List of P. G. Wodehouse characters

Threepwood family

Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth

Emsworth's siblings and their families

Hon. Galahad Threepwood, Emsworth's unmarried younger brother

Hon. Lancelot Threepwood, Emsworth's deceased brother

Millicent Threepwood, his daughter

Lady Ann Warblington, Emsworth's sister, sometime châtelaine at Blandings

Jane, deceased sister of Emsworth

Angela, daughter of Jane, Emsworth's niece

Lady Constance Keeble, later Schoonmaker, Emsworth's bossiest sister

Joseph Keeble, her first husband, Phyllis Jackson's stepfather.

Phyllis Jackson, Joe Keeble's stepdaughter

Michael "Mike" Jackson, her husband, an old friend of Psmith

James Schoonmaker, Lady Constance's second husband, an American millionaire and an old friend of Uncle Fred

Myra Schoonmaker, his daughter who marries Bill Bailey despite Lady Constance's best efforts

Lady Charlotte, Emsworth's sister, "a tougher egg even than Lady Constance, or her younger sister, Lady Julia".

Jane, her daughter

Lady Julia Fish, Emsworth's tall and blonde sister

Maj. Gen. Sir Miles Fish, her late husband

Ronnie Fish, their son and a member of the Drones Club

Lady Florence Moresby, another of Emsworth's domineering sisters

J. J. Underwood, Lady Florence's deceased first husband

Kevin Moresby, her second husband, from whom she has separated

Lady Dora Garland, Emsworth's tall and stately sister

Sir Everard Garland, K.C.B., her late husband

Prudence Garland, Lady Dora's daughter

Lady Hermione Wedge, Emsworth's sister, who looks like a cook

Colonel Egbert Wedge, Lady Hermione's husband

Veronica Wedge, the Wedges' beautiful but simple daughter

Lady Georgiana Alcester, another sister of Lord Emsworth, who owns fourteen dogs

Gertrude Alcester, her daughter

Lady Diana Phipps, the only one of Emsworth's sisters whom Galahad likes

Wilfred Allsop, Lord Emsworth's nephew, of uncertain parentage

Emsworth's children and their families

George Threepwood, Lord Bosham, Emsworth's elder son and heir to the earldom

Cecily Threepwood, Lord Bosham's wife

James Threepwood, their elder son

George Threepwood, their second son

Hon. Freddie Threepwood, Emsworth's younger son

Niagara "Aggie" Donaldson, Freddie's wife

Penelope Donaldson, Aggie's younger sister

Mr Donaldson, dog-biscuit king, father of Aggie and Penelope

Lady Mildred Mant, Emsworth's eldest daughter

Colonel Horace Mant, her husband

Distant relations

Percy, Lord Stockheath, Emsworth's nephew, whose parents are never named

Algernon Wooster, Lord Percy's cousin, implying Bertie Wooster may be a relation too

The Bishop of Godalming, a relative of the Threepwoods

Mrs Jack Hale, mentioned as belonging to the collateral branch of the family (Something Fresh)

Secretaries

Rupert Baxter, Lord Emsworth's original, very efficient secretary

Montague "Monty" Bodkin, also Emsworth's secretary for a time

Lavender Briggs, a tall and haughty secretary

Alexandra "Sandy" Callender, an attractive but fiery red-headed secretary

Hugo Carmody, another secretary, and a friend of Ronnie Fish

Rupert Psmith, Baxter's replacement as secretary

Gerald Anstruther Vail, a thriller-writer, and briefly Emsworth's secretary

Eve Halliday, hired to catalogue the library

House staff

Sebastian Beach, butler

Maudie, his much-married niece

Mrs Twemlow, housekeeper

Merridew, an under-butler

James and Alfred, Thomas and Stokes, Charles and Henry, footmen at the Castle

Outdoor staff

Thorne, the Scottish Head Gardener in Something Fresh

Angus McAllister, the Scottish Head Gardener after Thorne

Slingsby, a chauffeur

Alfred Voules, another chauffeur

Pig staff

George Cyril Wellbeloved, Emsworth's first pig man, who defects to the Parsloe-Parsloe camp

James Pirbright, another pig man, Wellbeloved's replacement

Edwin Pott, the pig man in Full Moon

Monica Simmons, a pig girl of Amazonian proportions

Other characters

Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's beloved black Berkshire sow

Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Bart., neighbour and rival of Lord Emsworth

Herbert Binstead, Parsloe's butler

The Pride of Matchingham, Parsloe-Parsloe's pig

The Queen of Matchingham, another pig owned by Parsloe-Parsloe

James Bartholomew Belford, a farmer, whom Angela loves

Major Wilfred "Plug" Basham, an old friend of Galahad and feature of his stories

Admiral George J. "Fruity" Biffen, another old friend of Galahad

Rev. Rupert "Beefy" Bingham, Freddie's university pal

"Puffy" Benger, yet another of Galahad's old cronies

Sue Brown, a chorus girl who falls for Ronnie Fish

Edward Cootes, a card-sharp, in love with Aileen Peavey

Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, an ill-mannered old man, an old friend of Connie

Horace Pendlebury-Davenport, Dunstable's wealthy nephew

Alaric "Ricky" Gilpin, Dunstable's impoverished nephew, a poet

Archibald "Archie" Gilpin, another nephew of Dunstable, also impoverished

Linda Gilpin, sister of Ricky and Dunstable's niece, a ward of court

George Emerson, a Hong Kong policeman, in love with Aline Peters

Lord Heacham, a rich landowner, once engaged to Angela

Frederick Twistleton, Earl of Ickenham, a mischievous old Pelican

Pongo Twistleton, Fred's ever-embarrassed nephew

Valerie Twistleton, Fred's niece, who loves Horace Pendlebury-Davenport

R. Jones, a fat bookmaker and conman

Bill Lister, Galahad's godson, an artist who loves Prudence Garland

Ashe Marson, a writer, the hero of Something Fresh

Ralston McTodd, a Canadian poet

Aileen Peavey (a.k.a. Smooth Lizzie), an American poet and crook

Aline Peters, Freddie's fiancée in Something Fresh

J. Preston Peters, Aline's father, a scarab collector

Percy Frobisher Pilbeam, head of the Argus Private Inquiry Agency

Tipton Plimsoll, a wealthy American friend of Freddie's, who falls for Veronica Wedge

Claude "Mustard" Pott, another private detective, hired by Lord Bosham

Polly Pott, Mustard's pretty daughter, engaged to Ricky Gilpin

Gloria Salt, an athletic girl, who is engaged to Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe for a time

George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury, a publisher and pig owner

Orlo Watkins, a tenor with whom Gertrude Alcester becomes infatuated

Dame Daphne Winkworth, headmistress of a girls' school in Eastbourne; also a friend of Aunt Agatha

Gerald Anstruther Vail, a thriller-writer who loves Penelope Donaldson

Joan Valentine, the heroine of Something Fresh

Orlo, Lord Vosper, a handsome nobleman who visits Blandings in Pigs Have Wings

Augustus Whiffle (or Whipple), author of Lord Emsworth's favorite book, The Care of the Pig

Jane Yorke, a friend of Freddie's wife Aggie

Golf stories

The Oldest Member

Agnes Flack

Sidney McMurdo

The Wrecking Crew, a foursome:

The First Grave Digger

The Man with the Hoe

Old Father Time

Consul, the Almost-Human

Felicia Blakeny

Chester Meredith

Jeeves and Wooster

Reginald Jeeves

Bertie Wooster (Bertram Wilberforce Wooster)

Jeeves's relations

his niece Mabel, a chorus girl ("The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy" from Carry on Jeeves)

his cousin Egbert, constable of Beckley-in-the-Moor ("Without the Option" from Carry on Jeeves)

his uncle Charlie Silversmith, butler at Deverill Hall in Hampshire (The Mating Season)

Queenie, daughter of Charlie Silversmith, maid at Deverill Hall

his aunt P.B. Pigott, in Eggsford (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen aka The Catnappers)

Bertie's relations

his aunt Dahlia Travers, sister to his late father

her husband Tom Travers, his uncle

George Travers, apparently Tom's brother

Bonzo Travers, Tom and Dahlia's son

Angela Travers, Tom and Dahlia's daughter

his aunt Agatha Gregson, later Lady Worplesdon, sister to his late father

Spenser Gregson, her first husband

Thomas Gregson, (Thos.), their son

Percy Craye, Earl of Worplesdon, her second husband

Lady Florence Craye, Lord Worplesdon's daughter

Edwin Craye, his son, a Boy Scout

Zenobia "Nobby" Hopwood, his ward

his uncle Willoughby Wooster, Bertie's initial trustee, resident of a country seat in Shropshire, notable for his scandalous Reminiscences

his uncle Henry Wooster, a very personable 'looney' who kept pet rabbits in his bedroom

Emily Wooster, Henry's widow

Claude and Eustace Wooster, Henry and Emily's troublesome twin sons, Bertie's cousins

his uncle George Travers, Lord Yaxley, who has devoted his entire life to the pleasures of the table, and "discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought"

Maud Wilberforce, a former barmaid and Yaxley's former fiancée, whom he ends up marrying

his sister Mrs. Scholfield, who lives in India with her three daughters

Bertie's friends

Harold "Beefy" Anstruther, Bertie's friend from Oxford, engaged to Hilda, a friend of Madeline Bassett

Cyril Bassington-Bassington

Bill Belfry, 9th Earl of Rowcester, an impoverished friend of Bertie and a fellow member of the Drones Club

Francis "Bicky" Bickersteth, a young Englishman sent to make his fortune in New York

The Duke of Chiswick, Bicky's wealthy and displeased uncle

Charles Edward "Biffy" Biffen, a fellow member of the Drones Club, who is extremely absent-minded and in love with Jeeves's niece Mabel

The Rev. Rupert "Beefy" Bingham, a school friend

Freddie Bullivant, another Drones Club member

Elizabeth Vickers, the girl whom Freddie loves

Marmaduke, 5th Baron "Chuffy" Chuffnell, a school friend

Myrtle, the Dowager Lady Chuffnell, Chuffy's aunt

Seabury, Lady Chuffnell's son by her first marriage

Bruce "Corky" Corcoran, a New York portrait painter turned cartoonist

Alexander Worple, Corky's wealthy uncle

Muriel Singer, first Corky's fiancée and later Mrs Alexander Worple

Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle, lover of newts

George Webster "Boko" Fittleworth, author of plays and fiction

Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay-Phipps (pronounced "Funghy Fipps")

Hildebrand "Tuppy" Glossop, Sir Roderick Glossop's nephew

Cora Bellinger, an opera singer whom Tuppy loves

Reginald "Kipper" Herring, former fellow inmate of Malvern House, their preparatory school.

Richard P. "Bingo" Little, renowned in the early days for his ability to fall in love with every girl he meets, later marries Rosie M. Banks and becomes editor of Wee Tots magazine

Rosie Little, née Rosie M. Banks, Bingo's wife, a novelist whom Bertie impersonates once

Algernon Aubrey Little, Bingo's son

Lord Bittlesham, formerly Mortimer Little, Bingo's uncle and provider of his allowance

Gussie Mannering-Phipps, Bertie's cousin in New York

Ray Denison, Gussie's fiancée and music hall performer

Rev. Harold "Stinker" Pinker, curate in Market Snodsbury.

Stephanie "Stiffy" Pinker, née Byng, his wife

Not to be confused with Lionel "Stinker" Green, a minor character in Money in the Bank.

Claude Cattermole "Catsmeat" Potter-Pirbright, a school friend

Cora "Corky" Pirbright, his sister

The Rev. Sidney Pirbright, Catsmeat's and Corky's uncle; vicar of King's Deverill

Oliver Randolph "Sippy" Sipperley, an impecunious aspiring author

Vera Sipperley, his aunt and means of financial support

Professor Pringle, his daughter Heloise, and aunt Jane, friends of Aunt Vera

Gwendolen Moon, a poet with whom he is in love

Rockmetteller "Rocky" Todd, a poet who lives on Long Island and hates New York City

Isabel Rockmetteller, Rocky's fun-loving aunt

Bertie's antagonists

Sir Watkyn Bassett, CBE, a magistrate in Bosher Street

Madeline Bassett, his daughter

Butterfield, his butler

Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, his niece

Major Brabazon-Plank, who wanted to call the police on Bertie

D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright

Sir Roderick Glossop, a 'nerve specialist' in Harley Street, became Bertie's good friend in 'Thank You, Jeeves'

Lady Glossop, his wife

Hildebrand "Tuppy" Glossop, his nephew

Honoria Glossop, his daughter

Oswald Glossop, Honoria's younger brother

Roderick Spode, 8th Earl of Sidcup, an amateur fascist dictator and designer of women's underclothing

Mrs. Wintergreen, his aunt

Col. H. H. Wintergreen, late husband of Mrs. Wintergreen

Aubrey Upjohn, Bertie's former headmaster at Malvern House.

Romantic interests and fiancées

Madeline Bassett, Sir Watkyn Bassett's daughter

Daphne Braythwayt, Honoria Glossop's friend

Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, later Mrs. Harold Pinker, Watkyn Bassett's niece

Lady Florence Craye, Lord Worplesdon's daughter and Bertie's first fiancée

Honoria Glossop, Sir Roderick Glossop's daughter

Aline Hemmingway, Soapy Sid's partner in crime

Gwladys Pendlebury, an artist who paints Bertie's portrait

Pauline Stoker

J. Washburn Stoker, her father, an American millionaire

Dwight Stoker, Washburn's son and Pauline's younger brother

Emerald Stoker, Pauline's sister

Benstead, valet to George Stoker, Washburn's late cousin; a friend of Jeeves

Lady Cynthia Wickhammersley, daughter of Lord Wickhammersley

Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham, enamoured of practical jokes, engagement broken off and became enemies for a short period

Lady Wickham, Bobbie's mother; an old friend of Aunt Agatha

Clementina, Bobbie's cousin

Domestic staff

Meadowes, Jeeves's predecessor as Bertie's valet

Brinkley (renamed Rupert Bingley) Bertie's valet commissioned when Jeeves gives notice, soon sacked for his insane behavior

Maple, Lord Worplesdon's butler

Mulready, Sir Reginald Witherspoon's butler

Oakshott, Uncle Willoughby's butler

Purvis, Aunt Agatha's butler

Seppings, one of the Travers' butlers at Brinkley Court

Waterbury, the chauffeur at Brinkley Court

Anatole, chef extraordinaire, employed by Tom and Dahlia Travers

Butterfield, butler at Totleigh Towers

Other characters

Mr Anstruther, an elderly man who holds a Good Conduct competition between Thomas Gregson and Bonzo Travers

Mr Blumenfeld, producer of musicals

Comrade Butt, a Marxist revolutionary

Ernest Dobbs, constable of King's Deverill, and betrothed of Queenie Silversmith, Deverill Hall's beautiful parlourmaid

The Rt. Hon. A. B. Filmer, a Cabinet Minister

Esmond Haddock, a man dominated by his aunts

Charlotte, Emmeline, Harriet, and Myrtle Deverill, and Dame Daphne Winkworth, his aunts

Sidney "Soapy Sid" Hemmingway, a con man

Aline Hemmingway, Soapy Sid's partner in crime

The Rev. Francis Heppenstall, a long-winded vicar

Mary Burgess, his niece

Peggy Mainwaring, a student at Miss Tomlinson's school

Miss Mapleton, headmistress of a girls' school in Bingley

McIntosh, Aunt Agatha's terrier

Sebastian Moon, a detestable young boy with golden curls

Daphne Dolores Morehead, an attractive blonde bestselling novelist, prob. based on Daphne du Maurier

Eustace Oates, constable at Totleigh-in-the-Wold

Wilmot, Lord Pershore, a sheltered young man

Lady Malvern, his over-protective mother

Rhoda Platt, a barmaid whom Lord Yaxley thinks he loves

Lucius Pim, an artist who loves Gwladys Pendlebury

Beatrice Slingsby, his sister

Alexander Slingsby, Beatrice's husband

Laura Pyke, a nutrition-obsessed schoolmate of Rosie M. Banks

Charlotte Corday Rowbotham, a Marxist with whom Bingo Little falls in love

Jane Snettisham, Aunt Dahlia's friend, who attempts to win Anatole from her in a bet

Jack, Lord Snettisham, Jane's husband

Rupert Steggles, a crooked bookie

Mrs Tinkler-Moulke, a patient of Sir Roderick Glossop

Miss Tomlinson, the headmistress of a girls' school

The Rev. Aubrey Upjohn, headmaster of Malvern House, where Bertie went to school

Lord Wickhammersley, a friend of Bertie's late father

Lady Cynthia Wickhammersley, his daughter

Dame Daphne Winkworth, Aunt Agatha's friend and Madeline Bassett's godmother; also an acquaintance of Lord Emsworth

Gertrude Winkworth, her daughter

Jas. Waterbury, the "greasy bird": theatrical agent and blackmailer

Sir Reginald Witherspoon, Bart., husband of Uncle Tom's sister Katharine

Augustus "Gus" the cat, who intensely dislikes being disturbed from his sleep and, unlike most cats, dislikes being scratched under the ears

Mr Mulliner

Mr Mulliner, pub raconteur with a large family

his nephew Archibald Mulliner, sock collector who can mimic a hen laying an egg

his nephew Rev. Augustine Mulliner, a timid young curate before being 'bucked-up'

Psmith and Mike

Psmith, an immaculately dressed, monocle-sporting young man. His name is Rupert Psmith in his early appearances, but is changed to Ronald Psmith in Leave it to Psmith (a Blandings story, characters from which are listed above), presumably to avoid confusion with Rupert Baxter

Mr Smith, Psmith's father, an eccentric man

Mike Jackson, best friend of Psmith

Burgess, captain of the Wrykyn cricket team

"Gazeka" Firby-Smith, head of Mike's house at Wrykyn

Bob Jackson, Mike's elder brother, also at Wrykyn

Trevor and Clowes, friends of Bob and keen cricketers

Wain, master of Mike's house at Wrykyn

Wyatt, Wain's step-stop, who shares a dorm with Mike at Wrykyn

Neville-Smith, a day boy at Wrykyn, a good fast bowler

Strachan, the boy who took Mike's place as IX Cricket Captain

Mr Outwood, master of Mike and Psmith's house at Sedleigh

Mr Downing, master of another house at Sedleigh

Adair, very keen cricket captain at Sedleigh

Tom Jellicoe, a boy in Outwood's house, who shares a dorm with Mike and Psmith

Spiller, another boy in Outwood's, whose study Psmith steals

Stone, another boy in Outwood's, a ragger

Robinson, another boy in Outwood's, Stone's henchman

Dunster, a Sedleigh old boy and famed ragger

Sergeant Collard, portly school sergeant as Sedleigh

John Bickersdyke, head of the New Asiatic Bank

Mr Rossiter, Head Postage at the Bank, a football fan

Bannister, Mike's forerunner in Postage

Bristow, Mike's successor there

Mr Robert Waller, Head of the Cash Department, an amiable sort, but a secret socialist

Mr Prebble, an unintelligible socialist orator

Joe Jackson, one of Mike's brothers, an M.C.C. player

Reggie Jackson, another cricket playing brother

Billy Windsor, a New York journalist befriended by Psmith

Pugsy Maloney, the office-boy at Windsor's paper

Kid Brady, a boxer boosted by Psmith in New York

Bat Jarvis, a New York gangster befriended by Psmith

Long Otto, one of Jarvis' henchmen, a stringy, silent young man

Spider Reilly, another gang boss, head of the "Three Points" gang

Jack Repetto, a thug in Reilly's gang, who ruins Psmith's hat

Dude Dawson, head of the "Table Hill" gang, Reilly's main rival

Francis Parker, a sinister, well-dressed man

Ukridge

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, entrepreneur

Julia Ukridge, his aunt

Oakshott, one of Julia Ukridge's many butlers

Dora Mason, Julia Ukridge's secretary for a time

Millie, Ukridge's wife

Lady Elizabeth Lakenheath, Millie's aunt and guardian before her marriage

Charles Percy Cuthbertson, who calls himself "Uncle Percy", a distant step-relation of Ukridge

James "Corky" Corcoran, a writer friend of Ukridge, the narrator of all the Ukridge shorts.

Bowles, Corky's landlord

George Tupper, a friend of Ukridge and Corky from Wrykyn days

B. V. "Boko" Lawlor, an ex-Wrykynian who stands for Parliament

J. G. "Looney" Coote, another ex-Wrykynian friend

"Battling" Billson, a boxer managed by Ukridge

Flossie, Billson's girl

Teddy Weeks, once a friend of Ukridge and Corky, who becomes a movie star

Joe "the Lawyer", an unsavoury associate of Ukridge

Izzy Previn, another untrustworthy type

Beale, Ukridge's man in Love Among the Chickens

Professor Derrick, Ukridge's Irish neighbour in Love Among the Chickens

Phyllis Derrick, the professor's daughter, admired by Jeremy Garnet

Tom Chase, a friend of the Derricks

Jeremy Garnet, another writer friend of Ukridge, who narrates Love Among the Chickens

Harry Hawk, a large local in Love Among the Chickens, who aids Garnet in a plot

Uncle Fred

Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, familiarly known as Uncle Fred

Jane, Lady Ickenham, Uncle Fred's wife, who went willingly to the Caribbean

Pongo Twistleton, nephew of Uncle Fred

Valerie Twistleton, Pongo's sister

Other

Introduced in rough order of the book in which they first appear

Clarence MacAndrew Chugwater, a Boy Scout, hero of The Swoop

Roland Bleke, hero of the A Man of Means shorts, a young man who finds money brings trouble

James Willoughby Pitt, the hero of A Gentleman of Leisure (U.S. title: The Intrusion of Jimmy)

Molly McEachern, the girl Jimmy Pitt falls for.

John McEachern, Molly's father, a policeman

Arthur Mifflin, an actor, an old friend of Pitt

"Spennie", Earl of Dreever, who McEachern hopes Molly will marry

Lady Julia Blunt, Spennie's imperious aunt

Sir Thomas Blunt, her wealthy husband

Spike Mullins, a New York thief who becomes Jimmy Pitt's valet for a time

Charteris, a keen organiser of amateur theatre

Hargate, a card-sharp who preys on Lord Dreever

William Paradene West, known to all as Bill, of Bill the Conqueror fame

Cooley Paradene, Bill West's uncle, a wealthy businessman and collector of rare books

Otis Paradene, Cooley's sponging brother

Jasper Daly, Cooley's sponging brother-in-law

Evelyn Paradene-Kirby, Cooley's baby-talking, sponging niece

Horace French, an unpleasant youth adopted by Paradene

Sherman Bastable, Horace's tutor

Professor Appleby, Horace's white-bearded mentor

Joe the Dip, a member of Appleby's gang

Wilfred Slingsby, Paradene's man in London

Judson Coker, Bill West's best friend, a devout drinker

Alice Coker, Judson's doting sister, adored by Bill

Prudence Stryker, a New York chorus girl, old friend of Judson Coker

George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury, media mogul, who first appears in Bill the Conqueror and later visits Blandings

Roderick Pyke, Pyke's droopy son

Frances Hammond, Pyke's doting sister

Sinclair Hammond, Frances' husband, an archaeologist

Felicia "Flick" Sheridan, Hammond's orphaned niece, who adores Bill but is engaged to Roderick

Percy Frobisher Pilbeam, Roderick's deputy on Society Spice, later editor and detective

Sam Shotter, a somewhat eccentric American, hero of Sam the Sudden (US title: Sam in the Suburbs)

Mr John B. Pynsent, American Export-Import millionaire, Sam's uncle

Clarence "Hash" Todhunter, an old seafaring pal of Sam's, who becomes his cook

Kay Derrick, a pretty young girl, whose photograph Sam falls in love with

Mr Matthew Wrenn, Kay's uncle and guardian

Claire Lippett, their fiery maid

Willoughby Braddock, a schoolfriend of Sam and an old neighbour of Kay

Mrs Martha Lippett, Claire's mother, housekeeper to Braddock

Alexander "Chimp" Twist, a.k.a. J Sheringham Adair, a crook employed by Lord Tilbury

Thomas "Soapy" Molloy, an old comrade of Twist, a conman

Dora "Dolly" Gunn, Molloy's girl, a skilled pick-pocket

The late Edward "Finky" Finglass, a bank robber, once a resident of Valley Fields

Claude Winnington-Bates, an unpleasant Wrykyn old boy

Mrs Winnington-Bates, mother of Claude, Kay's demanding employer

Mr Cornelius, a white-bearded estate agent and historian, a friend of Mr Wrenn

Ogden Ford, an obnoxious child, a popular target of kidnappers and thus known as The Little Nugget

Elmer Ford, Ogden's wealthy and commanding father

Mrs Nesta Ford (later Mrs Ford Pett), his doting mother

Peter Burns, a well-to-do young man, who tries to kidnap Ogden for Mrs Ford

Cynthia Drassilis, the ambitious fiancée of Peter Burns

Mrs Drassilis, Cynthia's even more ambitious mother

Audrey Sheridan, Ogden's governess, once Peter Burns's first love

Arnold Abney, the mild and pompous headmaster of Sanstead House

Mr Glossop, an irascible master at Sanstead

White, butler at Sanstead, soon found to be undercover

Mrs Attwell, matron as Santead

"Smooth" Sam Fisher, an intellectual crook who kidnaps Ogden Ford

Buck MacGinnis, a gang leader and archrival of Smooth Sam Fisher

Lord Mountry, a nervous young noble

Augustus Beckford, a pupil at Sanstead, cousin of Lord Mountry

Tankerville Gifford, an unpleasant socialite

Miss Benjafield, barmaid at the Feathers an inn near the school

Peter Pett, Millionaire and wife to Nesta Ford

Anne Chester, Mr Pett's niece and beloved of Jimmy Crocker

Jimmy Crocker, wild socialite on the mend

Eugenia Crocker (Formerly van Brunt), disapproving stepmother of Jimmy and Nesta Ford's sister.

Bingley Crocker, his father, enthusiastic baseball fan

Skinner, Chicago Ed (Various Aliases of Bingley Crocker)

Jerry Mitchell, Mr Pett's physical instructor

Willie Partridge, Nesta Ford's nephew and inventor of the explosive Partidgite

Lord Wisbeach (Actually Jack the Gentleman), thief after the explosive

Lord Wisbeach (The Real One) Piccadilly Jim's friend

Mr Sturgis, head of a detective agency

Miss Trimble, private detective and ardent socialist

Bud Smithers, owner of a dogs' home thought appropriate for Ogden by several conspirators

Lord Percy Whipple, the man who fights Piccadilly Jim in a club

Monty Bodkin, a member of the Drones Club who appears in a number of novels and is one of Lord Emsworth's many secretaries

Gertrude Butterwick, the girl to whom Monty was engaged.

John G. Butterwick (J. B. Butterwick in 'Pearls'), Gertrude's father, uncle to Ambrose and Reggie, demands that Monty hold a job for one year

Ambrose Tennyson, cousin of Gertrude Butterwick, elder brother of Reggie, novelist engaged to Lotus Blossom

Reggie Tennyson, cousin of Gertrude Butterwick, younger brother of Ambrose, Drones Club member and friend of Monty

Sandy Miller, Monty's secretary in California, the girl he marries.

Reggie Pepper, the hapless protagonist of several stories; Bertie Wooster's prototype

Oofy Prosser, the richest member of Drones Club.

Myrtle Prosser, Oofy's wife.

Pillingshot, schoolboy at St. Austin's, pose as a 'master detective'