Phileas Fogg

Phileas Fogg
Around the World in Eighty Days character
Phileas Fogg by Alphonse de Neuville & Léon Benett (1873)
Created by	Jules Verne
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Gender	Male
Spouse(s)	Aouda (wife)
Nationality	British

Phileas Fogg is the protagonist in the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days.

Fogg attempts to circumnavigate the late Victorian world in 80 days or fewer, for a wager of £20,000 (£2 million in 2016) with members of London's Reform Club. He is accompanied by his French servant Jean Passepartout and followed by a detective named Fix, who suspects Fogg of having robbed the Bank of England and in the second half of the book helps Fogg in order to get him back to England. While in India, Fogg saves a widowed princess, Aouda, from sati during her husband's funeral and she accompanies Fogg for the rest of his journey. She and Fogg eventually fall in love and marry at the end of the book.

In Albert Robida's Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul (1879), he appears in the narrative having gone on an attempt to travel the world again, this time in 77 days. Here, he is portrayed as a serial savior of ladies, having over three hundred rescued women accompanying him on his travels (which have lasted well over 3 years by the time he is introduced).

In Philip Jose Farmer's The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, he is said to be Eridanean, a member of the (ostensibly) more benevolent of two extraterrestrial factions attempting to control the Earth. Fogg is a member of Farmer's Wold Newton family. Furthermore, in "The Lavalite World" (chapter 8), Farmer strongly implies that Paul Janus Finnegan, the hero of The World of Tiers series, is the great grandson of Fogg. Fogg is mentioned briefly in James A. Owen's novel, Here, There Be Dragons, after the characters have a run-in with Captain Nemo and the Nautilus.