Emmerdale characters

Emmerdale has featured thousands of characters over the years. A more comprehensive list can be found here and here (though it is still a work in progress). This page is designed as a rough guide to the characters who have been seen in the programme, both current and past.
==Current and original characters==
:See also: List of original characters & List of current characters
Orginally the regular cast was much smaller and centred around the Sugden family and the life at Emmerdale Farm. Only 15 characters were introduced as regulars in 1972 while in recent years the number of characters considered main cast has been upwards of 80 characters simultaneously. 
==Recurring and minor characters==
:See also: List of recurring and minor Emmerdale characters
Recurring and minor characters have been part of the show since its inception, with the very first being Alec Saunders who appeared in the first episode and never again. A large quantity of minor and recurring characters belong to law enforcement or medical professionals, such as police officers and doctors. Family members or love interests of regular characters are also common. The two actors to have played the most minor roles in Emmerdale are Christine Brennan and Maeve Larkin who have both appeared as 8 different minor characters.
== Characters by house ==
:See also: :Category:Characters by residence
=== Main Street ===
*Mulberry Cottage
*The Grange B&B
*The Woolpack
*Pear Tree Cottage	
*Woodbine Cottage
*Tug Ghyll
*Dale Head
*Mill Cottage	
*Dale View
*Connelton View
*Victoria Cottage
*Keepers Cottage	
*Cafe Main Street
*Brook Cottage
=== Church Lane ===
* Farrers Barn
* Tenant House
* Jacobs Fold
=== Connelton Lane ===
* Home Farm
=== Hotten Road ===
* Smithy Cottage
* Butlers Farm
=== Robblesfield Way ===
* Holdgate Farm
* Wishing Well Cottage
* Pollard's Barn
=== Other ===
* Tall Trees Cottage
* Wylies Farm
== Families ==
:See also: :Category:Families
*Addyman family
*Armstrong family
*Barton family
*Bates family
*Burrows family
*Blackstock family
*Breckle family
*Cairns family
*Clayton family
*Daggert family
*De Souza family
*Dingle family	
*Feldmann family
*Glover family
*Harding family
*Hope family
*Hughes family
*King family
*Kirk family
*Kotecha family
*Lambert family
*Macey family
*McAllister family
*Merrick family	
*Metcalfe family
*Oakwell family
*Pearson family
*Pollard family
*Potts family
*Reynolds family
*Sharma family
*Sinclair family
*Skilbeck family
*Spencer family
*Sugden family
*Tate family	
*Thomas family
*Turner family
*Verney family
*Walker family
*Walsh family
*White family
*Whiteley family
*Wilks family
*Windsor family
*Woods family
*Wyatt family
*Wylde/Lamb family
== See also ==
* List of longest running characters
* List of past regular characters
* Characters by profession
* Top 100 appearances
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