Pretender

n.	1.	(Eng. Hist.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty. - Glanvill.
	2.	One who pretends, simulates, or feigns.

Noun	1.	Pretender - a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
	2.	pretender - a person who makes deceitful pretenses Synonyms: imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, faker, fraud, fake, sham, shammer
	3.	pretender - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold Synonyms: dissembler, hypocrite, phoney, phony

actor, affecter, arrogator, aspirant, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, candidate, charlatan, claimant, deceiver, fake, faker, fourflusher, fraud, hollow man, humbug, impersonator, impostor, malingerer, man of straw, mannerist, mountebank, paper tiger, performer, phony, playactor, poser, poseur, quack, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, rival, saltimbanco, seeker, sham, shammer, straw man, suitor, usurper