Robert Langdon

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Professor Robert Langdon
Prof. Robert Langdon portrayed by Tom Hanks in Angels & Demons
First appearance	Angels & Demons (2000)
Last appearance	Origin (2017)
Created by	Dan Brown
Portrayed by	Tom Hanks (film series) Ashley Zukerman (The Lost Symbol)
Voiced by	Robert Clotworthy
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Title	Professor
Occupation	Professor of Religious Iconology and Symbology at Harvard University
Family	Unnamed father (deceased)
Relatives	Howard Langdon (great-grandfather)

Robert Langdon is a fictional character created by author Dan Brown for his Robert Langdon book series: Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017).^[1] He is a Harvard University professor of Religious Iconology and "symbology" (a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols, which is not methodologically connected to the actual discipline of semiotics).

Tom Hanks portrays Langdon in the Robert Langdon film series, starting with the 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, reprising the role in the 2009 film adaptation of Angels & Demons, and again in the 2016 film adaptation of Inferno,^[2] while Ashley Zukerman plays a younger version of the character in the TV series, The Lost Symbol.