Yes. There has been conjecture about whether Jesus really existed or not. And, of course,the big argument of those trying say he was just the figment of somebody's imagination would be that there is no mention of him outside of the Bible.
But there is. There are at least two secular historians who mention him. The first of these is Corneliuis Tactus, a Roman historian. In his account of the fire that destroyed Rome in AD 64 he said that Nero tried to blame members of a sect called "Christus" for the fire.
According to Tactus the people gave this group this name because they were followers of Christus {or Christ}who died at the hand of the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate.
Another well known historian, Flavius Josephus also writes of Jesus as a historical figure describing how High Priest Ananus {Ananias},"convened the judges of the Sanhedrin and brought before them a man named James, the brother of Jesus who was called the Christ, and several others."
This record of Tactus can be found in Anals, XV, 44 and that of Josephus in Jewish Antiquities, XX, 200 (ix1).
So no, the Gospel accounts of Jesus' life were not fictional. He did exist.
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