The novel opens in a small village in Ixopo Ndotsheni, where the black pastor Stephen Kumalo receives a letter from the priest Theophilus Msimangu in Johannesburg.

* Theophilus Msimangu: A priest from Johannesburg who helps Kumalo find his son Absalom.

It is claimed by some that the Hatter's character may have been inspired by Theophilus Carter, an eccentric furniture dealer.

A portrait of Theophilus Cibber in the role of Ancient Pistol, a character who appears in several of Shakespeare's plays.

On 1 July of the same year, he was involved in another duel, with Theophilus Swift, Esq., in consequence of a pamphlet criticising Lennox's character published under Swift's name.

* Theophilus P. Wildebeeste, a character created by Lenny Henry

* Theophilus Toad, a character based from ' Wind in the Willows ' used in Counselling for Toads by Robert de Board.

* Dr. Theophilus Tanner, a character from the Deathlands series of books

Theophilus also appears as a character played by Manuel Cauchi in the 2009 film Agora, directed by Alejandro Amenábar.

These included the painter Theophilus Brown ( whom she later referred to as " the chief experience of my life ") and his long-time partner Paul John Wonner, the poet May Sarton, John Marquand, Jr. and Alan Lelchuck.

The predecessor of Faustus in Christian mythology is Theophilus (" Friend of God " or " Beloved of god ") the unhappy and despairing cleric, disappointed in his worldly career by his bishop, who sells his soul to the Devil but is redeemed by the Virgin Mary.

* 1584 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician ( d. 1640 )

In Luke 1: 3-4, the author states that he decided to “ write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed .” Theophilus is Greek for lover of God and it is suggested that he may either be an individual who recently converted to the faith or a Roman official of whom the church is seeking acceptance from.

At any rate affairs in that region, including the future of the church of Ephesus ( 20: 28 – 30 ), are treated as though they would specially interest " Theophilus " and his circle ; also an early tradition has Luke die in the adjacent Bithynia.

The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

* Theophilus G. Pinches, The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria in " btm " format

The 12th century German monk Theophilus described how preheated crucibles were one sixth filled with powdered calamine and charcoal then topped up with copper and charcoal before being melted, stirred then filled again.

German brass making crucibles are known from Dortmund dating to the 10th century AD and from Soest and Schwerte in Westphalia dating to around the 13th century confirm Theophilus ' account, as they are open-topped, although ceramic discs from Soest may have served as loose lids which may have been used to reduce zinc evaporation, and have slag on the interior resulting from a liquid process.

At the end of the 2nd century, it is accepted at Antioch by Theophilus ( died c. 183 ), and in Africa by Tertullian ( c. 160 – 220 ).

Theodora, widow of the Emperor Theophilus ( died 842 ), acted as regent during the minority of her son Michael III, who was said to have been introduced to dissolute habits by her brother Bardas.

In Greece, he encountered an Ionian theologian, who has been identified as Athenagoras of Athens ; while in the east, he was taught by an Assyrian, sometimes identified with Tatian, and a Jew, who was possibly Theophilus of Caesarea.

A few years after his birth, his maternal uncle Theophilus rose to the powerful position of Patriarch of Alexandria.

Theophilus died on 15 October 412, and Cyril was made Pope or Patriarch of Alexandria on 18 October 412, against the party favouring Archdeacon Timothy.

These monks ' violence had already been used, 15 years before, by Theophilus ( Cyril's uncle ) against the " Tall Brothers "; furthermore, it is said that Cyril had spent five years among them in ascetic training.

This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.

There were also Alexandrian Jews such as Theophilus, whom Saint Luke the Evangelist addresses in the introductory chapter of his gospel.

There was an opinion in the Church that viewed that perhaps the Council understood the Church of Alexandria correctly, but wanted to curtail the existing power of the Alexandrine Hierarch, especially after the events that happened several years before at Constantinople from Pope Theophilus of Alexandria towards Patriarch John Chrysostom and the unfortunate turnouts of the Second Council of Ephesus in AD 449, where Eutichus misled Pope Dioscorus and the Council in confessing the Orthodox Faith in writing and then renouncing it after the Council, which in turn, had upset Rome, especially that the Tome which was sent was not read during the Council sessions.

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

* 1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher ( b. 1683 )

The Serapeum was certainly destroyed by Theophilus in 391, and the Museum and Library may have fallen victim to the same campaign.

In 1917 Theophilus A. Marryshow founded the Representative Government Association ( RGA ) to agitate for a new and participative constitutional dispensation for the Grenadian people.

The date of the Gospel of Luke is traditionally fixed to some time before the end of the final events of Luke's second volume to Theophilus, Acts, so as early as 59 or 60.

Although the Gospel survives in anonymous form, it is considered that the name was known to the addressee, Theophilus.

Msimangu urges Kumalo to come to the city to help his sister Gertrude, because she is ill. Kumalo goes to Johannesburg to help Gertrude and to find his son Absalom, who had gone to the city to look for Gertrude but never came home.

Kumalo and Msimangu follow Absalom's trail only to learn that Absalom has been in a reformatory and impregnated a young woman.

Kumalo was played by Canada Lee, Jarvis by Charles Carson, and Msimangu by Sidney Poitier.

In episode 73, season 4, entitled Working for Caligula of Two and a Half Men, the character of Berta said " I'm working for Caligula ," while picking up after Charlie who has resumed his hedonistic lifestyle after his brother Alan moved out.

The team of screenwriters took the main suspect of the novel, Robert Tisdall, and his unexpected, initially reluctant supporter, Erica Burgoyne, and left out all the other characters, including Tey's Inspector Alan Grant and even the original murderer ( who is not the same character as in the film ).

From 2004 to 2008, Spader starred as the lead character Alan Shore in the television series Boston Legal, in which he reprised his role from the television series The Practice.

Spader starred as a lead character in Race, a play written and directed by David Mamet, alongside Richard Thomas, David Alan Grier and Kerry Washington.

* One of the earliest appearances of Kim Philby as a character in fiction was in " Gentleman Traitor " by Alan Williams in 1974.

* In the Watchmen comic by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Dr. Manhattan character tours Mars and visits Olympus Mons, admiring its features.

In Alan Moore's graphic novel, V for Vendetta, the character Dr. Delia Surridge discusses Milgram's experiment without directly naming Milgram, comparing it with the atrocities she herself had performed in the Larkhill Concentration camps.

* November 19 – Alan Young, English-born character actor

The comic book character Orlando is a blend of several fictional characters with the name Orlando as well as being known during the mid-sixties as O while engaged in sexual games with the descendants of the Silling Castle survivors, according to Alan Moore and Kevin O ' Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series.

When the character returned for the 1968 film Inspector Clouseau, he was portrayed by American actor Alan Arkin ; Edwards was not involved in this production.

* Alan Moore's miniseries 1963 features a character called the Hypernaut that lives in a space station shaped like an impossible object.

* 1965 – The character of Alan Tracy in the Thunderbirds was named after him.

This was Alan Moore's second re-invention of a comic book character, the first being Miracleman.

Though Shooter had previously displayed no problems with the belief on the part of fans that the character Element Lad was gay when Shooter had been the writer on Legion of Super-Heroes, Alan Kistler reported in a 2012 Comic Book Resources article that at Marvel, Shooter had declared a policy that there were " no gays in the Marvel Universe.

Another theatrical vampire of this period was ' Sir Alan Raby ' who is the lead character of The Vampire ( 1852 ), a play by Dion Boucicault.

* Americanizing Shelley ( 2007 ) has a minor character who is named Alan Smithee, and who is a film director.

A longtime actor in B-westerns and the look-alike son of Alan Hale, Sr., a legendary movie character actor, Hale so loved his role that, long after the show went off the air, he would still appear in character in his Los Angeles restaurant, Alan Hale's Lobster Barrel.

The origin of the super-rich Howell character dates back to 1949 radio when Backus portrayed " Hubert Updike III " on The Alan Young Show.

On the M * A * S * H * 30th Anniversary Reunion Television Special aired by Fox-TV in 2002, Rogers once spoke on the differences between the " Hawkeye " and " Trapper " characters, " Alan ( Alda ) and I both used to discuss ways on how to distinguish the differences between the two characters as to where there would be a variance ... my character ( Trapper John McIntyre ) was a little more impulsive ( than Hawkeye )".

Alan Zweibel, who co-created the Roseanne Roseannadanna character and co-wrote all of Roseanne's dialogue, recalled that Radner, one of three original SNL cast members who stayed away from cocaine, chastised him for using it.

* In the episode of Alan Partridge Towering Alan, the character Mike Sampson is from Acton.