Nikola Tesla in popular culture

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) is portrayed in many forms of popular culture.

[18] Tesla's birthday (or in one case, both the day itself and the week leading up to it) is officially celebrated as a holiday in various parts of the world.

[20] In Niagara Falls, Canada, it is named as the Day of Nikola Tesla.

[23][24] On 7 January 2021 (which is both Orthodox Christmas and the anniversary of Nikola Tesla's death), the Tesla Science Foundation Serbia (TSFA) sent a petition to the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church proposing that the Synod consider the canonization of Nikola Tesla as an Orthodox saint with his birthday, 10 July as his feast day.

[26] A number of live theatrical plays based on Tesla's life have been produced and staged worldwide.

Nikola Tesla in a photograph taken by Napoleon Sarony in the 1890s.
Edition of To Mars with Tesla; or, The Mystery of Hidden Worlds with the title A Trip to Mars; or, The Spur of Adventure ( Street & Smith , 1928)
H. P. Lovecraft 's character Nyarlathotep in the guise of Tesla in Rotomago and Julien Noirel's comic-book adaptation of the prose poem " Nyarlathotep ". [ 8 ]
Saint Tesla (2021) by Tatiana Basova, inspired by the proposal to have Tesla canonized as a saint [ 25 ]
The "Mad Scientist" from The Mad Scientist , the first of Max Fleischer 's Superman cartoons , this character said to be inspired by Tesla