List of fictional characters A to Z

This is an alphabetically ordered list of fictional characters, including the titles of works in which they appear. See also literature; novel; fable; short story.

A

• Sir Anthony Absolute (The Rivals)

• Nick Adams (In Our Time and others)

• Parson Adams (Joseph Andrews)

• Frankie Addams (The Member of the Wedding)

• Anthony Adverse (Anthony Adverse)

• Captain Ahab (Moby Dick)

• Albertine (Remembrance of Things Past; or, In Search of Lost Time)

• Alceste (La Misanthrope)

• Algernon (The Importance of Being Earnest)

• Ali Baba (“Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” from The Thousand and One Nights)

• Squire Allworthy (Tom Jones)

• Count Almaviva (The Barber of Seville; The Marriage of Figaro)

• The Alvings (Ghosts)

• Amaryllis (“I Care Not for These Ladies”; “Lycidas”)

• Ananse (African folklore)

• Pamela Andrews (Pamela)

• Angelica (Orlando innamorato; Orlando furioso)

• Harry Angstrom (Rabbit, Run and others)

• Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus (The Skin of Our Teeth)

• Aramis (The Three Musketeers)

• Isabel Archer (The Portrait of a Lady)

• Enoch Arden (Enoch Arden)

• The Artful Dodger (Oliver Twist)

• Gustave von Aschenbach (Death in Venice)

• Lady Brett Ashley (The Sun Also Rises)

• Athos (The Three Musketeers)

• Ayesha (She)

• Dr. Aziz (A Passage to India)

B

• Baba-Yaga (Russian folklore)

• Babar (The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant and others)

• Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbitt; The Lord of the Rings)

• Frodo Baggins (The Lord of the Rings)

• Harry Bailly (The Canterbury Tales)

• David Balfour (Kidnapped)

• Mr. Barkis (David Copperfield)

• Jake Barnes (The Sun Also Rises)

• Lily Bart (The House of Mirth)

• Yevgeny Bazarov (Fathers and Sons)

• Adam Bede (Adam Bede)

• Belial (Paradise Lost)

• Bennet family (Pride and Prejudice)

• Bertram family (Mansfield Park)

• Pierre Bezukhov (War and Peace)

• Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-four)

• Big Daddy (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

• Rupert Birkin (Women in Love)

• Anthony Blanche (Brideshead Revisited)

• Leopold Bloom (Ulysses)

• Molly Bloom (Ulysses)

• Bluebeard (Tales of Mother Goose)

• Bobbsey Twins (The Bobbsey Twins series)

• William Boldwood (Far from the Madding Crowd)

• Bolkonsky family (War and Peace)

• James Bond (Casino Royale and others)

• Boojum (The Hunting of the Snark)

• The Borrowers (The Borrowers series)

• Josiah Bounderby (Hard Times)

• Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary)

• Sally Bowles (Sally Bowles; Goodbye to Berlin)

• Lady Augusta Bracknell (The Importance of Being Earnest)

• Bradamante (Orlando furioso)

• Matthew Bramble (The Expedition of Humphry Clinker)

• Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)

• Dave Brandstetter (Fadeout and others)

• Gudrun Brangwen (Women in Love)

• Ursula Brangwen (Women in Love)

• Brer Rabbit (African folklore)

• Brighella (stock character, commedia dell’arte)

• Hans Brinker (Hans Brinker)

• Lily Briscoe (To the Lighthouse)

• Dorothea Brooke (Middlemarch)

• Father Brown (The Innocence of Father Brown and others)

• Bruin (Roman de Renart)

• Tom and Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)

• Inspector Bucket (Bleak House)

• Buendía family (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

• Mr. Bumble (Oliver Twist)

• Natty Bumppo (The Leatherstocking Tales)

• Bunter (Lord Peter Wimsey series)

• Billy Bunter (“The Making of Harry Wharton” and others)

• Rhett Butler (Gone with the Wind)

C

• Camille (La Dame aux camélias)

• Don Camillo (The Little World of Don Camillo and others)

• Albert Campion (The Crime at Black Dudley and others)

• Capitano (stock character, commedia dell’arte)

• Philip Carey (Of Human Bondage)

• Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby)

• Richard Carstone (Bleak House)

• Nick Carter (“The Old Detective’s Pupil” and others)

• Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities)

• Edward Casaubon (Middlemarch)

• Hans Castorp (The Magic Mountain)

• Cathbad (Irish legend)

• Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)

• Olive Chancellor (The Bostonians)

• Cheshire Cat (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

• Roger Chillingworth (The Scarlet Letter)

• Chingachgook (The Leatherstocking Tales)

• Mr. Chips (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

• Anna Christie (Anna Christie)

• Martin Chuzzlewit (Martin Chuzzlewit)

• John Claggart (Billy Budd, Foretopman)

• Angel Clare (Tess of the d’Urbervilles)

• Claudine (Claudine at School and others)

• Arthur Clennam (Little Dorrit)

• Humphry Clinker (The Expedition of Humphry Clinker)

• Columbine (stock character, commedia dell’arte)

• Conan the Barbarian (Conan the Conqueror and others)

• Conlaí (Ulster cycle)

• David Copperfield (David Copperfield)

• Richard Cory (“Richard Cory”)

• Corydon (stock character)

• Mother Courage (Mother Courage and Her Children)

• Ichabod Crane (“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”)

• Cratchit family (A Christmas Carol)

• Janie Crawford (Their Eyes Were Watching God)

• Gerald Crich (Women in Love)

• Guy Crouchback (Sword of Honour)

• Robinson Crusoe (Robinson Crusoe)

• Cú Chulainn (Ulster cycle)

• Sergeant Cuff (The Moonstone)

• Cunégonde (Candide)

D

• D’Artagnan (The Three Musketeers)

• Edmond Dantès (The Count of Monte Cristo)

• Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)

• Charles Darnay (A Tale of Two Cities)

• Dashwood family (Sense and Sensibility)

• Stephen Dedalus (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses)

• Lady Honoria Dedlock (Bleak House)

• Madame Defarge (A Tale of Two Cities)

• Deirdre (Ulster cycle)

• Jean Des Esseintes (Against the Grain)

• Mr. Dick (David Copperfield)

• Digenis Akritas (Akritic ballads)

• Arthur Dimmesdale (The Scarlet Letter)

• Dick and Nicole Diver (Tender Is the Night)

• Don Quixote (Don Quixote)

• Eliza Doolittle (Pygmalion)

• Lorna Doone (Lorna Doone)

• Dorothy (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

• Dottore (stock character, commedia dell’arte)

• Nancy Drew (The Secret of the Old Clock and others)

• Edwin Drood (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)

• Bulldog Drummond (Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilized Officer Who Found Peace Dull and others)

• Blanche DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire)

• The Duchess (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

• The Duke and the Dauphin (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

• Dulcinea (Don Quixote)

• C. Auguste Dupin (“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and others)

E

• Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker (Finnegans Wake)

• Eeyore (Winnie-the-Pooh)

• Elliot family (Persuasion)

• Lord Emsworth (Something Fresh and others)

• Enmerkar (Lugalbanda and Enmerkar and others)

• Henry Esmond (The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.)

• Till Eulenspiegel (German folklore)

• Bathsheba Everdene (Far from the Madding Crowd)

F

• Fagin (Oliver Twist)

• Lord Fauntleroy (Little Lord Fauntleroy)

• Jude Fawley (Jude the Obscure)

• Richard Feverel (The Ordeal of Richard Feverel)

• Fezziwig (A Christmas Carol)

• Flora Finching (Little Dorrit)

• Finn (Fenian cycle)

• Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

• Jeremiah Flintwinch (Little Dorrit)

• Phileas Fogg (Around the World in Eighty Days)

• Forsyte family (The Forsyte Saga)

• Count Fosco (The Woman in White)

• Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

• Ethan Frome (Ethan Frome)

• Fu Manchu (The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu and others)

G

• Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler)

• Sairey Gamp (Martin Chuzzlewit)

• Gandalf (The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings)

• Eugene Gant (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River)

• Joe Gargery (Great Expectations)

• Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)

• Gellert (Welsh folklore)

• Beau Geste (Beau Geste)

• Gilgamesh (Epic of Gilgamesh)

• Glass family (Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and others)

• Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov)

• Golias (stock character, medieval French literature)

• Gollum (The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings)

• Père Goriot (Le Père Goriot)

• Gradgrind (Hard Times)

• Eugénie Grandet (Eugénie Grandet)

• Emmeline Grangerford (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

• Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

• Grendel (Beowulf)

• Clyde Griffiths (An American Tragedy)

• Grisette (Mimi Pinson and others)

• Titus Groan (Titus Groan trilogy)

• Mrs. Grundy (Speed the Plough)

• Guermantes family (Remembrance of Things Past; or, In Search of Lost Time)

• Martin Guerre (Remembrance of Things Past; or, In Search of Lost Time)

• Guildenstern (Hamlet)

H

• Prince Hal (Henry IV, Part I; Henry V)

• Mike Hammer (I, the Jury and others)

• Hardy Boys (The Hardy Boys series)

• Jonathan Harker (Dracula)

• Harlequin (stock character, commedia dell’arte)

• Clarissa Harlowe (Clarissa)

• Miss Havisham (Great Expectations)

• Jim Hawkins (Treasure Island)

• Asa and Sabbath Lily Hawks (Wise Blood)

• Headless horseman (“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”)

• Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

• Uriah Heep (David Copperfield)

• Matt Helm (Death of a Citizen and others)

• Nora Helmer (A Doll’s House)

• Michael Henchard (The Mayor of Casterbridge)

• Herne the Hunter (English folklore)

• Henry Higgins (Pygmalion)

• Fanny Hill (Fanny Hill)

• Roy Hobbs (The Natural)

• Sherlock Holmes (A Study in Scarlet and numerous other detective stories)

• Horatio Hornblower (The Happy Return and others)

• Roderick Hudson (Roderick Hudson)

• Humbert Humbert (Lolita)

• Humpty Dumpty (English nursery rhyme)

• Mr. Hyde (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

I

• Iago (Othello)

• Ilya of Murom (Russian folklore)

• Infant Phenomenon (Nicholas Nickleby)

• Isolde (Celtic folklore)

J

• Jabberwock (“Jabberwocky”)

• Mr. Jaggers (Great Expectations)

• Jarndyce family (Bleak House)

• Dr. Jekyll (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

• Mrs. Jellyby (Bleak House)

• Jim (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

• Gulley Jimson (The Horse’s Mouth)

• Joad family (The Grapes of Wrath)

• Joseph K. (The Trial)

• Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

K

• Karamazov brothers (The Brothers Karamazov)

• Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina)

• Katharina (The Taming of the Shrew)

• Carol Kennicott (Main Street)

• Diedrich Knickerbocker (A History of New York)

• George Knightley (Emma)

• Stanley Kowalski (A Streetcar Named Desire)

• Tonio Kröger (Tonio Kröger)

• Mr. Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)

L

• Will Ladislaw (Middlemarch)

• Lydia Languish (The Rivals)

• Silas Lapham (The Rise of Silas Lapham)

• Wolf Larsen (The Sea Wolf)

• Lazarillo de Tormes (The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes)

• Lear (King Lear)

• Simon Legree (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)

• Lemminkäinen (Finnish folklore)

• Inspector Lestrade (Sherlock Holmes series)

• Konstantine Levin (Anna Karenina)

• Linton family (Wuthering Heights)

• Little Em’ly (David Copperfield)

• Little Eva (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)

• Little Nell (The Old Curiosity Shop)

• Lochinvar (“Marmion”)

• Lohengrin (Parzival)

• Willy Loman (Death of a Salesman)

• Studs Lonigan (Studs Lonigan trilogy)

• Lothario (The Fair Penitent)

• Robert Lovelace (Clarissa)

• Sut Lovingood ( Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a “Natural Born Durn’d Fool”)

• Lugalbanda (Lugalbanda and Enmerkar)

• Lulu (Earth Spirit; Pandora’s Box)

• Arsène Lupin (Arsène Lupin detective stories)

• Tertius Lydgate (Middlemarch)

• Barry Lyndon (Barry Lyndon)

M

• Macbeth (Macbeth)

• Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

• Macheath (The Beggar’s Opera; The Threepenny Opera)

• Mad Hatter (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

• Madog ab Owain Gwynedd (Welsh folklore)

• Maeldúin (Irish folklore)

• Abel Magwitch (Great Expectations)

• Jules Maigret (The Case of Peter the Lett and others)

• Major Major (Catch-22)

• Malcolm (Macbeth)

• Alexander and Lucie Manette (A Tale of Two Cities)

• Marcel (Remembrance of Things Past; or, In Search of Lost Time)

• March Hare (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

• March family (Little Women)

• Augie March (The Adventures of Augie March)

• Marchmain family (Brideshead Revisited)

• Jacob Marley (A Christmas Carol)

• Philip Marlowe (The Big Sleep and others)

• Miss Marple (Murder at the Vicarage and others)

• Bertha Mason (Jane Eyre)

• Perry Mason (The Case of the Velvet Claws and others)

• Travis McGee (The Deep Blue Good-By and others)

• Wilhelm Meister (Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship)

• Oliver Mellors (Lady Chatterly’s Lover)

• Mr. Merdle (Little Dorrit)

• Wilkins Micawber (David Copperfield)

• Daisy Miller (Daisy Miller)

• Miranda (The Tempest)

• Walter Mitty (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”)

• Mock Turtle (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

• Sara Monday (Herself Surprised)

• Moomintroll (The Moomins and the Great Flood and others)

• Hank Morgan (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court)

• Professor Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes series)

• Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey)

• Hazel Motes (Wise Blood)

• Mr. Moto (No Hero and others)

• Mowgli (The Jungle Book)

• Mugridge (The Sea Wolf)

• Baron Munchausen (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen)

• Edward Murdstone (David Copperfield)

N

• Captain Nemo (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Mysterious Island)

• Nicholas Nickleby (Nicholas Nickleby)

O

• Scarlett O’Hara (Gone with the Wind)

• Gabriel Oak (Far from the Madding Crowd)

• Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

• Odette (Remembrance of Things Past; or, In Search of Lost Time)

• Duke of Omnium (Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope)

• Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin)

• Ophelia (Hamlet)

• Orlando (As You Like It)

• Orlando (Orlando innamorato; Orlando furioso)

• Gilbert Osmond (The Portrait of a Lady)

• Othello (Othello)

P

• Palliser family (Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope)

• Pancks (Little Dorrit)

• Pangloss (Candide)

• Pantaloon (stock character, commedia dell’arte)

• Panurge (Gargantua and Pantagruel and others)

• Peachum family (The Beggar’s Opera; The Threepenny Opera)

• Pearl (The Scarlet Letter)

• Seth Pecksniff (Martin Chuzzlewit)

• Pedrolino (stock character, commedia dell’arte)

• Peer Gynt (Peer Gynt)

• Clara Peggotty (David Copperfield)

• Peter Pan (Peter Pan)

• Petruchio (The Taming of the Shrew)

• Samuel Pickwick (The Pickwick Papers)

• Piglet (Winnie-the-Pooh)

• Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse-Five)

• Pinocchio (“The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet”)

• Pip (Great Expectations)

• Sir Fretful Plagiary (The Critic)

• Anna Livia Plurabelle (Finnegans Wake)

• Hercule Poirot (The Mysterious Affair at Styles and others)

• Ross Poldark (Ross Poldark and others)

• Aunt Polly (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

• Pollyanna (Pollyanna)

• Polonius (Hamlet)

• Pontifex family (The Way of All Flesh)

• Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins and others)

• Porthos (The Three Musketeers)

• Portia (The Merchant of Venice)

• Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and others)

• Fanny Price (Mansfield Park)

• Miss Prism (The Importance of Being Earnest)

• Prospero (The Tempest)

• J. Alfred Prufrock (“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”)

• Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter)

• Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

• Puss in Boots (Puss in Boots)

Q

• Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

• Allan Quatermain (King Solomon’s Mines)

• Captain Queeg (The Caine Mutiny)

• Queen of Hearts (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

• Queequeg (Moby Dick)

• Adela Quested (A Passage to India)

• Daniel Quilp (The Old Curiosity Shop)

R

• A.J. Raffles (Raffles stories by E.W. Hornung)

• Ramsay family (To the Lighthouse)

• Basil Ransom (The Bostonians)

• Rodion Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment)

• Red Cross Knight (The Faerie Queene)

• Regan (King Lear)

• Reynard the Fox (character from medieval literature)

• Richard III (Henry VI, Part 2; Henry VI, Part 3; Richard III)

• Tom Ripley (The Talented Mr. Ripley and others)

• Howard Roark (The Fountainhead)

• Robin Hood (series of English ballads)

• Christopher Robin (Winnie-the-Pooh)

• Mr. Rochester (Jane Eyre)

• Rocinante (Don Quixote)

• Romeo (Romeo and Juliet)

• Rosalind (As You Like It)

• Rosencrantz (Hamlet)

• Rostov family (War and Peace)

• Roxane (Cyrano de Bergerac)

• Barnaby Rudge (Barnaby Rudge)

• Ruggiero (Orlando furioso)

• Marmaduke Ruggles (Ruggles of Red Gap)

• Horace Rumpole (Rumpole of the Bailey and others)

• Charles Ryder (Brideshead Revisited)

S

• The Saint (Meet the Tiger and others)

• Gregor Samsa (The Metamorphosis)

• Sancho Panza (Don Quixote)

• Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

• Scapin (stock character, commedia dell’arte)

• Scaramouche (stock character, commedia dell’arte)

• Ebenezer Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)

• Amelia Sedley (Vanity Fair)

• The Shadow (The Living Shadow and others)

• Shakuntala (The Recognition of Shakuntala)

• Becky Sharp (Vanity Fair)

• Ántonia Shimerda (My Ántonia)

• Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)

• Shrek (Shrek! by William Steig)

• Shylock (The Merchant of Venice)

• Bill Sikes (Oliver Twist)

• Long John Silver (Treasure Island)

• Tyrone Slothrop (Gravity’s Rainbow)

• Smike (Nicholas Nickleby)

• George Smiley (Call for the Dead and others)

• Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-four)

• Snark (“The Hunting of the Snark”)

• Snopes family (The Hamlet and others)

• Snowball (Animal Farm)

• Lucy Snowe (Villette)

• Halvard Solness (The Master Builder)

• Hetty Sorrel (Adam Bede)

• Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon)

• Dora Spenlow (David Copperfield)

• Wackford Squeers (Nicholas Nickleby)

• Stage Manager (Our Town)

• Monroe Stahr (The Last Tycoon)

• Starbuck (Moby Dick)

• Willie Stark (All the King’s Men)

• James Steerforth (David Copperfield)

• Lambert Strether (The Ambassadors)

• Esther Summerson (Bleak House)

• Charles and Joseph Surface (The School for Scandal)

• Sutpen family (Absalom, Absalom!)

• Svengali (Trilby)

• Charles Swann (Remembrance of Things Past; or, In Search of Lost Time)

T

• Verena Tarrant (The Bostonians)

• Tarzan (Tarzan of the Apes)

• Tattycoram (Little Dorrit)

• Suky Tawdry (The Threepenny Opera)

• Lady Teazle (The School for Scandal)

• William Tell (Swiss folklore)

• Becky Thatcher (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

• Thomas Bigger (Native Son)

• Thomas the Tank Engine (The Three Railway Engines and others)

• Sadie Thompson (“Rain”)

• Christopher Tietjens (Parade’s End)

• Tinker Bell (Peter Pan)

• Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

• Tituba (The Crucible)

• Topsy (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)

• Tristan (Celtic folklore)

• Betsey Trotwood (David Copperfield)

• Sergeant Francis Troy (Far from the Madding Crowd)

• Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

• Oliver Twist (Oliver Twist)

• Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)

U

• Urizen (America, a Prophecy and others)

V

• Jean Valjean (Les Misérables)

• Valmont (Dangerous Liaisons)

• Philo Vance (The Benson Murder Case and others)

• Dolly Varden (Barnaby Rudge)

• Varner family (The Hamlet)

• Diggory Venn (The Return of the Native)

• Captain Vere (Billy Budd, Foretopman)

• Rosamond Vincy (Middlemarch)

• Viola (Twelfth Night)

• Count Aleksey Vronsky (Anna Karenina)

• Eustacia Vye (The Return of the Native)

W

• Dr. Watson (Sherlock Holmes series)

• Weird Sisters (Macbeth)

• Sam Weller (The Pickwick Papers)

• Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion)

• Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther)

• Sophia Western (Tom Jones)

• Simon Wheeler (“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”; “Jim Wolfe and the Tom-cats”)

• White Rabbit (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

• Agnes Wickfield (David Copperfield)

• Tom Wilcher (To Be a Pilgrim)

• Damon Wildeve (The Return of the Native)

• Pudd’nhead Wilson (Pudd’nhead Wilson)

• Lord Peter Wimsey (Whose Body? and others)

• Wingfield family (The Glass Menagerie)

• Wise Men of Gotham (English legend)

• Wolfdietrich (Ortnit; Wolfdietrich)

• Nero Wolfe (Fer-de-Lance and others)

• Emma Woodhouse (Emma)

• Bertie Wooster (“Extricating Young Gussie” and others)

Y

• Clym Yeobright (The Return of the Native)

• Captain John Yossarian (Catch-22)

Z

• Zorro (“The Curse of Capistrano” and other stories by Johnston McCulley)