the most infamous character in literature

[cacian]

who according to you is the most infamous character in the whole of literature to date?

[desiresjab]

Macbess is pretty far up there. But I have a feeling it is one of the Gods, like Jehovah. I am partial to Livia in Robert Graves' I Claudius, though she is not the most infamous but only one of the wickedest, most cunning characters I can remember.

[Danik 2016]

The list of them is unending. The fact is IMO that the action based narratives need at least one good villain to get going.
Without the fuel of villany the story gets boring.
But yes, I think develish as suggested below sums them all up.

[YesNo]

There is that guy that kept bothering Harry Potter. I can't remember his name, so he is probably not infamous enough.

[Lokasenna]

Satan?

[cacian]

Satan?
I thought of Lucifer.
it may well be.

[sandy14]

Lightborn in Edward II?

[Poetaster]

Satan, I'd certainly agree.