List of Doctor Who villains

This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. For other, related lists, see below.

Villain	Appearance(s)	Notes
Helen A	The Happiness Patrol
Abzorbaloff / Victor Kennedy	"Love & Monsters"
Lady Adrasta	The Creature from the Pit
Akhaten	"The Rings of Akhaten"
Alaya	"The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood"	A Silurian.
Ambulance	"Boom"	Designation of machine utilised by the Villengard corporation.
Animus	The Web Planet
Ashad	"The Haunting of Villa Diodati" "Ascension of the Cybermen"/"The Timeless Children" "The Power of the Doctor"
Ashildr / Me	"Face the Raven"	Credited in the episode as "Ashildr", though canonically named "Me". Me is primarily allied with the Doctor in her other appearances, although acts as a soft antagonist in "Face the Raven", assisting a plan by the Time Lords. Remorseful, she returns to an ally by the end of the episode.
Axos	The Claws of Axos
Azal	The Dæmons
Azaxyr	The Monster of Peladon
Lord Azlok	Dreamland	Leader of Viperox.
Azure	Flux
Daniel Barton	"Spyfall"
The Beast	"The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit"
Beep the Meep	Doctor Who Weekly comic strip "The Star Beast" (2023), voiced by Miriam Margolyes
Bennett	The Rescue
Black Guardian	The Armageddon Factor Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment
Margaret Blaine / Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen	"Aliens of London"/"World War Three" "Boom Town"	One of the Slitheen.
Bogeyman	"Space Babies"	Ceases to be a villain by the end of the episode.
Borad	Timelash
Borusa	The Deadly Assassin The Invasion of Time Arc of Infinity The Five Doctors
Rosanna Calvierri	"The Vampires of Venice"	Assumed name of a Sister of the Water.
Taren Capel	The Robots of Death	See also: Kaldor City
Matron Casp	"New Earth"
Max Capricorn	"Voyage of the Damned"
Lady Cassandra	"The End of the World" "New Earth"
Mavic Chen	The Daleks' Master Plan
Suki Cheng	"Praxeus"
Chief Caretaker	Paradise Towers
Mr Clever / The Cyberiad	"Nightmare in Silver"	Split personality of the Doctor after being partially 'upgraded' by Cybermen.
The Collector	The Sun Makers
General Cobb	"The Doctor's Daughter"
George Cranleigh	Black Orchid
The Creature	The God Complex	An unnamed, Minotaur-like alien, credited in the episode as 'The Creature'.
The Crooked Man	"Hide"
Davros	See Davros § List of appearances	Creator of the Daleks.
The Dream Lord	"Amy's Choice"	Apparition created by psychic pollen.
Charlie Duffy	"Kerblam!"
Eldrad	The Hand of Fear
Fendahl	Image of the Fendahl
Fenric	The Curse of Fenric
Figure	"Listen"	An unseen, unnamed creature, credited in the episode as 'Figure'. The episode is ambiguous as to whether the Figure actually exists.
Mr Finch	"School Reunion"	Assumed identity of a Krillitane.
Florence Finnegan	"Smith and Jones"	Assumed identity of a Plasmavore
The Fisher King	"Under the Lake"/"Before the Flood"
The Foretold	"Mummy on the Orient Express"
Ms. Foster / Matron Cofelia	"Partners in Crime"	Matron of the Adipose.
Gat	"Fugitive of the Judoon"
Winifred Gillyflower	"The Crimson Horror"
The Gods of Ragnarok	The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Reverend Golightly	"The Unicorn and the Wasp"	Assumed identity of a Vespiform.
Grand Serpent	"Once, Upon Time" "Survivors of the Flux" "The Vanquishers"
The Gravis	Frontios
Grayle	"The Angels Take Manhattan"	Collector of Weeping Angels
The Great Intelligence	See Great Intelligence § List of appearances
Count Grendal of Gracht	The Androids of Tara
The Gunslinger	"A Town Called Mercy"
The Half-Face Man	"Deep Breath"
Mr Halpen	"Planet of the Ood"
Yvonne Hartman	"Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday"	Director of the Torchwood Institute.
Hawthorne	"The Beast Below"	Creator and leader of the Smilers and Winders.
Heather	"The Pilot"	Sentient oil taking the form of a student, proven benign. Reappeared as an ally in "The Doctor Falls".
House	"The Doctor's Wife"	A sentient asteroid.
King Hydroflax	"The Husbands of River Song"
Iraxxa	"Empress of Mars"	An Ice Warrior Empress.
The Jagrafess	"The Long Game"
Sharaz Jek	The Caves of Androzani
Kal	An Unearthly Child
Madame Karabraxos	"Time Heist"
King Goblin	"The Church on Ruby Road"	Leader of the goblins.
Lord Kiv	Mindwarp
Madame Kovarian	"A Good Man Goes to War" "The Wedding of River Song"	Allied with the Headless Monks in A Good Man Goes to War.
Krasko	"Rosa"
Kroagnon	Paradise Towers
The Landlord	"Knock Knock"
Professor Lazarus	"The Lazarus Experiment"
Leandro	"The Woman Who Lived"
John Lumic	"Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel"
Maestro	"The Devil's Chord"	Child of the Celestial Toymaker.
Malus	The Awakening
Mara	See Mara (Doctor Who) § List of appearances
The Master / Missy	See The Master (Doctor Who) § List of appearances
Mawdryn	Mawdryn Undead
Meglos	Meglos
Monarch	Four to Doomsday
The Monk	The Time Meddler The Daleks' Master Plan	The Monk has made several appearances in audio stories produced by Big Finish with the role being played at various times by Graeme Garden, Rufus Hound and Gemma Whelan. Other actors have taken on the role when the Monk is in disguise. The order of the Monk's incarnations is left intentionally unclear during their appearances, with the character suggesting that meddling with time has rewritten their existence so often that even they don't know which order they exist in.
Morbius	The Brain of Morbius
Morgaine	Battlefield
Morgus	The Caves of Androzani
The Nestene Consciousness	"Rose"	Creator of the Autons.
Odin	"The Girl Who Died"	Leader of the Mire, posing as the Norse god Odin.
Omega	See Omega (Doctor Who) § List of appearances
Pangol	The Leisure Hive
Prisoner Zero	"The Eleventh Hour"
The Racnoss Empress	"The Runaway Bride"	Empress of the Racnoss.
Rakaya	"Can You Hear Me?"
The Rani	See The Rani (Doctor Who) § List of appearances
Rassilon	See Rassilon § List of appearances
Gagan Rassmussen	"Sleep No More"	Assumed identity of a Sandman.
Restac	"Cold Blood"	A Silurian. Restac doesn't appear in "The Hungry Earth", the first episode of the two-part story, whose antagonist was Restac's sister Alaya.
Jack Robertson	"Arachnids in the UK" "Revolution of the Daleks"
Sabbath	See Sabbath (Doctor Who) § List of appearances
Scaroth / Count Scarlioni	City of Death	Last of the Jagaroth.
The Sheriff of Nottingham	"Robot of Sherwood"
Sil	See Sil (Doctor Who) § List of appearances "Vengeance on Varos" "Mindwarp"
The Siren	"The Curse of the Black Spot"	Ultimately proven benign, being a virtual doctor for a spaceship.
Skagra	Shada
Grand Marshal Skaldak	"Cold War"	An Ice Warrior.
Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen	"Aliens of London"/"World War Three"	One of the Slitheen.
The Shadow	The Armageddon Factor
Queen Skithra	"Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"
Soldeed	The Horns of Nimon
Solomon	"Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"
General Staal	"The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky"	Sontaran general.
General Stark	Dreamland	Switches allegiance and sides with the Doctor from the end of episode 4.
Styggron	The Android Invasion
Lord Sutcliffe	"Thin Ice"
Swarm	Flux
Mr Sweet	"The Crimson Horror"
Tecteun / Awsok	"The Timeless Children" "Once, Upon Time" "Survivors of the Flux"
Timewyrm	See Timewyrm § List of appearances	Recurring villain from the Virgin New Adventures spin-off novels .
The Toymaker	The Celestial Toymaker "The Giggle"
The Trickster	The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith	Leader of The Trickster's Brigade. See also: List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens (Q–Z) § The Trickster
Professor Tryst	Nightmare of Eden
Tzim-Sha / Tim Shaw	"The Woman Who Fell to Earth" "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos"
Valeyard	See Valeyard § List of appearances
Tobias Vaughn	The Invasion
Veil	"Heaven Sent"	An unnamed creation of the Doctor's confession dial, designed to evoke confessions from the Doctor. Credited in the episode as "Veil".
The War Chief	The War Games
The War Lord	The War Games
Weng-Chiang / Magnus Greel	Television: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Novel: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang Audio play: The Butcher of Brisbane
The Wire	"The Idiot's Lantern"
WOTAN	The War Machines
Queen Xanxia	The Pirate Planet
Professor Zaroff	The Underwater Menace
Zellin	"Can You Hear Me?"

See also

• List of Doctor Who supporting characters
• List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens
• List of Doctor Who robots
• List of Torchwood characters
• List of The Sarah Jane Adventures minor characters

External links

• The Bumper Book of Doctor Who Monsters, Villains & Alien Species