Fictional people from Boston

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This is a list of fictional people from Boston:

• Trapper John McIntyre and Major Charles Emerson Winchester III from M*A*S*H (TV series)
• Sam Malone, Diane Chambers, Cliff Clavin and Carla Tortelli from the TV sitcom Cheers. Other Cheers characters lived in Boston, but weren't necessarily born there: Norm is from Illinois, Woody from Indiana, Rebecca from San Diego, Paul from Hawaii and Frasier from Seattle. The birthplaces of Lilith and Coach are unrevealed, but could be presumed to be Boston.
• Dr Michaela Quinn from the television series: Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman
• Sharon McKendrick and her mother Maggie from the 1961 version of the Parent Trap
• The characters from the novel and film Mystic River.
• The characters from the film Good Will Hunting.
• Dr. Vinnie Boombatz, Rodney Dangerfield's personal physician.
• Faith from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, specifically South Boston.
• Spenser, Robert Parker's ex-boxer/ex-State trooper PI.
• John Quincy Winterslip, and the rest of the Winterslips, from "The House Without a Key" (1925) by Earl Derr Biggers.
• Johnny Tremain whose real name is Johnathon Lyte Tremain
• The MacManus brothers from the movie Boondock Saints.

• Emma Frost a villain and later member of the X-Men in the comic book Marvel Universe was born in Boston to a Boston Brahmin family.
• Iceman from the X-Men movies. In the original comic books he's from Long Island.
• Margaret Drysdale and father Lowell Farquhar from The Beverly Hillbillies.
• George Apley, character from the novel, "The Late George Apley" (1937) by John P. Marquand.
• Denny Crane Boston Legal
• The characters from The Disney Channel show The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
• The characters from the film The Departed
• Seamus Zelazny Harper from Andromeda
• David "Tweener" Apolskis Prison break prisoner
• The characters of the comic strip Get Fuzzy
• Alden Pyle from The Quiet American
• Paul Brenner from The General's Daughter and Up Country by Nelson DeMille
• Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennarro from A Drink Before The War; Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone and Prayers For Rain by Dennis Lehane
• Jordan Cavanaugh from Crossing Jordan
• George Feeny of Boy Meets World is a Boston native. Eric however thought that Feeny's accent was British.