List of Historical Figures
- The following are listed in a historical order by known or approximate date of birth due to some historical figures having appeared in multiple episodes. This list includes only those historical figures who have been represented through a named actor, thus excluding self-portrayals in celebrity cameo appearances and historical figures who have only been represented on Doctor Who through stock footage and body doubles. Note the names of those listed follows standard convention, rather than as credited in particular episodes, which differ slightly in some cases.
Historical figure | Actor(s) | Doctor | Episode/Serial(s) |
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Nefertiti | Riann Steele | 11th | Dinosaurs on a Spaceship |
Tigellinus | Brian Proudfoot | 1st | The Romans |
Lucius Caecilius Iucundus | Peter Capaldi | 10th | The Fires of Pompeii |
Poppaea Sabina | Kay Patrick | 1st | The Romans |
Nero | Derek Francis | 1st | The Romans |
Saladin | Bernard Kay | 1st | The Crusade |
Al-Adil I | Roger Avon | 1st | The Crusade |
Richard I of England | Julian Glover | 1st | The Crusade |
Joan of England, Queen of Sicily | Jean Marsh | 1st | The Crusade |
John, King of England | Gerald Flood | 5th | The King's Demons |
Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester | John Bay | 1st | The Crusade |
Kublai Khan | Martin Miller | 1st | Marco Polo |
Marco Polo | Mark Eden | 1st | Marco Polo |
Gaspard de Coligny | Leonard Sachs | 1st | The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve |
Catherine de' Medici | Joan Young | 1st | The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve |
Elizabeth I of England | Vivienne Bennett | 1st | The Chase |
Angela Pleasence | 10th | The Shakespeare Code | |
Charles IX of France | Barry Justice | 1st | The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve |
William Shakespeare | Hugh Walters | 1st | The Chase |
Dean Lennox Kelly | 10th | The Shakespeare Code | |
William Kempe | David Westhead | 10th | The Shakespeare Code |
Cyrano de Bergerac | David Cannon | 2nd | The Mind Robber |
Charles II of England | Paul Critoph | 11th | The Impossible Astronaut |
Blackbeard | Gerry Wain | 2nd | The Mind Robber |
Henry Avery | Hugh Bonneville | 11th | The Curse of the Black Spot A Good Man Goes to War |
Louis XV of France | Ben Turner | 10th | The Girl in the Fireplace |
Madame de Pompadour | Jessica Atkins (child) |
10th | The Girl in the Fireplace |
Sophia Myles (adult) |
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Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras | John Law | 1st | The Reign of Terror |
Maximilien Robespierre | Keith Anderson | 1st | The Reign of Terror |
Napoleon I | Tony Wall | 1st | The Reign of Terror |
George Stephenson | Gawn Grainger | 6th | The Mark of the Rani |
Abraham Lincoln | Robert Marsden | 1st | The Chase |
Charles Dickens | Simon Callow | 9th | The Unquiet Dead |
11th | The Wedding of River Song | ||
Queen Victoria | Pauline Collins | 10th | Tooth and Claw |
Louis Pasteur | unknown | 7th | Time and the Rani |
Paul Gachet | Howard Lee | 11th | The Pandorica Opens |
Benjamin Briggs | David Blake Kelly | 1st | The Chase |
Albert Richardson | Dennis Chinnery | 1st | The Chase |
Virgil Earp | Victor Carin | 1st | The Gunfighters |
Ike Clanton | William Hurndall | 1st | The Gunfighters |
Wyatt Earp | John Alderson | 1st | The Gunfighters |
Johnny Ringo | Laurence Payne | 1st | The Gunfighters |
Big Nose Kate | Sheena Marshe | 1st | The Gunfighters |
Doc Holliday | Anthony Jacobs | 1st | The Gunfighters |
Vincent van Gogh | Tony Curran | 11th | Vincent and the Doctor |
The Pandorica Opens | |||
Bat Masterson | Richard Beale | 1st | The Gunfighters |
Warren Earp | Martyn Huntley | 1st | The Gunfighters |
Billy Clanton | David Cole | 1st | The Gunfighters |
H. G. Wells | David Chandler | 6th | Timelash |
Winston Churchill | Ian McNeice | 11th | The Beast Below |
Victory of the Daleks | |||
The Pandorica Opens | |||
The Wedding of River Song | |||
Albert Einstein | Tom O'Leary | 7th | Time and the Rani |
Nickolas Grace | 11th | Death Is the Only Answer | |
Charlie Chaplin | M. J. Matthews | 1st | The Daleks' Master Plan |
Adolf Hitler | Albert Welling | 11th | Let's Kill Hitler |
Agatha Christie | Fenella Woolgar | 10th | The Unicorn and the Wasp |
Bing Crosby | Robert Jewell | 1st | The Daleks' Master Plan |
Richard Nixon | Stuart Milligan | 11th | The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon |
Elizabeth II | Mary Reynolds | 7th | Silver Nemesis |
Jessica Martin (voice) |
10th | Voyage of the Damned | |
Barack Obama | Unknown | 10th | The End of Time |
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