In Popular Culture
- A fictionalized Sir John Fielding is the protagonist of eleven historical detective novels (set in Britain's Georgian period), written by the American writer Bruce Cook, under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander.
- John Fielding is an important character in the historical detective novel Death in the Dark Walk (1994), written by Deryn Lake.
- Leon Garfield's Smith (1967), which deals with London's underworld, highwaymen and footpads, contains a blind justice.
- John Fielding is portrayed by David Warner in the 2006 British television film of Sweeney Todd, starring Ray Winstone.
- The 2008 Channel 4 television series City of Vice is based on the crime investigation work of the Fielding brothers. Iain Glen plays John Fielding.
- John Fielding is a recurring supporting character in a series of Benjamin Franklin mysteries by Robert Lee Hall -- set in London during the late 1750s. In many instances Fielding himself requests Franklin's help solving a murder.
- Charles Dickens used John Fielding as a character in his Barnaby Rudge.
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