History Creator / LordByron

'''His women included:'''

* ''Theatre/{{Arcadia}}''

* "The Modern Prometheus", an episode of ''Series/HighlanderTheSeries''

* ''Webcomic/TheThrillingAdventuresOfLovelaceAndBabbage'', though only shows up in the first frame of Ada Lovelace's origin story. Still fitting, though, as he is Ada Lovelace's father.

* The opening to ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'', in which he and Percy Shelley are entertained by Mary Shelley's telling of the narrative of the movie
* ''Literature/TheTwelfthEnchantment'' has Lord Byron involved in a magical conspiracy.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', he appeared to temporarily possess Billy when the [[ItMakesSenseInContext latter was sleepwalking and sucking on Grim's skull]] and act as a form of mentor.
* He appeared in ''Comicbook/TheInvisibles''.
* He appears as a major character in the Regency era Steampunk thriller "Moonlight, Murder & Machinery".
* He is referred to in the works of Creator/HenrikIbsen, and is one of the many candidates for modelling "the unknown passenger" in ''Theatre/PeerGynt''.
* His famous words on freedom, "Yet Freedom, thy banner torn but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind", serves as the motto, and title for the Australian TV series ''Series/AgainstTheWind'', produced in 1979, taking place in Byron´s lifetime (but mostly in Australia).
* A hologram of Byron appears once on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', trying to convince a hologram of UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh. Gandhi responds by recommending that Byron take a cold bath instead.

He is often said to have had a club foot, this particular rumour about him is untrue. He had a limp from birth, but no club foot. He was still an avid athlete, boxing and swimming two of his better known sports.

* Lord Ruthven, the villain protagonist of ''Literature/TheVampyre'' by Lord Byron's doctor John Polidori is said to be [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed modelled on Lord Byron]].

* In ''[[AnneOfGreenGables Anne of the Island]]'' a few lines from "The Isle of Greece" are quoted by the girls. They're all liberal arts college students, and Anne at least is majoring in English, so they'd be well read.

* VampiresAreRich: Was the TropeMaker. No he wasn't a vampire, at least not literally, and he wasn't actually all that rich, given his tendancy to live light-years beyond his means, but, thanks to ''Literature/TheVampyre'', a TakeThat from his frenemy John Polidori, which featured an aristocratic vampire modelled on him called "Lord Ruthven" (a name itself taken from another literary TakeThat on Byron from one of his ex-lovers) he is the originator of the modern, wealthy, noble take on the vampire we know today.

* At the Literature/FatherBrown mistery ''The wrong Shape'', the culprit is a TotalitarianUtilitarian who murders his victim because it was the best course of action to everyone involved (even the victim), and then:

--> ''When I had done it, the extraordinary thing happened. Nature deserted me. I felt ill. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I felt just as if I had done something wrong]]... [[WhatIsThisFeeling What is the matter with me?]]... [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Madness]]... [[WasItReallyWorthIt or can one have remorse]], just as if one were in [[Creator/LordByron Byron’s]] [[ByronicHero poems!]]''

* GorgeousGreek: Byron had a soft spot for female Greek heroines that often had tragic romances with his protagonists such as Haydée in ''Don Juan''. No doubt this was influenced by Philehellenism (love for Greek culture).

* Lady Caroline's cousin, Anne Isabella Milbanke, whom Byron married. The marriage was not happy, but produced one daughter, Ada Byron. Ada later married the Earl of Lovelace, becoming known as "Ada Lovelace". Anne regarded Lord Byron's brooding Romanticism as a form of insanity, and so raised Ada with a focus on logic and mathematics; as a result, Ada came to be interested in the sciences, and worked with Charles Babbage in his development of mechanical computing machines. When Babbage designed his (never-built) Analytical Engine, it was Ada who recognised the possibility that these machines could be used to manipulate any kind of information, and not simply conduct elaborate mathematical calculations; she also wrote the world's first computer program (which was never run, as it was written for the Analytical Engine). She thus became the person after whom the programming language Ada was named in recognition of the oft-overlooked contribution of women to computer science. All at least in part because Lord Byron's wife thought Lord Byron was mad.

His childhood was fertile ground for what he became. His father, Army Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron, of a junior line of moderately old gentry family[[note]]the male-line ancestors of the 1st Baron Byron--Lord Byron's great-great-great uncle--had been knights at least as far back as his great-great-grandfather in the 15th century.[[/note]] married his mother, Catherine Gordon (heiress to the Scottish estate of Gight, in Aberdeenshire), in 1785. By the time George was born in 1788, "Mad Jack" had squandered most of Catherine's money, and she took her son to Aberdeen to eke out an existence on the remaining crumbs and a small trust fund; "Mad Jack" would die of tuberculosis in 1791. When Byron's great-uncle, the 5th Baron Byron, died childless, George, then 10 years old, inherited the title and the family seat at Newstead Abbey--which was a wreck that his mother preferred to rent out to junior gentry. Not that she spent the rent money well--she alternately spoiled George and spoiled herself, could be very stubborn, and was generally lacking in judgment.

* AntiHero: Byron liked these so much that a certain type are often called "Byronic heroes."

* ByronicHero: Obviously.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', he appeared to temporarily possess Billy when the [[ItMakesSenseInContext latter was sleepwalkign and sucking on Grim's skull]] and act as a form of mentor.

* He once appeared as a spirit to give advice to Billy in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.

George Gordon Byron, [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever 6th Baron Byron]] (1788-1824), was a {{Romantic|ism}} poet, womaniser, and revolutionary. He gave his name to the ByronicHero trope, by [[WriteWhoYouKnow writing about Byronic heroes and being one in real life]].

His poems include the semi-autobiographical ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'' and the long NarrativePoem AlternateCharacterInterpretation ''Literature/DonJuan''.

* Augusta Leigh, his half-sister. Augusta (who was married) had a third daughter, Medora Leigh, [[BrotherSisterIncest who may (or may not) be Byron's child]].

* He once appeared as a spirit to give advice to Billy in ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.

This is an incomplete list. In addition, Byron was [[BiTheWay bisexual]], and had homosexual lovers as a young man. He is a good real life example of a GentlemanSnarker.

This is an incomplete list. In addition, Byron was [[AnythingThatMoves bisexual]], and had homosexual lovers as a young man. He is a good real life example of a GentlemanSnarker.

George Gordon Byron, [[KnightFever 6th Baron Byron]] (1788-1824), was a {{Romantic|ism}} poet, womaniser, and revolutionary. He gave his name to the ByronicHero trope, by [[WriteWhoYouKnow writing about Byronic heroes and being one in real life]].