Emma Peel (Diana Rigg edition), from The Avengers

I've had a crush on this woman since I was a kid.

The reader may imagine, perhaps, that my young man was sickly, exalted, an undersized (small), puny (thin), pale, and consumptive dreamer. Just the opposite was true: Alyosha was then the picture of health, a sturdy (strong), red-cheeked, clear-eyeed nineteen-year-old boy. He was very handsome, too, and slender, above average height, with dark-brown hair, a regular although rather long face, and shiny dark-gray wide-set eyes, which gave a thoughtful and serene (calm) look.

– Dostoevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov, Book I, Chapter Five, p.32

His personality is remarkably unselfish, extremely mature in his religious faith, sensitive to other people's feelings, and loving - "he certainly loved people: throughout his life he seemed to believe in people and to trust them, and yet no one ever thought him simple-minded or naive. There was something in him (and it stayed with him all his life) that made people realize that he refused to sit in judgment on others, that he felt he had no right to, and that, whatever happened, he would never condemn anyone." He passes on the influence of Zosima to the "younger generation" (the schoolboys) of the town. Even with all his kind goodness, he has a gentle personality that makes almost everybody love him and feel comfortable around him. Proud young Kolya Krasotkin says that the best thing about Alyosha is that he treats him like "an equal".

For me it's:

1)Gregory House
2)Mulder(X-files)
3)Louis Pointdulac (Interview with a vampire)
4)Jack Sparrow
5)Severus snape

Aragorn from Lord of the Rings. I remember being terrified before the first movie came out that their version wouldn't live up to my expectations. While not exactly how I imagined him, they pretty much got it right. Seriously, if they'd destroyed the vision I had of "my" Aragorn, the whole movie series would have been ruined for me. I even created Sims of Aragorn and me in the first version of the Sims. We lived in a huge castle, I wore a pretty princess dress, and he walked around looking handsome all day. Our hobbit friends lived down the road.

Runner-up would have to be Rick O'Connell from the Mummy movies.

even though he's old and dirty and nasty. lol. damn my emotional brain.

And needless to say, Atticus Finch.

When I first read the book as a pre-teen, Atticus didn't make the strongest impression on my mind--Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell and Bob Ewell did. When I reread it as a teen/young adult, Atticus, Boo and Miss Maudie became the main characters for me. It's interesting how books grow up with you (or is it the other way around?).