In Popular Culture
- In Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Elliot Stabler has a video conference from the FBI Academy
- The FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, is one of the main locations in Thomas Harris' bestseller The Silence Of The Lambs, and its film adaptation. It is also shown briefly in the film Mindhunters while the "Crime City" where much of the film takes placed is based largely on Hogan's Alley.
- In the CBS series, Criminal Minds Quantico serves as the homebase of the Behavioral Analysis Unit.
- The television series The X-Files mentions it as the characters are FBI agents.
- The character of Don Eppes on the television series NUMB3RS is quoted as having decided to attend Quantico and join the FBI when he realized that his baseball career had little hope of advancing beyond Double-A teams. One of the members of his team at the beginning of the series, Terry Lake, attended Quantico at the same time and they had an intimate relationship during that period. Don is also mentioned as having taught tactical training classes at Quantico later in his career, sometime between leaving the Fugitive Recovery division and becoming a Special Agent in Charge (SAC) at the FBI office in Albequerque, New Mexico. One of his students from that time, Liz Warner, becomes a member of his team and mentions having been attracted to him during her time as a cadet, which opens the door for a brief relationship between the two characters during the series.
- In the USA series White Collar the FBI agents on occasion mention their training at Quantico.
- It appears in several books from the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell.
- It was mentioned frequently throughout the film American Psycho 2
- In Season 1, Episode 18 of the TV show FlashForward titled "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" there are lots of flashbacks of Janis going through Quantico.
- In "The Trouble with Trillions", the twentieth episode of the ninth season of the animated television series The Simpsons, the FBI uses a surveillance van with the words Two Guys From Quantico Pizza on the side.
- Much of the James Patterson thriller, The Big Bad Wolf, is set at the FBI Academy at Quantico where the novel's protagonist, Alex Cross, attends numerous courses and training programs.
- In the film Shooter, Agent Nick Memphis is an FBI agent who recently graduated from the FBI academy.
- In the film Point Break, the lead character Johnny Utah is a recent Quantico graduate.
- In the Syfy series Haven, the lead character Audrey Parker remembers being trained at Quantico.
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