A distinguished collection of factologists, archivists, consultants, clerks, puddle scholars, and one editor whose typewriter has asked for legal distance.
Every fact on Fact Goblin is handled by trained professionals, semi-trained professionals, and several goblins who wandered in holding clipboards. Below are the staff responsible for collecting, polishing, misplacing, rediscovering, and confidently presenting the world’s finest facts.
Not every member of the Fact Goblin organisation is listed here. Including consultants, visiting fellows, honorary researchers, freelance fact-hunters, and the occasional goblin who simply refuses to leave, Fact Goblin has more than 100 staff and associates. The goblins featured on this page are our most senior personnel, our most prolific contributors, and those who could afford the most persuasive bribes to ensure their inclusion.
Founder & Chief Executive Goblin
Founded Fact Goblin in 1903, then mysteriously disappeared under circumstances that remain the subject of vigorous speculation and several unsuitable documentaries. Despite his absence and periodic unconfirmed sightings, Professor Bogscribe continues to serve as our CEG, the Chief Executive Goblin.
F.R.S. – Frequently Rather Speculative
Chief Editor
Chief Editor of Fact Goblin and relentless defender of editorial standards. Dr Muckleaf is renowned for his fascination with ducks attempting to pass themselves off as other animals, and for an unfortunate incident in which he became briefly engaged to a typewriter.
Keeper of the Red Pencil
Chief Archivist
Emeritus Chair of Comparative Studies in Historically Significant Puddles and Their Influence on Regional Hat Fashion. For decades he has guarded the Fact Goblin archives, maintaining a filing system so ancient and mysterious that several historians believe it may be filing them in return.
D.Phil., B.Sc. – Unverified
Chief Fact Curator
Dr Fizzlebog oversees the preservation and refinement of Fact Goblin’s finest facts. He is responsible for the legendary vault where facts are carefully aged, catalogued, and occasionally misplaced, emerging years later with considerably greater authority than when they entered.
Curatorial thunder
Consultant in Slightly Incorrect Dinosaurs
Blort’s work explores the vital academic territory between palaeontology and enthusiastic guessing. He can identify any dinosaur provided it is already labelled.
Dinosaur Department
Associate Fellow & Consultant
Usually found near Cambridge University, Poggle discovers new incredible facts by peering at old buildings until one confesses. His notebooks contain diagrams, crumbs, and several warnings.
External brilliance unit
Statistician
Snibble proves that almost anything is significant if you squint hard enough. He is responsible for the official Fact Goblin margin of error, currently stored in a biscuit tin.
Numbers, probably
Bureaucratic Liaison
Seconded from the Department of Unnecessary Measurements, Nibs ensures all facts are properly weighed, folded, initialled, and placed in the correct wrong tray.
Forms within forms
Factologist
Fink classifies new facts by flavour, density, wobble, and whether they look suspicious under candlelight. He is widely regarded as reliable until sandwiches enter the room.
Snack-adjacent scholarship
Senior Factologist
Wibble specialises in facts that sound unlikely but stand upright when left unattended. His filing cabinet is rumoured to have opinions and a small pension. He also has a passion for unusually flavoured doughnuts.
Senior goblin reasoning
Medical Doctor & Goblog Correspondent
Dr Noelle Muckleaf is the daughter of Dr Morkle Muckleaf and has a passion for all things medical. When she is not investigating unusual ailments or interviewing suspiciously healthy goblins, she writes field reports and medical features for the Fact Goblin Goblog.
Medicine & Goblogs
Staff Member by Financial Arrangement
Wafflethrift does not specialise in any particular field and has contributed remarkably little to the advancement of factology. His principal achievement was successfully arranging for his inclusion on the staff page through the strategic application of a very large wad of cash.
Bribery & Cash Management