Vain the magic user (Basic D&D), back in 1984 or '85. He almost got trampled by a dinosaur once (Isle of Dread ?), but I'm pretty sure I retired him at 7th or 8th level (the campaign died).
My first character where I still got the charachtersheet is Xavier d'Castello, a human cavalier with ungodly stats (18,17,17,17,16,14 - rolled on 3D6). He was 6'2 in a world of 5' midget humans (the DM "forgot" to tell me that everybody was small), and had a (probably) demonic horse. He was an utter failure as a secret agent for the king (duh!), but an excellent fighter. The campaign died after appr. 10 scenarios when he was 3rd or 4th level (we didn't get much xp).
.Ziggy