List of fictional scientists and engineers

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In addition to the archetypical mad scientist, western culture depicts scientists and engineers who go above and beyond the regular demands of their professions to use their skills and knowledge for the betterment of others, often at great personal risk. In this list of fictional scientists and engineers, an annotated alphabetical overview is given of some of the best-known beings in this category.

Individual scientist/engineers

• Eleanor Arroway (Contact) — 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
• Reginald Barclay (Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager) — 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
• Professor Barnhardt (The Day the Earth Stood Still) — American scientist who organizes a scientific reception for Klaatu's message of peace
• Janos Bartok (Legend) — Hungarian scientist and inventor
• Dr. Glenn Barton (The Man and the Challenge) — human-factors scientist
• Chuck Bartowski (Chuck) — nerd who uses his skills to save the day many times
• Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) — chief medical officer on Deep Space Nine
• Beakman (Beakman's World) — general scientist who, in a funny and entertaining manner, teaches that science is a fact of life
• Professor Gerard Beckert (Frostbite) — geneticist and Nazi World War II veteran creating genetically enhanced vampires out of the unsuspecting youth of an Norrland-town located above the Arctic Circle
• 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
• Dr. Walter Bishop (Fringe) — genius and literally mad scientist; responsible for opening a doorway into another universe in order to save an alternate version of his son Peter from dying; his actions resulted in the gradual breakdown of both universes and inadvertently started a war between them
• Blankman (Blankman) — science whiz-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
• Seth Brundle (The Fly) — eccentric but brilliant physicist who invented the telepods, machines capable of teleportation
• Professor Cuthbert Calculus (The Adventures of Tintin) — brilliant, if distracted, scientist; responsible for developing the first one-man submarine, the first ultrasonic destruction device, and the first white rose; 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) — United States Air Force officer and astrophysicist whose scientific knowledge and engineering skills are used to resolve various threats to her team and to Earth
• Joseph Cavor (The First Men in the Moon) — inventor of the "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 the Gaelic festival Samhain, which he connects to witchcraft
• Dr. Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) — theoretical physicist at Caltech
• Professor Monty Corndog (The Aquabats / The Aquabats! Super Show!) — eccentric scientist and inventor whose chemical creations turned a group of ordinary men into superhero rock musicians who fight crime with the aide of The Professor's gadgets and contraptions
• Martin Crane (Skylark) — engineer
• Zefram Cochrane (Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: First Contact) — inventor of the warp drive
• Beverly Crusher (Star Trek: The Next Generation) — chief medical officer of the Enterprise-D
• Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation) — second officer and chief operations officer of the Enterprise-D, but his duties covered that of a science officer
• Bill Davis (Family Affair) — civil engineer
• Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) — science officer on Deep Space Nine
• Ezri Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) — counselor on Deep Space Nine
• Dr. Richard Daystrom ("The Ultimate Computer") (Star Trek: The Original Series) — inventor of the duotronic computer systems, the basic principles behind the computers on all Starfleet vessels
• Dr. Linda Denman (H₂O: Just Add Water)
• Dexter (Dexter's Laboratory) — young whiz-nerd
• The Doctor (Doctor Who) — super-intelligent alien who was educated as a scientist and uses his skills extensively in his adventures
• The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager) — Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram
• 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 the "Joshua" computer program
• Professor Hubert Farnsworth (Futurama) — creator of an 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)
• Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler (The Big Bang Theory) — neurobiologist; played by real-life neuroscientist Mayim Bialik
• Professor Sydney Fox (Relic Hunter) — archaeologist
• Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Young Frankenstein) — descendant of Dr. Victor Frankenstein
• Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, and films based on the novel) — creates a creature and gives it life
• Stephen Franklin (Babylon 5 and Crusade)
• 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) — FBI chemical weapons specialist
• Leonid Gorbovsky (Noon Universe) — genius scientist, progressor and spaceship captain who is known for his ability to land on even the most dangerous planets, to survive planet-wide catastrophes and easily making contact with any non-human civilization
• Artemus Gordon (The Wild Wild West) — 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 'n Dale Rescue Rangers) – female mouse tinkerer/scientist
• Max Hamilton (H₂O: Just Add Water)
• Richard Hannay (The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle) — British mining engineer who is the hero in John Buchan's World War I era adventure novels; The Thirty-Nine Steps has been adapted for film three times
• Heaven Canceller (A Certain Magical Index) — doctor and medical scientist
• Professor Roy Hinkley, aka The Professor (Gilligan's Island) — respected de facto leader of the castaways and usually represents the only real continual hope of rescue
• Dr. Leonard Hofstadter (The Big Bang Theory) — experimental physicist at Caltech
• 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
• Paige Howard (Zoey 101)
• Dr. Elias Huer (Buck Rogers) — chief scientist and inventor in the comic strip, movie serial and television series
• Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley, a.k.a Poison Ivy (Batman) — supervillian scientist with an affinity towards poisonous plant.
• 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
• Dr. Henry Jekyll (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) — scientist who searches for alteration of the human body and to separate the evil from the good
• Professor Eddie Jessup (Altered States) — heroic at the end
• Jimmy the Robot (The Aquabats / The Aquabats! Super Show!) — android with advanced skills and knowledge in numerous areas of science 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
• Harumi Kiyama (A Certain Scientific Railgun) — creator of the Level Upper
• Gennady Komov (Noon Universe) — xenopsychologist whose main occupation is engaging contact with and studying alien (especially, non-human) civilizations, e.g. Headies and Ark Megaforms
• Dr. Rajesh Koothrappali (The Big Bang Theory) — astrophysicist at Caltech
• Doctor Krieger (Archer TV series) — head of the ISIS applied research department
• Pardot Kynes (Prelude to Dune) — planetologist
• Liet-Kynes (Prelude to Dune and Dune) — planetologist
• Geordi La Forge (Star Trek: The Next Generation) — chief engineering officer of the Enterprise-D
• Leonard of Quirm (Discworld) — super-intelligent clockpunk engineer
• David Levinson (Independence Day) — cable-TV engineer who devises the trick that blocks the alien invasion
• Dr. Emilio Lizardo (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension) — physicist whose mind is under control of the Black Lectroid, Lord John Whorfin
• Angus "Mac" MacGyver (MacGyver) — 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 the weapon that brought down the saucers
• Lewis McCartney (H₂O: Just Add Water)
• Leonard McCoy (Star Trek: The Original Series) — chief medical officer of the Enterprise
• 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 the team that wiped out the giant ants
• Dr. Alphonse Mephesto, aka Dr. Mephesto (South Park) — mad scientist who specializes in genetic engineering; creates things like animals with multiple buttocks; performs experiments ranging from simple DNA tests to creating a genetic clone of Stan Marsh for his son's science project
• Dr. Moreau (The Island of Doctor Moreau) — vivisectionist who has fled scandal to live on a remote island in the Pacific to pursue his research of perfecting his Beast Folk
• Dr. Morel (The Invention of Morel) — 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) — ambiguous-to-villainous figure, who later took on a heroic role
• Jimmy Neutron (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) — boy genius
• Miles O'Brien (Star Trek: Deep Space 9) — chief operations officer on Deep Space Nine, which doubles as a chief engineer
• Walter O'Brien — 197 IQ genius, hacker, and leader of team Scorpion
• Leonora Orantes (Contagion) — World Health Organization epidemiologist
• Megan Parker (Drake & Josh) — evil genius
• Dr. Juliet Parrish (V) — scientist who becomes the principal leader of the resistance against the genocidal alien Visitors
• Prof. Jocelyn Peabody (Dan Dare) — scientific brains behind many of the team's most inventive ideas
• Quinn Pensky (Zoey 101) — 13-year-old mad scientist, best known for her "Quinventions"
• Phlox (Star Trek: Enterprise) — chief medical officer on the Enterprise-NX01
• Q (James Bond) — makes all the gadgets 007 uses; Q is most often portrayed using the conventional literary trappings of a scientist (such as a white lab coat), even though his activities are closer to engineering
• Professor Bernard Quatermass (various TV series and movies)
• Dr. Benton Quest (Jonny Quest)
• 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. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory) — microbiologist for a pharmaceutical company
• Arne Saknussemm (Journey to the Center of the Earth) — 16th-century Icelandic naturalist, alchemist, and traveler whose messages guide a group of 19th-century adventurers
• Hoshi Sato (Star Trek: Enterprise) — communication officer of the Enterprise-NX01 and inventor of the universal translator
• 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) — reputedly brilliant chemist
• Abby Sciuto (NCIS) — forensic scientist for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service
• Montgomery Scott, aka Scotty (Star Trek: The Original Series) — chief engineer of the Enterprise, often described as a miracle worker
• Dr. Richard Seaton (Skylark) — super-scientist
• Hari Seldon (Foundation Series) — 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
• Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager) — 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
• Cyrus Smith (The Mysterious Island) — great literary example of a 19th-century engineer
• Dr. River Song (Doctor Who) — archeologist, adventurer, and companion of the Doctor
• Noonien Soong (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 (Star Trek: The Original Series) — science officer and second-in-command of the Enterprise
• Dr. Phineas Waldolf Steel — roboticist, transhumanist and industrial/steampunk musician
• Franny K. Stein — child scientist who frequently invents monsters to combat various danger
• Dr. Jeffrey Stewart (The Magnetic Monster) — personally destroyed the dangerous substance
• Dr. Thomas Stockmann (An Enemy of the People)
• Dr. Ryan Stone (Gravity) – biomedical engineer at a hospital in Lake Zurich; later becomes a mission specialist at NASA
• Dr. Strangelove
• 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) — father-and-son team of inventors
• Professor Wayne Szalinski (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)
• Crawford Tillinghast (short story "From Beyond") — inventor of a machine which allows perception of normally imperceptible things
• Dr. Jane Tiptree (Carnosaur) — plans to recreate dinosaurs and destroy humanity
• B'Elanna Torres (Star Trek: Voyager) — chief engineer of Voyager
• T'Pol (Star Trek: Enterprise) — second-in-command of the Enterprise-NX01, though the crew relied on her as an acting science officer as well
• Charles Tucker III, aka "Trip" (Star Trek: Enterprise) — chief engineer of the Enterprise-NX01
• Professor Utonium (The Powerpuff Girls) — 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. William Weir (Event Horizon) — designer of the titular spacecraft and its FTL propulsion system, the "gravity drive"
• Dr. Weird (Aqua Teen Hunger Force) — the smartest, madest, and scientistest scientist in the universe
• Dr. Rudy Wells (novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin; The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman) – cyberneticist
• Howard Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory) — aerospace engineer at Caltech
• Dr. Hans Zarkov (Flash Gordon)
• Captain Jaylen Cresida (The Lost Fleet) - A Captain in the Alliance Navy under the command of Captain John "Black Jack" Geary, and an expert on hypernet gates.
• Agatha Heterodyne (Girl Genius) - A "Spark" in Europa, and heir to the Heterodyne empire.

Mad scientists

• Dr. Hiroshi Agasa (Case Closed) - an absent-minded professor who invents several devices to help out Jimmy Kudo
• Dr. Arthur Arden, aka Hans Grüper (American Horror Story: Asylum)
• Dr. Arkeville (The Transformers TV series) - a self-proclaimed evil genius who allies himself with the Decepticons
• Dr. Ralph Benson (The Mad Doctor of Market Street)
• Walter Bishop (Fringe)
• Doc Brown (Back to the Future) - the eccentric engineer of a time machine
• Professor Bug ( The Backyardigans) - a pseudo-steampunk mad scientist portrayed by Pablo who bugs all the robots in Mega City
• Professor Finbarr Calamitous (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius)
• Professor Calculus (The Adventures of Tintin)
• Dr. Paul Carruthers (The Devil Bat)
• Doctor Death (DC Comics) - the first super-villain Batman ever faces, Doctor Death is a chemist and producer of biological weapons
• Dexter (Dexter's Laboratory)
• The Dollmaker (Arrow, Gotham, Batman vs. Robin, and DC Comics) - a serial killer and insane surgeon who makes dolls out of human flesh
• Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas & Ferb) - a mad scientist whose goal is to take over the tri-state area
• Dr. Franz Edelmann (House of Dracula) - an honourable doctor, until he was forced to consume the blood of Count Dracula; he then went insane and became a murderer
• Dr. Evil (Austin Powers)
• Professor Farnsworth (Futurama) - absent-minded engineer and proprietor of the Planet Express
• Dr. Finkelstein (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
• Dr. Frankenollie (Mickey Mouse)
• Casanova Frankenstein (Mystery Men)
• Victor Frankenstein (novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Frankenstein film as "Heinrich Von Frankenstein") - scientist who stole body parts from graves and used them to create an undead monster
• Dr. Frank N. Furter (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
• GLaDOS (Portal)
• Doctor Gordon (Saw and Saw 3D: The Final Chapter) - Gordon was an uncaring surgeon until he survived a "test" orchestrated by the Jigsaw Killer. After the experience changed his viewpoint on life, Gordon became Jigsaw's apprentice and began applying his medical skills to Jigsaw's traps in which kidnapping victims were forced to endure. Following Jigsaw's death, Gordon became his successor
• Dr. Josef Heiter (The Human Centipede (First Sequence)) - a Josef Mengele-esque surgeon known for his surgical atrocity he calls the "Human Centipede"
• Dr. Hoenneger (The Wolfman) - a German doctor who worked at an insane asylum and used medical torture to "treat" Lawrence Talbot's belief that he transformed into a werewolf every full moon
• Dr. Horrible (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
• Dr. Fritz Huhnmorder (Robot Chicken) - a scientist who revives a road-killed chicken with cybernetic technology and forces the chicken to watch various stop motion comedy sketches
• Dr. Benjamin Jeffcoat (My Secret Identity)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
• Dr. Jumba Jookiba (Lilo & Stitch, 2002)
• Dr. Ashley Kafka (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) - German doctor who experimented on the patients of the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane
• Dr. Baron von Kluckinstein (The Radioactive Chicken Heads)
• Dr. Loveless (The Wild Wild West)
• Lex Luthor (Superman films and DC Comics) - an scientific genius and corrupt businessman who is the nemesis of Superman
• Mane-iac (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) - a mad scientist in chemical engineering, specializing in the production of detergents
• Dr. Alphonse Mephesto (South Park) - a mad scientist who specializes in genetic engineering; creates strange creatures with his talents; also performs experiments ranging from simple DNA tests to creating a genetic clone of Stan Marsh for his son's science project
• Dr. Muto (video game of the same name)
• Dr. Nefario (Despicable Me)
• Dr. Gustav Niemann (House of Frankenstein) - a mad doctor who escaped prison and took over a horror carnival exhibit that included Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man
• Dr. Julius No (Dr. No)
• Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2 and Marvel Comics) - a narcissistic roboticist and nuclear physicist who was fused to his four mechanical tentacles; has a vendetta against Spider-Man
• Philo (UHF)
• Plankton (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• Dr. Septimus Pretorius (Bride of Frankenstein) - mad doctor who followed in Henry Frankenstein's footsteps in creating living beings; blackmailed Frankenstein into helping him to create a female companion for Frankenstein's monster
• Okabe Rintarou (Steins;Gate)
• Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog franchise) - roboticist who is after chaos emeralds
• Rotwang (Metropolis)
• Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty) - a sociopathic, alcoholic genius who travels various dimensions with his grandson Morty
• Baxter Stockman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Professor Hugo Strange (DC Comics)
• Dr. Strangelove (film of the same name) - former Nazi scientist who was the scientific advisor to the President of the United States during the brink of apocalypse
• Dr. Alexander Thorkel (Dr. Cyclops)
• Othar Tryggvassen (Girl Genius) - a powerful "spark", or mad scientist, bent on destroying all sparks, including himself
• Unnamed cyberneticist (Star Wars: Visionaries)
• Dr. Weird (Aqua Teen Hunger Force) - a scientist experiments often cause problems for the Aqua Teens
• Dr. Herbert West (Herbert West–Reanimator and Re-Animator)
• Dr. Albert W. Wily (Mega Man)
• Dr. Henry Wu (Jurassic Park and Jurassic World)
• Bray Wyatt - in an alternate universe, WWE superstar Bray Wyatt is portrayed as a mad scientist
• Dr. XXX (The Mad Doctor animated film)
• Dr. Arnim Zola (Captain America films and Marvel Comics) - former Nazi scientist who escaped death by transferring his consciousness into a mechanical body; in the present day, he is a member of the HYDRA terrorist organisation

In television animation

• Dr. Hiroshi Agasa (Case Closed) - an absent-minded professor who invents several devices to help out Jimmy Kudo
• Naoko Akagi (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Dr. Ritsuko Akagi (Neon Genesis Evangelion) - the daughter of the above
• Lloyd Asplund (Code Geass) - a Britannian scientist who designed the Lancelot Knightmare Frame, a bipedal, humanoid superweapon entrusted to Japanese pilot Suzaku Kururugi
• Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time) - a beautiful princess who invents and creates the citizens of Candy Kingdom in the land of Ooo
• Professor Bug (The Backyardigans) - a pseudo-steampunk mad scientist portrayed by Pablo who bugs all the robots in Mega City
• Bulma (Dragon Ball) - creator of the Dragon Radar and a time machine allowing Trunks to avert the conquest of the world by evil androids
• Kiranin Colbock (Space Runaway Ideon) - a member of a science academy
• Dexter (Dexter's Laboratory) - a child genius who whips up dazzling, world-saving inventions in his secret laboratory
• Mane-iac (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) - a mad scientist in chemical engineering, specializing in the production of detergents
• Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas & Ferb) - a mad scientist whose goal is to take over the tri-state area
• Professor Frink (The Simpsons) - Springfield's greatest scientific and engineering mind
• Professor Membrane (Invader Zim) - super-scientist; "the man without whom this world falls into chaos, and the inventor of Super Toast"
• Rintarō Okabe, aka Kyōma Hōōin (Steins;Gate)
• Perceptor (Transformers) - an Autobot scientist
• Stanford "Ford" Pines (Gravity Falls) - author of the three journals and earned his Ph.D in Backupsmore University
• Doctor Ivo Robotnik (Sonic games) - a mad scientist and engineer, who invents various kinds of aircraft, robots and vehicles in various sizes (most Sonic games); he imprisoned animals in the inside of working robotic shells (Sonic 1 - Sonic Adventure 2), and experimented with kinds of mutations (Sonic Unleashed)
• Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty) - a sociopathic, alcoholic genius who travels various dimensions with his grandson Morty
• Asami Sato (Legend of Korra) - a trained engineer, skilled pilot and driver, and competent unarmed combatant; partner of Avatar Korra and CEO of Future Industries.
• Professor Utonium (Powerpuff Girls) - father/scientist who created the Powerpuff Girls
• Wheeljack (Transformers) - an Autobot engineer and inventor
• Doctor Zoidberg (Futurama) - a lobster-like creature working as the company doctor for Planet Express

In video games

• Jeff Andonuts (EarthBound) – one of the Chosen Four
• William Birkin (Resident Evil 2) – microbiologist working for the pharmaceutical enterprise Umbrella Corporation; creator of the G-virus; he was wounded and injected himself with his G-virus, mutating him into a monster
• Cid (Final Fantasy) – although there are many different individuals with the name of Cid in many different Final Fantasy games, most of them are some sort of scientist;is existence is a tradition on par with the Chocobo in the series
• Ciel (Mega Man Zero) – teen prodigy specializing in energy research, cybernetics, and robotics
• Isaac Clarke (Dead Space) – engineer
• Doctor Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot) – an evil doctor with an oversized head, who has plans using Power Crystals
• Dr. "Mundo" Edmundo (League of Legends) – a sociopath medical doctor who only specializes in one field: the study of the pain response and how to inflict pain;his experiments have caused him to take on a monstrous form reminiscent of Frankenstein's Monster and a deceptively dimwitted speech pattern; out of all the scientists in the game, Dr. Mundo stands out as the only one who is a danger to both himself and others, evident in his self experiments
• The Engineer (Team Fortress 2) – one of nine playable classes who is capable of building sentry guns for area denial and other constructions which may support other characters
• 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; his associates are Drs. Isaac Kleiner, Eli Vance, Judith Mossman and Arne Magnusson
• Professor E. Gadd (Nintendo games)
• Cave Johnson (Portal 2) – the eccentric former owner of Aperture Science, and creator of the portal gun
• Dr. Thomas Light (Mega Man) – creator of the revolutionary robot Mega Man
• Love Lab scientists (Rhythm Heaven) – a male and female scientist pass ingredients to each other to make love potions to the rhythm of the music
• Lucca (Chrono Trigger) – fighter and inventor, who, among other things, builds a time-machine and repairs a robot from over a millennium in the future
• The Medic (Team Fortress 2) – one of nine playable classes who is able to heal other characters and make them immortal (Übercharge them) for a limited time with his Medigun
• Daro'Xen vas Moreh (first appeared in Mass Effect 2) – a quarian admiral and scientist who believes that the geth, a synthetic race created by the quarians, who subsequently rebelled and drove their masters from their homeworld, should be controlled by the quarians once again; Admiral Xen also performed surgery on her childhood toys, much to the quarian squadmate Tali'Zorah's disgust
• Dr. Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer (Hitman) – creator of Agent 47 and other clone assassins
• Tobias Planck (Pirate Galaxy) – named after Max Planck, he is a theoretical physicist and field scientist with a parietal lobe 15% larger than average
• Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog) – a fox with two tails that is Sonic's sidekick; using his knowledge of electrical engineering he creates mechanical devices that rival Doctor Eggman's robots
• Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Genis Sage (Tales of Symphonia) – Lloyd Irving's super-smart friend who has the ability to use extreme amounts of magic and is always there for Lloyd while being the voice of reason and choice
• Mordin Solus (first appeared in Mass Effect 2) – a member of fictional alien species known as salarians (who have fast metabolisms, talk fast, walk fast and think fast); a brilliant biologist and a tech specialist
• Citan Uzuki (Xenogears)
• Shion Uzuki (Xenosaga)
• Albert Wesker (Resident Evil) – microbiologist working for the pharmaceutical enterprise Umbrella and co-creator of the T-virus; he was killed in the first Resident Evil game by Tyrant T-002, a powerful biological weapon, and was resurrected with super-human powers after self-injecting the T-virus
• Bray Wyatt – in an alternate universe, WWE superstar Bray Wyatt is portrayed as a mad scientist
• Doctor Z (Mr. Driller) – sends the Driller team out on various missions around the world
• Dr. Zed (Borderlands) – A "Doctor" from the Borderlands series.
• Dr. Krieger (Far Cry) is a renowned scientist and creator/controller of the Trigens in the first Far Cry.

In comics and graphic novels

The universes created by DC Comics and Marvel Comics abound with scientists who became superheroes. They include:

• Adhemar (The Adventures of Nero) – child prodigy; a professor in many different disciplines; Nobel Prize laureate; teaches at the university of Oxford and Cambridge
• Barry Allen, aka The Flash (The Flash) – police scientist and superhero
• Dr. Bruce Banner, aka The Incredible Hulk (Hulk) – scientist who developed the "Gamma Bomb" for the US government; an accident at the site of a test led to his becoming the Hulk; for a long period after, while in the form of Bruce Banner, he looked for scientific ways to rid himself of the transformation
• Professor Barabas (Suske en Wiske) – expert in many inventions, including time travel
• Cuthbert Calculus (The Adventures of Tintin)
• Dilbert – star engineer of the comic strip series Dilbert
• Dilton Doiley (Archie Comics) – teenage inventor and scientific genius
• Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) – the most intelligent of the four Turtles, he builds a lot of advanced devices, often in the heat of battle
• Querl Dox, aka Brainiac 5 (Legion of Super-Heroes) – reputed to have a brain exponentially more powerful than a normal human
• Jay Garrick, aka The Flash (The Flash) – research scientist, superhero and founding member of the Justice Society of America
• Forge (X-Men) – mutant engineering genius
• Gyro Gearloose (Donald Duck universe)
• Jeremias Gobelijn (Jommeke) – self-declared "professor in everything"
• Agatha Heterodyne (Airship Entertainment, Girl Genius) – the heiress to the political background and scientific understanding of the Heterodyne family
• Ted Knight, aka Starman (Starman) – astronomer, expert scientist and superhero
• Professor Kumulus (Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber)
• Lex Luthor – arch-enemy to Superman in DC Comics
• Fran Madaraki (Franken Fran) – an artificial human created by a biologist; like her creator, she possesses immense medical skills
• Will Magnus (Metal Men) – creator of a team of advanced artificially intelligent robots
• Dr. Henry (Hank) Philip McCoy, aka Beast (X-Men) – world-renowned biochemist and mutant superhero
• Desty Nova (Battle Angel Alita) – a wicked genius whose work is fueled by philosophy; highly skilled at nanotechnology
• Professor Ochanomizu - surrogate father of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy
• Otto Gunther Octavius, aka Doctor Octopus – arch-enemy to Spider-Man in Marvel Comics; radiation specialist, mad scientist and supervillain
• Dr. Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen) - nuclear physicist transformed by accident into a godlike super-being; while publicized as a superhero, he functions as the ultimate weapon for the United States military
• Ray Palmer, aka Atom (The Atom) – Professor of Physics at Ivy University; able to shrink his body to varying degrees, even to sub-atomic level, and able to alter his mass to near infinite levels
• Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man (Spider-Man) – superhero with great knowledge of advanced sciences; now teaches at the high school he formerly attended
• Ratchet (Transformers series) – skilled Autobot medic; in the G1 Comics, he sacrifices himself to kill Megatron
• Reed Richards, aka Mister Fantastic (Fantastic Four) – scientist and inventor, regarded as one of the most intelligent people on Earth, leader of the Fantastic Four
• Ted Sallis - duplicator of the serum that created Captain America; transformed into The Man-Thing;although he had serious problems with his personal ethics when it came to women and girls, he abandoned Operation Sulfer on moral grounds, and elected to remain as Man-Thing rather than allow innocents to be killed by the demon Thog
• Alan Scott (Green Lantern) – engineer and the first Green Lantern
• Joachim Sickbock (Tom Poes) – a mad scientist who often proves to be a threat to the protagonists
• Doctor Sivana, full name Thaddeus Bodog Sivana – the world's wickedest scientist; arch-enemy of Captain Marvel (DC Comics)
• Professor Snuffel (Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber)
• Angela Spica, aka Engineer II (The Authority)
• Tony Stark, aka Iron Man (Iron Man) – an industrialist and electrical engineer of incredible ingenuity and inventive genius, whose technology to fight crime keeps him alive as well; he suffers from alcoholism
• Victor and Janet Stein (Runaways) – founding members of the Pride; parents of Chase Stein
• Baxter Stockman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Othar Tryggvassen (Girl Genius) – a powerful "spark", or mad scientist, bent on destroying all sparks, including himself
• Victor Von Doom, aka Doctor Doom (Doctor Doom) – evil scientist, engineer, genius, conqueror; like Mister Fantastic, he is regarded as one of the most intelligent people on Earth, even though he is a villain
• Ludwig Von Drake (Duck universe) – professor of science and psychology
• Wally – lazy and disillusioned engineer of the comic strip series in the Dilbert universe
• Bruce Wayne, aka Batman (Detective Comics, Batman) – the world's greatest detective (reputedly), with incredible scientific knowledge and forensic and memory skills that are second to none
• Professor Charles Francis Xavier, aka Professor X (X-Men) – the founder, mentor, and sometime leader of the X-Men

In anime and manga

• Bulma (Dragon Ball) – a genius scientist, inventor and engineer credited for inventing the Dragon Radar
• Caesar Clown (One Piece) – former marine scientist and former partner of Doctor Vegapunk; he created mass destruction weapons and human experimentation but was fired and arrested due to his unethical research methods
• The Doctor (Hellsing) – the lead scientist of Millennium who created the Nazi vampires and the catboy Schrödinger
• Professor Kouzou Fuyutsuki (Neon Genesis Evangelion) – right-hand man to Supreme Commander Gendo Ikari and second in command of Nerv
• Szayelaporro Grantz (Bleach)
• Doctor Hogback (One Piece) – the doctor of Gecko Moria's crew who modified dead bodies to create a zombie army with the help of his captain
• Ri Kohran (Sakura Wars)
• Jotaro Kujo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) – while unrelated to his role in the various plot arcs he appears in, Jotaro earns a doctorate in marine biology sometime before 1999 in the series' original timeline; dolphin and anchor motifs were added to his clothing designs to reflect his new occupation
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach) – head of the Shinigami Research Institute; performs extensive bodily modifications on himself and his subordinates
• Dr. Emil Lang (Robotech) – responsible for much of the Earth-based Robotechnology; briefly seen in the original series, he played a much larger role in the aborted series Robotech II: The Sentinels, which was adapted as a comic book series
• Tochiro Oyama (Captain Harlock) – the designer and some say the soul of Harlock's spaceship Arcadia
• Dr. Tem Ray (Mobile Suit Gundam) – the father of Amuro Ray; led the design team that created the RX-78 Gundam
• Dr. Aki Ross (Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within) – a biologist vowing to stop the aliens that plague the Earth
• Shiro Sanada (Star Blazers) – Chief Technician or Chief Mechanic of the Space Battleship Yamato, called Sandor in Star Blazers
• Professor Noriyasu Seta (Love Hina)
• Skuld (Oh My Goddess!) – a goddess who has the ability to build robots and machines from scrap material
• James Ray Steam (Steamboy) – boy genius who helps his father and grandfather save Victorian London from a greedy corporation's superweapons
• Franken Stein (Soul Eater)
• Doctor Vegapunk (One Piece) – the leading scientist in the employment of the Marines; his work includes discovering the secrets and uses of Seastone as well as the secrets of how Devil Fruit powers work

Teams of scientists/engineers

• A team of scientists who investigate a deadly disease in The Andromeda Strain
• Arcot, Wade and Morey – scientist-inventors in science fiction stories by John W. Campbell
• The Baltimore Gun Club in From the Earth to the Moon – three of its wealthy members (Victor Barbicane, Stuyvesant Nicholl, Ben Sharpe) build a giant gun which launches an occupied capsule to the Moon
• Bunsen and Beaker in The Muppets
• Challengers of the Unknown – four scientific explorers
• Forensic scientists who use their skills to solve crimes in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: NY and CSI: Miami
• Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric – alchemist brothers who seek the legendary Philosopher's stone, and end up saving their country with their alchemical skills
• Ghostbusters – most of the central characters (Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore) are parapsychologists who battle ghosts and other supernatural menaces with equipment of their own design
• The Kihara family of mad scientists are dedicated to the pursuit of science whatever the cost, in A Certain Magical Index; individual members are often antagonists
• The Last Three of Venus – Venusian scientists, adversaries of Dan Dare
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• The Lone Gunmen – ardent conspiracy theorists and computer hackers who frequently assist central X-Files characters Mulder and Scully, though they sometimes have their own adventures
• LOVEMUFFIN (League of Villainous Evildoers Maniacally United For Frightening Investments in Naughtiness) – a group of evil mad scientists in Phineas and Ferb, including Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz
• STUDY – a group of frustrated young adult scientists acting as antagonists in A Certain Scientific Railgun S
• Unorthodox Engineers – a misfit bunch of engineers who solve problems of alien technology/weird planets in the future

See also

• Fictional character
• Mad scientist

References

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