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The abused, underpaid clerk in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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Bob Cratchit
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A snowman created in a popular Christmas song released in 1950, and further popularized in a 1969 animated TV special.
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Frosty
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Miserly curmudgeon and protagonist of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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Ebenezer Scrooge
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The green creature who tried to steal Christmas in the 1957 Dr. Seuss book, a 1966 animated TV special, and a 2000 film starring Jim Carrey.
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The Grinch
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Chicago area suburbanite who survives redneck in-laws, an electrocuted cat, and an incinerated Christmas tree in his quest to provide the best ever Christmas for his family in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
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Clark Griswold
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Kindly witch who delivers gifts to children in Italy on Epiphany Eve.
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La Befana
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A figure in British folklore from the 17th century, he became more closely associated with gift-bringing (especially to children) in the Victorian era, and is today nearly synonymous with Santa Claus.
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Father Christmas
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Accidentally left Home Alone when his family leaves to spend Christmas in Paris, this 8-year-old boy foils a pair of burglars instead.
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Kevin McAllister
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Raised at the North Pole as an elf, he learns he is human upon reaching adulthood.
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Buddy
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This cynical little girl came to believe a department store Santa was the real one in the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street.
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Susan Walker
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Also known as the Magi and the Three Wise Men, they — not Santa — are the holiday gift bringers in a number of countries.
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Three Kings
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In Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, deceased former business partner who now wanders the Earth encumbered by heavy chains and money boxes forged during a lifetime of greed and selfishness.
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Jacob Marley
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One of Santa’s personas, derived from the German tradition of the Christkindl (Christ child) who brings holiday gifts in western Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and elsewhere.
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Kris Kringle
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The little boy consumed with getting a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle for Christmas in the 1983 film A Christmas Story.
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Ralphie
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A disheveled companion of St. Nicholas who is the sole gift bringer in parts of German-speaking Europe, in Pennsylvania Dutch communities and in German-Brazilian communities.
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Belsnickel
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This horned creature of Alpine folklore visits children with Saint Nicholas on the night of 5 December and punishes the wicked ones with birch rods.
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Krampus
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Norwegian postal employee who, with reclusive woodsman Klaus, inadvertently puts an end to the war between two clans in the 2019 animated film Klaus.
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Jesper
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The star of the show, as far as secular Christmas celebrations go in the US.
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Santa Claus
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This reindeer was not mentioned in Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” (1823), but came to life in a 1939 story by Robert L. May, and was immortalized in a song written by Johnny Marks in 1949 and an animated TV special in 1964.
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Rudolph
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This Christian Bishop of Myra (d. cir. 343 CE) is alleged to have had a penchant for secret gift-giving and is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, unmarried people, and students in various cities and countries around Europe.
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St. Nicholas
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The man who was saved from a Christmas Eve suicide by his guardian angel in the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life.
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George Bailey
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The companion of Saint Nicholas who visits Swiss children and punishes ill-behaved ones with his birch broom.
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Schmutzli
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