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The best adventurers in cinema

Best movie adventurers

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0commentsUpdated on 10/06/2026 at 12:00 PM

Indiana Jones1397

The worldwide ranking generated by 231 votes

32 / 32

Indiana Jones1397

Tintin1301

Rick O'Connell1286

Thomas Edward Lawrence1264

Nathan Drake1255

Phileas Fogg1253

Marion Ravenwood1250

Chuck Noland1239

Dora1228

#10

Benjamin Gates1219

#11

Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell1214

#12

Hugh Glass1212

#13

Lara Croft1211

#14

Jean Passepartout1209

#15

Trevor Anderson1199

#16

Crocodile Dundee1193

#17

Yossi Ghinsberg1185

#18

Allan Quatermain1180

#19

John Dolittle1180

#20

Adèle Blanc-Sec1172

#21

Flynn Carson1167

#22

Jack Driscoll1162

#23

Sean Anderson1158

#24

Tarzan1151

#25

Sam Lion1147

#26

The Drover1146

#27

Ann Darrow1146

#28

Dirk Pitt1119

#29

Hank Parsons1117

#30

Jack Colton1112

#31

Percival Fawcett1102

#32

Christopher McCandless1092

What the community says

Discover the ranking of cinema's best adventurers: Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, Tintin, Tarzan and so many more heroes…

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.