Global InformationList of Doctor Who villains information
This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. For other, related lists, see below.
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| Villain | Appearance(s) | Notes |
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| 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. |
| Animus | The Web Planet | |
| Ashad |
"The Power of the Doctor" |
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| 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 |
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| Bennett | The Rescue | |
| Black Guardian |
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| Margaret Blaine / Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen |
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One of the Slitheen. |
| Borad | Timelash | |
| Borusa |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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" | |
| Lord Kiv | Mindwarp | |
| Madame Kovarian |
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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. |
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| 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 | |
| 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 |
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| Timewyrm | See Timewyrm § List of appearances | Recurring villain from the Virgin New Adventures spin-off novels . |
| The Toymaker | The Celestial Toymaker "The Giggle" |
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| The Trickster |
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| Professor Tryst | Nightmare of Eden | |
| Tzim-Sha / Tim Shaw |
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| 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 |
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| 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?" |
- ^ Banfield-Nwachi, Mabel (14 September 2023). "Miriam Margolyes to star as 'the Meep' in Doctor Who 60th-anniversary series". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 14 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.