Professor Challenger

Professor Doctor Challenger
The Lost World character
Professor Challenger (seated) as illustrated by Harry Rountree in Arthur Conan Doyle's novella The Poison Belt in The Strand Magazine
Created by	Arthur Conan Doyle
Portrayed by	Wallace Beery Claude Rains John Rhys-Davies Patrick Bergin Peter McCauley Bob Hoskins Bruce Boxleitner Martin W. Payne
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Nationality	Scottish

George Edward Challenger is a fictional character in a series of fantasy and science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Doyle's self-controlled, analytical character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is an aggressive, hot-tempered, dominating figure.

Like Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger was based on a real person—in this case, two people: an explorer named Percy Fawcett, who was Doyle's friend; and a professor of physiology named William Rutherford, who had lectured at the University of Edinburgh while Conan Doyle studied medicine there.^[1][2]