Character (Actor) - Movie Title (Year)
1. Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) - To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
2. James Bond (Sean Connery) - Dr. No (1962)
3. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) - Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
4. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) - Casablanca (1942)
5. Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) - Schindler's List (1993)
6. T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) - Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
7. Will Kane (Gary Cooper) - High Noon (1952)
8. George Bailey (James Stewart) - It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
9. Moses (Charlton Heston) - The Ten Commandments (1956)
10. Mahatma Gandhi (Ben Kingsley) - Gandhi (1982)
11. Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
12. Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) - On The Waterfront (1954)
13. Shane (Alan Ladd) - Shane (1953)
14. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) - Rocky (1976)
15. Juror #8/Mr. Davis) (Henry Fonda) - 12 Angry Men (1957)
16. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) - Aliens (1986)
17. Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) - The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
18. Han Solo (Harrison Ford) - Star Wars (1977)
19. Norma Rae Webster (Sally Field) - Norma Rae (1979)
20. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) - Spartacus (1960)
21. Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) - The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)
22. Alvin C. York (Gary Cooper) - Sergeant York (1941)
23. Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) - In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
24. Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman) - Joan of Arc (1948)
25. Detective Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) - Dirty Harry (1971)
26. Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) - The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
27. William Wallace (Mel Gibson) - Braveheart (1995)
28. Superman/Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) - Superman (1978)
29. Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) - Erin Brockovich (2000)
30. Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) - Die Hard (1988)
31. Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) - The Miracle Worker (1962)
32. Henry "Lou" Gehrig (Gary Cooper) - The Pride Of The Yankees (1942)
33. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein (Robert Redford/Dustin Hoffman) - All The President's Men (1976)
34. Lucas "Luke" Jackson (Paul Newman) - Cool Hand Luke (1967)
35. Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) - The Big Sleep (1946)
36. Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne) - True Grit (1969)
37. Ben "Obi-Wan" Kenobi (Alec Guinness) - Star Wars (1977)
38. Father Edward J. Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) - Boys Town (1938)
39. The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) - City Lights (1931)
40. Lassie (Pal) - Lassie Come Home (1943)
41. General George Patton (George C. Scott) - Patton (1970)
42. Mr. Chips (Arthur Chipping) (Robert Donat) - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
43. Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) - Silkwood (1983)
44. Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) - Serpico (1973)
45. Zorro (Don Diego De Vega) (Tyrone Power) - The Mark Of Zorro (1940)
46. Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) - Ben-Hur (1959)
47. Batman/Bruce Wayne) (Michael Keaton) - Batman (1989)
48. Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) - Tarzan The Ape Man (1932)
49. Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) - Viva Zapata! (1952)
50. T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) - Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
51. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) - The French Connection (1971)
52. Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) - Fargo (1996)
53. Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) - The Departed (2006)
54. Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) - The Natural (1984)
55. Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
56. Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) - Dead Man Walking (1995)
57. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) - Star Wars (1977)
58. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) - Forrest Gump (1994)
59. Stanley Kowalsky (Marlon Brando) - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
60. Abraham Lincoln (Henry Fonda) - Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
61. Lt. John W. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) - Dances With Wolves (1990)
62. Private Witt (James Caviezel) - The Thin Red Line (1998)
63. Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) - Hotel Rwanda (2004)
64. Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) - Philadelphia (1993)
65. Wilm Hosenfeld (Thomas Kretschmann) - The Pianist (2002)
66. Malcom X/Malcom Little) (Denzel Washington) - Malcolm X (1992)
67. Steve Biko (Denzel Washington) - Cry Freedom (1987)
68. Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) - The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)
69. John Book (Harrison Ford) - Witness (1985)
70. Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) - The Untouchables (1987)
71. General Maximus Decimus Meridus (Russell Crowe) - Gladiator (2000)
72. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) - Mission: Impossible (1996)
73. Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
74. Daniel Lai Iijsso (Ralph Macchio) - The Karate Kid (1984)
75. Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) - Apollo 13 (1995)
76. Col. Davy Crockett (John Wayne) - The Alamo (1960)
77. Coach Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) - Glory Road (2006)
78. Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) - Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)
79. Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
80. Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) - Speed (1994)
81. Dr. Richard Kimbel (Harrison Ford) - The Fugitive (1993)
82. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) - The Insider (1999)
83. Sanjuro Kuwabatake (Toshiro Mifune) - Yojimbo (1961)
84. Trip (Denzel Washington) - Glory (1989)
85. Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) - JFK (1991)
86. Neo (Keanu Reeves) - The Matrix (1999)
87. Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) - Iron Man (2008) / Iron Man 2 (2010)
88. Rudy Ruettiger (Sean Astin) - Rudy (1993)
89. Captain Davenport (Howard E. Rollins, Jr.) - A Soldiers's Story (1984)
90. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) - The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
91. Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) - Philadelphia (1993)
92. John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) - Shaft (1971)
93. Chesley Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) - Sully (2016)
94. William Munny (Clint Eastwood) - Unforgiven (1992)
95. Liu Jian (Jet Li) - Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
96. Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) - The Color Purple (1985)
97. Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
98. Rebecca Morgan (Cicely Tyson) - Sounder (1972)
99. Spider-Man (Toby Maguire) - Spider-Man 2 (2004)
100. John J. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) - Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
23 More Worth Mentioning
101. Captain America / Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) - Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
102. "Crazy" Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) - Lean On Me (1989)
103. Stephen 'Bull' McCaffrey (Kurt Russell) - Backdraft (1991)
104. D'Artagnan (Douglas Fairbanks) - The Three Musketeers (1921)
105. Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) - Gorillas In The Mist (1988)
106. Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) - Mad Max (1979)
107. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) - The Bourne Identity (2002)
108. Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) - The Terminator (1984)
109. Todd Beamer (David Alan Basche) - United 93 (2006)
110. Buford Pusser (Joe Don Baker) - Walking Tall (1973)
111. Bernard 'Bernie' Laplante (Dustin Hoffman) - Hero (1992)
112. Michael (Robert De Niro) - The Deer Hunter (1978)
113. Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) - Death Wish (1974)
114. Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) - Predator (1987)
115. Sir Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard) - The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
116. Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) - Top Gun (1986)
117. Father Merrin (Max Von Sydow) - The Exorcist (1973)
118. Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) - Billy Jack (1971)
119. Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman) - A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
120. Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2003)
121. Atreyu (Noah Hathaway) - The NeverEnding Story (1984)
122. Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) - Independence Day (1996)
123. Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) - Under Siege (1992)
Honorable Mentions
• The Dirty Dozen (Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes,
Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker, Ben Carruthers,
Tom Busby, Stuart Cooper, Colin Maitland) - The Dirty Dozen (1967)
• The Fellowship (Eiljah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, and Billy Boyd)
- Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers (2002)
• The Three Musketeers (Van Heflin, Gig Young, Robert Coote) - The Three Musketeers (1948)
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