List of Fictional Scientists and Engineers - Individual Scientist/engineers

Individual Scientist/engineers

• Eleanor Arroway (Contact) – A scientist who searches for extraterrestrial intelligence.
• Martin Arrowsmith (Arrowsmith)
• Buckaroo Banzai (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension) – Particle physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, martial artist and rock star.
• Professor Barnhardt (The Day the Earth Stood Still) — American scientist who organizes a scientific reception for Klaatu's message of peace.
• Dr. Glenn Barton (The Man and the Challenge) — human-factors scientist and star of the 1958-1959 TV series.
• Beakman (Beakman's World) — general scientist who, in a funny and entertaining manner, teaches that science is a fact of life.
• Carson Beckett (Stargate Atlantis) – Medical doctor and geneticist who discovers the ATA gene and serves as the chief medical officer for the Atlantis expedition.
• Dr. Sam Beckett (Quantum Leap) - Nobel-prizewinning quantum physicist (with multiple doctorates) caught in his own time-travel experiment; "leaping" into many lives along the span of his own lifetime, he must change the histories of those around him for the better before he can return home.
• Professor Gerard Beckert (Frostbite) - A geneticst and nazi World War 2 veteran creating geneticly enhanced vampires out of the unsuspecting youth of an Norrland-town located above the arctic circle.
• Dr. Walter Bishop (Fringe (TV series)) - Genius and mad scientist (literally). Responsible for opening a doorway into another universe in order to save an alternate version of his son Peter from dying. His actions have resulted in the gradual breakdown of both universes and inadvertently started a war between them. He, along with Peter, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham and FBI Junior Agent Astrid Farnsworth attempt to solve a number of weird (or fringe) events and crimes; some of which are a direct result of Walter's action of opening a doorway into another universe.
• Blankman (Blankman) – Science wiz-nerd who believes he is a superhero, and becomes one.
• Brains (Thunderbirds) – Engineer.
• Dr. Emmett Brown, aka Doc Brown (Back to the Future) – Inventor of the Flux Capacitor which makes time travel possible.
• Professeur Cuthbert Calculus (The Adventures of Tintin) – A brilliant, if distracted, scientist. He is responsible for developing numerous potions and devices, but is most notably known as the leader of the first manned lunar mission.
• Dr. Susan Calvin (I, Robot and other stories by Isaac Asimov) – Chief robot-psychologist of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men
• Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter, Ph.D. (Stargate SG-1) – An officer of the United States Air Force and astrophysicist whose scientific knowledge and engineering skills are used to resolve the various threats to her team and to Earth.
• Joseph Cavor (The First Men in the Moon) — inventor of "Cavorite" anti-gravity material
• Captain Hagbard Celine (Illuminatus trilogy) – Fights the Illuminati from his submarine and with his computer, both designed by himself.
• Norma Cenva (Legends of Dune) - Inventor of the space folding engine.
• Conal Cochran (Halloween III: Season of the Witch) - plans to resurrect macabre aspects of Gaelic festival Samhain, which he connects to witchcraft.
• Martin Crane (Skylark) – Engineer.
• Dexter (Dexter's Laboratory) – Young wiz-nerd.
• The Doctor (Doctor Who) – A superintelligent alien who was educated as a scientist and uses his skills extensively in his adventures.
• Stephen "Steve" Douglas (My Three Sons) — Aeronautical engineer.
• Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) – When he learns of the destructive destiny of his future creation, Dyson destroys his research.
• Hal Emmerich/ Otacon (Metal Gear Solid) - lead designer of the fifth incarnation of the ultimate nuclear bi-pedal tank Metal Gear codenamed: REX.
• Dr. Stephen Falken (WarGames) — creator of "Joshua" computer program
• Professor Hubert Farnsworth (Futurama) — creator of atomic monster, various inventions, and the engines that allow space travel.
• Dr. Charles Forbin (Colossus: The Forbin Project) — designer of Colossus
• Dr. Clayton Forrester (The War of the Worlds)
• Professor Sydney Fox (Relic Hunter) - Archaeologist.
• Dr. Frankenstein - Creates a creature and gives it life in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
• Dr. Stephen Franklin - Babylon 5 and Crusade
• Dr. Gordon Freeman, Ph.D. (Half Life) – A theoretical physicist who fights a one-man battle against invading aliens, US Marines and Combine forces with a crowbar and other weapons. Associates are Drs. Isaac Kleiner, Eli Vance, Judith Mossman and Arne Magnusson.
• Dr. Leslie Gaskell (Kronos) — came up with a way to destroy the giant machine.
• Newton Gimmick (The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin) – Absent-minded inventor whose inventions do not always work, but who always comes through in the end.
• Dr. Goodfellow (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
• Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (The Rock) - an FBI chemical weapons specialist
• Leonid Gorbovsky (Noon Universe), a genius scientist, a progressor and a spaceship captain who is known for his ability to land on even the most dangerous planets, to survive planetwide catastrophes and easily making contact with any non-human civilization.
• Artemus Gordon (The Wild Wild West) The brainy complement to James West's brawn.
• Leo Graf (Falling Free) Space engineer who leads a group of genetically engineered four-armed humans known as "quaddies" to freedom.
• Gadget Hackwrench (Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers) - Female mouse tinkerer/scientist.
• Richard Hannay (The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle) Hannay, a British mining engineer is the hero in John Buchan's WW1 era adventure novels. The Thirty-Nine Steps has been adapted for film three times.
• Professor Roy Hinkley, aka The Professor (Gilligan's Island) – He is the respected de facto leader of the Castaways and usually represents the only real continual hope of rescue.
• Franz Hopper, (Code Lyoko) - Genius in Quantum Physics and Computer Programming responsible for the creation of the virtual reality Lyoko, Malevolent AI XANA and the advanced hardware that support both.
• Dr. Elias Huer, (Buck Rogers) - Chief scientist and inventor in the comic strip, movie serial and television series.
• Dr. Daniel Jackson (Stargate and Stargate SG-1) – Archaeologist and linguist who figures out how to open the Stargate; his understanding of cultures and languages typically comes in handy when dealing with the bewildering array of cultures in the Stargate universe.
• Professor Eddie Jessup (Altered States) — heroic at the end
• Jimmy the Robot (The Aquabats! Super Show!) - a humanoid android with advanced skills in science, chemistry and technology.
• Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones movies and TV shows) – Adventurous archaeologist.
• Maxim Kammerer (Noon Universe) – Goes on a quest for traces of an enigmatic alien race called Wanderers.
• Gennady Komov (Noon Universe), a xenopsychologist whose main occupation is engaging contact with and studying alien (especially, non-human) civilizations, e.g. Headies and Ark Megaforms
• Pardot Kynes (Prelude to Dune) - Planetologist.
• Liet-Kynes (Prelude to Dune and Dune) - Planetologist.
• David Levinson (Independence Day) — Cable-TV engineer who devises the trick that blocks the alien invasion.
• Lewis McCartney, Max Hamilton and Dr. Linda Denman from H20: Just Add Water
• Angus "Mac" MacGyver (MacGyver) – A secret agent who fights the forces of evil using his scientific and engineering knowledge to his advantage.
• Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park) – Mathematician and chaotician surviving numerous encounters with dinosaurs and other hazards. His mathematical prowess does not help so much as allow him to predict his own fate, and that of the park's inhabitants.
• Quinn Mallory (Sliders) — Graduate student who invents the transdimensional gateway.
• Dr. Russell A. Marvin (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers) — invented weapon that brought down the saucers.
• Dr. Rodney McKay (Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis) – Brilliant-but-whiny astrophysicist who manages to save the lost city of Atlantis on a regular basis (and never lets anyone forget it).
• Dr. Cal Meacham (This Island Earth) — Earth scientist (a radio engineer in the novel) kidnapped to solve the problem of defending the planet Metaluna.
• Dr. Harold Medford (Them!) — led team that wiped out the giant ants.
• Dr. Alphonse Mephesto, aka Dr. Mephesto (South Park) – Is a mad scientist, who specializes in genetic engineering. Dr. Mephesto creates strange creatures with his talents, however his creations are things like animals with multiple buttocks. Mephesto believes it is for the good of the Earth, and that one-assed animals are useless and must be destroyed. He even goes as far as presenting a "seven-assed Galapagos Turtle" in an attempt to win a Nobel Prize, but loses to Randy Marsh's "Unified Theory of Fart Thing". He also performs experiments ranging from simple DNA tests to creating a genetic clone of Stan Marsh for his son's science project.
• Dr Morel (The Invention of Morel) – has invented a machine that records and reproduces reality
• Professor Nebulous (Nebulous) – Leader of an eco-troubleshooting team.
• Captain Nemo (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island) – An ambiguous-to-villainous figure, who later took on a heroic role.
• Jimmy Neutron (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) – Boy genius'
• Megan Parker (Drake and Josh) - Girl evil genius.
• Dr. Juliet Parrish (V) – A scientist who becomes the principal leader of the resistance against the genocidal alien Visitors.
• Prof. Jocelyn Peabody (Dan Dare) - The scientific brains behind many of the team's most inventive ideas.
• Quinn Pensky and Paige Howard (Zoey 101) 13 year old female mad scientist. Best known for her Quinventions
• Q (James Bond) – Makes all the gadgets 007 uses. Q is most often portrayed using the conventional literary trappings of a scientist (white lab coat etc.), even though his activities are closer to engineering.
• Professor Bernard Quatermass (various TV series and movies)
• Dr. Benton Quest (Jonny Quest)
• Leonard of Quirm (Discworld) – Superintelaligent clockpunk engineer.
• Hank Rearden (Atlas Shrugged) — Metallurgist and railroad magnate, inventor of "Rearden metal"
• David Reed (Creature from the Black Lagoon), contrasted to Mark Williams, a hypermasculine and ultimately destructive scientist.
• ""Dr. Enrico Rocco"" ("Beyond Mozambique") - Ex-Nazi doctor trying to find the cure for cancer in the jungles of Africa.
• Dr. Clark Savage, Jr. aka Doc Savage (Doc Savage) – Surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer and musician.
• Menlo Schwartzer (Surf II: The End of the Trilogy) - A reputedly brilliant chemist.
• Dr. Richard Seaton (Skylark) – Super Scientist.
• Hari Seldon (Foundation Series) – The mathematician who invents psychohistory.
• Dr. Daisuke Serizawa (Gojira/Godzilla) - Scientist who invents the Oxygen Destroyer, uses it to destroy Godzilla, then destroys his notes and sacrifices his own life so his creation can never be misused.
• Cyrus Smith (The Mysterious Island) – Great literary example of 19th century engineer.
• Dr. River Song (Doctor Who) - Archeologist, Adventurer, and companion of the Doctor.
• Dr. Jeffrey Stewart (The Magnetic Monster) — Personally destroyed the dangerous substance.
• Franny K. Stein, a child scientist that frequently invents monsters to combat various dangers
• Dr. Thomas Stockmann (An Enemy of the People)
• Tom Strong (Tom Strong) – Science hero.
• Dr. Mohinder Suresh (Heroes) - Professor of genetics and parapsychology from India.
• Tom Swift and Tom Swift, Jr. (children's stories) – A father-and-son team of inventors.
• Dr. Jane Tiptree (Carnosaur) - plans to recreate dinosaurs and destroy humanity.
• Professor Wayne Szalinski (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)
• Professor Utonium (The Powerpuff Girls) – The creator of the Powerpuff Girls, among several other wacky things.
• Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Dracula) – Nemesis of Bram Stoker's Dracula. In later incarnations, the professor has not fared so well, and, in some adaptations, is himself a villain.
• Mrs. Wakeman (My Life as a Teenage Robot) – XJ-9's creator.
• Dr. Hans Zarkov (Flash Gordon)
• Bill Davis (Brian Keith) - civil engineer, TV Show "Family Affair"
• Doctor Krieger (Archer), is the head of the ISIS applied research department.
• Reginald Barclay (TNG and VOY) - A diagnostic technician transferred to the USS Enterprise-D who later played a key role in a later project which enabled regular contact with the missing Starfleet ship, USS Voyager.
• Julian Bashir (DS9) – Chief medical officer on Deep Space 9.
• Dr. Philip Boyce ("The Cage (Star Trek: The Original Series)") — Enterprise doctor for this pilot episode only
• Zefram Cochrane ("Metamorphosis (Star Trek: The Original Series)" and Star Trek: First Contact) – Inventor of the warp drive.
• Beverly Crusher (TNG) – Chief medical officer of the Enterprise-D.
• Data (TNG) – Second officer and chief operations officer of the Enterprise-D, but his duties covered that of a science officer.
• Jadzia Dax (DS9) – Science officer on Deep Space 9.
• Ezri Dax (DS9) - Counselor on Deep Space 9, later host of Dax
• Dr. Richard Daystrom ("The Ultimate Computer") – Inventor of the duotronic computer systems, the basic principles behind the computers on all Starfleet vessels.
• The Doctor (VOY) – Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram.
• Geordi La Forge (TNG) – Chief engineering officer of the Enterprise-D.
• Miles O'Brien (DS9) – Chief operations officer on Deep Space 9, which doubles as a chief engineer.
• Hoshi Sato (ENT) – Communication officer of the Enterprise-NX and inventor of the universal translator.
• Montgomery Scott aka Scotty (TOS) – Chief engineer of the Enterprise, often described as a miracle worker.
• Noonien Soong ("Brothers (Star Trek: The Next Generation)") – Inventor of the positronic brain, which makes intelligent androids possible.
• Dr. Tolian Soran (Star Trek Generations) - El-Aurian scientist desperate to return to the Nexus.
• Mr. Spock (TOS) – Science officer and second-in-command of the Enterprise.
• Leonard McCoy (TOS) – Chief Medical Officer of the Enterprise.
• Phlox (ENT) – Chief Medical Officer on the Enterprise-NX.
• Seven of Nine (VOY) – Borg drone with no official rank or post, but due to her access to advanced Borg knowledge, she was used as an acting science officer on Voyager.
• T'Pol (ENT) – Second-in-command of the Enterprise-NX, though the crew relied on her as an acting science officer as well.
• B'Elanna Torres (VOY) – Chief engineer of Voyager.
• Charles Tucker III aka "Trip" (ENT) – Chief engineer of the Enterprise-NX.