Mice

• Algernon in Flowers for Algernon
• Basil in The Great Mouse Detective
• Benjy mouse and Frankie mouse in Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, two members of the species which has ordered the Magratheans to construct planet Earth
• Bernard & Bianca in The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under
• The lead cast of Biker Mice From Mars
• The Brain and Pinky in the cartoon Pinky and the Brain
• the Brisby family in The Secret of NIMH (see also the Frisby family, below)
• Charlie Mouse, Eddie Mouse, Janey Mouse, Jenny Mouse, Lizzie Mouse, and Willy Mouse in Bagpuss
• Chuck E. Cheese
• Dangermouse
• Eckhart in Eckhart
• Fievel Mousekewitz in An American Tail and its sequels
• the Frisby family in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (see also Brisby family, above)
• Gadget Hackwrench in Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
• Gus and Jacques in Disney's Cinderella
• Henrietta Mouse
• Hubie and Bertie in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
• Ignatz Mouse in Krazy Kat
• Itchy in The Itchy & Scratchy Show, the show-within-a-show on The Simpsons
• Mr. Jingles, who befriends Delacroix in The Green Mile
• Jerry in Tom and Jerry
• the mice of Art Spiegelman's Maus
• Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse
• Mighty Mouse
• Minute Mouse in Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse
• Monterey Jack in Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
• Mortimer Mouse in Outland
• Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse
• The Mouse King in the ballet The Nutcracker
• Mushmouse in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Mushmouse and Punkin Puss
• Pixie and Dixie included in Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound Show
• The anonymous mice in Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester
• The mice of Brian Jacques' Redwall series
• Reepicheep in C. S. Lewis' Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• Roquefort in The Aristocats
• Scurry and Sniff in Who Moved My Cheese?
• Sniffles in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
• Snowberry in the children's book Ereth's Birthday
• Speedy Gonzales
• Stuart Little
• Three Blind Mice in the nursery rhyme of that name
• Tillie Mousekewitz in An American Tail and its sequels
• Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo
• Tony Toponi in An American Tail
• Topo Gigio the favorite puppet on the Ed Sullivan show
• Vera the mouse
• Mouse in the German TV show Die Sendung mit der Maus (1971)

The Clangers resemble mice, but are apparently much bigger. The Wombles are also large rat-resembling creatures, in the British series of the same name.

Rats

• Basil, Manuel's pet "hamster" in Fawlty Towers
• The Death of Rats in the Discworld novels
• The Educated Rodents in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
• Gregory, Gregory Mama, and James in Gregory Horror Show
• Lester in Beakman's World
• Mike and Fetcher in Chicken Run
• The Rat in The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights by John Masefield
• Ratbert, a co-employee of Dilbert
• the Rats of NIMH in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (filmed as The Secret of NIMH) and sequels
• The rats of Brian Jacques' Redwall series
• Roland Rat, British TV presenter
• "Roger", a rat who was turned into Cinderella's page boy in Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat!
• Samuel and Anna Maria Whiskers in The Tale of Samuel Whiskers by Beatrix Potter
• Scabbers in the first three books in the Harry Potter series
• Splinter, (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Templeton in Charlotte's Web
• Willard and Ben in the films of the same names
• Vampy , a former German TV presenter
• the Rumbles, sworn enemies of The Borribles

See also

• Mouse
• Rat