List of fictional scientists and engineers


In addition to the archetypical mad scientist, there are fictional characters who are 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. This is a list of fictional scientists and engineers, an alphabetical overview of notable characters in the category.

In literature

  • Martin Arrowsmith
  • Joseph Cavor - The inventor of Cavorite, an anti-gravity material.
  • Captain Hagbard Celine - A captain who fights the Illuminati from his submarine and with his computer, both designed by himself.
  • Norma Cenva - The inventor of the space folding engine.
  • Captain Jaylen Cresida - The captain in the Alliance Navy under the command of Captain John "Black Jack" Geary, and an expert on hypernet gates.
  • Dr. Claire Deller - The chief robot genius of San Diego Robots and Mechanical Men.
  • Martin Dubois - Scientist.
  • Leonid Gorbovsky - A genius scientist, progressor and spaceship captain, known for his ability to land on planets to survive planet-wide catastrophes and make contact with alien civilizations.
  • Dr. Ryland Grace - Molecular biologist.
  • Leo Graf - A space engineer who leads a group of genetically engineered four-armed humans known as "quaddies" to freedom.
  • Olesya Ilyukhina - Materials specialist and engineer.
  • Gennady Komov - A xenopsychologist whose main occupation is making contact with and studying alien civilizations.
  • Pardot Kynes - A planetologist.
  • Melissa Lewis - Biologist and astronaut.
  • Liet-Kynes - A planetologist.
  • William Harper "Johnny" Littlejohn - An archaeologist and associate of Doc Savage.
  • Lt. Col Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair - A chemist associate of Doc Savage.
  • Dr. Morel - The inventor of a machine that records and reproduces reality.
  • The Other Mother
  • Captain Nemo - An ambiguous-to-villainous figure, who later assumes a heroic role.
  • Mindy Park - Satellite communications engineer, mechanical engineer.
  • Rich Purnell - Astrodynamicist.
  • Leonard of Quirm - A super-intelligent clockpunk engineer.
  • Col John "Renny" Renwick - A civil engineer and associate of Doc Savage.
  • Maj Thomas J. "Long Tom" Roberts - An electrical engineer and associate of Doc Savage.
  • Rocky - Engineer.
  • Dr. Clark Savage, Jr., aka. Doc Savage - A surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, and musician.
  • Arne Saknussemm - A 16th-century Icelandic naturalist, alchemist, and traveler whose messages guide a group of 19th-century adventurers.
  • Hari Seldon - A mathematician who invents psychohistory.
  • Annie Shapiro - Biologist.
  • Professor Shonku - The world's most respected scientist and inventor and a physics professor at Scottish Church College. He invents several inventions while going on adventures he records in his diary.
  • Cyrus Smith - A literary example of a 19th-century engineer.
  • Doctor Steel - A real-life musician whose stage persona is a roboticist and transhumanist.
  • Franny K. Stein - A child scientist who invents monsters to combat danger.
  • Tom Swift and Tom Swift, Jr. - A father-and-son team of inventors.
  • Crawford Tillinghast - The inventor of a machine which allows perception of normally imperceptible things.
  • Professor Abraham Van Helsing - The nemesis of Count Dracula.
  • Alex Vogel - Chemist, astrophysicist, and astronaut.
  • Mark Watney - A botanist, mechanical engineer, and astronaut.
  • Bertrand Zobrist

Live-action films

Individual scientist/engineers in live-action films

  • Eleanor Arroway - A scientist who searches for extraterrestrial intelligence.
  • Bruce Banner - A renowned scientist with 7 PhDs and a focus in gamma radiation.
  • Buckaroo Banzai - A particle physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, martial artist, and rock star.
  • Professor Barnhardt - An American scientist who organizes a scientific reception for Klaatu's message of peace.
  • Dr. Glenn Barton - A human-factors scientist.
  • Blankman - A science whiz-nerd who believes he is a superhero and becomes one himself.
  • Dr. Amelia Brand - Biologist.
  • Professor John Brand - Physicist.
  • Dr. Emmett Brown - An inventor of the Flux Capacitor, which makes time travel possible.
  • Seth Brundle - An eccentric but brilliant physicist who invented the telepods, machines capable of teleportation.
  • Sebastian Caine - A scientist part of a team that worked on an invisibility serum and its antidote, tested on animals. He goes insane when the invisibility serum tested on him became irreversible.
  • Joseph Cooper - Engineer, pilot, and astronaut.
  • Murphy Cooper - Physicist.
  • Walter Curnow - American engineer.
  • Jackson Curtis - A struggling science-fiction writer.
  • Ian Donnelly - Physicist.
  • Dr. Miles Dyson - He learns of the destructive destiny of his future creation and later destroys his research.
  • Dr. Stephen Falken - The creator of the Joshua computer program.
  • Dr. Charles Forbin - The designer of Colossus.
  • Dr. Clayton Forrester
  • Charlie Frost - A fringe science conspiracy theorist and radio talk-show host.
  • Dr. Leslie Gaskell - He comes up with a way to destroy the giant machine.
  • Richard Hannay - A British mining engineer who is the hero in John Buchan's World War I-era adventure novels.
  • Adrian Helmsley - A geologist and chief science advisor to U.S. President Thomas Wilson.
  • Dr. Newton Geiszler - K-Science Officer in the biologist/research team.
  • Dr. Hermann Gottlieb - K-Science Officer in the mathematician/research team.
  • Dr. Stanley Goodspeed - AFBI chemical weapons specialist.
  • Corporal Hardin - A chemical engineer on weekend maneuvers with Louisiana Army National Guard squad in rural bayou country as they antagonize and are hunted down by the local Cajun people. His day job is only relevant to explain his rational sensible approach.
  • Indiana Jones - An adventurous archaeologist.
  • John Koestler - An astrophysicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is killed when the solar flare destroys Earth.
  • David Levinson - A cable-TV engineer who devises the trick that blocks the alien invasion.
  • der Leitende - LI - The chief engineer of U-96 portrayed by Klaus Wennemann after real-life chief engineer Friedrich Grade.
  • Melissa Lewis - Biologist and astronaut
  • Dr. Emilio Lizardo - A physicist whose mind is being controlled by the Black Lectroid, Lord John Whorfin.
  • Ian Malcolm - A mathematician and chaotician who survives several encounters with dinosaurs and other hazards. His mathematical prowess allows him to predict his own fate and that of the park's inhabitants.
  • Dr. Russell A. Marvin - He invented the weapon that brought down the saucers.
  • Leonora Orantes - A World Health Organization epidemiologist.
  • Q - He makes the gadgets that James Bond uses; he is most often portrayed using the conventional literary trappings of a scientist, such as a white lab coat, though his activities are closer to engineering.
  • Mindy Park - Satellite communications engineer, mechanical engineer.
  • Dennis Parker - Engineer.
  • Rich Purnell - Astrodynamicist.
  • Hank Rearden - A metallurgist and railroad magnate who created Rearden metal.
  • David Reed - In contrast to Mark Williams, a hypermasculine and ultimately destructive scientist.
  • Ellen Ripley - An engineer aboard the star ship Nostromo.
  • Romilly - Astrophysicist.
  • Menlo Schwartzer - A reputedly brilliant chemist.
  • Erik Selvig - An astrophysicist who worked with Jane Foster on her Wormhole research, associate of Thor and former partner of Bruce Banner. He later worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. to study the Tessaract.
  • Dr. Daisuke Serizawa - A scientist who invents the Oxygen Destroyer and uses it to destroy Godzilla before destroying his notes and sacrificing himself so that his creation can never be misused.
  • Dr. Jeffrey Stewart - He personally destroyed the dangerous substance serranium.
  • Dr. Thomas Stockmann
  • Dr. Ryan Stone - A biomedical engineer at a hospital in Lake Zurich, who becomes a mission specialist at NASA.
  • Satnam Surtani - An Indian astrophysicist.
  • Alex Vogel - Chemist, astrophysicist, and astronaut,
  • Professor Wayne Szalinski - The inventor of a shrink ray.
  • Mark Watney - A botanist, mechanical engineer, and astronaut.
  • Dr. William Weir - The designer of the titular spacecraft and its FTL propulsion system, the gravity drive.
  • Steve Zissou - An eccentric oceanographer who sets out to exact revenge on a shark referred to as a "jaguar shark".

In live-action television

Individual scientist/engineers in live-action television

  • Reginald Barclay - A 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.
  • Janos Bartok - A Hungarian scientist and inventor.
  • Julian Bashir - The chief medical officer on Deep Space Nine.
  • Beaker and Bunsen Honeydew - Beaker is the assistant scientist of Bunsen, scientist and founder of Muppet Labs.
  • Beakman - A general scientist who, in a funny and entertaining manner, teaches that science is a fact of life.
  • Walter White - A former chemist who, after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, begins manufacturing meth to provide for his family.
  • Carson Beckett - A medical doctor and geneticist who discovers the ATA gene and serves as the chief medical officer for the Atlantis expedition.
  • Sam Beckett - A Nobel Prize-winning quantum physicist with multiple doctorates who is 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.
  • Brains - An engineer.
  • Samantha Carter - A United States Air Force officer and astrophysicist whose scientific knowledge and engineering skills are used to combat various threats to her team and to Earth.
  • Dr. Pierre Chang - An astrophysicist.
  • Ravi Chakrabarti - A medical examiner for the Seattle PD. He has studied the biology of zombies and made several attempts to develop a cure for the condition.
  • Dr. Sheldon Cooper - A theoretical physicist at Caltech.
  • Professor Monty Corndog - An eccentric scientist and inventor whose chemical creations transforms a group of ordinary men into the titular superheroes and rock musicians, who fight crime with the aid of the Professor's gadgets.
  • Zefram Cochrane - The inventor of the warp drive.
  • Beverly Crusher - The chief medical officer of the Enterprise-D.
  • Data - The second officer and chief operations officer of the Enterprise-D, whose duties cover that of a science officer.
  • Bill Davis - A civil engineer.
  • Davros - A Universal Genius from the planet Skaro and nemesis of the Doctor. He invented the Reality Bomb - a moon-sized machine which creates a wavelength with the ability to cancel the electrical field that holds atoms together using the Reality Bom, who intended to use it to destroy all life in the universes.
  • Jadzia Dax - A science officer on Deep Space Nine.
  • Ezri Dax - A counselor on Deep Space Nine.
  • Dr. Richard Daystrom - The inventor of the duotronic computer systems, the basic principles behind the computers on all Starfleet vessels.
  • Dr. Linda Denman - A marine biologist who wanted to prove the existence of merpeople.
  • The Doctor - A super-intelligent alien who was educated as a scientist and uses his skills extensively in his adventures.
  • The Doctor - Voyagers Emergency Medical Hologram.
  • Stephen "Steve" Douglas - An aeronautical engineer.
  • Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler - A neurobiologist portrayed by real-life neuroscientist Mayim Bialik.
  • Professor Sydney Fox - An archaeologist.
  • Stephen Franklin
  • Dr. Goodfellow
  • Dr. Ross Geller - A paleontologist working at a museum in research and administration, and lecturer/professor at New York University.
  • Dr. Horace Goodspeed - A mathematician.
  • Artemus Gordon - The brainy complement to James West's brawn.
  • Max Hamilton
  • Professor Roy Hinkley - The respected de facto leader of the castaways. who usually represents the only real continual hope of rescue. He can make anything out of bamboo and coconuts, but cannot find a way to fix the S.S. Minnow or build a working boat.
  • Dr. Leonard Hofstadter - An experimental physicist at Caltech.
  • Paige Howard
  • Dr. Elias Huer - The chief scientist and inventor in the comic strip, movie serial and television series.
  • Dr. Daniel Jackson - An archaeologist and linguist who figures out how to open the Stargate; his understanding of cultures and languages comes in handy when dealing with other cultures.
  • Jimmy the Robot - An android with advanced skills and knowledge in numerous areas of science and technology.
  • Professor Ko - A quantum scientist.
  • Dr. Raj Koothrappali - An astrophysicist at Caltech.
  • Geordi La Forge - A chief engineering officer of the Enterprise-D.
  • Li Wei - The engineer of the quantum starlight programming.
  • Lu Chia-chia - A rational engineer.
  • Angus "Mac" MacGyver - A secret agent who fights the forces of evil using his scientific and engineering knowledge.
  • Quinn Mallory - A graduate student who invents the transdimensional gateway.
  • Lewis McCartney
  • Leonard McCoy - The chief medical officer of the Enterprise.
  • Dr. Rodney McKay - A brilliant but whiny astrophysicist who saves the lost city of Atlantis on a regular basis.
  • Miles O'Brien - The chief operations officer and engineer on Deep Space Nine.
  • Walter O'Brien - 197 IQ genius, hacker, and leader of team Scorpion.
  • Dr. Juliet Parrish - A scientist who becomes the principal leader of the resistance against the genocidal alien Visitors.
  • Quinn Pensky - A 13-year-old aspiring scientist, best known for her "Quinventions" that help out her friends.
  • Phlox - The chief medical officer on the Enterprise-NX01.
  • Professor Bernard Quatermass
  • Professor John Robinson - Astrophysicist.
  • Dr. Maureen Robinson - Biochemist.
  • Maureen Robinson - Aerospace engineer.
  • Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz - A microbiologist for a pharmaceutical company.
  • Hoshi Sato - A communication officer of the Enterprise-NX01 and inventor of the universal translator.
  • Abby Sciuto - A forensic scientist for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
  • Montgomery "Scotty" Scott - The chief engineer of the Enterprise, often described as a miracle worker.
  • Dr. Richard Seaton - A super-scientist.
  • Seven of Nine - A Borg drone with no official rank or post, but was used as an acting science officer on Voyager due to her access to advanced Borg knowledge.
  • Dr. River Song - An archeologist, adventurer, and companion of the Doctor.
  • Noonien Soong - An inventor of the positronic brain, which makes intelligent androids possible.
  • Dr. Tolian Soran - An El-Aurian scientist desperate to return to the Nexus.
  • Spock - A science officer and second-in-command of the Enterprise.
  • Dr. Mohinder Suresh - An Indian professor of genetics and parapsychology.
  • B'Elanna Torres - The chief engineer of Voyager.
  • T'Pol - The second-in-command of the Enterprise-NX01, though the crew also relies on her as an acting science officer.
  • Charles "Trip" Tucker III - The chief engineer of the Enterprise-NX01.
  • Nora Wakeman - A scientist and the creator of XJ-9 / Jenny Wakeman.
  • Dr. Rudy Wells - A cyberneticist.
  • Howard Wolowitz - A aerospace engineer at Caltech.

In animated television

  • Alador Blight - A workaholic engineer who uses a mixture of witchcraft and technology to build weapons and mechanical bodyguards.
  • Brain from Pinky and the Brain and
  • Princess Bubblegum - A princess who created the citizens of Candy Kingdom.
  • Minerva Campbell - Finn's biological mother.
  • Sandy Cheeks - An anthropomorphic squirrel who is one of SpongeBob's best friends.
  • Aviva Corcovado - An engineer and inventor who works with the Kratt brothers. Among other inventions, she created the Creature Power Suits, which mimic the abilities of animals.
  • Dexter - A child genius who invents world-saving inventions in his secret laboratory.
  • Professor Hubert Farnsworth - The creator of an atomic monster, various inventions, and the engines that allow space travel.
  • Professor Frink - Springfield's greatest scientific and engineering mind.
  • Newton Gimmick - An absent-minded inventor whose inventions do not always work, but always come through in the end.
  • Dr. Gross - A cyborg.
  • Prince Gumball - A gender-swapped version of Princess Bubblegum.
  • Gadget Hackwrench - A mouse tinkerer/scientist.
  • Franz Hopper - A genius in quantum physics and computer programming responsible for the creation of the virtual reality Lyoko, malevolent A.I. XANA, and the hardware that supports both.
  • Dr. Fritz Huhnmorder - A scientist who revives a road-killed chicken with cybernetic technology and forces the chicken to watch stop motion comedy sketches.
  • Kowalski - The team's scientist and inventor.
  • Doctor Krieger - The head of the ISIS applied research department.
  • Lisa Loud - A gifted inventor of the Loud family.
  • Professor Membrane - A super-scientist, known as "the man without whom this world falls into chaos, and the inventor of Super Toast".
  • Mametchi
  • Jimmy Neutron - A self-proclaimed boy genius.
  • Perceptor - An Autobot scientist.
  • Peridot - A Gem scientist and member of the Crystal Gems.
  • Ford Pines - Author of the three journals, who earned his Ph.D. in Backupsmore University.
  • Professor Porter
  • Doctor Prince - A gender-swapped version of Doctor Princess.
  • Doctor Princess - A medical official in Ooo.
  • Dr. Benton Quest
  • Ratchet - A skilled Autobot medic; in the G1 Comics, he sacrifices himself to kill Megatron.
  • Rick Sanchez - A sociopathic alcoholic and the smartest man of the universe, who travels through various dimensions with his grandson Morty.
  • Asami Sato - A trained engineer, skilled pilot and driver, and competent unarmed combatant; partner of Avatar Korra and CEO of Future Industries.
  • Sokka - A self-taught engineer, inventor, and military strategist.
  • Twilight Sparkle
  • Susan and Mary Test - Johnny's twin sisters, who develop gadgets and chemicals and often test them on Johnny.
  • Professor Utonium - A scientist who created the Powerpuff Girls, serving as their father figure.
  • Varian
  • Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture - A self-proclaimed super-scientist who re-purposes his father Jonas Venture's old inventions.
  • Dr. Nuvo Vindi
  • Wheeljack - Autobot engineer and inventor.
  • Hange Zoe - A scientist in charge of studying Titans and inventing new weapons for the Survey Corps.
  • Zoidberg - A lobster-like alien doctor who works at Planet Express.

In animated films

  • Dr. Cockroach - A brilliant professor with the head, body and abilities of a cockroach.
  • Gru - A former criminal genius who redeems himself.
  • Jumba Jookiba - An alien genius who created Stitch and the other experiments.
  • Mac - A Scottish chicken scientist, who helps the chickens escape the farm using aerodynamics, anatomy, and mechanics.
  • Megamind - An alien genius who later redeems himself and becomes a hero.
  • Dr. Nefario - Gru's scientist ally.
  • Victor "Vector" Perkins

In comics and graphic novels

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Other comics

  • Adhemar - A child prodigy and professor in many different disciplines, as well as a Nobel Prize laureate and teacher at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge,
  • Professor Barabas - An expert in many inventions, including time travel,
  • Brainstorm - A scientific genius who invented time travel in order to save his best friend's husband, the consequences of which technically began the Autobot-Decepticon civil war.
  • Professor Cuthbert Calculus - A brilliant, if distracted, scientist; responsible for developing the first one-person submarine, the first ultrasonic destruction device, and the first white rose, as well as the leader of the first crewed lunar mission.
  • Dilbert - A star engineer of the comic strip series Dilbert.
  • Dilton Doiley - A teenage inventor and scientific genius,
  • Donatello - The most intelligent of the four Turtles, who builds advanced devices.
  • Dr. Frankenollie
  • Gyro Gearloose
  • Jeremias Gobelijn - The self-declared "professor in everything".
  • Agatha Heterodyne - An heiress to the political background and scientific understanding of the Heterodyne family.
  • Professor Kumulus
  • Fran Madaraki - An artificial human created by a biologist; like her creator, she possesses immense medical skills.
  • Helen B. Narbon - A mad geneticist with an odd fascination with gerbils.
  • Professor Philip Mortimer - The protagonist, a physicist and gentleman scholar.
  • Professor Snuffel
  • Tilly Tailor - A teen wearable technology engineer and leader of the SEWing Circle
  • Ludwig Von Drake - A professor of science and psychology.
  • Wally - A lazy and disillusioned engineer.
  • Dr. Hans Zarkov

In anime and manga

Individual scientist/engineers in anime and manga

  • Lloyd Asplund - A Britannian scientist who designed the Lancelot Knightmare Frame, a bipedal, humanoid superweapon entrusted to Japanese pilot Suzaku Kururugi.
  • Professor Brown
  • Bulma - The creator of the Dragon Radar and a time machine, which allowed Trunks to travel back in time and avert the conquest of the world by evil androids.
  • Heaven Canceller - A doctor and medical scientist.
  • Kiranin Colbock - A member of a science academy.
  • Dr. Cinnamon - A genius scientist who is the creator of TwinBee and WinBee.
  • Caesar Clown - The 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 - The lead scientist of Millennium, who created the Nazi vampires and the catboy Schrödinger.
  • Professor Kozo Fuyutsuki - The right-hand man to Supreme Commander Gendo Ikari and second in command of Nerv.
  • Szayelaporro Grantz - An Arrancar scientist.
  • Doctor Hogback - The doctor of Gecko Moria's crew who modified dead bodies to create a zombie army with the help of his captain.
  • Harumi Kiyama - The creator of the Level Upper.
  • Ri Kohran
  • Jotaro Kujo - An oceanographer. While unrelated to his role in the various plot arcs he appears in, Jotaro earns a doctorate in oceanography sometime during the summer of 1999 in the series' original timeline, and dolphin and anchor motifs were added to his clothing to reflect his new occupation.
  • Makise Kurisu - A neuroscientist who graduated from university at the age of 17, inspired by her father's work to write a thesis on time travel. She currently works as a researcher at the Viktor Chondria University in the United States.
  • Dr. Emil Lang - He was responsible for much of the Earth-based Robotechnology; briefly seen in the original series, he played a much larger role in Robotech II: The Sentinels.
  • Professor Ochanomizu - The surrogate father of Astro Boy.
  • Manami Okuda
  • Tochiro Oyama - A designer on Harlock's spaceship Arcadia
  • Dr. Tem Ray - The father of Amuro Ray; led the design team that created the RX-78 Gundam.
  • Dr. Aki Ross - A biologist vowing to stop the aliens that plague the Earth.
  • Shiro Sanada - The chief technician of the Space Battleship Yamato, called Sandor in Star Blazers.
  • Professor Noriyasu Seta
  • Skuld - A goddess who has the ability to build robots and machines from scrap material.
  • James Ray Steam - A boy genius who helps his father and grandfather save Victorian London from a greedy corporation's superweapons.
  • Precia Testarossa
  • Washu - Scientist from the planet Jurai
  • Wu Tomoki - An orthopedic surgeon and cosmetic dermatologist employed at the T.G. University Hospital, notable for his research of the Locacaca fruit.
  • Doctor Vegapunk - The leading scientist in the employment of the Marines. His work includes discovering the secrets and uses of Seastone, the secrets of how Devil Fruit powers work, how to get an item to "eat" a Devil Fruit, and other futuristic inventions.
  • Hanji Zoe - The head scientist in the survey corps, who performs experiments on captured titans in hopes of finding a way to save humanity.

In video games

Scientists in video games

  • Dr. Alphys - A timid lizard monster and Asgore's royal scientist, who is the creator of the robot Mettaton and the Amalgamates. She has a crush on Undyne, captain of the Royal Guard.
  • Dr. Andonuts - The father of Jeff, one of the Chosen Four.
  • Dr. Alex Mercer - The creator of the Blacklight virus.
  • Rikako Asakura - Known as the "Scientist Searching for Dreams", she is one of the few people in Gensokyo to value using science over magic. Though occasionally using magic in order to enhance her science, she tries to refrain from using magic due to her natural distaste of it.
  • Coco Bandicoot - Crash Bandicoot's younger sister. who has a deep intelligence and a love of science. This is in opposition to her brother, an electronics engineer specializing in hacking, computer programming and machine building.
  • William Birkin - A microbiologist working for the pharmaceutical enterprise Umbrella Corporation and creator of the G-virus. He was wounded and injected himself with the G-virus, mutating him into a monster.
  • Dr. Bosconovitch
  • Ciel - A young human scientist who awakens Zero in order to save the world.
  • Lucrecia Crescent - A Shinra scientist and lover of Vincent Valentine.
  • Penny Crygor - Dr. Crygor's granddaughter.
  • Dr. Casper Darling - Head of paranatural research at the United States Federal Bureau of Control.
  • Pieter Van Eckhardt
  • Dr. Gordon Freeman - A theoretical physicist who fights against invading aliens, US Marines and Combine forces with a crowbar and other weapons, alongside doctors Isaac Kleiner, Eli Vance, Judith Mossman and Arne Magnusson.
  • Professor E. Gadd
  • Dr. Gast - The former head of the Shinra Company's science department, who has a much stronger moral compass than his successor.
  • Dr. W. D. Gaster - A former royal scientist who speaks in the Wingdings font.
  • Nicoletta "Nico" Goldstein - Creator of various robotic arms that the player can use when playing as Nero.
  • Catherine Halsey - The scientist of the Office of Naval Intelligence and creator of Cortana and the SPARTAN-II Program and Mjolnir Powered Assault Armor, as well as supervising the creation of the template for third-generation smart AI.
  • Dr. Samuel Hayden - Head of the UAC, physicist.
  • Viktor Humphries
  • Kirin Jindosh - Grand Inventor to Duke Luca Abele and founder of Jindosh Clockworks, which created the Clockwork Soldiers and Clockwork Sentinels.
  • Cave Johnson - The eccentric former owner of Aperture Science, and creator of the portal gun.
  • Plague Knight - A rogue member of the Order of No Quarter, who tries to harvest their Essence for the Ultimate Potion to win over someone's heart.
  • Dr. Krieger - A renowned scientist and creator/controller of the Trigens in the first Far Cry game
  • Love Lab scientists - A male and female scientist who pass ingredients to each other to make love potions to the rhythm of the music
  • Dr. Light - The creator of Mega Man, Roll, Proto Man, X, and various other robots.
  • Kurisu Makise - A Japanese neuroscientist who lives in the United States, who builds a machine that allows the user's memories to be converted into data.
  • Mei - A climatologist and one of the heroes in the games and comic series.
  • Moira - A geneticist and one of the playable heroes in the game.
  • Daro'Xen vas Moreh - A Quarian admiral and scientist who believes that the geth, a synthetic race created by the quarians, who 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 - The creator of Agent 47 and other clone assassins.
  • Tobias Planck - Named after Max Planck, he is a theoretical physicist and field scientist with a parietal lobe 15% larger than average.
  • Miles "Tails" Prower - An anthropomorphic fox inventor and ally of Sonic.
  • Mordin Solus - A Salarian biologist and tech specialist.
  • Egon Stetmann - The creator of the Mecha Swarm, who is paranoid and prone to terrazine-induced hallucinations. He was once chief science adviser aboard the Hyperion.
  • Dr. Yi Suchong - A scientist in the city of Rapture, known for creating the Big Daddies, plasmids such as telekinesis and enrage, and helping to turn Jack into Frank Fontaine's "ace in the hole".
  • Grimoire Valentine - A Shinra scientist and Vincent Valentine's father.
  • Wilhelm "Doktor" Voigt - A robotics engineer working for Maverick Security Consulting, who assists the player throughout the game.
  • Reed Wahl - The co-founder of Rapture Central Computing, and co-inventor of the Thinker, main antagonist of the Minerva's Den DLC.
  • Albert Wesker - A 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, but resurrected with super-human powers via the T-virus.
  • Dr. Zed - A "doctor".
  • Red - The creator of the Rainbow Friends.

Engineers in video games

  • Cid - A recurring character throughout the series, often with the occupation of engineer.
  • Isaac Clarke - A space engineer tasked with investigating the U.S.G. Ishimura, and later fighting the Necromorphs.
  • The Engineer - A dwarf engineer and employee of the Deep Rock Galactic corporation.
  • The Engineer - One of nine playable classes who is capable of building sentry guns for area denial and other constructions that support allies.
  • Otacon - A designer of Metal Gear REX and ally of Solid Snake.
  • Amanda Ripley - An engineer who investigates the disappearance of her mother Ellen Ripley on the space station Sevastopol.
  • Rory Swann - A New Yorker and engineer who runs the mothership of Jim Raynor.
  • Torbjörn - A Swedish engineer and weapons designer who is a founding member of Overwatch.
  • Shion Uzuki - A "geeky engineer" and "unlikely heroine" who creates KOS-MOS, an "armored gynoid".

Mad scientists

This section lists all the mad scientists in different media appearances:

Mad scientists and evil geniuses in literature

Mad scientists in live-action films

  • Mr. Barron
  • Dr. Simon Barsinister - An adaption of the cartoon character, who was scarred and crippled in an accident.
  • Nathan Bateman
  • Dr. René Emile Belloq - An adventuring archeologist and antagonist for Indiana Jones in targeting the Ark of the Covenant.
  • Dr. Ralph Benson
  • Professor Gerard Beckert - A mad geneticist and Nazi World War II veteran who creates genetically enhanced vampires out of the unsuspecting youth of a Norrland-town near the Arctic Circle.
  • Dr. Theodore Bohmer
  • Dr. Paul Carruthers
  • Dr. Phillip Channard
  • Conal Cochran - He plans to resurrect macabre aspects of the Gaelic festival Samhain, which he connects to witchcraft.
  • Dr. Franz Edelmann - A honorable doctor who was transfused with the blood of Count Dracula, causing him to go insane and become a murderer.
  • Dr. Evil
  • Casanova Frankenstein - A criminal mastermind in Champion City.
  • Frederick Frankenstein - The grandson of Victor Frankenstein, who at first is embarrassed by his grandfather's deeds and insists that his name is pronounced "Fronkensteen," but eventually creates his own monster.
  • Henry Frankenstein - The film's version of Victor Frankenstein.
  • Dr. Frank N. Furter
  • Dr. Golden Glory - A deranged but brilliant Brazilian scientist who repeatedly attempts to torture monkeys in the hopes of curing autism.
  • Dr. Gogol
  • Dr. Lawrence Gordon - 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. Following Jigsaw's death, Gordon became his successor.
  • Dr. Josef Heiter - A Josef Mengele-esque surgeon known for his surgical atrocity, which he calls the "Human Centipede".
  • Dr. Hoenneger - A German doctor who worked at an insane asylum and used medical torture to "treat" Lawrence Talbot's lycanthropy.
  • Dr. Horrible
  • Dr. Ashley Kafka - A German doctor who experiments on the patients of the Ravencroft Institute.
  • John Kramer - A former civil engineer who spends the last months of his life testing people's will to live by placing them in deadly traps.
  • Dr. Nick Laslowicz
  • Dr. Mannering
  • Dr. Wolfe MacFarlane
  • Dr. Cal Meacham - An earth scientist who is kidnapped to solve the problem of defending the planet Metaluna.
  • Dr. Harold Medford - He led the team that wiped out the giant ants.
  • Dr. Gustav Niemann - A mad doctor who escaped prison for revenge, took over a horror carnival exhibit that included Count Dracula and later encountered Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man.
  • Philo
  • Doctor Septimus Pretorius - A mad doctor and Henry Frankenstein's teacher who followed in Henry Frankenstein's footsteps in creating living beings. He blackmailed Frankenstein into helping him to create a female companion for Frankenstein's monster.
  • Rotwang
  • Dr. Shinzo Mafune - A bitter oceanographer who had previously been ridiculed for his obsessive research into the brain patterns of sea creatures. He allies with the invading Black Hole Planet 3 Aliens, unleashing the mind-controlled kaiju Titanosaurus - whom he had personally discovered - to assist their newly-rebuilt Mechagodzilla.
  • Dr. Carl Stoner - A delusional scientist attempting to create a method of transforming humans into snakes.
  • Dr. Strangelove - A former Nazi scientist who was the scientific advisor to the President of the United States during the brink of apocalypse.
  • Dr. Alexander Thorkel
  • Dr. Jane Tiptree - A mad scientist who plans to recreate dinosaurs and destroy humanity.
  • Dr. Richard Vollin
  • Dr. Eric Vornoff
  • Dr. Herbert West
  • Peter Weyland
  • Dr. Henry Wu - The chief geneticist at Jurassic Park and head of the team that resurrected dinosaurs via cloning.
  • Dr. XXX

Mad scientists in live-action television

  • Dr. Arthur Arden / Hans Grüper
  • Walter Bishop - A scientist who was responsible for opening a doorway into another universe 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.
  • Martin Brenner - He was the scientist who experimented on Eleven.
  • Davros - The creator of the Daleks.
  • Dr. Laurence Erhardt
  • Dr. Clayton Forrester
  • TV's Frank
  • Kinga Forrester
  • Pearl Forrester
  • Dr. Benjamin Jeffcoat
  • Dr. Loveless
  • The Master - A renegade alien who seeks universal conquest.
  • Masahiko Minami
  • Dr. Jonathan Reiss - A disease specialist who sought to obtain Pandora's box.
  • Dr. Wilhelm Rolf
  • Dr. Shrinker

Mad scientists in animated television

  • Hugo A-Go-Go - Batfink's most recurring enemy.
  • Dr. Arkeville - A self-proclaimed evil genius who allies himself with the Decepticons.
  • Lord Boxman - An evil robotics engineer and CEO of Boxmore.
  • Professor Bug - A pseudo-steampunk mad scientist portrayed by Pablo, who bugs all the robots in Mega City in the episode "Robot Rampage".
  • Professor Finbarr Calamitous - A recurring enemy of Jimmy Neutron.
  • Dr. Cerebral - A mad alien scientist, consisting of a brain with a face floating within a glass tank upon a mechanical body, who seeks to control the universe and wipe out all organic life out of a belief that mechanical beings are more efficient.
  • Dr. Claw - The leader of MAD.
  • Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz - A mad scientist whose goal is to take over the Tri-State Area.
  • Dr. Drakken - A blue-skinned mad scientist determined to take over the world in order to prove his genius.
  • Miles Dredd - The main antagonist of Max Steel.
  • Princess Entrapta - The Evil Horde's robotics engineer and inventor.
  • Dr. Flug - An intelligent and inventive mad scientist who creates the gadgets and machines that Black Hat attempts to sell.
  • Mojo Jojo - A mad scientist chimpanzee that plots to take over the world and destroy the Powerpuff Girls. He was also Professor Utonium's former pet and partially responsible for the creation of the Powerpuff Girls.
  • Van Kleiss - A British scientist who can manipulate the earth.
  • Dr. Lullah - She was responsible for turning animals into humanoid mutants, creating other lifeforms, and conducting experiments, as well as passing her island off as a summer camp that six children attend.
  • Mandark - Dexter's rival, an evil genius who wants to destroy Dexter's laboratory and take over the world.
  • Mane-iac - A mad scientist in chemical engineering, specializing in the production of detergents.
  • Marvin the Martian - A would-be planet conqueror.
  • Megatron - The leader of the Decepticons.
  • Dr. Alphonse Mephesto - A mad scientist who specializes in genetic engineering and creates strange creatures with his talents. He also performs experiments ranging from simple DNA tests to creating a genetic clone of Stan Marsh for his son's science project.
  • Doctor Mindbender - A mad young genius in charge of Cobra's secret Bio-Viper project.
  • Dr. Namba - An evil scientist who works for Team Rocket, where he mostly oversees Cassidy and Butch.
  • Plankton - A copepod evil genius who specializes in building robotic inventions, including his sidekick Karen.
  • Vlad Plasmius - A half-ghost evil inventor.
  • Dr. Cinnamon J Scudworth - A mad scientist who created clones of historic figures, employed by The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures.
  • Dr. Anton Sevarius - A mad scientist and geneticist involved in several projects in the Gargoyles storyline. His most notable act is the creation of Talon and the Mutates.
  • Jack Spicer - A self-proclaimed evil boy genius.
  • Doctor Two-Brains - A scientist who accidentally fused a mouse brain with his own, giving him an evil split personality.
  • Professor Venomous - An international terrorist and evil inventor.
  • Dr. Weird - The smartest, maddest, and scientistest scientist in the universe, whose experiments often cause problems for the Aqua Teens.

Mad scientists in animated films

  • Buddy Pine / Syndrome - Mr. Incredible's fan/aspiring sidekick-turned-supervillain, who uses his scientific prowess to give himself enhanced abilities.
  • Dr. Finkelstein
  • Victor "Vector" Perkins

Mad scientists in anime and manga

  • Naoko Akagi
  • Ritsuko Akagi - The daughter of Naoko Akagi,
  • Dr. Hiroshi Agasa - An absent-minded professor who invents several devices to aid Jimmy Kudo,
  • Bondrewd - A White Whistle known as "Bondrewd the Novel", who is in charge of Idofront, the Cave Riders' forward Operating Base in the fifth layer. He was responsible for several unethical experiments on children, including the one which transformed Nanachi and Mitty into Hollows.
  • Dr. Hell - A mad scientist who is obsessed with taking over the world with his army of robotic monsters known as Mechanical Beast or Kikaiju.
  • Senku Ishigami - A genius with vast scientific knowledge, who is able to invent various kinds of tools and gadgets quickly and efficiently. As a child, he designed and built a functioning miniature rocket ship. Senkuu also possesses an analytical mind, being able to correctly discern the situation he is in.
  • Mayuri Kurotsuchi - A sadistic and cruel shinigami who uses his position as the leader of the Soul Society's Shinigami Research and Development Institute to conduct experiments.
  • Desty Nova - A wicked genius whose work is fueled by philosophy, who is highly skilled at nanotechnology.
  • Rintaro Okabe - An eccentric yet kind-hearted inventor who embraces the typical image of a mad scientist. His experiments lead to the invention of time travel.
  • Orochimaru - A shinobi obsessed with immortality and obtaining knowledge of all jutsu. He conducted many illegal and unethical experiments that resulted in him becoming a wanted criminal.
  • Franken Stein
  • Kaolla Su - An exchange student and princess of the island of Molmol. She frequently invents dangerous devices and wants to turn her kingdom into a technological powerhouse that will conquer Japan.
  • Professor Souichi Tomoe - The father of Hotaru Tomoe and the leader of Death Busters, who was once a world-renowned scientist in the field of genetic engineering. After being forced out of the scientific community for his unethical experiments, he sold his findings to companies and bought the Sankakusu District to continue his research to create "Super Beings". He vesselized one of the Daimon eggs, Germatoid, to become a human-Daimon hybrid, selling his soul to Master Pharaoh 90 and willfully discarding his humanity. After becoming a hybrid, he creates various Daimons while working to perfect the stability of Daimon/human hybrids.
  • Daruma Ujiko - A mad scientist associated with the series' main antagonists, the League of Villains.
  • Kabuto Yakushi - Orochimaru's assistant who takes part in many of his master's illegal experiments in addition to conducting his own, which include raising the dead.

Mad scientists in comics

Mad scientists in DC Comics

Mad scientists in Marvel Comics

  • Curt Connors - A college professor and expert on reptiles, who created a formula to regrow his missing arm, but ended up turning himself into the Lizard.
  • Doctor Doom - An evil scientist, engineer, genius, and conqueror. Like Mister Fantastic, he is regarded as one of the most intelligent people on Earth.
  • Doctor Octopus - A narcissistic roboticist and nuclear physicist who is an enemy of Spider-Man.
  • High Evolutionary - A British scientist who specializes in mutating animals into anthropomorphic forms.
  • Jackal - A college professor who has a vendetta against Spider-Man due to the death of his girlfriend Gwen Stacy, whom he secretly loved. He creates multiple clones of the Spider-Man as well as a clone of Gwen to attack and torment him, eventually turning himself into a jackal-like beast.
  • Leader - An enemy of the Hulk who was mutated by gamma radiation and possesses superhuman intelligence.
  • Mister Sinister - An enemy of the X-Men who specializes in genetic engineering.
  • Morbius - A scientist whose experiment with vampire bat DNA turned him into a pseudo-vampire.
  • Norman Osborn - A billionaire CEO of Oscorp and Spider-Man's nemesis, who is sometimes portrayed as a scientist with brilliant intellect. He crafts a Halloween-themed costume called the Green Goblin while having developed a personality associated with it.
  • Bolivar Trask - A scientist who created the Sentinels, a series of mutant-hunting robots.
  • Baron Zemo - A Nazi and archenemy of Captain America.
  • Arnim Zola - A 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 organization.

Mad scientists in other comics

Mad scientists in video games

  • Doctor Nitrus Brio - A timid and meek scientist who assisted Doctor Neo Cortex in the first game, often using beakers of chemicals.
  • Doctor Neo Cortex - An evil doctor who is the creator and archenemy of the franchise's titular hero Crash Bandicoot and has an oversized head. He seeks to conquer the world using Power Crystals.
  • Dr. Crygor
  • Dr. Daniel Dickens - The main character's therapist.
  • Victor Donovan - The main antagonist of the Dead or Alive series.
  • Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik - A mad scientist and archenemy of Sonic the Hedgehog, who specializes in robotics and other fields of engineering and invents various aircraft, robots and vehicles, imprisoning animals inside of working robotic shells and experimenting with types of mutations. He aims to capture the Chaos Emeralds.
  • Dr. "Mundo" Edmundo - A sociopath medical doctor who specializes in the study of the pain response and how to inflict pain. His experiments have caused him to take on a monstrous form and a deceptively dimwitted speech pattern.
  • Doctor N. Gin - A masochistic scientist who assists Neo Cortex.
  • Alexandria Hypatia - The chief alchemist at the Addermire Institute who gains a separate serial killer personality after an experiment goes wrong.
  • GLaDOS/Caroline - The main antagonist of the Portal franchise. She was Cave Johnson's assistant before taking over the facility.
  • Professor Hojo - The head of Shinra's science department. He is a sociopathic, amoral bioengineer whose experiments drive the game's plot forward, having a role in the backstories of Cloud Strife, Zack Fair, Vincent Valentine, and Sephiroth.
  • Professor Von Kriplespac
  • Dr. M - A mandrill who was the brains of Sly's father's gang. Feeling that he was being held back, he set up a fortress on Kaine Island to break into the Cooper Vault and claim the wealth for himself.
  • The Medic - One of nine playable classes, who rejects the Hippocratic Oath. He is able to heal other characters and temporarily make them invincible using his Medigun. He previously had a medical licence, but lost it due to misplacing a patient's skeleton.
  • Dr. Nefarious - A recurring adversary to Ratchet and Clank and Captain Qwark.
  • Rintarō Okabe / Kyōma Hōōin - A self-proclaimed mad scientist in his Kyōma Hōōin persona, taken from a television show he watched as a child.
  • General Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse - The major antagonist of the series, who leads the Nazis' research projects.
  • Vexen - A founding member of Organization XIII and the head of the Replica Program, which creates artificial humanoids that serve as vessels for hearts.
  • Viktor - A scientist who replaced his body with a machine and wants to enhance the human race.
  • Dr. Wily - The primary antagonist of the original Mega Man series.
  • Yuri - A Soviet psychic and founder of the Psychic Corps. During World War II, he took part in Joseph Stalin's secret project, whose aim was to create mind-control technology, and an army which specialized in psychic warfare.
  • Red - The creator of the Rainbow Friends. Mutated humans into colorful monsters.
  • Elijah Kamski in Detroit: Become Human
  • Agnes Tachyon - An eccentric scientist based on the real-life racehorse of the same name obsessed with experimentation and research to enhance the capabilities of Umamusume. She is in the film Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era.

Other

  • Henry Emily - Henry was the creator of the springlock animatronics, and possibly the original four animatronics. He is business partners with William Afton and is the father of Charlie Emily and Sammy Emily.
  • Dr. Baron von Kluckinstein
  • Morgus the Magnificent - A horror host of late-night science fiction and horror movies and television shows that originated in the New Orleans, Louisiana market.
  • Professor Nebulous - The leader of an eco-troubleshooting team.
  • Professor Jocelyn Peabody - The scientific brains behind many of the team's most inventive ideas.

Teams of scientists/engineers