A list of fictional butlers or related characters:
| Butler | Work | Year introduced | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | ||||
| Afanasii Ziukin | 2009 | |||
| Agni | servant/butler to Prince Soma in the manga Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) | 2007 | ||
| Akiharu Hino | not technically a butler but studies at Hakureiryō Academy, a school for training servants-to-be, in the anime, manga, and light novel, Ladies versus Butlers! | 2006 | ||
| data-sort-value="Albumen, Brian" | Brian Albumen | faithful servant/valet to Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut (Rik Mayall) from the ITV TV series Believe Nothing | 2002 | |
| Nikolas Cassadine's butler in the TV series General Hospital | 2006 | |||
| Alfred | Mayflowers' murderous butler in Hudson Hawk movie | 1991 | ||
| Bruce Wayne's butler and father figure in the Batman universe | 1943 | |||
| Alfredo | Nanette Manoir's butler in Angela Anaconda | 1999 | ||
| Andrew | in the film Overboard | 1987 | ||
| Andrew Martin | 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 | |||
| data-sort-value="Beach, Sebastian" | 1915 | |||
| Beeker | 1990 | |||
| data-sort-value="Belvedere, Lynn" | 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="Benson, Thomas" | Thomas Benson | 1939 | ||
| Bernard | The Osborns' butler from the Spider-Man movies | 2002 | [2] | |
| Bertram | butler to the Ross family in Jessie | 2011 | ||
| Bill Tremblay | butler of the Where's Wabi League | |||
| Billy Swan | butler of Bloodstone family in Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2022 | ||
| data-sort-value="Blackadder, Edmund" | butler to the Prince of Wales in Blackadder the Third | 1987 | ||
| Bob | in Bob the Butler | 2005 | ||
| data-sort-value="Boo, Mr." | Mr. Boo | butler to Uncle Basti in the kensington reptilarium | ||
| 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="Brenner, Fritz" | Fritz Brenner | Nero Wolfe's servant | 1934 | |
| Brewster | the Cranleighs’ butler in Doctor Who – Black Orchid | 1982 | ||
| data-sort-value="Brown, Birmingham" | 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="Bunter, Mervyn" | valet of Lord Peter Wimsey in several novels and short-stories by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (see also Batman (military)) | 1923 | ||
| data-sort-value="Butler, Domovoi" | Domovoi Butler | from the Artemis Fowl novels | 2001 | |
| data-sort-value="Butler, Juliet" | Geoffrey Butler | in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 1990 | |
| data-sort-value="Butler, Juliet" | Juliet Butler | from the Artemis Fowl novels | 2001 | |
| data-sort-value="Butler, The" | 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 | |
| data-sort-value="Butler, The" | 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="Butlertron, Mr." | Mr. Butlertron | from Clone High | 2002 | [3] |
| C | ||||
| data-sort-value="Carson, Charles" | Charles Carson | Butler to the Crawley family in the ITV series Downton Abbey | 2010 | |
| Cadbury | 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 (formerly Julian 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 | 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 | [4] [5] | |
| Desmond | from the Rip Kirby comics | 1946 | ||
| Didit | 1985 | |||
| house-elf in literary saga of Harry Potter | 1998 | |||
| Drake | Oliver Warbucks' butler in Annie | |||
| Scrooge McDuck's butler/chauffeur on Ducktales (Battista in the Italian comics) | 1987 | |||
| E | ||||
| Edgar | butler to retired opera diva Madame 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="Fitzwilliam, Claude" | 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="French, Mr." | 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 (Joseph Marcell also plays the recurring role of Massimo Marone's butler on The Bold and the Beautiful, who used to work for a family in Beverly Hills, a reference to his role on Fresh Prince) | 1990 | ||
| George (billed as Manservant) | manservant to Damien Thorn in | 1981 | ||
| 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 | [6] | |
| Giovanni Bertuccio | butler/steward to The Count of Monte Cristo | 1844 | ||
| Godfrey | butler to the Bullock family in My Man Godfrey | 1935 | ||
| data-sort-value="Grady, Delbert" | 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 | 1977 | |||
| Heathcliff | 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 | [7] | ||
| Hermann | 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="Higgins, Jonathan" | majordomo in Magnum, P.I. | 1980 | ||
| Hillary | butler for Lara Croft in and | 2001 | ||
| data-sort-value="Hiller, Robert" | Robert Hiller | 1975 | ||
| Hirsh | butler to WKRP owner Lillian Carlson | 1981 | ||
| Hobson | in Arthur and | 1981 | ||
| data-sort-value="Homn, Mr." | Mr. Homn | Lwaxana Troi's manservant in | 1987 | |
| Hovis | from Catscratch | 2005 | ||
| data-sort-value="Hudson, Angus" | from Upstairs, Downstairs | 1971 | ||
| I | ||||
| from Torchwood (while his role could be considered General Support, he considers that the services he provides make him "like a butler") | 2006 | |||
| Ingmar | Freakazoids mute butler | 1995 | ||
| Igor | butler to Count Duckula (animated series) | 1988 | ||
| 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 | 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="Jarvis, Edwin" | from Marvel Comics' Avengers series | 1964 | ||
| Jeepers | Bob Hope's butler in Paramount's Never Say Die | 1939 | ||
| technically a valet to Bertie Wooster rather than a butler, 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 | 1979 | ||
| Joost | Olivier B. Bommel's loyal butler in the comic series Tom Poes | 1942 | ||
| Jorge Campos | featured in Sensitive Butlers IV | |||
| Joseph | Butler to Alexander Sebastian in Notorious | 1946 | ||
| Jenkins | 1952 | |||
| Jenkins | Butler of Daphne Blake in the long-running animated TV series Scooby-Doo | 1989 | ||
| Jennings | 2001 | |||
| John Doe AKA Shelly de Killer | from | 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 | ||
| 1936 | ||||
| Karun Patel | personal valet of Eternal actor Kingo in 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 | ||
| 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 videogame series | 2004 | ||
| data-sort-value="Ling, Qisa" | Ling Qisa | in Hayate the Combat Butler (TV series) | 2011 | Based on Hayate Ayasaki |
| data-sort-value="Lucas, Sir" | Lucas (or Lucan) | a knight who served as King Arthur's butler in Le Morte d'Arthur | 1485 | |
| in The Addams Family | 1938 | |||
| M | ||||
| 1930 | ||||
| Martin | from The Parent Trap remake | 1998 | ||
| Max von Mayerling | Butler and former husband to Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | ||
| Max | (a parody of Max von Mayerling) from Cats Don't Dance | 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 | ||||
| Captain Haddock's butler at Marlinspike Hall, in Hergé's comic book series The Adventures of Tintin | 1943 | |||
| data-sort-value="Nettlebed, Mr." | Mr. Nettlebed | from Rosamunde Pilcher's novel Coming Home | 1995 | |
| Nick Nack | butler to Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun | 1974 | ||
| 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 | ||||
| data-sort-value="Parker, Aloysius" | Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward's butler in Thunderbirds | 1965 | ||
| 1873 | ||||
| Paul Moriyama | Momoka Nishizawa's butler in Sgt. Frog | 1999 | ||
| Peppermint Butler | Princess Bubblegum's butler in Adventure Time | 2010 | ||
| data-sort-value="Pitcher, Mr." | 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 | 1963 | |||
| R | ||||
| Oeznik | Sokovian butler of the Zemo House in Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2021 | ||
| Ramsley | from The Haunted Mansion | 2003 | ||
| Raunce | 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="Ruggles, Marmaduke" | 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 | ||
| 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 | 2005 | ||
| 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="Silversmith, Charlie" | Charlie Silversmith | butler of Deverill Hall in The Mating Season | 1949 | |
| Simonides | 1880 | |||
| Smethells | steward for the player in | 1996 | ||
| Smithers | Veronica Lodge's butler in the Archie comics | 1957 | ||
| data-sort-value="Smithers, Waylon" | assistant to Mr Burns from The Simpsons | 1989 | ||
| data-sort-value="Spartacus, Agador" | Agador Spartacus | butler in The Birdcage | 1996 | |
| Spencer | the Hartfords' butler in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive | 2007 | ||
| data-sort-value="Spratt, Septimus" | Septimus Spratt | 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 | ||
| data-sort-value="Stokes, Alf" | Alf Stokes | Butler to the Meldrum family in You Rang, M'Lord? | 1988 | |
| Subaru Konoe | female butler of Kanade Suzutsuki who is disguised as a male in the Mayo Chiki! anime, manga and light novel | 2009 | ||
| T | ||||
| Tanaka | former head butler of the Phantomhive household in the manga Kuroshitsuji. | 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 | butler to the Alucard family in the BlazBlue videogame series | 2008 | ||
| data-sort-value="Igor" | 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 | robotic butler to the Lone Wanderer in Fallout 3. | 2008 | ||
| 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 | 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 | ||
| Slade's butler in Teen Titans | 1980 | |||
| Sterling Archer's mistreated butler (technically a valet) in the comedy series Archer, who formerly worked for Mallory Archer. | 2009 | |||
| from Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange series | 1963 | |||
| Y | ||||
| You There | butler to Bender's Uncle Vladimir in Futurama episode "The Honking" | 2000 | ||
| Z | ||||
| not technically a butler, but hered-billed hornbill serves as majordomo to king Mufasa in the film The Lion King | 1994 | |||