Characters in 20th-century literary works

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

• Clarissa Dalloway

• Septimus Warren Smith

• Peter Walsh

• Sally Seton (Lady Rosseter)

• Richard Dalloway

• Lucrezia (Rezia) Smith

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)

• Mrs. Ramsay

• Mr. Ramsay

• Lily Briscoe

• James Ramsay

• Charles Tansley

The Waves by Virginia Woolf (1931)

• Bernard

• Susan

• Rhoda

• Neville

• Jinny

• Perceval

Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1928)

• Orlando

• Archduchess Harriet / Archduke Harry

• Queen Elizabeth I

• Sasha

• Shelmerdine

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (1929)

• Unnamed Narrator

• Judith Shakespeare

• Mary Beton

• Mary Seton

• Mary Carmichael

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (1913)

• Paul Morel

• Gertrude Morel

• Walter Morel

• Miriam Leivers

• Clara Dawes

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence (1915)

• Tom Brangwen

• Lydia Lensky Brangwen

• Anna Brangwen/Anna Lensky

• Will Brangwen

• Ursula Brangwen

Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence (1920)

• Ursula Brangwen

• Gudrun Brangwen

• Rupert Birkin

• Gerald Crich

• Hermione Roddice

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928)

• Constance

• Oliver Mellors

• Sir Clifford Chatterley

• Mrs. Bolton

• Michaelis

The White Peacock by D.H. Lawrence (1911)

• Cyril Beardsall

• George Saxton

• Lettie Beardsall

• Leslie Tempest

• Mrs. Beardsall

Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

• Leopold Bloom

• Stephen Dedalus

• Molly Bloom

• Buck Mulligan

• Hugh ‘Blazes’ Boylan

Dubliners by James Joyce (1914)

• Gabriel Conroy (The Dead)

• Eveline (Eveline)

• Farrington (Counterparts)

• Little Chandler (A Little Cloud)

• The boy narrator (Araby)

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1939)

• HCE (Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker)

• ALP (Anna Livia Plurabelle)

• Shem the Penman

• Shaun the Post

• Issy

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)

• Stephen Dedalus

• Simon Dedalus

• Emma Clery

• Cranly

• Dante (Mrs. Riordan)

Brave New World by Aldous Leonard Huxley (1932)

• Bernard Marx

• Lenina Crowne

• John "the Savage"

• Helmholtz Watson

• Mustapha Mond

Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)

Old Major

Napoleon

Snowball

Squaler

Boxer

The dogs

Mr. Jones

The Sheep

1984 by George Orwell (1949)

• Winston Smith

• Julia

• O'Brien

• Big Brother

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)

• Ralph

• Jack

• Piggy

• Simon

• Roger

• Sam and Eric

Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)

• Alex

• Pete

• Dim

• Georgie

• The Doctor

• The Chaplain

• The Minister of the Interior

• The “Cat’s Lady”

• F. Alexander

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)

• Frodo Baggins

• Samwise Gamge

• Gandalf the Grey

• Aragorn

• Legolas

• Gimli

• Boromir

• Merry and Pippin

• Gollum

• Sauron

This Side of Paradise by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1920)

• Amory Blaine

• Beatrice Blaine

• Isabelle Borgé

• Rosalind Connage

• Monsignor Darcy

• Burne Holiday

The Beautiful and Damned by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1922)

• Anthony Patch

• Gloria Patch

• Adam Patch

• Maury Noble

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1922)

• Benjamin Button

• Roger Button

• Hildegarde Moncrief

• Roscoe Button

Tender is the Night by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1934)

• Dick Diver

• Nicole Diver

• Rosemary Hoyt

• Tommy Barban

The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

• Jay Gatsby

• Daisy Buchanan

• Tom Buchanan

• Nick Carraway

• Jordan Baker

• Myrtle Wilson

• George Wilson

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Miller Hemingway (1926)

• Jake Barnes

• Lady Brett Ashley

• Robert Cohn

• Pedro Romero

• Bill Gorton

• Mike Campbell

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Miller Hemingway (1929)

• Lieutenant Frederic Henry

• Catherine Barkley

• Rinaldi

• The Priest

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Miller Hemingway (1936)

• Harry

• Helen

• Compton (Compie)

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Miller Hemingway (1040)

• Robert Jordan

• Maria

• Pilar

• Pablo

• Anselmo

• El Sordo

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Miller Hemingway (1952)

• Santiago

• Manolin

• The Marlin

• The Sharks