In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, Dennis Nedry is portrayed as a greedy and slovenly computer programmer hired by InGen to oversee the park's security systems. Driven by financial desperation and resentment over his low salary, he accepted a $1.5 million bribe from rival corporation BioSyn to smuggle dinosaur embryos off Isla Nublar in a modified shaving cream can.

Dr. Alan Grant is a fictional world-renowned paleontologist and the primary protagonist of the Jurassic Park franchise, portrayed by Sam Neill in the film adaptations. Based on real-life paleontologist Jack Horner, Grant is depicted as a rugged, hands-on field researcher who specializes in deinonychosaurian evolution and the theory that birds are descendants of theropod dinosaurs.