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The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett is a comic fantasy work and includes a cast of several hundred characters.
Some of the best-known inhabitants of the Discworld include:
- Wizards and others at Unseen University, the principal seat of magical learning on the Disc:
- Mustrum Ridcully, or Ridcully the Brown; the current Arch-Chancellor of the University
- Galder Weatherwax; the 304th Chancellor of the University
- The Librarian; transformed by a magical accident into an orangutan
- Rincewind the Wizzard (sic); after a lifetime of running away that has taken him to the far regions of the Disc, he is now the Egregious Professor of 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 Disc's oldest living wizard (and then, for a brief time, the Disc's most mobile dead wizard)
- The Bursar; at some remove from reality, subsists on dried frog pills
- Modo, the dwarfish gardener of the Unseen University.
- HEX, the most powerful (and possibly only) computing machine on the Disc
- Witches:
- the Lancre coven:
- Granny Weatherwax; possibly the most powerful witch on the Disc
- Nanny Ogg
- Magrat Garlick; Queen of Lancre
- Agnes Nitt
- others
- Tiffany Aching
- Miss Tick
- the Lancre coven:
- Members of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch (which has an active policy of recruiting amongst ethnic minorities):
- Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch
- Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson, the Disc's tallest dwarf (by adoption), Captain of the City Watch
- Sergeant Fred Colon, a human
- Corporal Cecil "Nobby" Nobbs, probably human
- Sergeant Detritus, a troll
- Corporal Angua, a werewolf
- Corporal Cheery Littlebottom, a dwarf, and the Watch's forensics expert
- Dorfl, a golem
- Igor, an igor
- Anthropomorphic personifications:
- Death (the Grim Reaper; resembles a skeleton in a black robe, carrying a scythe)
- Time
- Ronnie Soak, the milkman
- War (and possibly also Mrs. War and their children Terror, Panic, and Clancy)
- Famine
- Pestilence
- The Auditors of Reality
- The Hogfather
- The Tooth Fairy
- Old Man Trouble
- Associates of Death
- the Death of Rats (the Grim Squeaker; resembles a rat skeleton in a black robe, carrying a scythe)
- Binky (Death's steed)
- Quoth the Raven (steed of the Death of Rats)
- Ysabell, Death's adopted daughter
- Mort, Death's apprentice
- Susan Sto-Helit, Death's granddaughter (i.e. the daughter of Ysabell and Mort)
- Albert, Death's manservant; formerly a wizard, the founder of Unseen University
- Ankh-Morpork society
- Havelock Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork
- Lady Sybil Vimes
- The heads of the various guilds
- Other inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork
- Foul Ole Ron, Coffin Henry, the Duck Man ("what duck?"), Arnold Sideways, and Altogether Andrews; five beggars even the Beggars' Guild will have nothing to do with
- Leonard of Quirm, mad inventor
- Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, entrepreneur and seller of street food ("For you, two dollars - and that's cutting me own throat!")
- Chrysophrase, troll gangster
- Mrs Cake, a small medium in a large hat
- Animals
- Great A'Tuin, the gigantic turtle that carries the four elephants that carry the Disc
- Gaspode the Wonder Dog (Foul Ole Ron's Thinking Brain Dog)
- Laddie (the Disc's first canine film star)
- Greebo (Nanny Ogg's cat)
- Gods and other similar shady characters
- Blind Io, leader of the gods
- The Lady, not really a goddess, but very powerful, disappears when one says her name; not in any sense the patron goddess of gamblers
- Fate, rival of the Lady
- Nuggan
- Om
- Offler, the crocodile-headed god
- Bilious, Oh-God of hangovers
- Sweevo, God of Cut Timber
- Other characters
- Verence, King of Lancre
- Cohen the Barbarian
- Twoflower the imperturbable Tourist
- Casanunda the dwarf - highwayman, liar, and the Disc's second-greatest lover ("I try harder.")
- various bogeymen
- The Luggage
- Lu-Tse, the Sweeper, and other monks
