Ethan Winters is a fictional character in the Resident Evil video game series by Capcom. Ethan was introduced as one of the playable characters in the 2017 video game Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, in which he is depicted as an ordinary civilian searching for his missing wife within a dilapidated estate in Louisiana. He is also the protagonist of the 2021 sequel Resident Evil Village.
Originally designed as an unseen everyman to foster the player's identification with him as the main character of Resident Evil 7, Capcom intended to shape Ethan from a blank state into a more defined character in Village. The character is voiced by Hidenobu Kiuchi in Japanese and Todd Soley in English. The character received a generally favorable reception from video game publications, though some commentators expressed a preference for a more expressive or properly developed personality as the player character.