Saturday, December 15, 2007

Fictional Characters

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Characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle:
5048 Moriarty [ Professor Moriarty, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes ]
5049 Sherlock [ Sherlock Holmes, detective ]
5050 Doctorwatson [ Doctor Watson, sidekick of Sherlock Holmes ]

Characters created by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland:
6042 Cheshirecat [ the Cheshire cat ]
6735 Madhatter [ the Mad Hatter ]
6736 Marchare [ the March Hare ]

Fabulous beasts described or mentioned by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky:
7470 Jabberwock [ the Jabberwock ]
7980 Bandersnatch [ the Bandersnatch ]
7796 Járacimrman [ Jára Cimrman, a fictional Czech genius ]
7896 Å vejk [ Josef Å vejk, the good soldier ]
9007 James Bond [ James Bond, fictional spy created by Ian Fleming ]
12448 Mr. Tompkins [ Mr. Tompkins, hero of science books by George Gamow ]
18610 Arthurdent [ Arthur Dent, hapless protagonist in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series ]
20496 JenÃk [ JenÃk, hero of BedÅ™ich Smetana’s opera Bartered Bride ]
20497 Mařenka [ Mařenka, hero of Bedřich Smetana’s opera Bartered Bride ]
29401 Asterix [ Asterix, famous comic strip character by Goscinny and Uderzo ]
29402 Obelix [ Obélix, famous comic strip character by Goscinny and Uderzo ]
29471 Spejbl [ Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef Skupa ]
29472 HurvÃnek [ HurvÃnek, son of Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef Skupa ]
33377 VečernÃček [ VečernÃček, animated character inviting Czech children to watch evening TV fairytale ]
Petit-Prince, moon of 45 Eugenia [ The Little Prince, hero of book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ]

Other Classic Charactors
92 Undina [ Undine, heroine of the novella Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué ]
264 Libussa [ Libuše, mythical Bohemian prophetess ]
2041 Lancelot [ Arthurian knight ]
2082 Galahad [ Arthurian knight ]
2483 Guinevere [ Guinevere, King Arthur's queen ]
2597 Arthur [ King Arthur, legendary king]
2598 Merlin [ Merlin, wizard who helped King Arthur ]
3102 Krok [ Krok, mythical Bohemian duke, father of Libuše, Kazi and Teta ]
3552 Don Quixote [ Don Quixote, hero of the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes ]
4250 Perun [ Perun, Slavic god ]
5797 Bivoj [ Bivoj, mythical Bohemian hero ]
7695 Přemysl [ Přemysl the Ploughman, mythical founder of the Přemyslid dynasty ]
9551 Kazi [ Kazi, Bohemian mythical female healer ]
10764 Rübezahl [ Rübezahl, Czech Krakonoš, giant ruler of the Giant Mountains ]
15374 Teta [ Teta, mythical Bohemian prophetess ]

Other Modern Charactors
1683 Castafiore [ the diva in Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin ]
2309 Mr. Spock [ Mr. Spock, the famous Vulcan, by way of the discoverer's cat ]
2521 Heidi [ title character in Johanna Spyri's well-known book Heidi ]
4512 Sinuhe [ title hero of The Egyptian by Mika Waltari ]

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