Actually, Santa Claus found himself replaced...
Gilgamesh, Oedipus, Arjuna, Lancelot, Hamlet
The first two are my mother and father...
Beowulf, Buddha, Vishnu, Plato and a Conservative Bush
Actually, Santa Claus found himself replaced...
John Galt ought to get a few votes here.
Major William Martin.
John Galt
Frodo Baggins.
That is a good question. Who could that be, besides Yogi Berra, of course? Oh wait, Yogi ain’t fictional.
Ebenezer Scrooge
Jesus Christ, Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, maybe Paul.
Well, Sherlock Holmes stands out. You know “of all time” presents a problem, since its hard to judge which of them might have been influential in times past. I suppose we may restrict the phrase to refer to the origin of the characters.
How about Hamlet, or Romeo and Juliet ? Gilgamesh presents an interesting case, since most people barely know about him, but does that mean he’s not influential?
That broaches the subject of legendary figures, such as Odysseus and King Arthur. Presumably real persons, but lost in their own legends. Then of course we have Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone and Wyatt Earp etc. Not lost, but certainly eclipsed by their own legends.
... and Kinta Kunta ? Sheesh.
Captain Ahab
John Galt
Don Quixote
Hamlet
Achilles
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse
Darth Vader
Scrooge
Scarlett O’Hara
The Grinch
Jimminy Cricket on The Mouseketeers....
“Proverbs, proberbs, they’re so true; proverbs tell you what to do. Proverbs tell you how to be better Mouseketeers.”
Most influential, or most important ?
There is a big difference.
For instance, Obama is one of the top five ‘influential’ fictional characters.
John Galt.
Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle.
Natty Bumpo. Cap Huff. Horatio Hornblower. Steven Nason.