List of demigods

This is a list of those deemed demigods.

Traditional demigods

• Abhimanyu incarnation of Varchas, son of moon god Chandra
• Achilles born of mortal man and the nymph goddess Thetis
• Aeacus
• Aeneas, son of Venus.
• King Aeëtes, son of sun god Helios.
• Agenor, son of Poseidon
• Aethusa, daughter of Poseidon
• Alpheus
• Amphion, son of Zeus
• Arcas, son of Zeus
• Arjuna son of king of all gods, the thunder-god Indra & incarnation of Nara
• Ashwathama contained spark of the great god Rudra god of cosmic destruction and universal dissolution
• Asklepios (also known Asclepius) son of the sun god Apollo
• Athis
• Babruvāhana
• Bali
• Bellerophon, son of Poseidon.
• Belus
• Bhima son of god of air and wind Vayu
• Bhishma incarnation of celestial god and king of Vasus
• Calais, son of the north wind and winter god Boreas.
• Cu Chulainn
• Clymene
• Cychreus, son of Poseidon
• Cycnus
• Cymopoleia, daughter of Poseidon
• Dardanus
• Dhristadyumna materialised out of a ritual fire-altar, quasi incarnation of fire-god Agni
• Dionysus son of Zeus which turned into a god.
• Drona contained spark of Brihaspati
• Eirene, daughter of Poseidon.
• Endymion, son of Zeus.
• Epaphus
• The fifty daughters of Selene and Endymion.
• Ghatotkacha born of a demigod and a demoness
• Gilgamesh
• Hanuman
• Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus.
• Heracles (also known by the Roman spelling, Hercules), son of Zeus/Jupiter and later the god of heroes.
• Hippolyta daughter of the god of war Ares.
• Iasion
• Iravan
• Karna son of sun-god Surya
• Kritavarma
• Lakshmana incarnation of great dragon god Ananta
• Macaria, daughter of Hades which turned into a goddess.
• Māui (Maori) (New Zealand)
• Memnon
• Minos, son of Zeus
• Nakula son of one of the god Ashvini Kumaras
• Otrera daughter of the east wind Eurus.
• Orpheus
• Peirithous
• Perseus, son of Zeus
• Phineas, son of Poseidon
• Polydeuces of the Dioscuri
• Pradyumna incarnation of Sanatkumara
• Rhadamanthus
• Rhesus of Thrace
• Romulus and Remus sons of Mars
• Sahadeva son of one of the god Ashvini Kumaras
• Sarpedon
• Satyaki
• Semele daughter of Harmonia. Mother of Dionysus.
• Shantanu
• Shikhandi
• Sugreeva
• Theseus, son of sea god Poseidon.
• Tityas
• Turnus
• Vali
• Viviana
• Yudhisthira son of god of death and justice Yama
• Zetes, son of Boreas.
• Zethus

Non-Greek figures who claimed a demigod type status

• Several mythical Chinese Emperors were born humans, but deified upon "death"
• Roman Emperor Commodus claimed to be reincarnation of Hercules
• Jesus claimed to be son of Abrahamic god Jehovah
• Hong Xiuquan claimed to be Son of God and brother of Jesus, but to not be God himself
• Japanese Emperors claimed to be Arahitogami until Emperor Hirohito was forced to renounce this in 1946
• Adapa was a mortal from a godly lineage, a son of Ea (Enki in Sumerian), the god of wisdom and of the ancient city of Eridu, who brought the arts of civilization to that city (from Dilmun, according to some versions)
• Kings of the Mataram empire (now the Sunanate of Surakarta & sultanate of Yogyakarta) claim to be descendants of the Goddess of the Southsea

Nyai Roro Kidul The 16th century Javanese legends connects the Queen of Southern Seas as the protector and spiritual consort of the kings of Mataram

In fiction

• Various adaptations of Hercules and Perseus
• Xena of Xena: Warrior Princess was occasionally hinted to be the daughter of either Zeus, Ares or Hades
• Kratos, from the God of War video game series, is revealed during the second game's storyline to be the son of Zeus, though this was originally beyond Kratos' knowledge, this ignores the events of an unlockable video in the first game, where Kratos visits his mother and learns of his origins
• Zuul, a minion of Gozer in the film Ghostbusters, is described as a demigod by Peter Venkman
• In Warcraft III, the Night Elves are led by a demigod called Cenarius
• In the game Devil May Cry, the Main protagonist Dante is the "Son of Sparda". Sparda is a demon who rose up against the god of the underworld.
• Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark) from DC Comics has been revealed to be the daughter of Zeus
• In Supernatural (U.S. TV series), the archangel Gabriel claims to be a demigod by the name Loki when first met.
• The Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus books by Rick Riordan feature many modern-day demigods from Greek and Roman Mythology:
  • Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon.
  • Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena.
  • Luke Castellan, son of Hermes.
  • Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, and Greek sister of Jason.
  • Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares.
  • Nico di Angelo, son of Hades.
  • Castor and Pollux, sons of Dionysus.
  • Bianca di Angelo, daughter of Hades and sister of Nico di Angelo.
  • Charles Beckendorf, son of Hephaestus.
  • Silena Beauregard, daughter of Aphrodite.
  • Chris Rodriguez, son of Hermes.
  • Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, and Roman brother of Thalia.
  • Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite, half-sister of Silena Beauregarde.
  • Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus, and half-brother of Charles Beckendorf and the rest of the Hephaestus cabin..
  • Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto and Roman half-sister of Nico and Bianca.
  • Frank Zhang, son of Mars.
• Taven, Daegon and Rain are demigods in Mortal Kombat. they are the three sons of Argus who is an Edenian god and separate human women.
• The Shrykull, from the Oddworld series, is a demigod of the Mudokons that is a combination of a Scrab and Paramite. Other than Abe being able to transform into the Shrykull, using ancient hand scars, to obliterate any living creature nearby, almost nothing is known about this mysterious demigod.