List of Doctor Who historical characters
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This is a list of historical, mythical and fictional characters who have encountered the time traveller known as the Doctor, in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
This list is divided into four parts:
- Historical characters who have appeared on the programme
- Characters from mythology who have appeared on the programme
- Characters from fictional works who have appeared on the programme
- "Name-drops": Historical or mythological characters who the Doctor has claimed to have met, but who have not been seen on screen.
All but the "Name-drops" are listed with a reference to the story they appeared in and the actor who played them.
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[edit] Historical characters
- Kublai Khan - Martin Miller in Marco Polo
- Marco Polo - Mark Eden in Marco Polo
- Paul Barras - John Law in The Reign of Terror
- Napoleon Bonaparte - Tony Wall in The Reign of Terror
- Robespierre - Keith Anderson in The Reign of Terror
- Emperor Nero - Derek Francis in The Romans
- Poppaea - Kay Patrick in The Romans
- Tigilinus - Brian Proudfoot in The Romans
- Princess Joanna - Jean Marsh in The Crusade
- King Richard I of England - Julian Glover in The Crusade
- Saladin - Bernard Kay in The Crusade
- Saphadin - Roger Avon in The Crusade
- Captain Benjamin Briggs - David Blake Kelly in The Chase
- Queen Elizabeth I - Vivienne Bennet in The Chase
- Abraham Lincoln - Robert Marsden in The Chase
- Albert C Richardson - Dennis Chinnery in The Chase
- William Shakespeare - Hugh Walters in The Chase and Dean Lennox Kelly in Series 3, Episode 2 (Currently Untitled)
- King Charles IX of France - Barry Justice in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
- Gaspard de Coligny - Leonard Sachs in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
- Queen Catherine de' Medici - Joan Young in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
- Billy Clanton - David Cole in The Gunfighters
- Ike Clanton - William Hurndall in The Gunfighters
- Virgil Earp - Victor Carin in The Gunfighters
- Wyatt Earp - John Alderson in The Gunfighters
- Doc Holliday - Anthony Jacobs in The Gunfighters
- Kate - Sheena Marshe in The Gunfighters
- Bat Masterson - Richard Beale in The Gunfighters
- Johnny Ringo - Laurence Payne in The Gunfighters
- Blackbeard - Gerry Wain in The Mind Robber
- D'Artagnan - John Greenwood in The Mind Robber
- King John of England - in identical replica form - Gerald Flood in The King's Demons
- George Stephenson - Gawn Grainger in The Mark of the Rani
- H. G. Wells - David Chandler in Timelash
- Albert Einstein - in Time and the Rani
- Queen Elizabeth II - in Silver Nemesis
- Charles Dickens - Simon Callow in The Unquiet Dead
- Queen Victoria - Pauline Collins in Tooth and Claw
- Madame de Pompadour - Sophia Myles in The Girl in the Fireplace
- King Louis XV of France - Ben Turner in The Girl in the Fireplace
- John F. Kennedy - himself with the Doctor in a digitally altered photograph in Rose
[edit] Mythological characters
- Achilles - Cavan Kendall in The Myth Makers
- Agamemnon - Francis de Wolff in The Myth Makers
- Cassandra - Frances White in The Myth Makers
- Cressida (as Vicki came to be known) - Maureen O'Brien in The Myth Makers
- Hector - Alan Haywood in The Myth Makers
- Menelaus - Jack Melford in The Myth Makers
- Odysseus - Ivor Salter in The Myth Makers
- Paris - Barrie Ingham in The Myth Makers
- Priam, King of Troy - Max Adrian in The Myth Makers
- Troilus - James Lynn in The Myth Makers
- Medusa - Sue Pulford The Mind Robber
- Minotaur - David Prowse in The Time Monster
- Kronos - Ingrid Bower in The Time Monster
- Morgaine - Jean Marsh in Battlefield
- Mordred - Christopher Bowen in Battlefield
- King Arthur in Battlefield
[edit] Fictional characters
- Cyrano - David Cannon in The Mind Robber
- Gulliver - Bernard Horsfall The Mind Robber
- Lancelot - John Greenwood in The Mind Robber
- Rapunzel - Christine Pirie The Mind Robber
[edit] Name-drops
- W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan in The Edge of Destruction
- Pyrrho in The Keys of Marinus
- King Henry VIII in The Sensorites
- Beau Brummel in The Sensorites
- Hans Christian Andersen in The Romans
- James Watt in The Space Museum
- Joseph Lister in The Moonbase
- King Edward VII in Inferno
- Sir Walter Raleigh in The Mind of Evil
- Chairman Mao Zedong in The Mind of Evil
- Adolf Hitler in The Daemons (possibly)
- Genghis Khan in The Daemons (possibly) and Rose (at least his assembled hordes)
- Napoleon Bonaparte in Day of the Daleks - the Doctor recalls a conversation that did not happen in The Reign of Terror, when they never spoke
- Queen Elizabeth I of England in The Curse of Peladon
- Queen Victoria in The Curse of Peladon (predates Tooth and Claw)
- Horatio Nelson in The Sea Devils
- John L. Sullivan in Carnival of Monsters
- Harry Houdini in Planet of the Spiders and Revenge of the Cybermen
- William Shakespeare in Planet of Evil, City of Death and The Mark of the Rani
- Marie Antoinette in Pyramids of Mars
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough in The Android Invasion
- Leonardo da Vinci in The Masque of Mandragora, City of Death and Doctor Who (1996)
- Florence Nightingale in The Masque of Mandrgora
- William Tell in The Face of Evil
- Bede in The Talons of Weng-Chiang
- Maskelyne (unspecified which one) in The Ribos Operation
- Sir Isaac Newton in The Pirate Planet
- Allan Ramsay (1713-1784) in The Stones of Blood
- Julius Caesar in The Stones of Blood
- Albert Einstein in The Stones of Blood (pre-dating Time and the Rani)
- Izaak Walton in The Androids of Tara
- José Raúl Capablanca in The Androids of Tara
- Alexander Alekhine in The Androids of Tara
- Dame Nellie Melba in The Power of Kroll
- Theseus in The Creature from the Pit and The Horns of Nimon
- Thomas Huxley in Logopolis
- Sir Francis Drake in Four to Doomsday
- Puccini in Doctor Who (1996)
- Sigmund Freud in Doctor Who (1996)
- Marie Curie in Doctor Who (1996)
- David Lloyd George in Aliens of London
- Arthur Dent in The Christmas Invasion
- Cleopatra in The Girl in the Fireplace
See also List of Doctor Who supporting characters.
