For: The Miser

Famous misers in history

• Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, 2nd Baron d'Aguilar – an eccentric Jewish nobleman.
• Andrew Carnegie – Scottish born American industrialist, was notoriously "thrifty" until his old age, when he endowed numerous charities, including the New York Public Library. He was infamous for tipping a dime for services rendered, especially when a much larger tip was appropriate.
• The Collyer brothers of New York City, who earned notoriety for living in a filthy, booby-trapped home.
• Hetty Green – Cortland miser – was considered the world's wealthiest woman in 1916.
• Joseph Nollekens – Londoner generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th century, he was also a notorious miser.
• Charles Huffman was a miser from the 1950s in the U.S. He was found dead on a Brooklyn, New York street with no money in his pockets. The police traced him to a $7 per week room that was filled with bank books and more than $500,000 in stock certificates. He was characterized by Franz Lidz, in The New York Times, on October 26, 2003.

List of notable misers in fiction

• Ebenezer Balfour – Scottish, antagonist from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Jack Benny – Jewish American, title character of The Jack Benny Program
• Mr. Briggs – English, guardian of the title character in Cecilia by Frances Burney
• Montgomery Burns - Scottish American, greedy nuclear power plant owner from The Simpsons
• Norbert Colon – British, cartoon character from the adult-orientated comic Viz
• George Costanza – American, one of the main characters in Seinfeld, played by Jason Alexander
• Milburn Drysdale – Scottish American, played by Raymond Bailey in The Beverly Hillbillies TV sitcom
• Henry Earlforward – English, in Arnold Bennet's novel Riceyman Steps (1923)
• Fagin – Jewish Londoner, antagonist from Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist
• Paulie Gualtieri – Italian-American, aka "Paulie Walnuts", DiMeo Crime family capo on The Sopranos
• Grandet – French, father of Eugenie Grandet, a novel by Balzac
• Harpagon – French, from Molière's play The Miser
• Eugene H. Krabs (aka Mr. Krabs) – Bikinian, voiced by Clancy Brown in SpongeBob SquarePants animations
• Otto Lidenbrock – German, professor in the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• Silas Marner – English weaver, George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans) character
• Scrooge McDuck – Scottish American, Walt Disney character voiced by Alan Young; named after Ebenezer Scrooge
• Trina McTeague – Swiss German American, wife of the brute McTeague in Frank Norris' novel
• Fred Mertz – American, played by William Frawley on I Love Lucy
• Mean Mr. Mustard – Indian, title character in a Beatles' song from the album Abbey Road
• Plyushkin – Russian, character from Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls
• Henry F. Potter – American, played by Lionel Barrymore in the film It's a Wonderful Life
• Séraphin Poudrier – French Canadian, in the novel Un homme et son péché by Québécois author Claude-Henri Grignon
• The Baron – Russian, a character from Alexander Pushkin's drama The Miserly Knight, also The Covetous Knight, (Russian: Скупой рыцарь, Skupóy rïtsár)
• Ebenezer Scrooge – English, Charles Dickens character (erroneously based on the real-life Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie, who was not actually a miser)
• Shylock – Jewish Venetian, William Shakespeare character
• The Lady of Stavoren – Dutch, local legend