This is a list of literary characters with nine fingers.

• Frodo Baggins, from The Lord of the Rings had one finger bitten off by Gollum and was known thereafter as "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"
• Margo Tenenbaum (played in the film version by Gwyneth Paltrow), the brilliant playwriter of The Royal Tenenbaums
• Nadia Cherneschevsky, the constructions engineer of the Mars Trilogy of Kim Stanley Robinson
• Peter Pettigrew, friend of Harry Potter's father. This fact is not revealed until the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
• Rosie, in Rosie and the Dance of the Dinosaurs - a children's book about a child with nine fingers
• Sauron, from The Lord of the Rings book, during the time he took physical form, who had his ring finger cut off by Isildur.
• Tim, from Eric Bogosian's play, Suburbia , and the movie of the same name, cut off one finger in order to be discharged from the US Air Force.
• The narrator in A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving had his right index finger cut off by his best friend in an effort to prevent the narrator from being drafted during the Vietnam War.

See also

• Polydactyly - List of polydactyl people