Q most often refers to:

• "Q", the code-name of the quartermaster of the British Secret Service (SIS/MI6).

Characters

Literary characters

• Q (Literary), the resident armourer at SIS; created for Ian Fleming's novel Dr. No (1958).
• Q (Dynamite), a reimagining of the quartermaster for Dynamite Entertainment's comics.

Cinematic characters

• Major Boothroyd (Peter Burton), the 1st iteration of EON Productions' "Q" character (1962).
• Q (Desmond Llewelyn), the 2nd iteration ... (1963-99).
• Q (John Cleese), the 3rd iteration ... (2002).
• Q (Ben Whishaw), the current iteration ... (2012-Present).
• Q (Geoffrey Bayldon), a character in the spoof film, Casino Royale (1967).
• Q (Alec McCowen), the Secret Service's quartermaster in Never Say Never Again (1983).

Video game characters

• Q (Gregg Berger), an iteration of the quartermaster from Nightfire (2002).

Misc. characters

• The Armourer (Peter Capaldi), a portrayal of Fleming's character in Jarvis and Ayres' 2008 radio adaptation.
• Q (Julian Sands), a retroactive insertion of EON's character into Jarvis and Ayres' 007 radio dramatisations.

Literature

• Q Manual, a 1983 supplementary book detailing equipment in the James Bond role-playing game.

Organisations

• Q, an abbreviation of "Q Branch" in Fleming's first novel Casino Royale (1953).

See also

• Q'ute, the nickname of Ann Reilly, assistant to the armourer in John Gardner's literary continuity.

• Sanu Hirani, the head of "Q Branch" in Jeffery Deaver's novel Carte Blanche (2011).

• Geoffrey Boothroyd, a firearms expert and the inspiration for the character Major Boothroyd.