However, Dalzel-Job himself always denied being the model for Bond.

• Sir Fitzroy Maclean, who was reputed to be a British secret agent in WWII Yugoslavia and friend (and biographer) of Tito is often cited as an inspiration. MacLean went to Eton College and like Bond had an Anglo-Scottish background. He was well known for a number of his books such as Eastern Approaches which detailed his adventures. Throughout his life he neither confirmed or denied the rumour that he was the model for James Bond. Biography — Past Forgetting: A Memoir of Heroes, Adventure, Love and Life With Fitzroy Maclean by Veronica Maclean.

• Sidney Reilly, a notorious adventurer and secret agent, originally from Kherson, Russia, who had a brief association with British military intelligence following World War I, and whose exploits were glorified by a 1980s mini-series, Reilly: Ace of Spies. Reilly's friend, Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, was a close acquaintance of Sir Ian Fleming for many years and recounted for Fleming many of Reilly's espionage adventures.

• According to the National Enquirer, Ian Fleming patterned James Bond after Dusko Popov, a Serbian double agent nicknamed Tricycle.

Was there ever a real superspy like James Bond, Her Majesty's secret agent with a licence to kill? A resounding "No" was the answer given by Dusan 'Dusko' Popov, himself the real character who inspired writer Ian Fleming to create agent 007.

"I doubt whether a flesh and blood Bond would last 48 hours as a spy," Popov declared to a group of Italian journalists in 1981, shortly before his death at his residence outside Cannes, on the Mediterranean Cote d'Azur in France.

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• Merlin Minshall, who worked for Fleming as member of the Special Branch of British Naval Intelligence during the Second World War. He wrote about his extraordinary life in a book entitled Guilt-Edged.

• Colonel Duane Hudson was claimed by the London Sunday Times as being a model for James Bond; however, this is the only source [2].

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007 Inspirations

The 007 number assigned to James Bond may have been influenced by any number of sources. In the films and novels, the 00 prefix indicates Bond's discretionary 'licence to kill', in executing his duties. Licence to kill has at least two known meanings, it can be defined as an official sanction by a government or government agency to a particular operative or employee to initiate the use of deadly force, presumably in furtherance of the governments aims or policies, or in carrying out...

• Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story entitled ".007: The Story of an American Locomotive", in which anthropomorphized train locomotives talk about their work and problems; the story has nothing to do with espionage, but Kipling's work would have been very popular during Fleming's youth and he could well have been familiar with the title.

• Another version of the origins of the number 007 is that it is the number of the coach service from Deal in Kent to London, passing by Higham Park, where Ian Fleming spent much time, and where he was inspired to write his children's novel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

• It is also said that Bond borrowed his 007 title from Dr John Dee. The 16th century English secret agent used the code for his messages to Queen Elizabeth I. The two zeros meant "for your eyes only".

• It has been alleged that there was a Soviet assassination unit known as "double zero" or "double oh".

• The international dialing code for the Soviet Union is 007

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Cinematic inspirations

Although the cinematic James Bond is obviously based on the literary form, they are different, and many feel, especially that of the crew of the first few films, that Terence Young was the major inspiration for bringing the character to life on the big screen. Young was the director of Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Thunderball. Terence Young in the 1960s Stewart Terence Herbert Young (June 20, 1915 – September 7, 1994) was a British film director, born in Shanghai, China, was public-school educated, and read Oriental History at St Catharines College in the University of Cambridge (like the fictional James Bond - see below). ... Dr. No is a 1962 spy film. ... For the Ian Fleming novel, see From Russia with Love. ... For other topics with this name, see Thunderball. ...

References

External links

• 30 Commando Assault Unit - Ian Fleming's 'Red Indians' - Literary James Bond's Wartime Unit
• Bond Inspiration Dies
• Sir Fitzroy, the original James Bond, is dead
• Scots adventurer was never a spy, reveals widow
• The Real James Bond (on Fleming himself)
• Patrick Dalzel-Job
• A Yugoslavian spy inspired Fleming to create JB?
• Who Created James Bond, Robert Cotton