Dhampir
A dhampir is a being in Fantasy literature that is half-vampire and half-human, born from a vampire father and a human mother.
Dhampirs in Fiction
Japanese author Hideyuki Kikuchi has written seventeen novels in his Vampire Hunter D series about a dhampir called "D", who travels across a war-torn land fighting against "The Nobility" (who are actually vampires). There have been two anime based on his books. The first is an adaptation of the original novel, while the other is an adaptation of the third novel in the series. In both anime, D is referred to, both directly and indirectly, as the son of Count Dracula
Another dhampir is Blade, from the eponymous Marvel comic book series. He became a popular character through the Blade movie made in 1998 and its sequels, starring Wesley Snipes as the main hybrid hero. However, instead of being the offspring of a vampire and human, Blade's mother was bitten by a vampire while she was pregnant with her baby, Eric. It should be noted that Blade is only recently depicted as a Dhampir, as the original incarnation had the same origin, but did not have Vampiric powers. Instead, he could 'smell' things of a supernatural nature, most usually vampires.
Rayne, the main character of the BloodRayne video game franchise, is another dhampir. She also has many brothers and sisters (that she must slay) who are also dhampirs.
Alek Knight is the dhampir anti-hero of the Slayer vampire series of novels by Karen Koehler. He is also a skilled vampire hunter.
From the Castlevania series of video games, Adrian Farenheits Tepes (also known as simply as Alucard) is the offspring of an unnatural bond between Dracula and a human woman named Lisa.
Donovan Baine, a character in the video game series Darkstalkers, is also a dhampir.
The protagonist of Nancy Collins's novel Dhampire: Stillborn is a dhampir, as is Magiere, the female protagonist of the Saga of the Noble Dead which commences with the aptly-titled novel Dhampir. In the latter case, the character beings the story with no knowledge of her ancestry and earns her living as a fake vampire-hunter as above; her discovery of the true state of affairs comes as a considerable shock.