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This is a list of characters from the Inspector Rebus series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Ian Rankin. They are all fictional characters that have appeared in more than one novel in the series. A number of the characters appeared in the television adaptations made for ITV.

Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series. He was born in 1947 in Fife and left school at the age of fifteen to join the Army. After serving in Northern Ireland he applied to undergo selection for the SAS, but after a horrendous ordeal in training, left the army and joined the Lothian and Borders Police.

He is initially introduced as a Detective Sergeant, and is promoted to Detective Inspector early in the series.

Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke is the secondary protagonist in the Rebus series. Her given name is represented in IPA /ʃɨˈvɔːn/. She first appears in The Black Book as a newly promoted Detective Constable. She is the more technically minded of the two detectives, and often has to do lots of the legwork for Rebus. She is promoted to Detective Sergeant by the time of Resurrection Men. In the television dramatisations, Clarke was first played by Gayanne Potter, and Claire Price in the later series.

Clarke is younger than most of her colleagues, and her English background, degree and middle-class, left-wing parents set her apart from the other officers on the force. Despite this she has gained Rebus's friendship, with occasional hints of romantic interest. She is a devoted follower of Hibernian Football Club.

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