Discworld characters

The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett is the most signicant work in comic fantasy in recent decades and includes a cast of several hundred characters.

Some of the best-known inhabitants of the Discworld include:

• Unseen University principal seat of magical learning on the Disc.
  • Mustrum Ridcully, or Ridcully the Brown (Wizard, current Arch-Chancellor of Unseen University)
  • Galder Weatherwax (304th Chancellor of UU)
  • The Librarian (By happy accident, an Orangutan. Definitely NOT a monkey)
  • Rincewind the Wizzard (sic); after extensive (involuntary) tours of the far regions of the Disc, he is now the Lecturer in Cruel and Unusual Geography
  • Ponder Stibbons, formerly a postgraduate student in the High Energy Magic building, now the Head of Inadvisably Applied Magic.
  • Windle Poons
  • The Bursar, at some remove from reality, subsists on dried frog pills
  • HEX, the most powerful (and possibly only) computing machine on the Disc

• The witches
  • Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax (Possibly the most powerful witch on the disc)
  • (Nanny) Ogg
  • Magrat Garlick (Queen of Lancre)
  • Agnes (Perdita X) Nitt

• The Ankh-Morpork City Watch, under its new leadership has become a vital force in maintaining city order. It has an active policy of recruiting amongst ethnic minorities:
  • Sir Samuel Vimes (Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Duke of Ankh)
  • Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson (officially a Very Tall Dwarf, Captain of the City Watch)
  • Sergeant Colon
  • Sergeant Detritus, a troll
  • Corporal "Nobby" Nobbs, probably human
  • Corporal Angua, a werewolf
  • Corporal Cheery Littlebottom, a dwarf, and the Watch's forensics expert.
    
  • Dorfl, a golem

• Anthropomorphic personifications
  • Death (Grim Reaper).
    
  • Death of Rats (Squeaker, Grim, a rodentomorphism)
  • Binky (Horse, Death's steed)
  • Quoth (Raven, steed of Death of Rats)

• Associates of Death
  • Mort
    
  • Susan Sto-Helit (Susan Death)
  • Albert (Death's Butler), was a wizard when he was in the mortal world
  • Death of Rats
  • Time
  • Ernie Soak, the milkman
  • War
  • Famine
  • Pesilence

• Ankh-Morpork society
  • Havelock Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork
  • Lady Sybil Vimes

• Other inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork.
  • Foul Ole Ron, Coffin Henry and the Duck Man ("what duck?"), three Gentlemen of Leisure.
  • Leonardo de Quirm, mad inventor
  • C.M.O.T. (Cut Me Own Throat) Dibbler (entrepreneur and seller of street food. Only the finest meat byproduct byproducts go into his wares)
  • Chrysophrase, Troll Gangster
  • Mrs Cake

• Animals
  • Gaspode the Wonder Dog
  • Greebo (Nanny Ogg's cat)

• God/Godlike characters
  • The Lady of fortune, not really a goddess, but very powerful, disappears when one says her name,
  • Fate, rival of the Lady
  • Blind IO
  • Om

• Other characters
  • Verence, King of Lancre
  • Ghenghiz Cohen aka Cohen the Barbarian
  • Twoflower the Tourist
  • Casanunda (dwarf highwayman, lover)
  • The Hogfather
  • The Tooth Fairy
  • various bogeymen
  • Dorfl, the Golem
  • Great A'Tuin