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List of Autistic Fictional Characters: History
Please note this is an old version of this entry, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Subjects: Others
This is a list of fictional characters that have been explicitly described within the work in which they appear, or otherwise by the author, as having conditions on the autism spectrum. It is not intended to include speculation.
  • fictional
  • speculation
  • autism

1. Comics

Year Character Gender Series/Franchise Author/Publisher
1967 Black Manta[1] Male Aquaman DC Comics
1986 Johnny Do[2][3] Male Psi-Force Marvel Comics
2000 Hikaru Azuma[4] Male With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child Keiko Tobe
2007 Zone[5] Male Special Forces Kyle Baker
2014 Stephanie "Stephie" Bondu[6] Female Assigned Male Sophie Labelle
2015 Mark Shiffron[7] Male Postal Top Cow Productions
2016[8] Brunhilde Khoury[9] Female Questionable Content Jeph Jacques
2016 Emma[10] Female Jade Street Protection Services Black Mask Studios
2019 Scarlet Saltee[11] Female Archie Archie Comics

2. Film

Year Character Gender Actor Film
1969 Amanda[12][13] Female Lorena Kirk[14] Change of Habit
1969 Philip Ransome[15] Male Mark Lester Run Wild, Run Free
1986 Eric Gibb[16] Male Jay Underwood The Boy Who Could Fly
1988 Raymond "Ray" Babbitt[17][18] Male Dustin Hoffman Rain Man
1990 Shane Costello[19][20] Male John and Joseph Vizzi Backstreet Dreams
1993 Randall Eberlin[21][22] Male Jamie Harrold Family Pictures
1993 Sally Matthews[23][24] Female Asha Menina House of Cards
1994 Michael Barth[25] Male Bradley Pierce Cries from the Heart
1994 David Goodson[26] Male Michael Goorjian David's Mother
1994 Henry and Verlin[27] Male Gary Farmer and Keegan MacIntosh Henry & Verlin
1994 Tim Warden[28] Male Ben Faulkner Silent Fall
1994 Gregory White[29] Male Keegan MacIntosh The Innocent
1995 Rosetta Basilio[30] Female Megan Follows Under the Piano
1997 Kazan[31] Male Andrew Miller Cube
1998 Simon Lynch[32] Male Miko Hughes Mercury Rising
1998 Meaghan Robinson[33] Female Laura Harling Nightworld: Lost Souls
1998 Tracy Sinclair[34] Female Kulani Hassen Down in the Delta
1999 Molly McKay[35][36] Female Jude Shue Molly
2000 Cody O'Connor[37] Female Holliston Coleman Bless the Child
2002 Chloé[38] Female Adèle Haenel Les Diables
2003 Dewa[39] Male Dicky Lebrianto Biola Tak Berdawai
2004 Vernon Jackson[40][41] Male Lucas Black Killer Diller
2004 Jovana[42] Female Jovana Mitic Midwinter Night's Dream
2004 Karl[43] Male Blake Pittman[44] Somersault
2004 Steven Morgan[45] Male Zac Efron Miracle Run
Philip Morgan[45] Male Thomas Lewis
2005 Cho-won[46] Male Cho Seung-woo Marathon
2005 Rama Krishna[47] Male Jiiva Raam
2005 Donald Morton[48] Male Josh Hartnett Mozart and the Whale
Isabelle Sorenson[48] Female Radha Mitchell
2006 Bea[49][50] Female Poppy Rogers Breaking and Entering
2006 Linda Freeman[51] Female Sigourney Weaver Snow Cake
2007 Ben[52] Male Greg Timmermans [nl] Ben X
2007 Daniel Connelly[53] Male Harry Connick Jr. P.S. I Love You
2007 Anna Woodruff[54] Female Nikki Haddad Imagination
Sarah Woodruff[55] Female Jessi Haddad
2008 Charlie Mollison[56] Male Luke Ford The Black Balloon
Russell[56] Male Firass Dirani
2008 Poppy[57] Female Lizzy Clark Dustbin Baby
2008 Noah Connelly[58] Male Michael Worth God's Ears
2008 Sarah[59] Female Skye Bennett Dark Floors
2008 Zen[60] Female Yanin Vismitananda Chocolate
2008 Male Alvin Keith If You Could Say It in Words
2009 Charles[61] Male Gabriel Gaudreault Suzie
2009 Chris[62] Male James Lance City Rats
2009 Max Horovitz[63][64] Male Philip Seymour Hoffman Mary and Max
2009 Adam Raki[64] Male Hugh Dancy Adam
2009 Martha[65] Female Katie Boland Dancing Trees
2010 Dafu[66] Male Wen Zhang Ocean Heaven
2010 Rizwan Khan[67] Male Shahrukh Khan My Name Is Khan
2010 Mandy[68] Female Ashley Rickards Fly Away
2010 Terry Marshall[69] Male Rhett Giles Quantum Apocalypse
2010 Tom Taylor[70] Male Charlie Tahan Burning Bright
2010 Alan Wheddon[71] Male Braeden Reed and Luke Benward[72] Dear John
2010 Simon[73] Male Bill Skarsgård Simple Simon
2011 Alfred Jones[74] Male Ewan McGregor Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
2011 Dana Minor[75] Male Devon Graye Exodus Fall
2011 Yoav Pomerantz[76] Male Michael Hanegbi Dr. Pomerantz
2011 Tomer Roshko[77] Male Michael Moshonov Mabul
2011 Oskar Schell[78] Male Thomas Horn Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2011 Mickey Tussler[79] Male Luke Schroder A Mile in His Shoes
2012 Jhilmil Chatterjee[80] Female Priyanka Chopra Barfi!
2012 Walter Hill[81] Male Dexter Darden Joyful Noise
2012 Luke[82] Male Lou Taylor Pucci The Story of Luke
Zack[82] Male Seth Green
2012 Nick Young[83] Male Booboo Stewart White Frog
2013 Duncan[84] Male Chris Marquette The Odd Way Home
2013 Haridas[85] Male Prithviraj Das Haridas
2013 Rafer[86] Male Grayson Russell Season of Miracles
2014 Nathan[87] Male Asa Butterfield X+Y
2014 Riley Morris[88] Male Riley Polanski Alien Abduction
2015 Adam[89] Male Ty Simpkins Meadowland
2015 Glory Adams[90] Female Taylor Richardson Jack of the Red Hearts
2015 Jane[91] Female Louisa Krause Jane Wants a Boyfriend
2016 Michael Taylor Male David Mazouz The Darkness
2016 Christian Wolff[92] Male Ben Affleck The Accountant
2016 Park Young-hoon[93] Male Lee David Split
2017 Mária[94] Female Alexandra Borbély On Body and Soul
2017 Christopher Male Jacob McCarthy The Drummer and the Keeper
2017 Billy Cranston[95] Male RJ Cyler Power Rangers
2017 Lilly Blackburn[96][97] Female Lilly Jandreau The Rider
2018 Wendy Welcott[98] Female Dakota Fanning Please Stand By
2018 Rory McKenna[99][100][101] Male Jacob Tremblay The Predator
2019 Nitya[102] Female Sai Pallavi Athiran
2020 Renee[103] Female Madison Bandy Loop
2020 Bart Bromley[104] Male Tye Sheridan The Night Clerk
2021 Music Gamble[105] Female Maddie Ziegler Music

3. Literature

Year Character(s) Gender Book Author(s) Notes
1964 Manfred Steiner[106] Male Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick
1996 Seth Garin[107] Male The Regulators Stephen King King wrote this novel under the pen name Richard Bachman.
1996 Simon Lynch[108][109] Male Simple Simon Ryne Douglas Pearson This book was adapted into the film Mercury Rising (1998).
2000 Marty Zellerbach[110] Male The Hades Factor Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds
2002 Darryl McAllister[111] Male A Wizard Alone Diane Duane
2002 Shepherd O'Connor[112] Male By the Light of the Moon Dean Koontz
2003 Lou Arrendale and his co-workers[113] Male Speed of Dark Elizabeth Moon
2003 Christopher Boone Male The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon The book was adapted into the 2012 play of the same name.
2004 Ben[52] Male Niets was alles wat hij zei (Nothing Was All He Said) Nic Balthazar The book was adapted into the drama film Ben X (2007).
2004 Natalie Flanagan[114][115] Female Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko This character also appears in the sequel Al Capone Shines My Shoes.
2005 Victor Hoppe[116] Male The Angel Maker Stefan Brijs
2005 Lisbeth Salander[117] Female Millennium series Stieg Larsson Appears in both the Swedish and American film adaptations.
2005 Morgan Wiberg[118] Male The Stone Cutter Camilla Läckberg
2006 David[119] Male Rules Cynthia Lord
2006 Alan Wheddon[120] Male Dear John Nicholas Sparks Adapted into the 2010 film of the same name.
Richard Tyree[121] Male
2008 Jessica Fontaine[122][123] Female The Language of Others Clare Morrall
2008 Gillian Grayson[124] Female Mass Effect: Ascension Drew Karpyshyn
2008 Mickey Tussler[125] Male The Legend of Mickey Tussler Frank Nappi This book was adapted into the television film A Mile in His Shoes (2011).
2008 Ted Sparkes Male The London Eye Mystery Siobhan Dowd
2009 Natalie Flanagan[114] Female Al Capone Shines My Shoes Gennifer Choldenko This character also appears in the preceding novel Al Capone Does My Shirts.
2009 Marcelo Sandoval[126] Male Marcelo in the Real World Francisco X. Stork
2009 Aliénor Malèze[127] Female The Winter Journey Amélie Nothomb Original book in French: Le Voyage d'Hiver
2009–2011 Malcolm Decter[128] Male WWW Trilogy Robert J. Sawyer Character appears in all three books, published between 2009 and 2011.
2010 Jacob Hunt[129] Male House Rules Jodi Picoult
2010 Max Parkman[130][131] Male Saving Max Antoinette van Heugten
2010 Caitlin Smith[132][133] Female Mockingbird Kathryn Erskine
2008 Peter Michael "Little Pete" Ellison[134] Male Gone Michael Grant Character appears in all six "Season One" books, published between 2008 and 2013.
2010-2017 Renarin Kholin[135] Male The Stormlight Archive Brandon Sanderson Character appears in all books, published 2010 to present.
2011 Trueman Bradley[136] Male Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective Alexei Maxim Russell
2011 Dr. Tobias Rothman[137] Male Death Benefit Robin Cook
2012 Male Love Anthony Lisa Genova
2012 Leah[138] Female Leah's Voice Lori DeMonia 2014 Temple Grandin literary work of the year recipient.[139]
2012 Ivan Tarasov[140] Male Triggers Robert J. Sawyer
2013 Don Tillman[141] Male The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion
2013 Oscar[142] Male The Real Boy Anne Ursu
2013–2017 Harriet Manners Female Geek Girl Holly Smale Harriet is never described as autistic in any of the six books, but Smale has retroactively labelled her as such after being diagnosed with autism herself.[143]
2014 Rose Howard[144] Female Rain Reign Ann M. Martin
2014 Kurt Bacon[145] Male Isla and the Happily Ever After Stephanie Perkins
2016 Tiberius "Ty" Blackthorn[146] Male The Dark Artifices Cassandra Clare
2016 Denise[147] Female On the Edge of Gone Corinne Duyvis Author Corinne Duyvis is autistic herself.[147]
2017 Jack Kagen[148] Male There's More Than One Way Home Donna Levin
2018 Stella Lane[149] Female The Kiss Quotient Helen Hoang Author Helen Hoang is autistic herself.
2019 Edison "Eddie" Matthews[150] Male The Things We Cannot Say Kelly Rimmer
2019 Natalia "Tally" Adams Female Can You See Me? Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott Co-author Libby Scott is autistic herself.
2019 Khai Deip[149] Male The Bride Test Helen Hoang
2020 Vivy Cohen[151] Female Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! Sarah Kapit
2020 Addie[152] Female A Kind of Spark Elle McNicoll Author Elle McNicoll is autistic herself.[153]
2021 Lara Finkel[154] Female The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family Sarah Kapit Author Sarah Kapit is autistic.
2021 Caroline Finkel[154] Female The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family Sarah Kapit Author Sarah Kapit is autistic.

4. Television

Year Character Gender Actor(s) Episode(s) Series
1975 Jeanine Williams Female Michelle Stacy "Chance Meeting" Mannix
1978[155] Timmy Carson[156] Male David Hollander "A Test for the Living" Quincy, M.E.
1983[157] Tommy Westphall[158] Male Chad Allen St. Elsewhere
1996[159] Jamie Holmes Male Billy Boyd "Dead Man's Chest" Parts 1-3 Taggart
2000[160] Lily Montgomery[161] Female Leven Rambin All My Children
2002[162] Annie Wheaton[163] Female Kimberly J. Brown Rose Red
2003[164] Laurence Burrell[165] Male Jim Sturgess "Close Encounters" A Touch of Frost
2003[166] Wally Stevens[167] Male Mark Linn-Baker "Probability" Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2003 Theo Carver[168] Male Chase Johnson, Tyler Johnson, Kavi Faquir, Amyrh Harris, Terrell Ransom Jr., Kyler Pettis and Cameron Johnson Days of Our Lives
2004[169] Bob Melnikov[170] Male Dmitry Chepovetsky ReGenesis
2005[171] Jerry Espenson[172] Male Christian Clemenson Boston Legal
2005[173] Spencer Reid[174] Male Matthew Gray Gubler Criminal Minds
2006[175] Adam[176] Male Braeden Lemasters "Lines in the Sand" House M.D.
2006[177] Kevin Blake[178] Male Meschach Peters and Trevor Jackson From the pilot to the season 4 premiere Eureka
2007 Brandon Powell[179] Male Jake Cherry "Fear Itself" The 4400
2007[180] Karla Bentham[181] Female Jessica Baglow Series 3 Episode 1 to Series 5 Episode 20 Waterloo Road
2008[182] Connor DeLaurier[183] Male A.J. Saudin Degrassi: The Next Generation
2008[184] Virginia Dixon[185] Female Mary McDonnell "These Ties That Bind"
"All By Myself"
"Beat Your Heart Out" 		Grey's Anatomy
2009[186] Robert Daly[187] Male Sam Peter Corry Fair City
2009[188] Gabrielle Jacobs[189] Female Virginie Le Brun Shortland Street
2009[190] Jonah Jeremiah "JJ" Jones[191] Male Ollie Barbieri Skins
2009[192] Abed Nadir[193][194] Male Danny Pudi Community
2010[195] Max Braverman[196] Male Max Burkholder Parenthood
2010[197] Carl Gould[198] Male Dwayne Hill "When Carl Met George" Arthur
2010 Gus Carmichael[199] Male Noah Marullo Tracy Beaker Returns/The Dumping Ground
2010[200] Micaela Gómez[201] Female Monica Spear La mujer perfecta (The Perfect Woman)
2011[202] Gary Bell[203] Male Ryan Cartwright Alphas
2011 The parallel universe version of Astrid Farnsworth[204] Female Jasika Nicole Fringe
2011[205] Saga Norén[206] Female Sofia Helin The Bridge
2012[207] Jacob "Jake" Bohm[208] Male David Mazouz Touch
2012[209] Shahir Hamza[210] Male Huse Madhavji Saving Hope
2012 Birgit Goethals[211] Female Ruth Becquart episodes 1-10 Clan
2013[212] Sonya Cross[213] Female Diane Kruger The Bridge
2013[214] Noah Hoynes[215] Male Oscar Kennedy The Politician's Husband
2013[216] Park Shi-on[217][218] Male Joo Won Good Doctor
2014[219] Rebecca Blithely[220] Female Melissa Farman Strange Empire
2015[221] Isadora Smackle[222] Female Cecilia Balagot Girl Meets World
2016[223] Fiona 'Mittens' Helbron[224] Female Betty Gilpin "Murder Ex Machina"
"A View with a Room"
"Ready or Not" 		Elementary
2016 Dennis Deinocheirus Male William Ainscough "Junior Conductors Academy: Part One" Dinosaur Train
2016[225] Isidore Latham Male Ato Essandoh Chicago Med
2016 Jason Haynes[226] Male Jules Robertson Holby City
2016 Joe Hughes Male Max Vento The A Word
2017[227] Julia[228] Female Stacey Gordon Sesame Street
2017[229] Shaun Murphy[230] Male Freddie Highmore The Good Doctor
2017[231] Sam Gardner[232] Male Keir Gilchrist Atypical
2017[233] Dean Simms[234] Male Harold Perrineau Claws
2017 Pablo[235] Male Jake Williamson Pablo
2018 Female Christine Woods She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
2018[236] Minato Shindo[237] Male Kento Yamazaki Good Doctor
2018[238] Agnes "Lee" Lebachi[239] Female Adelayo Adedayo Origin
2018[240] Townes Linderman[241] Male Daniel Maslany Impulse
2018 Greta Allinson[226] Female Zoe Croft Holby City
2018 Brooke Hathaway[242] Non-binary Tylan Grant Hollyoaks
2018 Ruby Spark[243] Female Maddy Hill Casualty
2019 Lana Moore[244] Female Vered Blonstein "Xin" The Good Doctor
2020 Matilda Moss[245] Female Kayla Cromer Everything's Gonna Be Okay
Drea Female Lillian Carrier
Jeremy Male Carsen Warner
Nicholas Male Josh Thomas
2020 AJ Gadgets[246] Male Jadiel Dowlin Hero Elementary
2020 Sean Male George Yionoulis "Nancy's New Friend" Fancy Nancy
2020 Ayda Aguefort Female Brennan Lee Mulligan Dimension 20 LIVE episodes 6–20, and Pirates of Leviathan episodes 4 and 6 Dimension 20: LIVE and Pirates of Leviathan
2020 Harlan[247] Male Justin Paul Kelly The Umbrella Academy
2021 Max Male Israel Thomas-Bruce "Daniel's New Friend Max" Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
2021 Ben Male Liam McCord "I Am Temple Grandin" Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
2021 Han Geu-Ru Male Tang Joon-sang Move to Heaven
2021 Sara Female Frida Argento Young Royals

5. Theater

Year Character Gender Play Playwright
2019 Laurence[248] Male All in a Row Alex Oates
1997 "Spoonface" Steinberg[249] Female Spoonface Steinberg Lee Hall

6. Video Games

Year Character Actor(s) Gender Video game Notes
2001 Charlie Kane's unnamed son[250] Ian Axness[251] Male Twisted Metal Black
2002 Cassandra Murata n/a; game does not feature voice acting Female Rage of the Dragons Evoga Entertainment's website describes Cassandra as developing "an autistic case".[252]
2005 Jade (The Indigo Child)[253] n/a; silent Female Fahrenheit
2007 Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum[254] Anne Bobby[255] Female BioShock She also appears in BioShock 2, BioShock 2, and is referenced in BioShock Infinite.
2007 Simone Cole[256] Michelle Specht Female Clive Barker's Jericho
2010 David Archer[257] Jesse Gervais[258] Male Mass Effect 2 Appears in the downloadable mission "Overlord".
2011 River Wyles[259] n/a; game does not feature voice acting Female To the Moon
2012 Amy[260] Kriss Logan (grunts)[261] Female Amy
2012 Patricia Tannis[262] Colleen Clinkenbeard[263] Female Borderlands 2 In the mission briefing for "Hidden Journals" she is referred to as "an insane introvert with Asperger's".
2013 Rell Stefan Martello Male Warframe
2014 Cole James Norton[264] Male Dragon Age Patrick Weekes confirmed in an interview with BioFan that Cole was heavily inspired by their autistic nephew.[265]
2016 Symmetra Anjali Bhimani[266] Female Overwatch Referred to as "on the spectrum" in the comic "A Better World"[267] and was also confirmed to be autistic by the comic's writer[268] as well as Overwatch's game director.[269]
2016 Josh Sauchak[270] Jonathan Dubsky[271] Male Watch Dogs 2
2017 Gin Ibushi n/a; game does not feature voice acting Male Kimi ga Shine -Tasuuketsu Death Game- In Chapter 3-1b, Gin states he has autism when talking about a visit to the school nurse.
2019 Murky Tatiana Vesyolkina Female Pathologic 2 The game's design notes refer to Murky as "an orphan with an autism spectrum disorder."
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