Book worms, movie buffs, comic book lovers and avid TV viewers will appreciate this delightful assortment of beloved fictional characters with really great names. One of these may inspire your next baby name choice.
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Literary characters
- Harry Potter. Junie B. Jones. Trixie Belden.
- Stephanie Plum. Ramona Quimby. Think of the wonderful characters we’ve encountered between the covers of our favorite books.
- Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables
- Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, Fifty Shades of Grey
- Dorian Gray, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Elizabeth Bennett, Pride and Prejudice
- Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Ichabod Crane, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
- Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre
- Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby
- Jo March, Little Women
- Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games
- Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Milo Minderbender, Catch-22
- Owen Meany, A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Philip “Pip” Pirrup, Great Expectations
- Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Longstocking
- Robinson Crusoe, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- Romeo, Romeo and Juliet
- Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes
- Vito Corleone, The Godfather
- Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Comic book characters
Whether you got your fix from comic books or the Sunday paper, there was nothing like waiting for the next adventure of your favorite character.
Movie characters
The best movie characters stay with us far longer than 120 minutes. Life is complete when we laugh and cry and hide in fear with most memorable film personas like these.
- Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
- Butch Cassidy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane
- Clarice Starling, The Silence of the Lambs
- Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz
- Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
- George Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life
- Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry
- Linus Larrabbee, Sabrina
- Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
- Marty McFly, Back to the Future
- Nina Sayers, Black Swan
- Norman Bates, Psycho
- Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
- Randle McMurphy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund, Casablanca
- Rocky Balboa, Rocky
- Scarlett O’Hara, Gone with the Wind
- Tristan Ludlow, Legends of the Fall
- Yuri Zhivago, Dr. Zhivago
TV characters
How does one begin to choose the best TV show characters of all time? Perhaps these iconic favorites will at least give you a head start.
- Augustus McCrae, Lonesome Dove
- Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
- Cliff and Claire Huxtable, The Cosby Show
- Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
- Dexter, Dexter
- Don Draper, Mad Men
- Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, The X-Files
- Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
- James T. Kirk, Star Trek
- Jay Pritchett, Modern Family
- Leonard Hofstadter and Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
- Mary Richards, The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Michaela “Mike” Quinn, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
- Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher, Phineas and Ferb
- Ralph and Alice Kramden, The Honeymooners
- Richard Kimble, The Fugitive
- Ricky and Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy
- Sam Malone, Cheers
- Tony Nelson, I Dream of Jeannie
- Walter White, Breaking Bad
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