List of characters from The Simpsons

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Characters are only listed once, normally under the first applicable subsection in the list; very minor characters are listed with a more regular chracter they are associated with. Subsections are ordered by size and ongoing relevance to the show.

The Simpson family members

• Homer J. Simpson, father
• Marge Simpson, mother
• Bart Simpson, son
• Lisa Simpson, daughter
• Maggie Simpson, baby daughter
• Abraham J. Simpson, Grandpa
• Mona Simpson, Homer's mother
• Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Hutz McClure, one of Marge's twin sisters
• Patty Bouvier, the other of Marge's twin sisters
• Jackie Bouvier, Marge's mother
• Marge's father, seen only in flashbacks
• Herb Powell, Homer's half brother

Pets

• Snowball cat, former pet
• Snowball II cat, pet
• Santa's Little Helper greyhound dog, pet
• Stampy, elephant, former pet
• Jub-Jub, iguana owned by Selma
• Unnamed fish
• Princess, pony owned by Lisa
• Racehorse owned by Homer
• Laddie, Super-Dog male version of Lassie, owned by Bart

Other families

• The Flanders family
  • Ned Flanders, father, owner of Leftorium
  • Maude Flanders, mother (deceased)
  • Rod Flanders, son
  • Todd Flanders, son
  • Grandma Flanders (senile and decrepit several years earlier; probably dead?)
  • ? (Ned is known to have at least one sister)

• The van Houten family
  • Kirk Van Houten, cracker factory employee
  • Luann (changed her last name back?), his ex-wife
  • Milhouse Van Houten, their son, Bart's best friend.
  • Milhouse's grandmother

• The Nahasapeemapetilon family
  • Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a convenience store owner
  • Manjula, his wife
  • Their octuplets (by stage name):
    • Dazzle
    • Animal
    • The Baron
  • Sanjay, Apu's brother
  • Pahusacheta, Sanjay's daughter

• The Wiggum family
  • Clancy, the incompetent police chief
  • Sarah, Clancy's wife and Ralph's Mom
  • Ralph, the mentally challenged son

Institutions

• The Springfield Nuclear Powerplant
  • Charles Montgomery Burns, owner
  • Waylon Smithers, sycophant
  • Lenny
  • Carl Carlson
  • Charlie
  • Mindy Simmons
  • Frank Grimes a.k.a. Grimey (deceased)
  • Related: Aristotle Amadopolis owns the Shelbyville Nuclear Powerplant.
  • Assorted others

• Springfield Elementary School
  • Seymour Skinner, principal, who lives with his mother Agnes.
  • Superintendent Chalmers
    • Leopold, his assistant
  • Teachers
    • Miss Elizabeth Hoover, second-grade teacher
    • Edna Krabappel, teacher.
    • Dewey Largo[?], music teacher
    • Mr. Glascock[?], teacher, now retired from the stress of children making fun of his name
    • Mrs. Cummerdale[?], gym teacher
    • Mr. Bergstrom, substituted for Miss Hoover, (voiced by Dustin Hoffman)
  • Otto Mann, bus driver
  • Groundskeeper Willy
  • Lunchlady Doris/Nurse Doris
  • Students
    • Jimbo Jones
    • Kearney
      • Kearney's son
    • Dolph
    • Nelson Muntz, school bully known for his scornful laugh
    • Martin Prince an overachieving nerd
    • Sherry and Terry purple-haired twins whose dad has a high-up position at the power plant.
    • Üter, German exchange student
    • Wendell, a nervous student who vomits frequently
    • Louis[?]
    • Nerd based on Saturday Night Live's Pat
    • Oliver[?], a nerd encountered briefly when Bart was brought to their secret hideout
    • Ralph Wiggum Lisa's below-average classmate
    • Allison Taylor, Lisa's fellow-overachieving classmate
      • Allison's Dad

• Moe's Tavern
  • Moe Syzlak, owner and proprieter
  • Barney Gumble, boozehound
    • Barney's mother
  • Hugh Jass
  • Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo
  • Aerosmith, briefly the house band
  • Waitress Moe hired during the "Flaming Moe's" period
  • Woman Moe dated briefly

• Government, Police, Law
  • "Diamond" Joe Quimby, Mayor
    • Freddy Quimby[?], troublemaking playboy nephew
  • Chief Clancy Wiggum, Chief of Springfield Police
  • Lou, police officer
  • Eddie, police officer
  • Snake, a recidivist crook with a well-educated accent
  • Judge Synder[?], veteran judge in Springfield known for lenient punishment
  • Constance Harm[?], newer judge known for vindictive punishment, a parody of Judge Judy[?]
  • Lionel Hutz, incompetent lawyer
  • Burns's Lawyer[?], a pasty faced lawyer who always opposes the Simpsons in court
  • Related:
    • Joe Quimby's wife and numerous mistresses
    • Quimby's nephew (brother?) Clovis

Local television and movie personalities

• Krusty the Klown, real name Herschel Krustovsky, entertainer
  • Rabbi Hyman Krustovsky, Jewish Rabbi and Krusty's formerly estranged father
  • Sophie, Krusty's daughter (voiced by Drew Barrymore)
  • Lois Pennycandy, his assistant
  • Mr. Peepers, his monkey
• Sideshow Bob, Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, the attempted-homicidal former sidekick of Krusty
  • Cecil Terwilleger[?], Bob's brother
• Sideshow Mel, Bob's humble but eloquent replacement
• Kent Brockman, local anchorman for KBBL-TV (Channel 6)
• Arnie Pie[?], Channel 6 traffic reporter
• Bill and Marty[?], local radio personalities on KBBL-FM
• Troy McClure, a washed-up movie star
• Rainer Wolfcastle aka McBain, a famous Hollywood action hero
  • Rainer Wolfcastle's daughter
  • Rainer Wolfcastle's wife (?), Maria
• Bumblebee Man, a Mexican TV show host (Channel Ocho) always dressed in a bumblebee suit
• Roger Meyers, Jr.[?], chairman of "Itchy and Scratchy International" who briefly hired Grampa Simpson as a writer
  • Roger Meyers, Sr.[?], founder of "Itchy and Scratchy International"
• Chester J. Lampwick, creator of cartoon violence

Musicians

• Bleeding Gums Murphy, a jazz musician (deceased)
• Lurleen Lumpkin
• Tito Puente
• Spinal Tap

Other recurring characters

• Artie Ziff[?], Marge's prom date in high school, now a nerdy software millionaire.
• Baby Gerald[?], Maggie's enemy, has unibrow
• Captain Horatio McAllister[?], a seafood resturaunt operator, now known simply as 'the Sea Captain'.
• Cletus Delroy, a slack-jawed yokel
• Comic Book Guy, the local comic book shop owner
• Disco Stu a crazy Disco person
• Dr. Julius Hibbert, the Simpson family physician
  • Bernice Hibbert, his wife
• Dr. Marvin Monroe, a psychiatrist (deceased)
• Dr. Nick Riviera, impersonates a doctor
• Drederick Tatum, professional boxer, parody of Mike Tyson.
• Duffman, spokesman for Duff Beer
• Fat Tony, a mafia leader
  • Joey, one of Fat Tony's mobsters
  • Legs, another mobster with a short ponytail
  • Louie, mobster
• Gil, a perpetual loser
• Hans Moleman, a short, elderly man with very bad luck
• Jack Larson[?], slick spokesman for Laramie cigarettes
• Jasper, Grandpa Simpson's best friend
• Jebediah Springfield, the historical founder of Springfield.
• Luigi, proprietor of the local Italian restaurant.
• Professor John Frink, brilliant scientists and local Springfield professor
• Reverend Timothy Lovejoy the local priest
  • Helen Lovejoy, his wife
  • Jessica Lovejoy, his daughter, a troublemaker who briefly went out with Bart
• Herman, the owner of a military antiques store
• Squeaky Voiced Teen, a teenager trapped in a long list of dead-end jobs

Other one-time characters

• Frank Grimes, powerplant employee (now deceased)
• Eliza, a Lisa-lookalike
• Lester, a Bart-lookalike
• Hank Scorpio, evil genius and owner of Globex Corporation
• Lyle Lanley[?], conman who sold Springfield a shoddy monorail.
• Number One[?], head of the Stonecutters[?] and No Homers Club

Characters who are fictional even within the context of The Simpsons

• Hugo, Bart's "evil" twin (Treehouse of Horrors VII)
• Itchy and Scratchy, cartoon animals (also, Poochie, Itchy, Itchy junior and Scratchy junior)
• Kodos and Kang, two aliens in all the Treehouse of Horror episodes
  • Serak the Preparer[?], a third alien
• Malibu Stacey, popular children's doll, parody of Barbie.
• Radioactive Man, comic book superhero
  • Fallout Boy, Radioactive Man's sidekick

Characters that have died during the course of the series

• Maude Flanders
• Bleeding Gums Murphy
• Dr. Marvin Monroe
• Frank Grimes Sr.
• Snowball I
• Hans Moleman (faces some sort of new death every week.)