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Dr. Daniel Faraday, often referred to as Dan or simply by his surname, Faraday, is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jeremy Davies. Faraday is introduced in the season 4 premiere as a physicist, suffering from memory loss, and is part of the team aboard the freighter Kahana that is offshore the island. Throughout the series, Faraday plays an important role by sharing his knowledge of time travel. After time traveling to 1977, Faraday is unknowingly shot and killed by his mother Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan). By some people, he was thought to be the representation of free-will in the underlying free-will vs. fate battle throughout the show.

Daniel is the son of Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore (Alan Dale), both Others. Eloise raised Daniel on her own, hiding the identity of his father from him and pushing him to develop his scientific mind, much to the detriment of his social life and casual pursuits. After graduating from University of Oxford with his girlfriend Theresa Spencer, Daniel is offered a £1.5 million grant by industrialist Charles Widmore. In the 1990s, Daniel starts working as a physicist at The Queen's College, Oxford, with experiments involving sending a subject's consciousness through time. His initial tests on lab rats resulted in their eventual deaths, which contribute to him abandoning his studies. During his tenure, Daniel encounters Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick), who suffers from temporal displacement trapping him between 2004 and 1996. Daniel helps Desmond stop the temporal displacements and this encounter has a profound effect on Daniel, reaffirming the legitimacy of his time-displacement theories and prompting him to resume his abandoned experiments. Daniel eventually performs similar experiments on Theresa, but ends up suffering from temporal displacement as Desmond had and eventually falls into a coma. Oxford expells Daniel as a result and quietly removed all references to Daniel ever being at the university. At some point, Daniel also performed an experiment upon himself, resulting in long-term memory damage. While in Essex, Massachusetts, Daniel watches a news report covering the discovery of the apparent wreckage Oceanic Flight 815 in the depths of the Sunda Trench. Widmore approaches Daniel and convinces him to go to the island, which will heal him of his plight. At first, Daniel is reluctant, but Eloise convinces him to go.

Faraday first arrives on the island on December 23, 2004. After setting foot on the island, Faraday's memory problem slowly diminished. He then encounters the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, who are believed to be dead by the world at large. After reuniting with Charlotte, Faraday sneaks off with her to the Tempest Dharma Initiative station, where they neutralize a potential source of poison gas. Later, the corpse of the freighter's doctor washes ashore. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) confronts Faraday and he is forced to confess the freighter was not sent to the island to rescue the survivors. Around this time, Daniel realizes the Secondary Protocol has been activated by Widmore, necessitating their immediate departure from the island. Faraday begins to ferry survivors to the freighter, but Charlotte and Miles choose to remain on the island. Daniel and five survivors are caught midway between the Kahana and the island when the former explodes and the latter is "moved" by Ben Linus.

When Ben causes the island to vanish, Charlotte, Faraday and the remaining survivors begin to randomly travel through time. After the survivors are sent to the past, Faraday lures Desmond out of the Swan Dharma Initiative station, telling him to find Daniel's mother once he is off the island. Upon jumping further to the past, Faraday and the group are captured by the Others in 1954. The Others mistake them as military personnels and Faraday is forced to disable a hydrogen bomb labelled "Jughead". During this time period, he confesses his love for Charlotte. After telling the Others that they must bury the bomb, the survivors experience a further time jump. The time jumps cause Charlotte to experience nosebleeds and headaches, and she collapses. As she dies, Charlotte relays to Faraday she now remembers living on the island as a child, and she recognizes Faraday as the man who told her not to return once she left the island. After John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) stops the time jumps, the remaining survivors end up stranded in 1974. Faraday and his group move into the Barracks and under false pretenses, join the DHARMA Initiative. Despite the option to board the DHARMA submarine and "go back to the real world", the survivors from 2004 stay on the island together in the hope that they can somehow return to the time that they knew and Faraday becomes a scientist for DHARMA. Faraday then leaves the island and joins the DHARMA headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Daniel Faraday has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.