History ReferencedBy / JimiHendrix

* Music/TheRollingStones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (released about the time of Hendrix' death) has the narrator (whilst picking up a prescription) see a friend called "Jimi" (or "Jimmy") who "looked really ill".

* ''Film/WhiteManCantJump'': After they win a game, and Billy is driving Sidney home, he puts on Jimi Hendrix, which upsets Sidney, because he claims white people can't really "hear" Hendrix (that is, appreciate him).

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* ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'': Nao Kadena's "Purple Haze" gang is a reference to the Jimi Hendrix song of the same name.

* Manga/{{Naruto}}: The first Raikage A looks similar to Hendrix.
* Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure:
** Part 4's DiscOneFinalBoss, Akira Otoishi, is an aspiring guitarist who wants to live "as vicariously as Jimi Hendrix and Music/JeffBeck".
** Part 5 has Fugo, whose [[FightingSpirit Stand]] is named Purple Haze. A follow-up LightNovel, ''LightNovel/PurpleHazeFeedback'', introduces several other Jimi Hendrix-inspired Stands including Voodoo Child, Manic Depression, Dolly Dagger, Rainy Day Dream Away, Night Bird Flying, and All Along the Watchtower (who, given the ThemeNaming present, is most likely named after Jimi's cover rather than the Bob Dylan original).
** Part 6's protagonist Jolyne Cujoh's Stand is named "Stone Free", after one of Hendrix's songs.
** Part 7 has the [[Music/OutKast Boom Boom Family]], whose horses are all named after Jimi Hendrix songs, being Foxy Lady, Little Wing, and Crosstown Traffic.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' Walt gets angry at a song Jeremy is listening to, resulting in this exchange:

---> '''Walt:''' Did I hear what I think I just heard?!\\

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** Part 4's DiscOneFinalBoss, Akira Otoishi, is an aspiring guitarist who wants to live "as vicariously as Jimi Hendrix and Music/JeffBack".

** Part 6's protagonist Jolyne Kujo's Stand is named "Stone Free", after one of Hendrix's songs.

** Part 5 has Fugo, whose [[FightingSpirit Stand]] is named Purple Haze. A follow-up LightNovel, ''LightNovel/PurpleHazeFeedback'', introduces several other Jimi Hendrix-inspired Stands including Voodoo Child, Manic Depression, Dolly Dagger, Rainy Day Dream Away, Night Bird Flying, and All Along the Watchtower (who, given the ThemeNaming present, is most likely named after Jimi's cover rather than the Bob Dylan original.

* The Music/BloodhoundGang: According to the song ''Fire Water Burn'' Jimi Hendrix is in Hell, along with UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, Creator/MarthaRaye, Creator/MarkTwain, Lawrence Welk, Music/KurtCobain, Series/{{Kojak}}, ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'' and [[Series/{{Webster}} Emmanuel Lewis]], '''cause he's the {{Antichrist}}''.

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* In the [[AlternateTimeline Wyatt timeline]] in VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder, a character named J is part of the Kreisau Circle. He's all but explicitly stated to be Hendrix.
* ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' uses Hendrix's Woodstock performance of The Star-Spangled Banner with the game's loading screen.

* ''Manga/ShioriExperience'' is a series about mild-manner English teacher Shiori Honda, who is inspired to take up the guitar and begin playing again after she's visited by the spirit of Hendrix. His influence leads her to change her whole life and and focus on playing music once more.

* In the [[AlternateTimeline Wyatt timeline]] in VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder, a character named J is part of the Kreisau Circle. He's all but explicitly stated to be Hendrix

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* In ''Literature/IThinkILoveYou'', Ruth is horrified to hear that Bill interviewed Creator/DavidCassidy. He tries to retain some credibility by making up a story about the two of them singing "The Wind Cries Mary." Surprisingly, it works.

** ''Homer the Heretic'': Hendrix can be seen playing table tennis with Creator/BenjaminFranklin in Heaven.