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Chun the Inescapable, Rhialto the Marvelous, and others - from Jack Vance's Dying Earth stories.
Crispinophur is the wizard that helped King Graham in the King's Quest computer game series created by Roberta Williams and produced by the game company Sierra Entertainment.
The Dean of Unseen University in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is not named, but is a senior wizard and recurring character.
Doctor Strange is a wizard superhero and Sorcerer Supreme in the Marvel Universe. Doctor Fate is the DC Universe equivalent.
Elminster - featured in many of the Forgotten Realms fantasy novels and RPGs.
Elric of Melniboné - often called a sorcerer or a wizard - from Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné and its sequels.
Fizban is the mortal avatar of the god Paladine from the Dragonlance fantasy novels.
Gandalf, Saruman and Radagast - from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - are called Wizards, but are really supernatural entities. In the Middle-earth legendarium, "wizard" is a term applied only to the five members of the Order of the Istari; the term "wizard" could never be applied to a human, and a human magic user is simply called a sorcerer. The other two wizards are Pallando and Alatar the Blue Wizards.
Gareth Yaztromo is a major wizard in the world of Titan, which was created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
J. Wellington Wells ("a dealer in magic and spells") - the eponymous Sorcerer of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, who also features in two books by Tom Holt.
Mondain was the villainous wizard of the first Ultima game.
Mordenkainen was the greatest wizard in the Greyhawk fantasy series by Wizards of the Coast.
Obi-Wan Kenobi, as a master of the Force, has some wizard-like attributes in George Lucas' Star Wars films: "That wizard's just a crazy old man" said Uncle Owen to Luke Skywalker in Episode IV: A New Hope.
Ponder Stibbons is the Head of Inadvisably Applied Magic at Unseen University in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
Pug (also known as Milamber) is the wizard protagonist of the fantasy books by Raymond E. Feist.
Mustrum Ridcully - Archancellor of Unseen University throughout most of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
Ningauble of the Seven Eyes and Sheelba of the Eyeless Face are the sorcerous advisors for Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, in Fritz Leiber's Swords series. They are (apparently) unhuman, and they aid (in other words, complicate the lives of) the two rogue heroes.
Rincewind - strictly a "Wizzard" (it says so on his hat) and the wizards of Unseen University - from many of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
The evil entity Randall Flagg from author Stephen King's works occasionally appears as a wizard, notably in the novel Eyes of the Dragon.
Sparrowhawk or Ged - from Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea and its sequels.
Tim Hunter, the young wizard in the Books of Magic comic by Neil Gaiman and others.
Ulrich the Necromancer is a famous heroic-fantasy wizard.
The eponymous character of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a stage magician pretending to be a genuine wizard; in the 1939 movie version the wizard was also a fake. However, in later Oz stories, he studies magic with Glinda and becomes a genuine wizard.
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