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:
“To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It’s forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there’s a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
—Coleman Dowell (1925–1985)