List of Robert A. Heinlein characters

This is a list of characters in the fiction of Robert A. Heinlein:

A

*Alex Hergensheimer / Alec Graham - ""
*Allucquere - "The Puppet Masters"
*Andrew Jackson Libby - "Misfit","Methuselah's Children","Time Enough for Love", "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
*Security Chief Juan Alvarez - "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
*Richard Ames (aka Colin Campbell) - "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
*Sam Anderson - "Starman Jones"
*Anne (Witness) - "Stranger in a Strange Land"
*Major Ardmore - "Sixth Column"
*Pallas Athene - "Time Enough for Love", "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"

B

*Dr. Hartley M. Baldwin (aka "Kettle Belly," "Mr. Two-Canes") - "Gulf", "Friday"
*Col. Richard Baslim aka "Baslim the Cripple" - "Citizen of the Galaxy"
*Thorby Baslim aka Thor B. Rudbek "Rudbek of Rudbek" - "Citizen of the Galaxy"
*Betty - "The Star Beast"
*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 Corners) - "The Number of the Beast", "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls", "To Sail Beyond the Sunset"

C

*Colonel Colin Campbell (aka Richard Ames) - "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
*Dejah Thoris "Deety" Burroughs Carter - "The Number of the Beast", "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
*Zebediah 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 - "The Number of the Beast)"
*Cynthia Craig - "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag"
*Cuddlepup - "The Star Beast"

D

*John Ezra Dahlquist (Johnny) - "The Long Watch". Referred to (under the name Ezra Dahlquist) in "Space Cadet".
*Daniel Boone Davis - "Door into Summer"
*Hazel Meade Davis (Sadie Lipschitz) (Gwendolyn Novak) "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
*Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis (Mannie) - "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
*Bernardo de la Paz (Prof) - "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
*Doctor-Livingstone-I-Presume (cat) - "Farnham's Freehold"
*Matt Dodson - "Space Cadet"
*Dora (computer) - "Time Enough for Love" , "The Number of the Beast"
*Dora Smith (Adorable Dora) (Dorable) - "Time Enough for Love"
*Dorcas - "Stranger in a Strange Land"

E

*Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby Long - "The Number of the Beast" aka Pinky, Slipstick, Elizabeth Long, Andrew Jackson Libby 23rd chromosome XXY, originally male, latterly female

F

*Duke Farnham - "Farnham's Freehold"
*Grace Farnham - "Farnham's Freehold"
*Hugh Farnham - "Farnham's Freehold"
*Karen Farnham - "Farnham's Freehold"
*Friday aka Marjorie Baldwin - "Friday"
*Clark Fries - "Podkayne of Mars"
*Podkayne Fries - "Podkayne of Mars"

G

*Galahad - "Time Enough for Love"
*Gay Deceiver - "The Number of the Beast", "To Sail Beyond the Sunset", "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
*Joe Green- "Gulf"
*Oscar Gordon - "Glory Road"

H

*D. D. Harriman - "The Man Who Sold the Moon", "Requiem (book)", "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"
*Don Harvey - "Between Planets"
*Mycroft "Mike" Holmes (aka Adam Selene, Gospazha Michelle Holmes) - "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
*Ira Howard - "Methuselah's Children"
*Jonathan Hoag - "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag"

J

*Joseph - "Farnham's Freehold"
*Max Jones - "Starman Jones"
*Zebadiah Jones- ""If This Goes On—""
*Double Star - "Double Star"

K

*Karen - "Gulf"
*Wyoming Knott (Wyoh) - "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"

L

*Stuart Rene LaJoie - "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
*Lapis Lazuli Long - "Time Enough for Love", "The Number of the Beast"
*Andrew Jackson Libby - "Misfit", "Methuselah's Children". Also known as "Slipstick" Libby, and in "Misfit", has the nickname "Pinky". "The Number of the Beast" (although in "beast" he has been cloned as a woman.)
*LLita - "Time Enough for Love"
*Elizabeth Long - "The Number of the Beast"
*Lazarus Long (aka 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"
*John Lyle- ""If This Goes On—""

M

*Margrethe - ""
*Dr. Mary Lou Martin - "Let There Be Light"
*Mary - "The Puppet Masters"
*Helen Mayberry - "Time Enough for Love"
*Gloria McNye - "Delilah and the Space Rigger"
*Memtok - "Farnham's Freehold"
*Minerva - "Time Enough for Love", "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
*Miriam - "Stranger in a Strange Land"
*Frank Mitsui - "Sixth Column"
*Mort the Wart - "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"

N

*Andrew Nivens, aka "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, aka Sam Cavanaugh - "The Puppet Masters"
*Gwen Novak - "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"

P

*Patty Paiwonski - "Stranger in a Strange Land"
*Penny - "Double Star"
*Pete (cat) - "The Door into Summer"
*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"

R

*Rhysling, "Blind singer of the spaceways" - "The Green Hills of Earth"
*Juan Rico - "Starship Troopers"
*Rufo - "Glory Road"
*Clifford "Kip" Russell - "Have Space Suit—Will Travel"

*Johann Sebastian Bach Smith - "I Will Fear No Evil"
*Sister Maggie - ""If This Goes On—""
*Maureen 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 - birthname of Lazarus Long (see above)
*Lawrence Smythe (The Great Lorenzo) - "Double Star"
*Mary Sperling - "Methuselah's Children"
*Star - "Glory Road"
*Buster Stone - "The Rolling Stones"
*Castor Stone - "The Rolling Stones", "The Number of the Beast"
*Edith Stone - "The Rolling Stones"
*Hazel Meade Stone - "The Rolling Stones", "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress", "The Number of the Beast", "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
*Pollux Stone - "The Rolling Stones", "The Number of the Beast"
*John Thomas Stuart - "The Star Beast"

T

*Dejah Thoris - see Dejah Carter, above
*Colonel Towers - "The Long Watch"

V

*Becky Vesey (aka Madame Alexandra Vesant) - "Stranger in a Strange Land"

W

*Rod Walker - "Tunnel in the Sky"
*Ira Weatheral - "Time Enough for Love"
*Barbara Wells - "Farnham's Freehold"
*Wyoming Knott - "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"

References

See the referenced Heinlein works: "Between Planets, Beyond This Horizon, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Citizen of the Galaxy, Delilah and the Space Rigger, The Door into Summer, Double Star, Farnham's Freehold, Friday, Glory Road, Gulf, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, "If This Goes On—", I Will Fear No Evil, , Let There Be Light, Life-Line, The Long Watch, The Man Who Sold the Moon, Methuselah's Children, Misfit, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Number of the Beast, Podkayne of Mars, The Puppet Masters, The Rolling Stones, Sixth Column, Space Cadet, The Star Beast, Starman Jones, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Tunnel in the Sky, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, "—We Also Walk Dogs""