Old Harrovians in Fiction
- Colonel Pickering in Pygmalion
- Lord Brett Sinclair from The Persuaders!
- Paul Marshall, antagonist from novel Atonement and the film of the same name
- Withnail and Uncle Monty from Withnail and I
- Winston Yu from novel Snakehead.
- Septimus Hodge from Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
- Sir Percy Blakeney from the The Scarlet Pimpernel novels by Baroness Emma Orczy
- Sherlock Holmes in the 2009 Guy Ritchie film is an Old Harrovian.
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