17. Herod the Great
In real life, Herod was a Jew, and he was also Roman king of Judaea. He was remembered for bringing peace in his kingdom during the course of his rule. As a Jewish man, he showed a lot of respect for the Torah. In the movies, he is always pictured as the villain who is out to get the Christians. He is portrayed as being angry about being outwitted by the 3 Magi, and orders the slaying of all the boys in Bethlehem under 2 years old. According to a historian and professor named Paul Maier, there are absolutely no historical records that corroborate this story presented in the New Testament. If something as tragic as this truly had happened, we would have been it in more books and records. Obviously, this is up for debate, depending on how much faith you put in the accuracy of the Bible.