| Sentido | An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story). |
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| Casos | Aladino | In the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie |
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| Ali Baba, Alí Babá | The fictional woodcutter who discovered that 'open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment |
| Beatriz | The woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy |
| Caperucita Roja | A girl in a fairy tale who meets / meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother |
| Cenicienta | A fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince |
| Chicken Little | A fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling |
| Colonel Blimp | A pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low |
| Comisario Maigret, Inspector Maigret | A fictional detective in novels by Georges Simenon |
| Don Quijote, Don Quixote | The hero of a romance by Cervantes |
| Drácula | fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker |
| El Cid | The hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century |
| Fagin | A villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens |
| Falstaff | A dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays |
| Fausto | An alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge |
| Gato de Cheshire | A fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face |
| Gawain, Sir Gawain | (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table |
| Hamlet | The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father |
| Holmes, Sherlock Holmes | A fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle |
| Horatio Hornblower | A fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester |
| Huck Finn, Huckleberry Finn | A mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain |
| Iseult | (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other |
| James Bond | British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming |
| John Henry | hero of American folk tales |
| Lancelot, Lanzarote, Sir Lancelot | (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table |
| Little John | legendary follower of Robin Hood |
| Mamá Ganso, Mamá Oca | The imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes |
| Merlín | (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor |
| Otelo | The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife |
| Pangloss | An incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire |
| Paul Bunyan | A legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada |
| Perry Mason | fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner |
| Peter Pan | The main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie |
| Philip Marlowe | tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler |
| Pied Piper | The title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning |
| Pierrot | A male character in French pantomime |
| Pluto | A cartoon character created by Walt Disney |
| Raskolnikov | A fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel 'Crime and Punishment' |
| Rey Arturo | A legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure) |
| Rey Lear | The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters |
| Robin Hood | legendary English outlaw of the 12th century |
| Robinson Crusoe | The hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island |
| Shylock | A merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare |
| Sir Galahad | (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table |
| Snoopy | A fictional beagle in a comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz |
| Sweeney Todd | fictional character in a play by George Pitt |
| Tarzán | A man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Tom Sawyer | The boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain |
| Tristan, Tristán | (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other |
| Tío Tom, Tom | A servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Yago | The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife |
| argonauta | (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece |
| liliputiense | A 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift |
| ruritario | An imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania |
| tío Sam, Tío Sam, Uncle Sam | A personification of the United States government |
| Específico | protagonista | The principal character in a work of fiction |
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| General | criatura imaginaria, ente imaginario, ser imaginario | A creature / creature of the imagination |
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| Inglés | fictional character, fictitious character, character |
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| Catalán | personatge fictici |
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