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Writer
A writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.
The word is almost synonymous with author, though somebody who writes, for example, a laundry list, could...
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Abdul Alhazred
Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. He is the so-called "Mad Arab" credited with authoring the imaginary book Kitab al-Azif (the Necronomicon), and as such an integral part of Cthulhu Mythos...
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Clark Kent
Clark Joseph Kent (middle name is also Jerome according to some versions) is a fictional character created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel. He serves as the civilian and secret identity of the superhero Superman.
Over the decades there has been...
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Beverly Crusher
Commander Beverly Crusher, M.D. (born Beverly Howard), played by actress Gates McFadden, was a character on the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV show and subsequent films. She was a regular character in the show for all but the second of its seven...
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William Ashbless
William Ashbless is a fictional poet, invented by fantasy writers James Blaylock and Tim Powers.
Ashbless was invented by Powers and Blaylock when they were students at Cal State Fullerton in the early 1970s, originally as a reaction to the low...
Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist of The Hobbit and also makes a few appearances in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings. The story of The Hobbit featuring Bilbo is also retold from a different...
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Northstar
Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier) is a fictional character, a superhero who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Through his mutation, Northstar gains superhuman powers, which he uses for the betterment of society. Although originally a...
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Snake Jailbird
Robert "Snake" Jailbird, voiced by Hank Azaria, is a fictional character from The Simpsons.
Snake is Springfield's resident recidivist felon, always getting arrested but rarely appearing to stay in jail. He speaks with a "Valley Boy" accent, mixed...
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Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970) is an author, screenwriter and accordionist. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket.
Handler was born in San Francisco, California. He attended Commodore Sloat Elementary, Herbert...
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Ford Prefect
Ford Prefect (also called Ix) is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Douglas Adams. He is the only character other than the protagonist, Arthur Dent, to appear throughout the entire Hitchhiker's saga....
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Betty Cooper
Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Cooper is a fictional character of Archie Comics, the blonde-haired daughter of Hal and Alice Cooper. Betty likes sports, and is also a cheerleader. Betty was created in December 1941. Her older brother Chick Cooper and older...
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Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superhero created by Dr. William Moulton Marston (Psy.D.) , first appearing in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). Including Superman and Batman, she is also one of three characters to have been continuously published by...
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Roger Mellie
Roger Mellie ("The Man on the Telly") is a fictional character featured in Viz magazine. His catchphrase is "Hello, good evening and bollocks!", satirising David Frost's catchphrase of "Hello, good evening, and welcome". The character (like many of...
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Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905–September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee ...
Doctor Watson
Dr. John H. Watson is the British Doctor who becomes the friend, assistant, and flatmate of the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes who accompanies Holmes on 56 of his published adventures and narrates all but four of the tales.
The original...
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Nathan Zuckerman
Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character who appears as the narrator or protagonist of (and often functions as an alter ego in) many of Philip Roth's works of fiction.
Zuckerman makes his first appearance in the novel My Life As a Man (1974), where...
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Gilderoy Lockhart
Gilderoy Lockhart is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of books. He is a wizarding celebrity, having written many books on his fabulous adventures encountering Dark Creatures. He is the author of Magical Me, Break with a Banshee,...
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Daria Morgendorffer
Daria Morgendorffer is a fictional animated character from MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-Head and Daria. In 2002, Daria placed at number 41 on the list of the Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of all Time by TV Guide for her role in the two...
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Phoebe Halliwell
Phoebe Halliwell is a fictional character from the American television program Charmed, and one of the four leading characters featured during the series' run. The character is primarily portrayed by actress Alyssa Milano, as well as a few other...
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Emmanuel Goldstein
Emmanuel Goldstein is a fictional character in George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Despite being a key part of the story, he is never actually seen or heard, and may in fact be nothing more than a propaganda fabrication of the...
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Stephen Dedalus
Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, as well as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's monumental...
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Amelia Peabody
Amelia Peabody Emerson (c. 1852-after 1939) is the protagonist of the Amelia Peabody series, a series of mystery novels, written by author Elizabeth Peters. Peabody is married to Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and has one biological child, Walter ...
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George McFly
George Douglas McFly (born April 1, 1938) is a fictional character in the Back to the Future motion picture trilogy. He is one of the main characters of the first movie, but only a secondary character in the two sequels. He is the father of the...
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Peggy Hill
Margaret J. "Peggy" Hill (née Platter) is a fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. The character is voiced by actress Kathy Najimy. Peggy is the wife of Hank Hill, the mother of Bobby Hill. She is also the paternal aunt of...
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Jake Sisko
Jacob "Jake" Sisko, played by Cirroc Lofton, is a character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is the son of Deep Space Nine's commanding officer, Benjamin Sisko.
Jake was born in 2355 to Jennifer Sisko, who was killed in 2367 during the Battle of...
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Baron Bodissey
Unspiek, Baron Bodissey, is a fictional character referred to in many of the novels of speculative-fiction author Jack Vance. Within those novels he has the status of an authority, though he is sometimes referred to with amusement or scepticism....
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Felix Unger
Felix Unger (or Ungar) was one of the principal characters in Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple. Felix was portrayed in the play by Art Carney, in the film by Jack Lemmon, and in the television series by Tony Randall.
Felix is a divorced, middle-aged...
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Kilgore Trout
Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. He was originally created as a fictionalized version of author Theodore Sturgeon (Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction), although Trout's consistent presence in...
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Diane Chambers
Diane Chambers is a fictional character portrayed by Shelley Long on the American television show Cheers (1982–1987, 1993), and on several episodes of the subsequent Cheers spin-off Frasier. Diane is introduced in the Cheers pilot episode, when her...
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Jessica Fletcher
Jessica Fletcher (born Jessica Beatrice McGill) is a fictional character portrayed on the American television series Murder, She Wrote by veteran Tony-winning actress Angela Lansbury. She portrayed her for 12 years on the show, and from 1997-2003 in...
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Garth Marenghi
Garth Marenghi is a fictional horror author created by English comedians Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, and played by Holness. To date, the character has appeared in two stage shows, the Perrier Award-nominated Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight...
Diogenes Small
Diogenes Small (1797-1805) is a fictional character created by the English crime writer Colin Dexter in his Inspector Morse series of novels. The character, the supposed author of numerous historical and other works, does not appear in the novels...
Mr. E. Blackadder
Edmund Blackadder, Esq. (1762–1830) was the main character in the third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder. He was played by Rowan Atkinson.
The series was set in the reign of George III of the United Kingdom (1760–1820). In keeping with the trend...
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Brian Griffin
Brian Griffin is a fictional character from the animated television series Family Guy, and is voiced by show creator Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane uses his normal speaking voice for Brian, as opposed to the vocal modifications he makes when voicing...
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Joey Potter
Josephine "Joey" Lynn Potter is a fictional character played by Katie Holmes in the American television drama Dawson's Creek.
Joey has been friends with Dawson Leery since they were very young. She lives with her sister, Bessie, Bessie's son...
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Randolph Carter
Randolph Carter is a recurring protagonist in H. P. Lovecraft's fiction. A thinly disguised alter ego of Lovecraft himself, the first tale in which Carter appears--"The Statement of Randolph Carter" (1919)--is based on one of Lovecraft's dreams....
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Jack Sugden
John Jacob "Jack" Sugden (28th November 1947 - 5th February 2009) is a fictional character in the British television soap opera Emmerdale. The character was originally played by Andrew Burt from 1972 to 1974 with a brief return in 1976, when he left...
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Warwick Todd
Warwick Todd is a fictional character created by author and comedian Tom Gleisner. Todd is the author of four fictional cricket diaries: The Warwick Todd Diaries (1997), Warwick Todd: Back in the Baggy Green (1998), Warwick Todd Goes the Tonk (2001)...
Bamm-Bamm Rubble
Bamm-Bamm Rubble (also known as Bamm-Bamm) is the adopted son of fictitious characters Barney and Betty Rubble. He is most famous in his infant form on the animated series The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a...
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Jubal Harshaw
Jubal Harshaw is a fictional character featured in Stranger in a Strange Land, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein. He is described as: "Jubal E. Harshaw, LL.B., M.D., Sc.D., bon vivant, gourmet, sybarite, popular author extraordinary, neo-pessimist...
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Carrie Bradshaw
Carrie Bradshaw is the fictional narrator and lead character of the HBO sitcom/drama Sex and the City, played by actress Sarah Jessica Parker. She is a semi-autobiographical character created by Candace Bushnell, who published the book Sex and the...
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Rosie M. Banks
Rosie M. Banks is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Drones Club stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a romance novelist and the wife of Bingo Little. Suggested real-life models for this character include prolific...
Shigure Sohma
Shigure Sohma (草摩 紫呉, Sōma Shigure) is a fictional character in the manga and anime series entitled Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya. He transforms into the dog of the Chinese zodiac whenever he is hugged by the opposite gender or his body comes...
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Keith Mars
Keith Mars is a fictional character on UPN/The CW television series Veronica Mars, which debuted during the fall 2004 season on UPN. He is portrayed by Enrico Colantoni.
Keith is the father of Veronica Mars. They have a very close relationship, and...
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Jack Torrance
John Daniel "Jack" Torrance is a fictional character, the antagonist in the 1977 novel The Shining by Stephen King. He was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1980 movie adaptation of the novel, and by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries. The...
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Hate-Monger
The Hate-Monger is a fictional character, a supervillain that appears in the Marvel Universe. The character first appeared in Fantastic Four vol. 1, #21 (December, 1962) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
The Hate-Monger first appeared in...
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Henry Bech
Henry Bech is a fictional character created by American author John Updike. Bech first appeared in assorted short stories, stories which were later compiled in the books Bech: A Book (1970), Bech Is Back (1982), and Bech at Bay (1998). These books...
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Anthony Godby Johnson
Anthony Godby Johnson is the subject and supposed author of the 1993 memoir A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story. Subsequent investigations suggest that there may have never been a person by this name, and that his entire story was a...
Timothy McGee
Timothy "Tim" McGee is a fictional character from the CBS television series NCIS. He is portrayed by Sean Murray.
McGee grew up in Bethesda, Maryland and on the Naval Base in Alameda, California, as his father was a naval officer. His parents bought...
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Lucas Scott
Lucas Eugene Scott is a fictional character from the CW television series One Tree Hill, portrayed by Chad Michael Murray. Lucas is Nathan Scott’s half-brother and former rival, and must balance his tumultuous relationships with his father Dan Scott...
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Oscar Madison
Oscar Madison is a character in The Odd Couple, which began as a Broadway play, then was a film and then a television series.
In The Odd Couple, Oscar Madison (played by Walter Matthau in the play and films, Jack Klugman in the TV series) is the...
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"Crazy" Joe Davola
"Crazy" Joe Davola is a minor Seinfeld character who is mentally unstable and aggressive, played by Peter Crombie.
He is noted for stalking Jerry Seinfeld, for whom he develops a pathological hatred. The incident started in "The Pitch" where they...
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Philip Hastane
A fictional author created by Clark Ashton Smith, Philip Hastane was in many ways an analog of his creator. He too lived in a cabin in Auburn, California and wrote poetry and weird fiction. He also associated with a large number of artists and...
