# List of tomboys in fiction

This is a list of fictional characters that have been described as tomboys.

## Anime and manga

| Characters | Title | Duration | Notes |
| Renny Ai | Ninja Senshi Tobikage | 1985–86 | A cheerful tomboy who loves Jou. |
| Panty Anarchy | Panty and Stocking | 2010 | |
| Tomo Aizawa | Tomo-chan Is a Girl! | 2015–19 | A tomboy frustrated by her male friend Jun's inability to see her as a girl and possible romantic partner. |
| Itsuki Akiba Nami | I"s | 2002–03 2005–06 | Akiba is a boyish girl who used to love Kazuki and wants to be a modeling artist. Nami is an energetic and "manly" girl who is the best friend of Iori. |
| Fūko Kirisawa | Flame of Recca | 1995–2002 | A tomboyish girl who gets into fights with Recca, who she has a crush on. |
| Sarah McDougal | Love Hina | 2000 | Sarah is a mischievous girl and tomboy who has a lot of common sense. |
| Runo Misaki Mira Clay Fabia Sheen | Bakugan Battle Brawlers | 2007–08 | Runo, a tomboyish girl, can act as a "sore loser" and sometimes impedes her team. She also is jealous of her friend Julie and has a crush on a male character, Dan, while she had a huge blade inside herself which can cut through anything. |
| Rin Natsuki (Cure Rouge) | Yes! PreCure 5 | 2007–08 | Rin is a middle school student in her second year who is "boyish," skilled at playing sports and has a "girly side." |
| Tsubasa Onodera | Love Get Chu: Miracle Seiyū Hakusho | 2006 | A tomboy girl who prefers to be the voice for boys instead of girls. |
| Rin | Nagasarete Airantō | 2002–present | Rin is a "male carpenter apprentice girl" who has girlish qualities. |
| Masumi Sera | Case Closed | 1994–present | Masumi is a tomboyish teen detective that aids Conan in different cases. |
| Kaoru Shimizu | Major | 1994–2010 | Kaoru is interested in baseball, has a "manly personality" and is a tomboy who has complex feelings toward her friend, Goro. |
| Haruka Tenoh (Sailor Uranus) | Sailor Moon | 1991–97 | Haruka Tenou first appears as a race car driver and is dating a young violinist later shown to be Sailor Neptune, later revealing herself as Sailor Uranus and comes out as a lesbian. |
| Irene "Rally" Vincent | Gunsmith Cats | 1991-1997 | Rally owns a Gunshop and fights crime as a bounty hunter |

## Comics

| Characters | Title | Duration | Author | Notes |
| Sally Acorn Bunnie Rabbot Julie-Su Belle D'Coolette | Sonic the Hedgehog | 1992–2016 | Ken Penders Ian Flynn Michael Gallagher Dan Slott Karl Bollers Scott Fulop | Sally, Bunnie, Julie and Belle are all tomboys. |
| Cleopatra | Cleopatra in Space graphic novel series | 2014–20 | Mike Maihack | Cleopatra has been described as a "tomboy-ish 15 year-old girl." |
| Charlotte "Charlie" | The Witch Boy graphic novel series | 2017–19 | Molly Ostertag | Charlie has been described as a tomboy who lives in a non-magical suburb. |
| Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt | Peanuts | 1950–2000 | Charles M. Schultz | She has "mousy-blah" hair and generally displays the characteristics of a tomboy. |
| Raya | Foldabots | 2006–2016 | | |
| Valerie Smith | Josie and the Pussycats | 1963–82 1993 2016–17 | Marguerite Bennett Cameron DeOrdio Others | In the comics, Valerie is more tomboyish than her two bandmates. Besides being good at science and a skilled auto mechanic, she occasionally shows a quick temper as well as being physically stronger than she might appear. |

## Film

| Character | Title | Year | Actor | Notes |
| Addie Pray (née Loggins) | Paper Moon | 1973 | Tatum O'Neal | A tomboyish nine-year-old girl who a con man, Moses Pray, claims is his daughter, and delivers her to her aunt's home in Missouri, later joining him in his con schemes. |
| Amanda "Manny" | Manny & Lo | 1996 | Scarlett Johansson | A tomboyish 11-year-old girl who runs away with her sister, Laurel "Lo," from their foster home. |
| Amanda Wurlitzer | The Bad News Bears | 1976 | Tatum O'Neal | An 11-year-old pitcher who feels insecure about her tomboy image. |
| Anjali Sharma | Kuch Kuch Hota Hai | 1998 | Kajol | Anjali is a tomboy character in the film who attends university with her male best friend, Rahul. She realizes that she is in love with this friend, but her love is unreciprocated because Rahul is attracted to a feminine women. The movie has been cited (along with many others) as extremely problematic, as it depicts the "tomboy identity" as a childish and immature phase to be replaced with heteronormative relationships in accordance with Indian patriarchy. |
| Annabel Andrews | Freaky Friday | 1976 | Jodie Foster | Annabel, a tomboy, annoyed with her mother, switches places with her for one day. |
| Audrey Rocio Ramirez | Atlantis: The Lost Empire | 2001 | Jacqueline Obradors | A Puerto Rican mechanic and the youngest member of the expedition. |
| Becky "The Icebox" O'Shea | Little Giants | 1994 | Shawna Waldron | The tomboyish daughter of Danny O'Shea, an American football player. |
| Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura | Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern Part 2 | 2018 | Saori Hayami (Japanese) Mimi Torres (English) | The movie follows the story of Benio who was, due to her mother's death, raised by her father, meaning that she acts like a tomboy, "contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity." |
| Billie | Billie | 1965 | Patty Duke | A 15-year-old girl with a bobbed haircut, tomboyish behavior and passion for track running. |
| Billie Jean Davy | The Legend of Billie Jean | 1985 | Helen Slater | Billie is a tomboyish teen from Corpus Christi, Texas, who later gains unwanted popularity. |
| Calamity Jane | Calamity Jane | 1953 | Doris Day | Calamity is a shotgun messenger to the Dakota Territory playing the "tomboy role." |
| Carter Mason | Princess Protection Program | 2009 | Selena Gomez | Carter is a tomboyish teenage girl who lives in a small town in Louisiana. |
| Denise Fleming | Can't Hardly Wait | 1998 | Lauren Ambrose | Denise is the antisocial best friend of Preston Meyers and a tomboy. |
| Diana Guzman | Girlfight | 2000 | Michelle Rodriguez | A tomboyish Brooklyn teenager whose hot temper gets her into trouble at school as she repeatedly starts fights with other students. |
| Dinky Bossetti | Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | 1990 | Winona Ryder | A 15-year-old girl who was adopted as a baby who has no interest in "feminine" things, such as makeup and nice clothing. |
| Donna Malone | Unaccompanied Minors | 2006 | Quinn Shephard | A surly tomboy who doesn't like being touched and punches anyone who lays a hand on her. She likes surfing and martial arts. |
| Ellie | Up | 2009 | Elizabeth Docter | A tomboyish girl who is a fan of Charles F. Muntz. She desires to move her "clubhouse" to a cliff overlooking Paradise Falls. |
| Enola Holmes | Enola Holmes Enola Holmes 2 | 2020–present | Millie Bobby Brown | Enola is a bit of a tomboyish girl in the 19th century. She is engaging in activities such as jiujitsu, reading, science, and playing chess. Her mother encouraged this behaviour and always reassured her that she'd do very well on her own, thus raising a strong and independent girl. |
| Éowyn | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2002–03 | Miranda Otto | She is a young noblewoman of Rohan who calls herself a shield-maiden. She kills the Witch-King of Angmar in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. According to film professor Sarah Kozloff she symbolizes the tomboy/feminist archetype. |
| Frankie Addams | The Member of the Wedding (also the 1946 novel and adaptations) | 1952 | Julie Harris | Feeling rejected when her older brother goes off on his honeymoon without inviting her along, a tomboyish Frankie runs away from her middle-class Southern home. |
| Giulia Marcovaldo | Luca | 2021 | Emma Berman | A red-headed, independently minded a bit of tomboyish girl with dreams of winning the Portorosso cup. |
| Graham Eaton | But I'm a Cheerleader | 1999 | Clea DuVall | A tomboyish girl at the conversion therapy camp who becomes friends with Megan and is more comfortable being gay than Megan, is forced to come to the camp at the risk of otherwise being disowned by her family. |
| Hayley Stark | Hard Candy | 2005 | Elliot Page | Hayley is a tomboyish 14-year-old who traps and tortures a 32-year-old photographer who she says is a sexual predator. |
| Hermione Granger | Harry Potter | 2001–2011 | Emma Watson | Hermione is more about brains than looks. While she's not that crazy about Quidditch, she tries to understand it to some extent. When she's not with her two besties, Harry and Ron, she's usually spending time with Neville. |
| Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode | Fried Green Tomatoes (also the 1987 novel) | 1991 | Mary Stuart Masterson Nancy Moore Atchison | Tomboy Idgie is the youngest of the Threadgoode children, whom Ninny describes as her sister-in-law. |
| Jesminder "Jess" Kaur Bhamra Juliette "Jules" Paxton | Bend It Like Beckham | 2002 | Parminder Nagra Keira Knightley | Jess is the 18-year-old daughter of British Indian Sikhs living in Hounslow, London while Juliette "Jules" Paxton is the same age as her and the daughter of a white English family. Both are tomboys. |
| Jo Mitchell | Mean Girls 2 | 2011 | Meaghan Martin (older Jo) Tatum Etheridge (younger Jo) | A tomboyish 18-year-old girl who shares an interest in cars with her father. She has a Vespa. |
| Juno MacGuff | Juno | 2007 | Elliot Page | Juno is a 16-year-old girl who is a "comfortable tomboy" and trusts people depending on what type of music they like. |
| Kate Libby (Acid Burn) | Hackers | 1995 | Angelina Jolie | Kate Libby, who goes by the handle "Acid Burn," is an edgy computer-hacker. |
| Kit Keller | A League of Their Own | 1992 | Lori Petty (younger Kit) Kathleen Butler (older Kit) | A tomboyish pitcher on an all-girls baseball team. |
| Kristy Thomas | The Baby-Sitters Club (also the series of novels) | 1995 | Schuyler Fisk | Kristy is president of "The Baby-Sitters Club" and a tomboy. |
| Laure | Tomboy | 2011 | Zoé Héran | The story follows a 10-year-old gender non-conforming child, Laure, who moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holiday and experiments with their gender presentation, adopting the name Mikäel. |
| Lola Bunny | Looney Tunes | 1996–present | Various | According to author Kevin Sandler, Lola's personality is a combination of the Hawksian woman, tomboy, and femme fatale archetypes. |
| Margaret "Legs" Sadovsky "Goldie" Goldman | Foxfire | 1996 | Angelina Jolie Jenny Shimizu | Legs is a teenage girl and drifter in Portland high school, while Goldie is a fellow student, both of whom are tomboys suspended from school along with Rita, Violet, and Maddie. |
| Mary Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Hilary Swank | A determined, aspiring boxer trained up by Frankie Dunn, who is also tomboyish. |
| Marjorie Winfield | On Moonlight Bay | 1951 | Doris Day | The grown tomboyish daughter of George and Alice who lives in a small Indiana town in the 1910s with her trouble-making brother Wesley, and an exasperated housekeeper named Stella. |
| Mati | L'Animale | 2018 | Sophie Stockinger | Mati is an 18-year-old tomboy who struggles with gender identity and sexuality and is a member of a motocross gang in rural Austria. |
| Melody | The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea | 2000 | Tara Charendoff | Ariel's 12-year-old daughter Melody is a sassy, well-mannered and tomboyish princess. |
| Princess Merida | Brave | 2012 | Kelly Macdonald (older Merida) Peigi Barker (younger Merida) | An adventurous and virtuous 16-year-old tomboyish princess. |
| Mikaela Banes | Transformers Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | 2007 2009 | Megan Fox | A tomboyish girl whose father taught her everything she knows about cars and auto mechanic skills. |
| Monica Wright | Love & Basketball | 2000 | Sanaa Lathan (older Monica) Kyla Pratt (younger Monica) | Monica is a tomboyish girl who aspires to become a professional basketball star and becomes romantically involved with Quincy McCall, who loves basketball as much as she does. |
| Mulan | Mulan Mulan II | 1998 2004 | Ming-Na Wen | Mulan takes her father's old armor and cuts her long hair, disguising herself as a man so that she can enlist instead of her parent. |
| Penny | Bolt | 2008 | Miley Cyrus (older Penny) Chloë Grace Moretz (younger Penny) | Penny is a kind, lovable, and intelligent 13-year-old tomboy. She wears a red T-shirt with a black sweatshirt underneath, a pair of dark shorts, gray and white striped tights, and large brown boots. |
| Piper Pinwheeler | Robots | 2005 | Amanda Bynes | Piper is a feisty tomboyish yellow robot. |
| Riley Anderson | Inside Out | 2015 | Kaitlyn Dias | An 11-year-old tomboyish girl who loves hockey and her friends. |
| Roberta Martin | Now and Then | 1995 | Christina Ricci (younger Roberta) Rosie O'Donnell (older Roberta) | Roberta is the proclaimed tomboy of the girls, stemming primarily from her upbringing in a family consisting of her father and three older brothers, her mother having died in a car accident when she was four. As a girl, she tapes her breasts to flatten them, plays sports, and never hesitates to fight a boy. |
| Samantha Swoboda | P.U.N.K.S. | 1999 | Jessica Alba | Samantha is Jonny's tomboyish cousin, a skilled car thief and lockpick. |
| Sarah Baker | Cheaper by the Dozen Cheaper by the Dozen 2 | 2003 2005 | Alyson Stoner | |
| Savannah O'Neal | Frenemies | 2012 | Mary Mouser | Savannah Grace O'Neal is a homely girl. She's a tomboy who comes from a large high-energy family. She enjoys skateboarding. |
| Jean Louise "Scout" Finch | To Kill a Mockingbird (also the 1960 novel) | 1962 | Mary Badham | A tomboyish young Scout and her pre-teen older brother Jem live in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the early 1930s. |
| Terri/Terry Griffith | Just One of the Guys | 1985 | Joyce Hyser | Terri Griffith is an aspiring teenage journalist in Phoenix who feels that her teachers do not take her articles seriously because of her good looks and later decides to disguise herself as a boy. |
| Tommy Smith | The Tomboy | 1924 | Dorothy Devore | Tommy Smith, a tomboy who runs a boardinghouse in a village. |
| Vada Sultenfuss | My Girl | 1991 | Anna Chlumsky | Vada is an 11-year-old tomboyish girl living in Madison, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1972. |
| Velvet Brown | National Velvet | 1944 | Elizabeth Taylor | National Velvet is the story of a 12-year-old, horse-crazy girl, Velvet Brown, who lives in the small town of Sewels in Sussex, England, who later participates in a horse race disguised as a boy. |
| Viola | She's The Man | 2006 | Amanda Bynes | Viola is a talented soccer player underestimated for being a girl, who dresses up as her brother Sebastian to play soccer at Illyria. |
| Watts | Some Kind of Wonderful | 1987 | Mary Stuart Masterson | Watts, the tomboyish friend of Keith Nelson, who has been subjected to rumors that she is a lesbian, aspires to improve her social standing. |
| Zoé | Dragon Hunters | 2008 | Mary Mouser (english voice) Marie Drion (french voice) | An orphan girl of noble birth who went on an adventure after being rescued by a trio of dragon hunters. In her early tweens she was adopted by the tavern owner, but used the lessons of her new friends to become the first official female dragon hunter. And succeeded. She played straight as a child and then subverted as an adult (in series) where she was described as "kind of a tomboy". |

## Literature

| Character | Title | Year | Author | Notes |
| Arya Stark | A Song of Ice and Fire series | 1996–2011 | George R. R. Martin | Arya is the third child and younger daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and his wife Lady Catelyn Stark. She is: tomboyish, headstrong, feisty, independent, disdains traditional female pursuits and is often mistaken for a boy. |
| Becky Landers | Becky Landers: Frontier Warrior | 1926 | Constance Skinner | A 15-year-old tomboyish girl who forms a plan in 1778 to join Captain George Rogers Clark. |
| Caddie Woodlawn | Caddie Woodlawn | 1935 | Carol Ryrie Brink | Set in the 1860s, the novel is about a lively eleven-year-old tomboy named Caroline Augusta Woodlawn, nicknamed "Caddie", living in the area of Dunnville, Wisconsin. |
| Elizabeth "Lizard" Flanagan | Lizard Flanagan series | 1994–98 | Carol Gorman | Elizabeth, a 12-year-old girl, struggles with transitioning from being a tomboy to being more "girly." |
| Emerson "Em" Watts | Airhead trilogy | 2008–10 | Meg Cabot | The book is about a teenage girl whose life is forever changed by the tragic accident that leaves her taking the identity of a supermodel, Nikki Howard, and tries to let go of her tomboyish ways to take over Nikki's glamorous lifestyle. |
| Frankie Addams | The Member of the Wedding | 1946 | Carson McCullers | Frankie is a 12-year-old tomboy who feels disconnected from the world. Also see the 1952 film. |
| Georgina "George" Kirrin | The Famous Five series | 1942–62 | Enid Blyton | George is a tomboyish character who struggles with her gender. |
| Gypsy Breynton | Gypsy Breynton series | 1866–67 | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Gypsy goes from a tomboy to becoming a "selfless surrogate mother." |
| Idgie Threadgoode | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | 1987 | Fannie Flagg | Idgie is an unrepentant tomboy who had become reclusive. Also see the 1991 film. |
| Jamila Sinai | Midnight's Children | 1981 | Salman Rushdie | Jamila is the younger tomboyish sister of Saleem, nicknamed "the brass monkey" because of her thick thatch of red-gold hair and because she is conceived the night her father's assets are frozen by the state. |
| Josephine "Jo" March | Little Women | 1868–69 | Louisa May Alcott | Jo is an aspiring writer and tomboyish girl. |
| Katy Carr | What Katy Did | 1872 | Susan Coolidge | 12-year-old tomboyish Katy Carr lives with her widowed father and her two brothers and three sisters in Burnet, a small midwestern American town. |
| Laura Ingalls | Little House on the Prairie series | 1932–43 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Laura, a tomboyish girl, lives with a settler and pioneer family on the prairie and later becomes an accomplished writer. |
| Leslie Burke | Bridge to Terabithia | 1977 | Katherine Paterson | Leslie is a "feisty tomboy" and friend of Jess. Also see the 2007 film. |
| Lyra Belacqua | His Dark Materials trilogy | 1995–2000 | Philip Pullman | Lyra is a wild 12-year-old tomboyish girl who grew up in the fictional Jordan College, Oxford. She prides herself on her capacity for mischief, especially her ability to lie, earning her the epithet "Silvertongue" from Iorek Byrnison. |
| Martha "Mickey" Bradley | Meredith's Ann | 1927 | Elizabeth Gray Vining | Mickey is a young tomboyish girl who dreams of being a boy. |
| Mick Kelly | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | 1940 | Carson McCullers | Mick Kelly is a tomboyish girl who loves music and dreams of buying a piano. |
| Nan | Little Men | 1871 | Louisa May Alcott | Nan is even more of a willful tomboy than Jo was as a teenager. |
| Orphie Goodbye | The Goodbye Family series | 2012–present | Lorin Morgan-Richards | A tomboyish girl, Orphie loves mischief and has the strength of 20 men, often finding herself filling in as sheriff of the town and training her pet spider Dorian. |
| Pippi Longstocking | Pippi Longstocking series | 1945 | Astrid Lindgren | Pippi is: red-haired, freckled, unconventional and a superhumanly strong tomboyish girl. |
| Rachel "Hellfire" Hotchkiss | Hellfire Hotchkiss | 1967 | Mark Twain | Hellfire is the female counterpart to Oscar "Thug" Carpenter and was referred to by Twain as a tomboy. |
| Scout | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1960 | Harper Lee | A tomboyish girl, Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout, lives with her older brother Jeremy, nicknamed Jem, and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Also see the 1962 film. |
| Topsy | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Topsy is a mischievous and rebellious young slave girl. |
| Tyke Tyler | The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler | 1977 | Gene Kemp | Tyke, whose real name is Theodora, is an intelligent tomboy who is protective of her friend Danny and often gets into trouble. |
| Wilhelmine "Will" Elliot | An American Girl and Her Four Years in a Boys' College | 1878 | Olive San Louie Anderson | Will enrolls at a traditionally all-male college where her classmates are baffled by her short hair, masculine clothes, and bold demeanor. |

## Plays

| Characters | Title | Duration | Author | Notes |
| Anybodys | West Side Story | 1957–2020 | Arthur Laurents | Anybodys is a tomboy who informs the main characters that Chino has a gun and wants to enact revenge against Tony. |
| Ginger | Time Out for Ginger | 1952–53 | Ronald Alexander | Ginger is a tomboy and high schooler. |

## Television

| Character | Portrayed by | Program | Duration | Notes |
| Abigail "Abby" Lincoln/Numbuh 5 | Cree Summer | Codename: Kids Next Door | 2002–08 | Abigail Lincoln aka Numbuh 5 is the intelligent, laid-back, tomboyish African-American girl, who is a second-in-command/spy of Sector V. |
| Ace | Sophie Aldred | Doctor Who | 1963–present | Ace is a "streetwise tomboy" who likes pyrotechnics. |
| Alicia "Al" Lambert | Christine Lakin | Step by Step | 1991–98 | Al, middle child in the Lambert family, is a tomboyish, all-American girl, who later matures and softens. |
| Alexandra "Alex" Mack | Larisa Oleynik | The Secret World of Alex Mack | 1994–98 | Alex was considered a tomboy, with her character challenging gender norms. |
| Alix Kubdel | Kira Buckland (English dub) Yukiko Morishita (Japanese dub) Adeline Chetail (French version; Season 1) Marie Nonnenmacher (French version; Season 2) | Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir | 2015–present | Alix is a tomboyish and competitive student in Miss Bustier's class. |
| Angela Anaconda | Sue Rose | Angela Anaconda | 1991–2001 | Angela Anaconda is a tomboyish, imaginative, freckle-faced eight-year-old girl who eschews the femininity commonly associated with other girls her age. |
| Anne Chan | Leslie Kumamota (original) Jodie Foster (re-dubbed) | The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan | 1972 | Anne is Alan's twin sister who is a feminist tomboy. |
| Arya Stark | Maisie Williams | Game of Thrones | 2011–19 | Arya is a tomboyish, headstrong, feisty, independent, disdains traditional female pursuits and is often mistaken for a boy. |
| Ashley Funicello Spinelli | Pamela Adlon | Recess | 1997–2001 | Ashley (or Spinelli as she is mostly called) is a tomboy who has an extreme loyalty to her friends. She is temperamental at times and doesn't really like her first name because of it being associated with a quartet of snobbish girls all named Ashley. |
| Assefa | Soleil Moon Frye | Planet Sheen | 2010–13 | Aseefa is a Glimmorian—a blue yodeler with a ponytail that works as a third arm. She is also a tomboy, a beast-master, a great warrior AND the object of Sheen's first raging space crush. How could any Earthling resist?! She's so quirky, cute and punky! But Sheen will have to resist for now, because he can't tell if Aseefa likes him back and he's too nervous to ask. She's so tough! You wouldn't wanna mess with her either! |
| Buttercup | E. G. Daily (What a Cartoon! episodes and 1998 original) Jo Wyatt (British dub) Natalie Palamides (reboot) | The Powerpuff Girls (also the 2016 reboot) | 1998–2005 (original) 2016–20 (reboot) | Buttercup is a "rough-and-tumble tomboy." |
| Princess Calla | Noelle North | Adventures of the Gummi Bears | 1985-91 | Calla is a tomboyish 12-year-old girl who dislikes having to be the "perfect princess" her father wants her to be. |
| Cameron Howe | Mackenzie Davis | Halt and Catch Fire | 2014–17 | Cameron is a tomboyish woman in her twenties who has a knack for programming and loves punk rock. |
| Carissa | Tabitha St. Germain (English version) Fanny Bloc (French version) | Lolirock | 2014–17 | Carissa was drawn as a "fiery and tomboy warrior princess." |
| Darby | Chloë Grace Moretz | My Friends Tigger & Pooh | 2007–10 | Darby is a 6-year-old feisty, imaginative and tomboyish red-headed girl and is believed to be Christopher Robin's younger sister. She is the leader of the problem-solving Super Sleuths along with Tigger, Pooh, and her pet puppy Buster. Darby is brave, inquisitive, clever, and imaginative. Her catchphrases are "Time to slap my cap" and "Good sleuthin', everyone!" For the most part, she replaced Christopher Robin, who only appeared in two episodes of the series. |
| Darlene Conner | Sara Gilbert | Roseanne | 1998–2018 | Darlene is a tomboyish girl, which gives Roseanne a way she can "talkback to gender performance expectations." |
| Dot Warner | Tress MacNeille | Animaniacs (also the 2020 reboot) | 1993–98 (original) 2020–23 (reboot) | Dot is the cute little sister of Yakko and Wakko. She's a tomboy who mimics her big brothers in everything they do, but when it comes to the crunch she'll use her feminine wiles as a weapon. |
| Eliza Thornberry | Lacey Chabert | The Wild Thornberrys | 1998-2004 | Eliza is a 12-year-old girl and the youngest daughter of the Thornberrys. She is able to communicate with animals, especially her chimpanzee sidekick Darwin. She must keep this gift secret or she will lose her powers. |
| Elly May Clampett | Donna Douglas | The Beverly Hillbillies | 1962–71 | Elly May is Jed's tomboyish daughter who is an animal lover. |
| Elsa Dutton | Isabel May | 1883 | 2021–present | The tomboyish daughter of James and Margaret Dutton. Why Isabel May, Elsa Dutton in Yellowstone prequel 1883, is like a young Jennifer Lawrence and the show's breakout star. Early in the family's journey, on the Oregon Trail, Elsa decides to start wearing pants, and embraces the cowgirl lifestyle. She also becomes involved with Ennis, a cowboy. After Ennis is killed by a bandit (whom Elsa then shoots to death), she marries a Comanche man named Sam. The women of his tribe make Elsa new pants and clothes (her old ones having been worn out from heavy use). After months of dressing like a cowgirl, and later a Comanche, Elsa's mother forces her to put on a dress, when they are traveling to a Fort (fearing what might happen if the soldiers see Elsa wearing her preferred clothes). Ironically, while wearing the dress, Elsa ends up getting shot by an arrow and is mortally wounded. Elsa, not having much time left, insists on putting her Comanche clothes back on, and wears them until she passes away from her injury. |
| Eve Baxter | Kaitlyn Dever | Last Man Standing | 2011–21 | Eve was originally a tomboyish girl who became a "little more girly" as the series progressed according to Kaitlyn Dever. |
| Gosalyn | Christine Cavanaugh in Darkwing Duck; Stephanie Beatriz in DuckTales | Darkwing Duck and DuckTales | Darkwing Duck: 1991–1992; DuckTales: 2017-2021 | Gosalyn is an orphaned, energetic tomboy adopted by Darkwing Duck. |
| Jennifer Keaton | Tina Yothers | Family Ties | 1982-1989 | Jennifer is a tomboy and is the third child of Steven and Elyse Keaton. |
| Jennifer "Jen" Masterson | Megan Fahlenbock | 6teen | 2004–10 | Jen is a tomboy who loves sports and wants to a snowboarder in the Olympics. |
| Joanna Marie "Jo" Polniaczek | Nancy McKeon | The Facts of Life | 1979–88 | Early in the series, many of Jo's stories revolved around her tomboyish ways. |
| Lana Loud | Grey DeLisle | The Loud House | 2016–present | Lana is the fourth-youngest Loud sibling who loves to get dirty, especially with mud. She is also a skilled handy worker, plumber, and mechanic who loves animals. |
| Lilly Truscott | Emily Osment | Hannah Montana | 2006–11 | Lilly is Miley Stewart's best friend. She is extremely extroverted, excitable, clumsy, and impulsive. She is also very athletic and loves skateboarding, surfing, hockey, and cheerleading. She's considered the tomboy with a sweet, kind, and optimistic personality. |
| MacKenzie "Mac" Coyle KJ Brandman Tiffany "Tiff" Quilkin | Sofia Rosinsky Fina Strazza Camryn Jones | Paper Girls | 2022 | Mac is considered a tomboy for having a boy's haircut and swearing. KJ plays field hockey, dislikes anything considered girly and hates wearing dresses. Tiff loves video games, science and technology. In the future, she is one of the inventors of time travel. |
| Maddie Rooney | Dove Cameron | Liv and Maddie | 2013–17 | Maddie is Liv's tomboyish twin sister who enjoys playing basketball. |
| Maggie Pesky | Jessica DiCicco | The Buzz on Maggie | 2005–06 | Maggie is an expressive 13-year-old fly with big hopes and dreams. She loves rock music and often plays her double-neck guitar. |
| Mary-Kate Burke | Mary-Kate Olsen | Two of a Kind | 1998–99 | Mary-Kate is a tomboyish girl who wants to perfect her curveball. |
| Maurecia | Denise Oliver | Wayside | 2007–08 | |
| Maxine "Max" Mayfield | Sadie Sink | Stranger Things | 2016–present | Max is Billy's younger stepsister, an avid skateboarder, and the tomboy of the group who catches the attention of both Lucas and Dustin. |
| Molly | Brianna Gentilella (speaking voice, Seasons 1, 2 and 6) | Bubble Guppies | 2011-2023 | Molly is a girl with star power and is the leader of the Bubble Guppies. She's super smart and her bubbly personality makes her a great friend. She's also a great singer who inspires every Guppy and land-dwelling preschooler she encounters. |
| Penelope "Punky" Brewster | Soleil Moon Frye | Punky Brewster | 1984–88 | Punky is a "spunky seven-year-old tomboy." |
| Pickle | Tabitha St. Germain | Endangered Species | 2015 | Pickle is a fun, adventure-loving yellow bunny rabbit who loves to go on wild adventures. |
| Pipsqueak | Tajja Isen | The ZhuZhus | 2016–17 | Pipsqueak is a hamster who is "all tomboy" and "firecracker." |
| Rainbow Dash | Ashleigh Ball | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | 2010–19 | Rainbow Dash has got rainbow-striped hair, is very interested in playing sports and is a tomboy whose sexual orientation is not referenced. Scootaloo is her biggest fan and she's a tomboy as well. |
| Audrey "Little Audrey" Smith | Stephanie Lemelin | Harvey Girls Forever! | 2018–20 | The descendant of Audrey Smith, and the leader and brawn, but childish of the Harvey Girls. She is a cute and energetic tomboy who acts tough and loves to do boy activities. She is also very impatient and short tempered. She refers to herself as "the protector of Harvey Street". |
| Rosie | UK: Teresa Gallagher (2009–12) Nicola Stapleton (2017–20) US: Jules de Jongh (2009–12) Nicola Stapleton (2017–20) Other: Rachael Miller (2020; Thomas' Magical Birthday Wishes and Learning with Thomas) | Thomas & Friends | 2006–present | "Rosie is feisty, fun and very free-spirited. Rosie is a tomboy tank engine! She's almost the same size and has the same capability as Thomas – whom she idolizes! She seeks to copy his every action and follow his every mood – with great charm and equal persistence. This drives Thomas crazy. He just wants to be left alone to be Useful. But why, thinks Rosie, can't they be Really Useful together?!" |
| Sam Puckett | Jennette McCurdy | iCarly and Sam & Cat | 2007–12 2013-14 | Sam Puckett, a tomboy who is aggressive, tough, loves pranks and anything that is gross, masculine, and guy things, rides her motorcycle, juvenile jail experiences, and hates anything that is girly, pink, and feminine. |
| Sandy Cheeks | Carolyn Lawrence | SpongeBob SquarePants | 1999–present | Sandy Cheeks is a Texan squirrel who loves karate, science, and Texan culture. She is also one of SpongeBob's friends. |
| Sathya | Ayesha | Sathya | 2020–present | Sathya is a free-spirited, trustworthy, brave tomboy who marries a man named Prabhu. |
| Supergirl | Nicole Sullivan | DC Super Hero Girls (2nd Generation) | 2019–21 | Supergirl is a tomboy who enjoys rock music. |
| Teeter | Jennifer Landon | Yellowstone | 2018–present | Teeter is a tough-talking ranch hand from Texas, who works at the Yellowstone/Dutton Ranch. She becomes involved with fellow ranch hand Colby Mayfield (Denim Richards), and takes the brand (just like the male ranch hands). |
| Wanda Li | Lisa Yamanaka (in The Magic School Bus) Lynsey Pham (in Rides Again) | The Magic School Bus (also in Rides Again) | 1994–97 2017-21 | Wanda is a tomboyish Chinese-American girl, and the most adventurous student in Ms. Frizzle's class. |

## Video games

| Characters | Title | Year | Notes | Developer |
| Misty | Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow | 1996 | misty is the gym leader in Cerulean city gym in front of her gym is a sign that says she is "the Tomboyish mermaid" | Game Freak |
| Tsarevna Alena | Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen | 1992–2016 | Tsarevna is a "fierce tomboy" who likes to fight and go on adventures. | Spike Chunsoft |
| Ashei | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | 2006 | Ashei is a tomboyish girl who is a skilled sword fighter and is stronger than most men. | Nintendo |
| Amy Rose | Sonic the Hedgehog | 1993–present | | Sega |
| Baiken | Guilty Gear series | 1998 | Baiken is a tomboyish girl who knows how to use a katana, mace, fireworks cannon, and other weapons within the sleeve of her severed arm. | Arc System Works |
| Princess Daisy | Mario | 1989–present | Daisy is cheerful, energetic, and a bit of a tomboy. She is Luigi's love interest, and enjoys playing a variety of sports with Mario and friends. | Nintendo |
| Kumatora | Mother 3 | 2006 | Kumatora is the heir to the Ooshe castle and is described as a "tomboy princess." | Brownie Brown HAL Laboratory |
| Makoto | Street Fighter series | 1999–2008 | Makoto is a young Japanese woman raised from the Tosa Province of Japan who utilizes her family's dojo teachings of Rindo-kan karate as her fighting style. | Capcom |
| Narumi Mishima | 12Riven | 2008 | Narumi is a tomboy. | KID Cyberfront SDR Project |
| Chie Satonaka | Persona series | 1996–2020 | Chie is a tomboy who is upbeat and has an obsession with kung fu, even using those techniques in battle. | Atlus |
| Sonshōkō | Koihime Enbu | 2016 | Sonshōkō is a spirited and vivacious tomboy. | UNKNOWN GAMES M2 Co., LTD |
| Mae Borowski | Night in the Woods | 2017 | Mae is a tomboy because she has few feminine characteristics. In addition to dressing almost like a man. | Infinite Fall Secret Lab |
| Touko Zaizen | Inazuma Eleven 2 Kyoui no Shinryakusha | 2009 | Touko is a tomboy. | Level-5 |
| Ryune Zoldark | Super Robot Wars | 1991–2015 | Ryune is a beautiful girl and tomboy. | Winkysoft Banpresoft B.B. Studio Bandai Namco Entertainment |
| Wendy O. Koopa | Mario | 1988–present | "Wendy — A tomboy, a selfish girl. I'll throw a removable ring on the wall and attack." | Nintendo |