Orphan characters in literature

main character of the book, film and video game series of the same name

main antagonist of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

fictional character from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium

fictional character created by Thomas Harris

fictional character from Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather

secret agent, invented by novellist Ian Fleming

character in A Song of Ice and Fire

character from Twilight

character in A Song of Ice and Fire

children's book character created by Michael Bond

Quasimodo ( , ; from Quasimodo Sunday) is the titular protagonist of the French novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo. Born with numerous deformities, most notably a hunched back, Quasimodo serves as the bell-ringer for Notre Dame cathedral in fifteenth century Paris. Although his appearance causes others to treat him cruelly, he ultimately finds sanctuary in an unlikely love that is fulfilled only in death.

Mowgli () is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other (on the basis of Marwar king Rao Sihaji) characters.

title character of the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

fictional girl and woman, protagonist of the eponymous series, introduced 1908

character in A Song of Ice and Fire

fictional character

fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty Four

Bagheera ( / Baghīrā) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (coll. 1894) and The Second Jungle Book (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the "man-cub" Mowgli. The word bagheera is Hindi for panther or leopard, although the root word bagh means any form of panthera and is nowadays mostly used to refer to the Royal Bengal tiger.

fictional character from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame

character in A Song of Ice and Fire

fictional character

fictional character from Dexter

fictional character

fictional character from The Godfather series

fictional character from the Hannibal Lecter series by Thomas Harris

fictional character created by Patricia Highsmith

fictional character in James Bond stories

His Dark Materials character

fictional detective created by author Michael Connelly

literary character; fictional adventurer created by Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail

fictional character from Mortal Engines

fictional character from Dragonlance

Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the Byronic hero, or the tortured antihero, whose all-consuming rage, jealousy and anger destroy both him and those around him.

fictional character from The Queen's Gambit

fictional character created by P. G. Wodehouse

character in A Song of Ice and Fire

fictional character

Hunger Games character

fictional character

title character and the protagonist of the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

fictional character created by James Fenimore Cooper

fictional character in The Return of the Condor Heroes

Xiaolongnü () is the fictional female protagonist of the wuxia novel The Return of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong. In the novel, her physical appearances is described as follows: "skin as white as snow, beautiful and elegant beyond convention and cannot be underestimated, but appears cold and indifferent". She trains the protagonist Yang Guo in martial arts, and they eventually fall in love.

character in wuxia fiction

female character in the James Bond novel and film Dr. No

Gendry is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of epic fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its HBO television adaptation Game of Thrones, where the character is portrayed by English actor Joe Dempsie.

fictional character in the Outlander series

character from Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera

protagonist after which the 1850 Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield, was named

main character in Southern Vampire Mysteries and True Blood fictional universes

fictional character from The Princess Bride

fictional character

fictional character

literary character in Alex Rider series

fictional serial killer

character in William Makepeace Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair'

fictional character from the book and television series You