[Diana in Wisconsin]

http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2002/mar/020319.characters.html

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

From the list I really like

George Smiley
Mrs. Ramsay
Philip Marlowe
Jeeves
The Cat in the Hat
Sam Spade

[blackbart.223]

John Blackthorne form James Clavell’s novel “Shogun”. My second would be Frodo Baggins from “The Lord Of The Rings.”

[grey_whiskers]

6 - Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
18 - George Smiley, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John LeCarre, 1974
23 - Scarlett O'Hara Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936
29 -Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926
34 - Sebastian Flyte, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
35 - Jeeves, My Man Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse, 1919
38 - Toad, The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908
39 - The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1955
46 - The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
49 - The Whiskey Priest, The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 1940
63 - Charlotte, Charlotte's Web, E.B. White, 1952
66 - James Bond, Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953
79 - Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
84 - Yuri Zhivago, Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957
85 - Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling, 1998
96 - Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926
I condensed the list to the only ones worth keeping. And I'm glad the snake bit the little prince.

How could they have forgotten--

Jack Ryan (all of the Tom Clancy novels, seemingly)

Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night)

Harriet Vane (Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison)

Gandalf (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy) Katherine Vigneras (The Small Rain, A Severed Wasp , Madeleine L'Engle)

Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)

Artemis Fowl and Bunter(Eoin Colfer)

Aslan (The Chroncicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis)

Father Brown (The Innnocence of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton)

...and since they included The Cat in The Hat and Winnie The Pooh

The boy in Where the Wild Things Are -- Maurice Sendak

Tigger -- Winne the Pooh

Calvin and Hobbes -- Bill Watterson

Dilbert (and the Pointy Haired Boss)-- Scott Adams

Cheers!