In the story, Professor Laban Shrewsbury ( a recurring Derleth character ) and his assistant at the time, Nayland Colum, discover Alhazred's burial site.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress tells of a war of independence waged by the Lunar penal colonies, with significant comments from a major character, Professor La Paz, regarding the threat posed by government to individual freedom.

The cartoons that brought him lasting fame involved a character named Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts.

An early famous example in popular culture is the return of Sherlock Holmes: writer Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the popular character in an encounter with his foe Professor Moriarty, only to bring Holmes back, due in large part to audience response.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.

For the King of Sweden, see Charles X Gustav of Sweden, for the Catholic claimant of 1589, see Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, for the Marvel character, see Professor X.

* Sherman Klump, the title character from The Nutty Professor

Professor John Nerdelbaum Frink, Jr., or simply Professor Frink, is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

When Azaria ad-libbed a voice for the character, he did an impression of Jerry Lewis's Julius Kelp character from The Nutty Professor.

However, when cast member Hank Azaria ad-libbed a voice for Frink, he did an impression of Jerry Lewis's character Julius Kelp from the 1963 film The Nutty Professor, and the writing staff started making Frink more of a parody of that character.

Weaver was heard on Jones's 1947-49 radio shows, where he introduced his comedic Professor Feetlebaum ( which Weaver sometimes spelled as Feitlebaum ), a character who spoke in Spoonerisms.

He appeared in more than 90 films, including The Great Imposter ( 1961 ), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ( as the man helping the Tippi Hedren character with her rental boat ), Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ), Pocketful Of Miracles ( 1961 ) and, in a cameo, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

She is approached by an archly sinister character, ' Professor ' Marcus ( Alec Guinness ), who wants to rent rooms in her house.

Other popular characters included by Farmer as members of the Wold Newton family are: Solomon Kane ; Captain Blood ; The Scarlet Pimpernel ; Sherlock Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty ; Phileas Fogg ; The Time Traveller ( main character of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ); Allan Quatermain ; A. J.

In that scene, Henry Fonda's character refers to " Professor Marsdit ", whose last name is an anagram of that of Raymond L. Ditmars of the American Museum of Natural History, a well-known reptile expert and popular science writer of the time.

He played the title character in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ) and later Professor Henry Higgins in the film version of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion ( 1938 ), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

* In the Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective, the character Professor Ratigan ( the archnemesis of Basil of Baker Street, the film's Holmes-trained hero ) is an obvious parallel and tribute to the character of Moriarty.

Elements of the story were reused by Adams for his novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in particular the character of Professor Chronotis who possesses a time machine.

* Samuel Pickering, Professor at the University of Connecticut, inspiration for the character Mr. Keating in the Academy Award – winning film The Dead Poets Society

For example, in Animal Crackers his character was ironically dubbed " The Professor.

Mike Judge has stated Van Driessen was his favorite character, after Beavis, to voice.

* Cyborg, a film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, tells the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth due to a nuclear disaster, and has a female cyborg as a central character.

According to director Gus Van Sant, the character of Bob in My Own Private Idaho was based upon Falstaff, and the character of Scott was based on Prince Hal.

Van Voorst also states that calling Christians a " tribe " would have been very out of character for a Christian scribe, while Josephus has used it to refer both to Jewish and Christian groups.

In the early 1980s, Van Cleef appeared in a very popular series of commercials for Midas, in which he played up his gunfighter persona, playing opposite many character actors of the time, including Jack Palance.

The character John Morlar from Peter Van Greenaway's 1973 novel The Medusa Touch and the 1978 film version holds nihilistic beliefs as does the character Animal Mother from Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the ruthless thug O-Dog from the 1993 film Menace II Society by the Hughes Brothers.

* Eddie Anderson ( comedian ) ( 1904 – 1977 ), an actor sometimes known as " Rochester ", after his character " Rochester Van Jones " on The Jack Benny Program

Featuring character re-designs by Nobuteru Yūki, the film focuses on the relationship between Van and Hitomi and their personal issues.

* In Charles Dickens's novel " The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit " the character of Augustus leaves a note addressed to his betrothed to the effect that he has sailed away to Van Diemen's Land, " Ere this reaches you, the undersigned will be -- if not a corpse -- on the way to Van Dieman's Land ".

Van Gogh himself was an avid reader of other artists ' biographies and expected their lives to be in keeping with the character of their art.

Danny Thomas, Van Heflin, character actor Oliver Blake, and Noel Neill are seen as circus patrons, among others.

* Irene Van de Kamp, a character in the Good Girls ( comics ) series

It features a character, Lawrence Van Cott, that is modelled on science fiction author Larry Niven, whose full name is " Laurence van Cott Niven ".

* Liberty Van Zandt, a character from Degrassi: The Next Generation

In Peter Whiffle by Carl Van Vechten, the main character Peter Whiffle cites Gautier as a great influence and writer, among others.

Similarly, the Beany and Cecil cartoon series also had a beatnik character, Go Man Van Gogh ( aka " The Wildman "), who often lives in the jungle and paints various pictures and backgrounds to fool his enemies, first appearing in the episode, " The Wildman of Wildsville.

The strands of this logic emanating from Vliet's Beefheart persona having been ' written in ' as a character in a ' teenage operetta ' that Zappa had formulated, along with Van Vliet's renowned ' Pepsi-moods ' with his mother Willie Sue and his generally spoilt teenage demeanor.

* Van ( Gun X Sword ), the main character of the anime Gun X Sword

* Van, a character in the Pixar film Cars

* Van Veen, the main character of Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor

Millie was named after the character Millie Helper from The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Gus made no appearances in DuckTales, but there is a background character in the series, Vacation Van Honk, who looks very much like Gus.