List of Robert A. Heinlein characters

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

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