AFI's 100 Heroes and Villains
Heroes
- Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- James Bond in Dr. No
- Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942)
- Will Kane in High Noon (1952)
- Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976)
- Ellen Ripley in Aliens (1986)
- George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List (1993)
- Han Solo in Star Wars (1977)
- Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae
- Shane in Shane
- Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry
- Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night
- Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi
- Spartacus in Spartacus
- Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954)
- Thelma Dickerson & Louise Sawyer in Thelma & Louise (1991)
- Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees
- Superman in Superman (1978)
- Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men (1976)
- Juror #8 in 12 Angry Men
- General George Patton in Patton (1970)
- Luke Jackson in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000)
- Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep
- Marge Gunderson in Fargo
- Tarzan in Tarzan the Ape Man
- Alvin York in Sergeant York
- Rooster Cogburn in True Grit
- Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars (1977)
- The Tramp in City Lights
- Lassie in Lassie Come Home
- Frank Serpico in Serpico
- Arthur Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- Father Edward in Boys Town
- Moses in The Ten Commandments
- Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle in The French Connection
- Zorro in The Mark of Zorro
- Batman in Batman
- Karen Silkwood in Silkwood
- Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia
- General Maximus Decimus Meridus in Gladiator (2000)
Villains
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Norman Bates in Psycho (1960)
- Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back
- The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987)
- Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944)
- Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973)
- The Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part II
- Alex De Large in A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Alien in Alien
- Amon Goeth in Schindler's List (1993)
- Noah Cross in Chinatown
- Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990)
- The Shark in Jaws
- Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty
- Man in Bambi
- Mrs. John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Terminator in The Terminator (1984)
- Eve Harrington in All About Eve
- Gordon Gekko in Wall Street
- Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980)
- Cody Jarrett in White Heat
- Martians in The War of the Worlds (1953)
- Max Cady in Cape Fear
- Reverend Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)
- Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca (1940)
- Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Count Dracula in Dracula
- Dr. Szell in Marathon Man
- J.J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success
- Frank Booth in Blue Velvet
- Harry Lime in The Third Man
- Caesar Enrico Bandello in Little Caesar
- Cruella De Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmations
- Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest
- Tom Powers in The Public Enemy
- Regina Giddens in The Little Foxes
- Baby Jane Hudson in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- The Joker in Batman
- Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988)
- Tony Camonte in Scarface
- Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects
- Auric Goldfinger in Goldfinger
- Alonzo Harris in Training Day (2001)
