Traditional demigods[edit]

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 Aetes, 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

Babruvhana

Bali (Also, Mahabali)

Bellerophon, son of Poseidon.

Belus

Bhima son of god of air and wind Vayu

Bhishma son of the River Goddess, Ganga fathered by a mortal King and also incarnation of
king of Vasus(celestial gods of Nature)
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 son of fire-god Agni. Draupadi's
brother
Dionysus son of Zeus which turned into a god.
Draupadi materialised out of a ritual fire-altar, quasi daughter of fire-god Agni.
Dhristadyumna's sister

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

Jesus Son of Yahweh.

Karna son of sun-god Surya

Kritavarma

Lakshmana incarnation of great dragon god Ananta

Macaria, daughter of Hades which turned into a goddess.

Mui (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

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 son of Sun God, Surya

Theseus, son of sea god Poseidon.

Tityas

Turnus

Vali son of king of all gods, the thunder-god Indra

Viviana

Yudhisthira son of the God of Death and Justice Yama

Zetes, son of Boreas.

Zethus

Non-Greek figures who claimed a demigod type status[edit]

Several mythical Chinese Emperors were born humans, but deified upon "death"

Roman Emperor Commodus claimed to be reincarnation of Hercules

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[edit]

Various adaptations of Hercules and Perseus

The Legend of Hercules 2014 Hercules also known Alcides was born from Zeus and Queen
Alcmene to avenge her husband king Amphitryon.

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 modernday demigods from Greek and Roman Mythology:

Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon.

Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena.

Kadin Stanley, son of Hades

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.

Reyna, daughter of Bellona, and sister of Hylla

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.

In the Starcrossed Trilogy by Josephine Angelini:

Lucas Delos, descendant of Apollo

Hector Delos, descendant of Apollo

Cassandra Delos, daughter of the Fates

Ariadne Delos, descendant of Apollo

Jason Delos, descendant of Apollo

Helen Hamilton/Atreus, descendant of Zeus and sister to Aphrodite

Orion Evander, descendant of Aphrodite and Poseidon

Castor Delos, descendant of Apollo

Pallas Delos, descendant of Apollo

Tantalus Delos, descendant of Apollo

Creon Delos, descendant of Apollo

Pandora Delos, descendant of Apollo

Daphne Atreus, descendant of Zeus

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