In Fiction
- Peregrine Pickle, in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- Francis Arabin, in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers
- Josiah Crawley, in Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage and The Last Chronicle of Barset
- George Bertram, in Anthony Trollope's The Bertrams
- Arthur Wilkinson, also in Anthony Trollope's The Bertrams
- Richard Carstone, in Dickens's Bleak House
- Christopher Dysart, in Somerville and Ross's The Real Charlotte
- A. V. Laider, in Max Beerbohm's Seven Men (and two others)
- Alroy Keir, in W. Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale
- Sir Derek Underhill, in P. G. Wodehouse's Jill the Reckless
- Freddie Rooke, also in P. G. Wodehouse's Jill the Reckless
- Sinclair Hammond, in P. G. Wodehouse's Bill the Conqueror
- Collins, in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, "an embryo don ... a man of solid reading and childlike humour." In the television series, Charles Ryder is shown wearing an Old Wykehamist tie.
- Antrobus, in Lawrence Durrell's diplomatic trilogy
- Odoreida, in Stephen Potter's Lifemanship books
- James Arrowby, in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea
- Lieutenant Comber, in George MacDonald Fraser's Flash for Freedom
- Rupert Willem von Starnberg ("Bill") in George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman and the Tiger ("The Road to Charing Cross")
- Captain Edward Bentinct-Boyle in Colditz (1972–74), played by Neil Stacy. He catches out a German planted among the prisoners who claimed to be an Old Wykehamist but didn't know his "Notions".
- Edgar Naylor, in Cyril Connolly's The Rock Pool
- Peter Hithersay, in Nicholas Shakespeare's "Snowleg"
- Claude Erskine-Browne (and several minor characters), in John Mortimer's Rumpole series
- Merlyn, in T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone
- Captain Sender in Ian Fleming's The Living Daylights
- Dr Spacely-Trellis, go-ahead bishop of Bevindon in the world of Peter Simple
- Sir Humphrey Appleby, in the TV series Yes Minister
- Mycroft Holmes, in Brian Freemantle's The Holmes Inheritance – brother of Sherlock Holmes
- Sebastian Holmes, in The Holmes Inheritance – son of Sherlock Holmes
- Charles Nantwich and William Beckwith, in Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming Pool Library
- Larry Pettifer and his controller Tim Cranmer, in John le Carré's Our Game
- Dexter Mayhew, in One Day, a 2009 novel by David Nicholls, and the 2011 film adaptation
- General Melchett, portrayed by Stephen Fry in Blackadder Goes Forth
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)