List of demigods

This is a list of those deemed demigods.

• Athis, son of Limnaee, a Naiad
• Clymene
• Cu Chulainn
• Dhristadyumna, materialised out of a ritual fire-altar; quasi son of fire-god Agni; Draupadi's brother
• Draupadi, materialised out of a ritual fire-altar; quasi daughter of fire-god Agni; Dhristadyumna's sister
• Drona, contained spark of Brihaspati
• Epaphus, son of Zeus
• Eryx, son either of Poseidon, or of Aphrodite and Butes the Argonaut
• Ghatotkacha, born of a demigod and a demoness
• Gilgamesh
• Hanuman, son of Vayu
• Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus
• Heracles (also known by the Roman spelling, Hercules), son of Zeus/Jupiter and later the god of heroes
• Hippolyta daughter of the god of war Ares.
• Iravan
• Karna, son of sun-god Surya
• Kritavarma
• Lakshmana, incarnation of the great serpent god Ananta
• Macaria, daughter of Hades who turned into a goddess
• Māui (Maori, New Zealand)
• Memnon son of Eos
• Myrtilus, son of Hermes
• Nakula, son of one of the gods Ashvini Kumaras
• Orpheus
• Otrera, daughter of the east wind Eurus
• Peirithous
• Polydeuces of the Dioscuri
• Pradyumna, incarnation of Sanatkumara
• Rhadamanthus
• Rhesus of Thrace
• Romulus and Remus, sons of Mars
• Sahadeva, son of one of the gods Ashvini Kumaras
• Sarpedon
• Satyaki
• Semele, daughter of Harmonia; mother of Dionysus
• Shantanu
• Shikhandi
• Sugreeva, son of sun god Surya
• Theseus, son of sea god Poseidon
• Tityas
• Turnus
• Vali, son of the king of all gods, the thunder-god Indra
• Yudhishthira, son of the god of death and justice Yama
• Zethus

Historical figures who claimed a demigod type status

• Several mythical Chinese Emperors were born humans, but deified upon "death".
• Roman Emperor Commodus claimed to be a reincarnation of Hercules.
• Hong Xiuquan claimed to be Son of God and brother of Jesus, but to not be God himself.
• Japanese Emperors claimed to be Arahitogami until Emperor Hirohito was forced to renounce this in 1946.
• Adapa was a mortal from a godly lineage, a son of Ea (Enki in Sumerian), the god of wisdom and of the ancient city of Eridu, who brought the arts of civilization to that city (from Dilmun, according to some versions).
• Kings of the Mataram empire (now the Sunanate of Surakarta and sultanate of Yogyakarta) claim to be descendants of the Goddess of the Southsea.
• Nyai Roro Kidul, 16th century Javanese legends connect the Queen of Southern Seas as the protector and spiritual consort of the kings of Mataram.