Dave Lister (fictional character)

David Lister
Red Dwarf character
The "Last Human"
First appearance	"The End"
Created by	Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
Portrayed by	Craig Charles
Information
Nickname(s)	Listy, Dave, Skipper, Dave "Cinzano Bianco" Lister, Spanners
Aliases	Lister of Smeg, Cloister the Stupid
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Occupation	Technician, Third Class Bum (self-proclaimed)
Family	Dave Lister (father, himself) Kristine Kochanski (mother)
Spouse(s)	Ech-ech-ech-ech-ech-ech-ech-ech (GELF bride)
Significant other(s)	Kristine Kochanski
Children	Jim Lister and Bexley Lister (in alternate realities) Dave Lister (himself)
Relatives	Adopted by the Wilmot family "Gran" (grandmother)

David "Dave" Lister, commonly referred to simply as Lister, is a fictional character from the British science fiction situation comedy Red Dwarf, portrayed by Craig Charles.

Lister is characterised as a third-class technician (the lowest ranking crewman) on the mining ship Red Dwarf spending his time performing tasks under the hated supervision of Arnold Rimmer. In the series, he becomes marooned three million years into the future, but maintains a long-standing desire to return to Earth and start a farm on Fiji and open a hot dog and doughnut diner, preferably with the one true love of his life, Kristine Kochanski, a navigation officer of Red Dwarf. As a character Lister is lazy, slobbish, and unmotivated, but he frequently shows moral courage. He deeply enjoys Indian food, especially chicken vindaloo, which is a recurring theme in the series.

Lister first appeared in Red Dwarf's first episode "The End" (1988), where he is characterised as third technician on board the mining ship Red Dwarf, ranking below his immediate superior Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie), to whom he shares quarters with, and all four of the service robots as the lowest ranked crew member on board the ship. As a technician, Lister does maintenance work on chicken soup vending machines that not even the robots are assigned to. Lister is shown having smuggled an unquarantined pregnant cat from the moon Titan on board Red Dwarf as part of his five-year plan to buy a farm on Fiji to bring along the cat, the cat's unborn kittens, and to get a sheep and a cow and breed horses. As punishment for this, he is put into stasis for 18 months without pay.