List of fictional police detectives
Below is an alphabetical list of fictional police detectives and their creators (with, in many cases, the actor/actress most known for playing the character in a dramatisation).
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A
- Detective Butch Ada — Saving Grace (played by Bailey Chase)
- Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg — Fred Vargas
- DCI Roderick Alleyn (later DCS) — Ngaio Marsh (played by Simon Williams and Patrick Malahide in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries)
B
- DS John Bacchus — Inspector George Gently
- Kriminalhauptkommissar Balko — Balko (German, played by Jochen Horst and Bruno Eyron)
- Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks — Peter Robinson (played by Stephen Tompkinson in DCI Banks)
- Detective Carolyn Barek — Law & Order: Criminal Intent (played by Annabella Sciorra)
- Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow — Troy Kennedy Martin and Allan Prior (played by Stratford Johns in Z-Cars and Softly, Softly)
- DCI John Barnaby — Midsomer Murders
- DCI Thomas "Tom" Barnaby — Caroline Graham (played by John Nettles in Midsomer Murders)
- Detective Martin Beck — Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
- Detective Kate Beckett — Castle, Andrew W. Marlowe (played by Stana Katic)
- Detective Cal Beecher — Person of Interest (played by Sterling K. Brown)
- Detective Mick Belker — Hill Street Blues (played by Bruce Weitz)
- Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac — Robert Banks Stewart (played by John Nettles in Bergerac)
- Detective G. Lynn Bishop — Law & Order: Criminal Intent (played by Samantha Buck)
- Blacksad from the comics series Blacksad.
- Detective Sexton Blake
- Detective Inspector Mike Bolt — Simon Kernick
- Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte — Arthur Upfield (played by James Laurenson in Boney)
- Detective Stella Bonasera — CSI: NY (played by Melina Kanakaredes)
- DS Camille Bordey — Death in Paradise
- Detective Harry Bosch — Michael Connelly
- Detective Lennie Briscoe— Law & Order (played by Jerry Orbach)
- Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti — Donna Leon
- Inspector Bucket — Charles Dickens (played by Stephen Rea in Dickensian) (played by Alun Armstrong in Bleak House)
- Detective Aiden Burn — CSI: NY (played by Vanessa Ferlito)
- Detective Lieutenant Peter Byrnes — Ed McBain
C
- Detective Jackie Curatola — Blue Bloods played by Jennifer Esposito
- Detective Inspector Jack Caffery — Mo Hayder
- Detective Christine Cagney — Cagney and Lacey (played by Sharon Gless)
- Inspector Harry Callahan — Harry Julian Fink and Rita M. Fink (played by Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry film series)
- Chen Cao — Qiu Xiaolong
- Detective 2nd Grade Stephen Louis ("Steve") Carella — Ed McBain
- Detective Sergeant Ray Carling — Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes (played by Dean Andrews)
- Detective Sergeant George Carter — Ian Kennedy Martin (played by Dennis Waterman in The Sweeney)
- Detective Jocelyn "Joss" Carter — Person of Interest (played by Taraji P. Henson)
- Agent Margaret "Peggy" Carter — Agent Carter (played by Hayley Atwell)
- Commissaire Henri Castang — Nicholas Freeling
- Detective Phil Cerreta — Law & Order (played by Paul Sorvino)
- Detective Inspector Hal Challis — Garry Disher
- Detective Elizabeth Childs — Orphan Black (played by Tatiana Maslany)
- Detective John Clark, Jr. — NYPD Blue (played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar)
- Inspector Clouseau — Blake Edwards' The Pink Panther (played by Peter Sellers)
- Detective Rustin Cohle — True Detective (played by Matthew McConaughey)
- Lieutenant Columbo — William Link (played by Peter Falk in Columbo)
- Sergeant Cork (played by John Barrie)
- Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe — Pie in the Sky (played by Richard Griffiths)
- DI Vincent Crane — Shaun Hutson
- DI Crawford in Dixon — Dock Green
- Sergeant Cribb — Peter Lovesey
- Detective James "Sonny" Crockett — Anthony Yerkovich (played by Don Johnson and Colin Farrell in Miami Vice)
- Sergeant Cuff — Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
- Detective Rey Curtis — Law & Order (played by Benjamin Bratt)
D
- Commander Adam Dalgliesh — P. D. James (played by Roy Marsden)
- Lieutenant Eve Dallas — J. D. Robb
- Detective Chief Superintendent Andrew Dalziel — Reginald Hill (played by Warren Clarke in Dalziel and Pascoe)
- Detective Jo Danville — CSI: NY (played by Sela Ward)
- DI De Cock — A. C. Baantjer
- Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond — Peter Lovesey
- Detective Inspector Alex Drake — Ashes to Ashes (played by Keeley Hawes)
- Lt. Frank Drebin — Police Squad! (played by Leslie Nielsen)
E
- Detective Alexandra Eames (later Lieutenant) — Law & Order: Criminal Intent (played by Kathryn Erbe)
- Detective Javier Esposito — Andrew W. Marlowe (played by Jon Huertas in Castle)
F
- Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón — Robert Wilson
- Detective Nola Falacci — Law & Order: Criminal Intent (played by Alicia Witt)
- Detective Don Flack — CSI: NY (played by Eddie Cahill)
- Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes — Terence Feely (played by Jill Gascoine in The Gentle Touch)
- DCS Christopher Foyle — Anthony Horowitz (played by Michael Kitchen in Foyle's War)
- DI Stuart Fraser — Taggart
- Inspector Joseph French — Freeman Wills Crofts
- Detective Sergeant Joe Friday — Jack Webb (played by Jack Webb in Dragnet)
- Detective Inspector Jack Frost — R. D. Wingfield (played by David Jason in A Touch of Frost)
- Detective Bobby Fulbright — Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies
- Detective Lionel Fusco — Person of Interest (played by Kevin Chapman)
G
- Detective Harry Garibaldi — Hill Street Blues (played by Ken Olin)
- Dirk Gently — Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- Inspector George Gently — Inspector George Gently
- Inspector Ganesh V. Ghote — H. R. F. Keating (played by Naseeruddin Shah in The Perfect Murder)
- DSI Stella Gibson — The Fall (played by Gillian Anderson)
- Commander George Gideon — John Creasey (played by John Gregson in Gideon's Way)
- Detective James Gordon — Gotham (played by Benjamin McKenzie)
- Detective Sergeant Rinus de Gier — Janwillem van de Wetering
- DI Humphrey Goodman — Death in Paradise
- Inspector Goole — J. B. Priestley (An Inspector Calls; first played onstage by Ralph Richardson)
- Detective Robert Goren — Law & Order: Criminal Intent (played by Vincent D'Onofrio)
- Detective Superintendent Roy Grace — Peter James
- Inspector Alan Grant — Josephine Tey
- Detective Kima Greggs — The Wire (played by Sonja Sohn)
- Detective Ed Green — Law & Order (played by Jesse L. Martin)
- Adjutant Henk Grijpstra — Janwillem van de Wetering
- Inspector Grim — The Thin Blue Line
- Marshal Guarnaccia — Magdalen Nabb
- Detective Dick Gumshoe — Ace Attorney
- DI Gunnarstranda — Kjell Ola Dahl
H
- Detective Grace Hanadarko — Saving Grace (played by Holly Hunter)
- Inspector Hanaud — A. E. W. Mason
- DI John Handford — Lesley Horton
- DI Alec Hardy - Broadchurch (played by David Tennant)
- Detective Martin Hart — True Detective (played by Woody Harrelson)
- Detective Sergeant James Hathaway — (played by Laurence Fox in Lewis)
- DS Barbara Havers — Elizabeth George (played by Sharon Small in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries)
- Detective Cotton Hawes — Ed McBain
- Harry Hole – Jo Nesbø
- Detective Chief Inspector Gene Hunt — Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes (played by Philip Glenister)
- Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson — William Blinn and Ryan Blinn (played by David Soul in Starsky and Hutch)
I
- CBI Officer Sethurama Iyer — (played by Mammooty in the Indian CBI film series)
J
- Inspector Jacobson — Iain McDowall
- DCI James Japp (later Assistant Commissioner) — Agatha Christie (played by Philip Jackson in the British TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot)
- Inspector Javert — Les Miserables
- Detective Baldwin Jones — NYPD Blue (played by Henry Simmons)
- Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury (later Superintendent) — Martha Grimes
K
- Detective Kane — Person of Interest (played by Anthony Mangano)
- Detective John Kelly — NYPD Blue (played by David Caruso)
- Detective Jill Kirkendall — NYPD Blue (played by Andrea Thompson)
- Detective Bert Kling — Ed McBain
- Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak — Abby Mann (played by Telly Savalas in Kojak)
L
- Detective Mary Beth Lacey — Cagney and Lacey (played by Tyne Daly)
- Detective Meyer Landsman — Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union
- Detective Chief Inspector James Langton — Lynda La Plante (played by Ciarán Hinds in Above Suspicion)
- Detective J.D. LaRue — Hill Street Blues (played by Kiel Martin)
- Detective Carlton Lassiter — Psych (played by Timothy Omundson)
- Commissaire Claude Lebel — Frederick Forsyth (played by Michael Lonsdale in The Day of the Jackal)
- Inspector Lestrade — Arthur Conan Doyle (played by Dennis Hoey and Colin Jeavons in adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories)
- Detective Inspector Mike Lewis — Lynda La Plante (played by Shaun Dingwall in Above Suspicion)
- Detective Sergeant Lewis (later Inspector) — Colin Dexter (played by Kevin Whately in Inspector Morse and Lewis)
- Detective Superintendent Tom Lockhart (later Detective Chief Superintendent) — (played by Raymond Francis in No Hiding Place)
- Detective Mike Logan — Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (played by Chris Noth)
- Detective Inspector Sarah Lund — Søren Sveistrup (played by Sofie Gråbøl in The Killing)
- DI Thomas Lynley — Elizabeth George (played by Nathaniel Parker in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries)
M
- Detective Vic Mackey — Shawn Ryan (played by Michael Chiklis in The Shield)
- Sergeant Ivor Maddox — Elizabeth Linington
- Commissaire Jules Maigret — Georges Simenon (played by Jean Gabin, Gino Cervi and Rupert Davies)
- Detective Patsy Mayo — Hill Street Blues (played by Mimi Kuzyk)
- Detective Lieutenant John McClane — (played by Bruce Willis in the Die Hard film series)
- Detective Connie McDowell — NYPD Blue (played by Charlotte Ross)
- Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett — Leonard Freeman (played by Jack Lord in Hawaii Five-O)
- Detective James "Jimmy" McNulty — The Wire (played by Dominic West)
- Lieutenant Luis Mendoza — Elizabeth Linington writing as Dell Shannon
- Detective Danny Messer — CSI: NY (played by Carmine Giovinazzo)
- Detective Meyer Meyer — Ed McBain
- Ellie Miller — Broadchurch
- Detective Robert Monday — Premium Rush
- Detective Lindsay Monroe — CSI: NY (played by Anna Belknap)
- Comisario Salvo Montalbano — Andrea Camilleri (played by Luca Zingaretti in Inspector Montalbano)
- Detective William "Bunk" Moreland — The Wire (played by Wendell Pierce)
- Detective Inspector Morse — Colin Dexter (played by John Thaw in Inspector Morse)
- Detective William Murdoch — Murdoch Mysteries (played by Yannick Bisson)
N
- Detective Zack Nichols — Law & Order: Criminal Intent (played by Jeff Goldblum)
- Detective Inspector Saga Norén — Hans Rosenfeldt (played by Sofia Helin in The Bridge)
O
- Detective Juliet O'Hara — Psych (played by Maggie Lawson)
- Inspector Michael Ohayon — Batya Gur
- Detective Rita Ortiz — NYPD Blue (played by Jacqueline Obradors)
- Superintendent Otani — James Melville (pseudonym of Roy Peter Martin)
P
- Detective Inspector Charles Parker — Dorothy L. Sayers
- Detective Inspector Peter Pascoe — Reginald Hill (played by Colin Buchanan in Dalziel and Pascoe)
- Detective Inspector Charlie Peace — Robert Barnard
- Comisario Achille Peroni — Timothy Holme
- Detective Lucky Piquel — Disney Television Animation production Bonkers
- DI Richard Poole — Death in Paradise
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman — Nigel McCrery and Roy Mitchell (played by Amanda Redman in New Tricks)
- Detective Inspector Walter Purbright — Colin Watson
- Assistant Commissioner of Police Pradyuman; Shivaji Satam
R
- Detective Inspector John Rebus — Ian Rankin (played by John Hannah and Ken Stott in Rebus)
- Detective Danny Reagan — Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green (played by Donnie Wahlberg in Blue Bloods)
- Detective Inspector Jack Regan — Ian Kennedy Martin (played by John Thaw in The Sweeney)
- Detective Jane Rizzoli — Tess Gerritsen (played by Angie Harmon in Rizzoli & Isles)
- Commissioner Mihai Roman (played by Ilarion Ciobanu in five Romanian films)
- Sub-inspector Max Romero — P.J. Brooke
- Detective Lilly Rush — Meredith Stiehm (played by Kathryn Morris in Cold Case)
- Detective Diane Russell – NYPD Blue (played by Kim Delaney)
- Detective Kevin Ryan — Andrew W. Marlowe (played by Seamus Dever in Castle)
S
- Detective Gloria Shepherd — The Protector (played by Ally Walker)
- Private Detective Eddie Shoestring in Shoestring ; BBC One TV series; played by Trevor Eve
- Detective Bobby Simone — NYPD Blue (played by Jimmy Smits)
- Detective Andy Sipowicz (later Detective Sergeant) — NYPD Blue (played by Dennis Franz)
- Detective Constable Chris Skelton — Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes (played by Marshall Lancaster)
- Inspector Slack — Agatha Christie
- Detective Danny Sorenson — NYPD Blue (played by Rick Schroder)
- Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope — Ann Cleeves (played by Brenda Blethyn in Vera)
- Detective David Starsky — William Blinn and Ryan Blinn (played by Paul Michael Glaser in Starsky and Hutch)
- Detective Serena Stevens — Law & Order: Criminal Intent (played by Saffron Burrows)
- Police Chief Jesse Stone — Robert B. Parker (played by Tom Selleck)
- Detective Milo Sturgis (later Lieutenant) — Jonathan Kellerman
- Chief Inspector Ukyō Sugishita — Aibō (played by Yutaka Mizutani)
- Detective Sunday — American Gigolo
- Detective Bill Szymanski — Person of Interest (played by Mike McGlone)
T
- Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart - Taggart
- Detective Mac Taylor — CSI: NY (played by Gary Sinise)
- DCI Jane Tennison — Lynda La Plante (played by Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect)
- Detective Raymond Terney — Person of Interest (played by Al Sapienza)
- Detective Inspectors Thomson and Thompson (original French: Dupont et Dupond) — Hergé (played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn)
- Detective Inspector Tom Thorne — Mark Billingham (played by David Morrissey in the Sky One series Thorne)
- DI Fred Thursday — Endeavour
- Detective Inspector Anna Travis — Lynda La Plante (played by Kelly Reilly in Above Suspicion)
- Inspector Frederick Troy — John Lawton
- Detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs — Anthony Yerkovich (played by Philip Michael Thomas and Jamie Foxx in Miami Vice)
- Detective Inspector Sam Tyler — Life on Mars (played by John Simm)
V
- Commissaris Piet van der Valk — Nicolas Freeling (played by Barry Foster in Van der Valk)
- DCI Van Veeteren — Håkan Nesser
- Detective Van Zwam from the comics series The Adventures of Nero.
- Detective Vic Varallo — Elizabeth Linington writing as Leslie Egan
W
- Kriminalkommissarie Kurt Wallander — Henning Mankell (played by Krister Henriksson and Kenneth Branagh)
- Detective Neal Washington — Hill Street Blues (played by Taurean Blacque)
- Detective Sergeant John Watt — Troy Kennedy Martin and Allan Prior (played by Frank Windsor in Z-Cars and Softly, Softly )
- Detective Joe West — Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns (played by Jesse L. Martin in The Flash)
- Inspector Roger West - John Creasey
- Detective Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford — Ruth Rendell (played by George Baker in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries)
- Detective Megan Wheeler — Law & Order: Criminal Intent (played by Julianne Nicholson)
- Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe — W. J. Burley (played by Jack Shepherd in Wycliffe)
Z
- Comisario Aurelio Zen — Michael Dibdin (played by Rufus Sewell in Zen)
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