In Fiction
- 'The Senior Wrangler' is a member of the faculty of Unseen University in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels.
- Roger Hamley, a character in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, achieved the rank of Senior Wrangler at Cambridge.
- Vivie Warren, the headstrong heroine of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893) and daughter of the play's infamous madam, tied with the Third Wrangler, settling for that place because she recognized that "it was not worth while to face the grind" because she did not intend an academic career for herself.
- 'Wrangler' is a jargon term applied to codebreakers in some of John Le Carre's spy novels, such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
- Thomas Jericho, the main character of Robert Harris's book Enigma, was Senior Wrangler in 1938.
- In Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, reference is made to the fact that Christopher Tietjens came out of Cambridge as 'a mere Second Wrangler.'
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