List of Robert A. Heinlein characters

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, originally Minerva – Time Enough for Love, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

B

Dr. Hartley M. Baldwin (a.k.a. "Kettle Belly," "Mr. Two-Canes") – Gulf, Friday, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

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 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

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 – see Hilda Burroughs

Ed Cowen – The Star 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 – 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

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 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 Henderson's son – The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Alex Hergensheimer / Alec Graham – Job: A Comedy of Justice

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

J

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 Knott (Wyoh) – 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 – 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

Mycroft – see Mycroft "Mike" Holmes, above, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Mother Thing – Have Space Suit—Will Travel

N

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

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)

Pollux Stone – The Rolling Stones, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

John Thomas Stuart – The Star Beast

Meade Stone -- The Rolling Stones

Edith Stone -- The Rolling Stones

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