A list of fictional butlers or related characters:
| Butler | Work | Year introduced | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | |||
| Afanasii Ziukin | The majordomo of Grand Duke George Alexandrovich in The Coronation by Boris Akunin | 2009 | |
| Agni | The servant/butler to Prince Soma in the manga Kuroshitsuji ( Black Butler ) | 2007 | |
| Akiharu Hino | A student at Hakureiryō Academy, a school for training servants-to-be, in the anime, manga, and light novel, Ladies versus Butlers! | 2006 | |
| Brian Albumen | The servant/valet to Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut (Rik Mayall) from the ITV TV series Believe Nothing | 2002 | |
| Alfred | Nikolas Cassadine's butler in the TV series General Hospital | 2006 | |
| Alfred | Mayflowers' murderous butler in Hudson Hawk movie | 1991 | |
| Alfred Pennyworth | Bruce Wayne's butler and father figure in the DC Comics universe | 1943 | |
| Alfred | Gex's turtle butler, a parody of Alfred Pennyworth | 1999 | |
| Alfredo | Nanette Manoir's butler in Angela Anaconda | 1999 | |
| Andrew | In the film Overboard | 1987 | |
| Andrew Martin | A robotic/android butler in Isaac Asimov's novella The Bicentennial Man and the film based on it | 1976 | |
| Archer | Samuel and Elizabeth Daily's butler in The Woman In Black | 1983 | |
| Aurthour | Guardian and Butler to Equius Zahhak in Homestuck | ||
| B | |||
| Banks | Simon Peel's butler in the British sitcom Never the Twain | 1981 | |
| Barkley | In the film The Toy | 1982 | |
| Barrymore/Barryman | Butler to Sir Henry Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1901 | |
| Bates | In Top Hat (1935) | 1935 | |
| Bautista | In Rigoberto Picaporte | ||
| Sebastian Beach | Lord Emsworth's butler at Blandings Castle, from the works of P. G. Wodehouse | 1915 | |
| Beeker | From the Phule novels by Robert Asprin | 1990 | |
| Lynn Belvedere | From the novel Belvedere, the adapted feature film and its sequels, and the TV series Mr. Belvedere | 1947 | [1] |
| Benson DuBois | Butler to the Tates on Soap and household manager to Governor Gatling on the spinoff series Benson | 1977 | |
| Thomas Benson | Butler and assistant to Wolf Frankenstein | 1939 | |
| Bernard | The Osborns' butler from the Spider-Man film series | 2002 | |
| Bertram | The butler to the Ross family in Jessie | 2011 | |
| Bill Tremblay | The butler of the Where's Wabi League | ||
| Billy Swan | The butler of Bloodstone family in the Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2022 | |
| Edmund Blackadder | The butler to the Prince of Wales in Blackadder the Third | 1987 | |
| Bob | In Bob the Butler | 2005 | |
| Bootler | Butler to Lady Bow from the video game Paper Mario | 2000 | |
| Brabinger | Family retainer of the fforbes-Hamiltons from the BBC TV series To the Manor Born | 1979 | |
| Brace | Servant to James Delaney of the historic drama series Taboo | 2017 | |
| Brackett | Butler to Lord Belborough of the children's television show Chigley | 1969 | |
| Fritz Brenner | Nero Wolfe's servant | 1934 | |
| Brewster | The Cranleighs' butler in Doctor Who – Black Orchid | 1982 | |
| Birmingham Brown | Butler/chauffeur of Charlie Chan in the 1940s film serial | 1944 | |
| Brunton | Butler to the Musgrave family in "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" | 1893 | |
| Mervyn Bunter | Valet of Lord Peter Wimsey in several novels and short-stories by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (see also Batman (military)) | 1923 | |
| Domovoi Butler | From the Artemis Fowl novels | 2001 | |
| Geoffrey Butler | In the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 1990 | |
| Juliet Butler | From the Artemis Fowl novels | 2001 | |
| The Butler | In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron , a holographic butler that Jimmy makes, later destroyed when Jimmy's dad removes the power pack, causing an explosion | 2003 | |
| The Butler | Butler to No. 2 in The Prisoner | 1967 | |
| Butler Livers | Butler from the game Brave Fencer Musashi | 1998 | |
| Butterscotch Butler | Prince Gumball's butler, the gender-swapped version of Peppermint Butler in Adventure Time | 2016 | |
| Mr. Butlertron | From Clone High | 2002 | |
| Butt-ler | Betrayus' butler and the brother of Dr. Buttocks in Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures , named for his anus-like forehead. | 2013 | |
| C | |||
| Charles Carson | Butler to the Crawley family in the ITV series Downton Abbey | 2010 | |
| Cadbury | The Riches' butler who attends to the Rich Estate in the Richie Rich franchise | 1953 | |
| Carter | Butler to Sir Wilfrid Robarts in "The Witness for the Prosecution" | 1925 | |
| Cavendish | Butler to Sir Hugo Drax in James Bond movie Moonraker | 1979 | |
| Chadwick | Butler to Sir Humphrey Pengallan | 1939 | |
| Chives | British butler to Louis Stevens in Even Stevens , episode 43, "Gutter Queen" | 2002 | |
| Chives | Loyal butler to Raef Halleber from the UK TV series ChuckleVision | 2008 | |
| Coleman | From Trading Places | 1983 | |
| Collins | Marcus Scarman's ill-fated butler in Doctor Who : Pyramids of Mars | 1975 | |
| Chunjin | Undercover Communist valet to Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate | 1959 | |
| Claude Faustus | Butler for Alois Trancy of the Trancy Household in Kuroshitsuji II | 2010 | |
| Clorica | Butler to the avatar in Rune Factory 4 | 2012 | |
| Codsworth | Robotic butler to the Sole Survivor in Fallout 4 | 2015 | |
| Cogsworth | Majordomo for the Beast in Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | |
| Crichton | Butler to Lord Loam, from J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton | 1902 | |
| Cube | From Princess Maker and Petite Princess Yucie | 1993 | |
| D | |||
| Darach | Butler of later Elite Four member Caitlin in the Pokémon franchise | 2008 | |
| Mr. Deeds | A paranormal butler summoned by ringing a silver hand bell (SCP-662). Is in the custody of the SCP Foundation along with his former employer, Lord Blackwood (SCP-1867). | 2009 | [2] [3] |
| Desmond | From the Rip Kirby comics | 1946 | |
| Didit | Butler in the Clue VCR Mystery Game | 1985 | |
| Dobby | House-elf in literary saga of Harry Potter | 1998 | |
| Drake | Oliver Warbucks' butler in Annie | ||
| Duckworth | Scrooge McDuck's butler/chauffeur on Ducktales (Battista in the Italian comics) | 1987 | |
| E | |||
| Edgar | Butler to Adelaide Bonfamille in The Aristocats | 1970 | |
| 8D8 | 8D-series smelter droid that was Jabba the Hutt's chief of Cyborg Operations in Return of the Jedi . Became the majordomo of Boba Fett in The Book of Boba Fett | 1983 | |
| Emilio Lopez | Butler to Preston Blake in Mr. Deeds | 2002 | |
| English | Butler to Kid Notorious in Kid Notorious | 2003 | |
| F | |||
| Ferguson | Butler to Frasier Crane in Frasier episode "Taking Liberties" | 2000 | |
| Claude Fitzwilliam | Butler to Victoria Woodworth in Fitzwilly | 1967 | |
| Fodor | Butler to the Mortevals in Boris Karloff Mexican film House of Evil | 1968 | |
| Bib Fortuna | Twi'lek majordomo of Jabba the Hutt, debuted in Return of the Jedi | 1983 | |
| Franz | Butler to the Von Trapp family in The Sound of Music | 1959 | |
| Mr. French | Uncle Bill's butler in the 1960s US sitcom Family Affair | 1966 | |
| Frith | Butler to the De Winter family in Rebecca | 1938 | |
| G | |||
| Genji Ronoue | From Umineko no Naku Koro ni | 2007 | |
| Geoffrey Butler | From The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 1990 | |
| George (billed as Manservant) | Manservant to Damien Thorn in Omen III: The Final Conflict | 1981 | |
| George Costanza | Briefly became Frank Costanza's butler in The Handicap Spot due to payment of a wrecked car | 1989 | |
| Giles | Ava Jerome's British butler at Wyndemere Castle replacing Alfred during her ownership of Wyndemere Castle on General Hospital | 2023 | |
| Giles | From the murder mystery reality-competition series Whodunnit? | 2013 | [4] |
| Giovanni Bertuccio | Butler/steward to The Count of Monte Cristo | 1844 | |
| Godfrey | Butler to the Bullock family in My Man Godfrey | 1935 | |
| Delbert Grady | From Stephen King's The Shining | 1977 | |
| Grovely | Butler to Montana Max of Tiny Toon Adventures | 1990 | |
| Gudgeon | Butler to the Angkatell family in Agatha Christie's The Hollow | 1946 | |
| H | |||
| Hargreaves | Butler to Harrison Chase in the Doctor Who serial The Seeds of Doom | 1976 | |
| Hayate Ayasaki | From Hayate no Gotoku | 2004 | |
| Hawkins | From The Contest Kid and the Big Prize by Barbara Brooks Wallace | 1977 | |
| Heathcliff | The butler of Fred and his family from Big Hero 6 | 2014 | |
| Hein | Geese Howard's butler in The King of Fighters XIV | 2016 | |
| Heinz | The Matthews' Chinese butler in Daniel Pinkwater's The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death , a false identity used alternately by Wallace and Heinrich Nussbaum, or possibly just a butler who uses the Nussbaums as false identities | 1982 | |
| Herbert | From Justice Squad | [5] | |
| Hermann | The butler to Count Scarlioni/Scaroth in the Doctor Who story "City of Death" | 1979 | |
| Higgins | From the 1951 radio comedy It's Higgins, Sir , recreated as the television show Our Man Higgins in 1962 | 1951 | |
| Jonathan Higgins | Majordomo in Magnum, P.I. | 1980 | |
| Hillary | The butler of Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | 2001 | |
| Robert Hiller | Dorothy's butler in Two's Company | 1975 | |
| Hirsh | The butler to WKRP owner Lillian Carlson | 1981 | |
| Hobson | In Arthur and Arthur 2: On the Rocks | 1981 | |
| Mr. Homn | Lwaxana Troi's manservant in Star Trek: The Next Generation | 1987 | |
| Hovis | From Catscratch | 2005 | |
| Angus Hudson | From Upstairs, Downstairs | 1971 | |
| I | |||
| Ianto Jones | From Torchwood (while his role could be considered General Support, he considers that the services he provides make him "like a butler") | 2006 | |
| Ingmar | The butler of the eponymous character in Freakazoid! | 1995 | |
| Igor | Butler to Count Duckula (animated series) | 1988 | |
| Igor | The hunchbacked assistant of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein | 1974 | |
| Ishizaki | Karin Kanzuki's rotund, muscular butler in Street Fighter Alpha 3 | 1998 | |
| J | |||
| Jack | Butler of businessman Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2 | 2010 | |
| Jacob | The unisex butler in all the La Cage Aux Folles films | 1978 | |
| Jake | A witch disguised as the Wilhern family's butler in Penelope | 2008 | |
| Jakob | The avatar's butler in Fire Emblem Fates | 2015 | |
| James | Butler to Miss Sophie in TV sketch Dinner for One | 1963 | |
| Jamesir Bensonmum | Blind butler to Lionel Twain in the movie Murder by Death | 1976 | |
| James Twelvetrees | The pompous footman from You Rang, M'Lord? | 1988 | |
| Edwin Jarvis | From Marvel Comics' Avengers series | 1964 | |
| Jeepers | Bob Hope's butler in Paramount's Never Say Die | 1939 | |
| Jeeves | A valet to Bertie Wooster from the Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse, adapted for UK television as Jeeves and Wooster , and inspiration for the name of the Internet search engine known as Ask Jeeves.com. | 1915 | |
| Jeeves | The Colonel's butler from the adventure game Colonel's Bequest | 1989 | |
| Jeeves | Robotic butler (and former warbot) from the Liaden Universe novels | 1989 | |
| Jodot | The count's butler and chief assassin from Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro | 1979 | |
| Joost | Olivier B. Bommel's loyal butler in the comic series Tom Poes | 1942 | |
| Joseph | Butler to Alexander Sebastian in Notorious | 1946 | |
| Jenkins | Robot servant of Webster family in City by Clifford D. Simak | 1952 | |
| Jenkins | Butler of Daphne Blake in the long-running animated TV series Scooby-Doo | 1989 | |
| Jennings | The butler in the 2001 film Gosford Park , directed by Robert Altman | 2001 | |
| John Doe AKA Shelly de Killer | From Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Justice for All | 2002 | |
| K | |||
| Cato (or "Kato") | Inspector Clouseau's butler and sparring partner from the original Pink Panther franchise; spelled with a "k" in A Shot in the Dark (1964) | 1964 | |
| Kato | Britt Reid's valet in the Green Hornet | 1936 | |
| Karun Patel | The valet of Eternal actor Kingo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2021 | |
| Klahadore (real name Kuro) | Butler to Kaya in the manga One Piece | 1997 | |
| Klein Seiben | Butler to the Schnee family in RWBY. | 2016 | |
| Kyrano | Manservant to Jeff Tracy in Thunderbirds | 1965 | |
| L | |||
| Lane | Manservant to Algernon Moncrieff in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest | 1895 | |
| Lawrence | Doctor Nefarious' butler in the Ratchet & Clank video game series | 2004 | |
| Ling Qisa | In Hayate the Combat Butler (TV series) | 2011 | Based on Hayate Ayasaki |
| Lucas (or Lucan) | A knight who served as King Arthur's butler in Le Morte d'Arthur | 1485 | |
| Lurch | In The Addams Family | 1938 | |
| M | |||
| Magersfontein Lugg | In the Albert Campion novels, written by Margery Allingham | 1930 | |
| Martin | From The Parent Trap remake | 1998 | |
| Max von Mayerling | Butler and former husband to Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | |
| Max | From Cats Don't Dance ; a parody of Max von Mayerling. | 1997 | |
| Max | From the TV show Hart to Hart | 1979 | |
| Merriman | Butler to John Worthing in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest | 1895 | |
| Merry | Butler to Kaya in the manga One Piece | 1997 | |
| Meadows | From Chuck Jones' animated short The Aristo-Cat | 1943 | |
| Meadows | Butler to the Stanley family from The Pirate Movie | 1982 | |
| N | |||
| Nestor | Captain Haddock's butler at Marlinspike Hall, in Hergé's comic book series The Adventures of Tintin | 1943 | |
| Mr. Nettlebed | From Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home | 1995 | |
| Nick Nack | Butler to Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun | 1974 | |
| Niles | In The Nanny | 1993 | |
| Nimrod | Neanderthal butler in the Doctor Who tale Ghost Light | 1989 | |
| Norman Burg | Roger Smith's butler in anime television series The Big O | 1999 | |
| O | |||
| Orto K. Gotchi | Dudley's butler in Street Fighter III | 1997 | |
| P | |||
| Aloysius Parker | Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward's butler in Thunderbirds | 1965 | |
| Passepartout | The valet to Mr. Phileas Fogg in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne | 1873 | |
| Paul Moriyama | Momoka Nishizawa's butler in Sgt. Frog | 1999 | |
| Peppermint Butler | Princess Bubblegum's butler in Adventure Time | 2010 | |
| Mr. Pitcher | Butler to Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden | 1910 | |
| Pfister | Butler in Haunted Honeymoon | 1986 | |
| Plimpton | Butler to Dr. Wilfred Glendon in Werewolf of London | 1935 | |
| Poole | Butler to Dr. Henry Jekyll in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | 1886 | |
| Pork | Butler and valet to Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind | 1936 | |
| Praiseworthy | Jeeves-like butler in the children's novel By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman | 1963 | |
| R | |||
| Oeznik | The butler of the Zemo House in Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2021 | |
| Ramsley | From The Haunted Mansion | 2003 | |
| Raunce | Succeeds to the position from footman when Eldon the Butler dies, in the novel Loving by Henry Green | 1945 | |
| Randolph | The Cleary's Butler from Wedding Crashers | 2005 | |
| Raymond | Butler and valet to Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane | 1941 | |
| Reginald | The Quartermaine family's former butler in the TV series General Hospital | 1992 | |
| Riff-Raff | Butler and handyman to Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and the film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1973 | |
| Riffael Raffit | Butler to Earl Cain | 1991 | |
| Rihito Shibata | Mei Shinonome's butler from Mei-chan no Shitsuji | 2006 | |
| Rochester | Butler to Jack Benny on the Jack Benny Show | 1937 | |
| Rogers | Husband of Ethel Rogers and suspect in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None | 1939 | |
| Rowen J. Ilbert | Butler for the Sharil family in the video game Tales of Xillia | 2011 | |
| Marmaduke Ruggles | In Harry Leon Wilson's Ruggles of Red Gap and its adaptations, "lost" by the English Earl of Burnstead to Egbert Floud in a poker game in Paris and moved to the frontier town of Red Gap, Washington | 1914 | |
| Ruthven | Butler to Melrose Plant in the Richard Jury detective series written by Martha Grimes (pronounced Rivven) | 1981 | |
| S | |||
| Sam | Butler and best friend to Rick Blaine in Casablanca | 1942 | |
| Sam | Butler to the Amberson family in The Magnificent Ambersons | 1918 | |
| Samwise Gamgee | Gardener, companion, and manservant to Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings | 1954 | |
| Saturnin | Butler/servant in Zdenek Jirotka's eponymous novell and eponymous film | 1942 | |
| Sandor | Butler/servant to Countess Marya Zaleska in Dracula's Daughter | 1936 | |
| Saunders | The butler who replaced Benson DuBois on Soap | 1980 | |
| Sebastian | Lili's butler in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection | 2005 | |
| Sebastian Michaelis | Butler to Ciel Phantomhive in the manga Kuroshitsuji | 2006 | |
| Seecombe | Butler to the Ambrose family in My Cousin Rachel | 1951 | |
| Shakelford | From Justice Squad and The Critic | ||
| Shinobu | Shiori Hongo's Butler from Mei-chan no Shitsuji | 2006 | |
| Charlie Silversmith | Butler of Deverill Hall in The Mating Season | 1949 | |
| Simonides | Butler to Judah Ben-Hur | 1880 | |
| Smethells | Steward for the player in Titanic: Adventure Out of Time | 1996 | |
| Smithers | Veronica Lodge's butler in the Archie comics | 1957 | |
| Waylon Smithers | Assistant to Mr. Burns from The Simpsons | 1989 | |
| Agador Spartacus | Butler in The Birdcage | 1996 | |
| Spencer | The Hartfords' butler in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive ; he is also one of the Rangers' mentors along with Andrew Hartford | 2007 | |
| Septimus Spratt | The butler to Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the ITV series Downton Abbey | 2013 | |
| Standish | Butler to T. Herman Zweibel, editor of The Onion | ||
| Stephen Warren | Butler to the Calvin Candie in Django Unchained | 2011 | |
| Stevens | In Remains of the Day | 1989 | |
| Alf Stokes | Butler to the Meldrum family in You Rang, M'Lord? | 1988 | |
| Subaru Konoe | The female butler of Kanade Suzutsuki who is disguised as a male in the Mayo Chiki! anime, manga and light novel | 2009 | |
| T | |||
| Tanaka | The former head butler of the Phantomhive household in the manga Black Butler . | 2006 | |
| Thomas | Butler to the Lord family in The Philadelphia Story | 1939 | |
| Thomas Barrow | Butler to the Crawley family in the ITV series Downton Abbey | 2015 | |
| V | |||
| Valkenhayn R. Hellsing | The butler to the Alucard family in the BlazBlue videogame series | 2008 | |
| Various members of the Igor family | In the Discworld novels | 1998 | |
| Vishnal | Butler to the avatar in Rune Factory 4 | 2012 | |
| Volkanon | Butler to the avatar in Rune Factory 4 | 2012 | |
| W | |||
| Wadsworth | In the movie Clue | 1985 | |
| Wadsworth | The robotic butler to the Lone Wanderer in Fallout 3 . | 2008 | |
| Walter C. Dornez | From the manga Hellsing (and subsequent anime) by Kouta Hirano | 1997 | |
| Wallace | The Ridgemeres' butler in the Only Fools and Horses episode "A Touch of Glass" | 1982 | |
| Wilkins | Butler to Mr. and Mrs. Topper in Topper | 1926 | |
| Willikins | Samuel Vimes' butler in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett | 1993 | |
| Winston | The Foxworths' butler and chauffeur from Oliver & Company | 1988 | |
| Winston | The Griplings' butler and chauffeur from As Told By Ginger | 2000 | |
| Winston "Jeeves" Smith | Butler of Lara Croft in the video game series Tomb Raider | 1997 | |
| Winter | Butler to Sam Flusky in Under Capricorn | 1937 | |
| Wintergreen | Slade Wilson's butler and confidant in the DC Comics universe | 1980 | |
| Woodhouse | Sterling Archer's mistreated valet in the comedy series Archer , who formerly worked for Mallory Archer. | 2009 | |
| Wong | Valet, bodyguard, and servant to Doctor Strange in the Marvel Comics universe. | 1963 | |
| Y | |||
| You There | Butler to Bender's Uncle Vladimir in Futurama episode "The Honking" | 2000 | |
| Z | |||
| Zazu | The majordomo to king Mufasa in the film The Lion King | 1994 | |
