Dr. Evil, played by Mike Myers, is the chief villain of the Austin Powers series of films. He is intended as a parody of James Bond villains, particularly Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He is bald, wears a gray Nehru Jacket jumpsuit, and has a son named Scott. He also has a clone called Mini-Me, who is 1/8th his size. His home town is Bruges, located in Belgium.

"The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims... like, he invented the question mark... My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon... luge lessons... When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really."

His real name is Douglas "Dougie" Powers, and he is in fact Austin Powers' brother—a fact revealed in the third Austin Powers film.