Fictitious hero inhabiting the African rainforest, created by US writer Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzan of the Apes 1914, with numerous sequels. He and his partner Jane have featured in films, comic strips, and television series.
Tarzan, raised by apes from infancy, is in fact a British peer, Lord Greystoke. He has enormous physical strength and the ability to communicate with animals. Jane Porter, an American, falls in love with him while on safari and elects to stay.
A man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs; Also called: Tarzan of the Apes.