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Is Sherlock Holmes a real person​

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No, he was based off a mixture of people in Arthur Conan Doyle's life

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In fact, Holmes was based, somewhat loosely, on a real person. In 1877, Holmes' creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, worked as a clerk for Dr. Joseph Bell at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

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