Part of the trouble is that sometimes mythical/legendary characters are real in the Doctor Who universe. Sometimes it varies depending on the episode, too…
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Let’s just go for a simple “Things That Are Alive” and “Things That Are Unalive” and call it a day!
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But but what if the Doctor then meets Tolkien while he is writing the Hobbit? Is Gandalf then a Fictional^2 Character?
(The Doctor IS probably Gandalf)
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A tag that is: “Originated outside of the Whoniverse”?
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RIVER: I hate good wizards in fairy tales. They always turn out to be him.
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Honestly, trouble there is that just because a character is dead doesn’t necessarily stop them from moving around onscreen…
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“Things That Are Unalive, But Possessed” then?
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Fine! You got me! I give up 
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And Clara falls in between - Schrödinger’s Clara
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Even more now when she also is Ms Flood.
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Just to add some more ideas, I’ve had a look at my ‘old playground,’ the German Perry Rhodan fan wiki.: Perrypedia:Liste aller Kategorien – Perrypedia
There Daleks, Silurians, and similar beings would be categorized as ‘Völker.’ However, none of the standard English translations (nations, peoples) quite captures the same meaning, i think? A more fitting, albeit non-standard, translation might be the already discussed ‘species.’
Additionally, robots (‘Roboter’) and entities (‘Entitäten’) are separate categories parallel to species (‘Völker’) with robots being a sub-category of technology.
Reflecting on it, I’m beginning to recall the endless discussions we had about which categories are fitting. Perhaps it’s just a topic that’s impossible to get perfect. 
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Nope those movies never happened. Stop spreading lies! 
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And Bill.
And Amy and Rory sort of.
Bloody Moffat and his inability to actually ever kill a character off (and to constantly repeat his companion depatures with only a slight variation).
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Who thinks @shauny is regretting this thread…
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He’s probably already booked a trip off-planet
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There is no “right way” to say this without sounding like a sociopath, but I was kind of delighted by the whole Bill getting shot and turned into a Cyberman situation and was really disappointed with how it was reversed in the end. Show some consequences of this perilous life for once would you! 
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Well, Moffat did tell us with his very first story for the show that he likes it when, just this once, everybody lives! So, his fear of death shouldn’t come as a surprise
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