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UlyssesJames Joyce

Characters in Ulysses

84 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Leopold Bloom

    A Dublin advertising canvasser whose wanderings across the city on 16 June 1904 form the central thread of the book.

  • Stephen Dedalus

    A young teacher and aspiring writer, carried over from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, who spends the day adrift in Dublin.

Supporting characters

  • Molly Bloom

    Leopold's wife, a concert singer, whose unpunctuated thoughts close the novel.

  • Malachi "Buck" Mulligan

    Stephen's irreverent medical-student housemate, who opens the novel in the Martello tower.

  • Mr. Garret Deasy

  • Bantam Lyons

  • Simon Dedalus

  • Myles Crawford

  • William Humble, Earl of Dudley

  • Hugh "Blazes" Boylan

    A concert manager who is due to visit Molly Bloom that afternoon.

  • The Citizen

  • Gerty MacDowell

  • Mina Purefoy

  • John Corley

  • D.B. Murphy

  • Matthew Lenehan

  • Fr. Bernard Vaughan

  • James Fitzharris

  • Fanny Moody

  • Charles Manners

  • Haines

  • Thomas "Tommy" Caffrey

  • John "Jacky" Caffrey

  • Martha Clifford

  • Mr. Power

  • Patrick Dignam

  • Martin Cunningham

  • Fr. John Conmee

  • Bridget "Bridie" Kelly

  • J.J. O'Molloy

  • Mary Dedalus

  • George Russell

  • Stephen MacKenna

  • Mr Joseph M'Carthy Hynes

  • Alf Bergan

  • Millie Bloom

  • Terence O'Ryan

  • Davy Byrne

  • Bob Doran

  • Mr Thomas Kernan

  • Ned Lambert

  • T. Lenehan

  • Mr O’madden Burke

  • Mrs Josephine Breen

  • Benjamin Dollard

  • John Eglinton

  • Mr V. Lynch

  • Edy Boardman

  • Cissy Caffrey

  • Mrs Bella Cohen

  • Richard Crookback

  • Richie Goulding

  • Walter Sexton

  • John Henry Menton

  • Sara (Sally) Goulding

  • Mina Kennedy

  • Lydia Douce

  • Zoe Higgins

  • Mrs. Dignam

  • Mr Paddy Dignam

  • Kitty Ricketts

  • Josie (Powell) Breen

  • Denis Breen

  • Dilly, Katey, Boody, and Maggy Dedalus

  • Mr Cornelius Kelleher

  • Thomas W. Lyster

  • Joseph P. Nannetti

  • Florry Talbot

  • Tom Rochford

  • Barney Kiernan

  • Lord Fox

  • Mr Hornblower

  • Mother Grogan

  • Master Boardman

  • Mrs Stoer

  • Signor Maffei

  • Gerald Ward A.D.C.

  • Jacob Halliday

  • Joseph Glynn

  • Ann Hathaway

  • Mr Bello

  • Brian Cooper Tweedy

  • Kevin Egan

  • Father Conroy