page_title: List of cultural icons of England
section_title: Fictional characters
hierarchical_section_title: List of cultural icons of England / Fictional characters
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collection.
context_page_description: This list of cultural icons of England is a list of people and things from any period which are independently considered to be cultural icons characteristic of England.
context_section_description: Biggles, nickname of pilot and adventurer James Bigglesworth, created in 1932 by Captain W. E. Johns.
  Dixon of Dock Green, typical "bobby" on the beat, first appeared in The Blue Lamp (1949).
  Falstaff, fat, boastful knight who appears in three historical plays by William Shakespeare.
  Alf Garnett, East End patriarch first seen in sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, created in 1965 by Johnny Speight.
  Sherlock Holmes, private detective created in 1887 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
  Robin Hood, heroic outlaw of English folklore, dating from the 13th century.
  Noddy, little wooden puppet created in 1949 by Enid Blyton.
  Paddington Bear, created by Michael Bond in 1958.
  Rupert Bear, comic strip bear created in 1920 by Mary Tourtel and popularised from 1935 by Alfred Bestall.
  Sooty, bear created by Harry Corbett in 1948.
  Winnie-the-Pooh, created by A. A. Milne in 1926.
caption: Sherlock Holmes (played by Basil Rathbone)
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