Elijah Baley

Elijah "Lije" Baley is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's ''Robot'' series. He is the main character of the novels ''The Caves of Steel'', ''The Naked Sun'' and ''The Robots of Dawn'', and of the short story "Mirror Image." He is seen in flashbacks several times and talked about frequently in ''Robots and Empire'', which is set roughly 160 years after his death. He is further mentioned in passing in "Foundation and Earth" as a "Culture Hero". Besides Asimov's works he appears in the ''Foundation's Friends'' story "Strip-Runner" by Pamela Sargent, and "Isaac Asimov's 'The Caves of Steel'" poem by Randall Garrett. Provided by Wikipedia