Is the dectective named Sherlock homes a real person?

Answer 1

There may be people alive on Earth called "Sherlock Homes" and these people are real. However the character "Sherlock Holmes " who is the detective is not a real person, he is a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Arthur Conan Doyle met Joseph Bell in 1877, and served as his clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Arthur Conan Doyle later went on to write a series of popular stories featuring the fictional character Holmes, who Doyle has previously stated was loosely based on Bell and his observant ways.