# List of Robert A. Heinlein characters

This is a list of characters in the fiction of Robert A. Heinlein:
* A
* B
* C
* D
* F
* G
* H
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* P
* R
* S
* T
* V
* W
* Z

## A

* Allucquere (a.k.a. "Mary") – The Puppet Masters
* Security Chief Juan Alvarez – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
* Richard Ames (a.k.a. Colin Campbell) – The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Sam Anderson – Starman Jones
* Anne (Fair Witness) – Stranger in a Strange Land
* Major Ardmore – Sixth Column
* Pallas Athene, intelligent computer, came to life after the original personality (Minerva) transferred to become a human woman – Time Enough for Love, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset

## B

* Dr. Hartley M. Baldwin (a.k.a. Gregory "Kettle Belly" Baldwin, "Mr. Two-Canes", "Doc") – Gulf, Friday, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Logic of Empire
* Col. Richard Baslim (a.k.a. "Baslim the Cripple") – Citizen of the Galaxy
* Thorby Baslim (a.k.a. Thor B. Rudbek, "Rudbek of Rudbek at Rudbek") – Citizen of the Galaxy
* Gillian Boardman (Jill) – Stranger in a Strange Land
* Joseph Bonforte – Double Star
* Eunice Branca – I Will Fear No Evil
* Jacob Burroughs – The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Hilda Burroughs (nee Hilda "Sharpie" Corners) – The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
* Thomas and Patrick Bartlett – Time for the Stars

## C

* Colonel Colin Campbell (a.k.a. Richard Ames) – The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Dejah Thoris "Deety" Burroughs Carter – The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Zebadiah John Carter – The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Ben Caxton – Stranger in a Strange Land
* Eldreth Coburn – Starman Jones
* Grace Cormet – We Also Walk Dogs
* Hilda Corners – see Hilda Burroughs
* Ed Cowen – The Star Beast
* Cynthia Craig – The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
* Cuddlepup – The Star Beast

## D

* John "Johnny" Ezra Dahlquist – "The Long Watch". Referred to as Ezra Dahlquist in Space Cadet.
* Daniel Boone Davis – The Door into Summer
* Hazel Meade Davis (Sadie Lipschitz) (Gwendolyn Novak) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (see also Hazel Stone below)
* Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis (Mannie) – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Doctor-Livingston-I-Presume (cat) – Farnham's Freehold
* Matt Dodson – Space Cadet
* Dora (computer) – Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Dora Smith (Adorable Dora) (Dorable) – Time Enough for Love
* Dorcas – Stranger in a Strange Land
* Dr. Archibald Douglas – Let There Be Light
* Chief Dreiser – The Star Beast

## F

* Duke Farnham – Farnham's Freehold
* Grace Farnham – Farnham's Freehold
* Hugh Farnham – Farnham's Freehold
* Karen Farnham – Farnham's Freehold
* Justin Foote – Methuselah's Children
* Justin Foote 45th – Time Enough for Love, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Friday a.k.a. Marjorie Baldwin – Friday
* Clark Fries – Podkayne of Mars
* Podkayne Fries – Podkayne of Mars
* Dr. Ftaeml – The Star Beast
* Fuzzy Britches (flat cat) – The Rolling Stones

## G

* Larry Gaines – The Roads Must Roll
* Galahad – Time Enough for Love
* Gay Deceiver – The Number of the Beast, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Gekko – Red Planet
* Frederica "Ricky" Gentry – The Door into Summer
* Alec Graham / Alex Hergensheimer – Job: A Comedy of Justice
* Joe Green – Gulf
* Sergei Greenberg – The Star Beast
* Joe-Jim Gregory – Orphans of the Sky
* Oscar Gordon – Glory Road (also appears briefly in The Number of the Beast)

## H

* Delos D. Harriman – The Man Who Sold the Moon, Requiem, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
* Jubal Harshaw – Stranger in a Strange Land, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Citizen of the Galaxy (as James J. Garsh)
* Don Harvey – Between Planets
* Gretchen Henderson, daughter of Ingrid and Jinx Henderson – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
* Ingrid Henderson Jinx Henderson's wife, direct descendant of Hazel Stone – The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Jinx Henderson, born John Black Eagle, took Ingrid Henderson's surname when he married her – The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Wolf Henderson, Ingrid and Jinx Henderson's son – The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Alex Hergensheimer / Alec Graham – Job: A Comedy of Justice
* Mortimer "Mort the Wart" Hobart – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
* Mycroft "Mike" Holmes (a.k.a. Adam Selene, Mychelle Holmes) – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
* Myra Holtz – The Star Beast
* Ira Howard – Methuselah's Children
* Jonathan Hoag – The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
* Hugh Hoyland – Orphans of the Sky

## J

* William 'Tex' Jarman – Space Cadet
* Oscar Jensen – Space Cadet
* Maureen Johnson – see Maureen Johnson Smith, below
* Joseph – Farnham's Freehold
* Max Jones – Starman Jones
* Zebadiah Jones – If This Goes On—

## K

* Karen – Gulf
* Henry Gladstone Kiku – The Star Beast
* Wyoming "Wyoh" Knott – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

## L

* Stuart Rene LaJoie – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
* Andrew Jackson Libby, later Elizabeth A. J. Libby Long – Misfit, Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. Also known as "Slipstick" Libby, and in Misfit, has the nickname "Pinky". The Number of the Beast
* Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby Long (originally Andrew Jackson Libby) – The Number of the Beast a.k.a. "Pinky" and "Slipstick"
* Maureen Johnson Smith Long – see Maureen Johnson Smith, below
* Lapis Lazuli Long – Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast
* Llita – Time Enough for Love
* Lazarus Long (a.k.a. Woodrow Wilson Smith) – Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
* Lorelei Lee Long – Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast
* Lummox – The Star Beast
* John Lyle – If This Goes On—

## M

* Mr. MacClure – The Star Beast
* Dr. Mahmoud (a.k.a. "Stinky") – Stranger in a Strange Land
* Margrethe – Job: A Comedy of Justice
* Jim Marlowe – Red Planet
* Dr. Mary Lou Martin – Let There Be Light
* Mary (a.k.a. "Allucquere") – The Puppet Masters
* Helen Mayberry – Time Enough for Love
* Gloria McNye – "Delilah and the Space Rigger"
* Memtok – Farnham's Freehold
* Minerva – intelligent computer used to run the planet Secundus, later transformed into a human woman – Time Enough for Love, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
* Miriam – Stranger in a Strange Land
* Frank Mitsui – Sixth Column
* Mycroft – see Mycroft "Mike" Holmes, above, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
* Mother Thing – Have Space Suit—Will Travel

## N

* Nehemiah Scudder – Logic of Empire
* Andrew Nivens, a.k.a. "The Old Man" – The Puppet Masters (his name is not mentioned, only inferred – the President calls him Andrew and his son's last name is Nivens)
* Elihu Nivens, a.k.a. Sam Cavanaugh – The Puppet Masters
* Gwen Novak – The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Dr. Sven Nelson – Stranger in a Strange Land

## O

* Judge O'Farrell – The Star Beast

## P

* Bernardo de la Paz (Prof) – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
* Patty Paiwonski – Stranger in a Strange Land
* Penny – Double Star
* Petronius The Arbiter a.k.a. Pete (cat) – The Door into Summer
* Peewee – Have Space Suit—Will Travel
* Longcourt Phyllis – Beyond This Horizon
* Hugo Pinero – Life-Line
* Pixel (cat) – The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
* Ponse, The Lord Protector – Farnham's Freehold
* Pug – Glory Road

## R

* Random Numbers (Cat) – To Sail Beyond the Sunset
* Rhysling, "Blind singer of the spaceways" – The Green Hills of Earth, Time Enough for Love
* Juan Rico – Starship Troopers
* Wes Robbins – The Star Beast
* Rufo – Glory Road, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Clifford "Kip" Russell – Have Space Suit—Will Travel

## S

* Nehemiah Scudder – If This Goes On—
* Johann Sebastian Bach Smith (later Joan Eunice Smith Solomon) – I Will Fear No Evil
* Sister Maggie – If This Goes On—
* Maureen Johnson Smith – Time Enough for Love, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, The Number of the Beast
* Valentine Michael Smith – Stranger in a Strange Land
* Woodrow Wilson Smith – birth name of Lazarus Long (see above)
* Lawrence Smythe (The Great Lorenzo) – Double Star
* Jacob Moshe Solomon – I Will Fear No Evil
* Betty Sorenson – The Star Beast
* Mary Sperling – Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love
* Star, a.k.a. Her Wisdom – Glory Road, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Lowell "Buster" Stone – The Rolling Stones, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (inferred; "Hazel's youngest grandson" is the doctor treating Richard)
* Castor Stone – The Rolling Stones, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Edith Stone – The Rolling Stones
* Hazel Stone – The Rolling Stones, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (see also Hazel Meade Davis, above)
* Meade Stone – The Rolling Stones
* Pollux Stone – The Rolling Stones, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
* Roger Stone - The Rolling Stones
* John Thomas Stuart – The Star Beast

## T

* John Thomas – The Star Beast
* Dejah Thoris – see Dejah Carter, above
* Colonel Towers – The Long Watch

## V

* Becky Vesey (a.k.a. Madame Alexandra Vesant) – Stranger in a Strange Land
* "Shorty" Van Kleeck – The Roads Must Roll

## W

* Rod Walker – Tunnel in the Sky
* Ira Weatheral – Time Enough for Love
* Barbara Wells – Farnham's Freehold
* Willis (Bouncer) – Red Planet
* Wingate – Logic of Empire

## Z

* Charles Zim – Starship Troopers