Bertie Wooster
Jeeves
(Gussie) Augustus Fink-Nottle
Madeline Bassett
Sir Watkyn Bassett
Dahlia Travers
Tom Travers
Roderick Spode
(Stiffy) Stephanie Byng
Eustace Oates
(Stinker) The Rev. Harold P. Pinker

Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, resident at 3A Berkeley Mansions, London W.I, narrator of 10 novels and 34 stories: 16AC, 16JU, 16AS, 16JT, 17JH, 18JC, 21JS, 22AA, 22SO, 22SR, 22CB, 22SH, 22PT, 22MT, 22EC, 22BL, 22BC, IJ23, 24RA, 25CR, 25WO, 26FF, 26IC, 26JI, 27JY, 29JS, 29JD, 29SA, 29JL, 30JK, 30JO, 30IS, 30TC, RH34, TY34, RH34, CW38, JM46, MS49, JF54, 59JM, HR60, SU63, 65JG, M071, AA74. A graduate of Rev. Aubrey Upjohn's private school at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, Eton, and Oxford, where he was in Magdalen and won his Rackets Blue in partnership with Beefy Anstruther during his last year. A Drone, his proper attire and escape from personal difficulties are attended to by his man Jeeves. His appearance is rarely hinted; in 22CB/IJ23 a Hyde Park agitator (Bingo Little in disguise) describes him as "the tall thin one with the face like a motor-mascot." Boko Fittleworth describes him as tall and slim in JM46. Normally clean-shaven, he has grown a moustache in 17JH, and another of the David Niven type in JF54, each time provoking a rift with Jeeves. His most public discomfiture was being fined £5 by magistrate Watkyn Basset for pinching a policeman's helmet on Boat Race Night. His proudest achievements include winning a prize at his first school for the best collection of wild flowers made during the summer holidays, winning a Scripture Knowledge contest at Malvern House, and writing an article for Milady's Boudoir entitled "What the Well-Dressed Man Is Wearing" for the "Husbands and Brothers" page (this happens in 25CR-"I don't wonder now that all these author blokes have bald heads and faces like birds who have suffered") for which his Aunt Dahlia paid him a packet of cigarettes. He also mentions having won a Choir Boys Bicycle Handicap in his younger days at a clergyman uncle's place in Kent. His middle name, as we learn in M071, is derived from the horse who won the Grand National immediately prior to his baptism, earning Wooster Sr. a packet (presumably of something more valuable than cigarettes). His ranking aunts are Dahlia and Agatha (his late father's sisters, who regard him with a mixture of affection and contempt), but among his many kin are George Wooster (Lord Yaxley, brother of Dahlia and Agatha), an Uncle Willoughby (16JT), an eccentric Uncle Henry who kept eleven pet rabbits in his bedroom and wound up his career in some sort of a home (22SR/IJ23-mentioned in TY34 as three years dead), an Aunt Emily (mother of Claude & Eustace in 22EC/IJ23), an Uncle Clive in Worcestershire (22EC/IJ23), an Uncle James (24RA), an Uncle Percy (25WO, 26FF), and an Uncle Thomas (29JL). A sister, Mrs. Scholfield, is mentioned in 22BC. The Code of the Woosters includes the commandment "never let a pal down" and numerous other prohibitions. Aims always to be the preux chevalier, which requires that he never demur when a girl in a passing fit of despair declares that she will marry him, e.g. Florence Craye in JF54, Madeline Bassett and Florence Craye (again) in M071, Vanessa Cook in AA74. Normally regarded with contempt by women ("Show me a woman, and I will show you someone who is going to ignore my observations"), but often seized by vain impulses to propose marriage ("It would be pretty difficult for me to go anywhere in England where there wasn't somebody who has turned me down at some time or another.") Plays the banjolele (for which Jeeves briefly leaves his service) in TY34, where Jeeves describes him to Pauline Stoker as "mentally somewhat negligible," Pauline as "one of Nature's bachelors." Aunt Agatha, his severest critic, describes him as "barely sentient" (26IC). His prototypes include Reggie Pepper and Bertie Mannering-Phipps.

Reginald Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's manservant in 16JT (his first appearance), 16AC, 16JU, 16AS, 17JH, 22PT, 22BC, 22SH, 22MT, IJ23, 24RA, 25WD, 25CR, 26FF, 26JI, 26IC, 27JY, 27JS, 29JS, 29JD, 29SA, 29JL, 30JO, 30IS, 30TC, 30JK, TY34, RH34, CW38, JM46, MS49, RJ53, JF54, 59JM, HR60, SU63, 65JG, M071, and AA74. Tall and dark and impressive, like one of the better class ambassadors or the youngish High Priest of some refined and delicate religion. His eyes gleam with the light of intelligence, and his finely chiseled face expresses a feudal desire to be of service. Opens conversations with a gentle cough that sounds like a very old sheep clearing its throat on a misty mountain top. Has many relatives: an uncle Charlie Silversmith who buttles at Deverill Hall for Esmond Haddock, a cousin Queenie, daughter of his uncle Charlie Silversmith, and several aunts, most of whom are notable for some mania. One was a martyr to swollen limbs until cured by Walkinshaw's Supreme Ointment; her mania, after sending in an unsolicited testimonial, was for seeing her picture in the daily papers in Walkinshaw's advertisements. Another aunt owns an almost complete set of Rosie M. Banks novels; another has a passion for riding in taxicabs. Three are known to History by name: Emily was interested in psychic research; Annie was disliked by all members of her family, and the third is Mrs. P.B. Pigott of Maiden Eggesford, Somerset. Other kinfolk: a cousin George, an uncle Cyril, a niece named Mabel to whom Biffy Biffen is engaged in 24RA, a cousin Egbert, a constable who lives in Beckley-on-the-Moor, and another cousin who passed on to him the knowledge of an expert jeweller. In 21JS/IJ23 he has an "understanding" with Mortimer Little's gourmet cook Jane Watson which she breaks off to marry her employer, and another "understanding" with a waitress named Mabel. Privately educated, with an encyclopedic knowledge, particularly of literary quotations. Has a fondness for Spinoza, but considers Nietzsche fundamentally unsound. First employed as a page-boy in a school for young girls. Admits in RJ53 to having dabbled in the First World War to a certain extent. Formerly employed by Lord Worplesdon, left because his employer dined in dress trousers, flannel shirt, and shooting coat. Other earlier employers include Digby Thistleton, the late Lord Brancaster, who owned a parrot to which he was greatly devoted, Lord Frederick Ranelagh, and a financier named Montague-Todd. Briefly employed as manservant to W.E.O. Belfry in RJ53 while Bertie attends a self-sufficiency school. Has a falling-out with Bertie in TY34 because of the latter's brief passion for the banjolele; enters service of Chuffy Chuffnell but resigns to rejoin Bertie because it is not his policy to serve in the household of a married gentleman. Serves briefly for Pop Stoker, and for Gussie Fink-Nottle in MS49 when Gussie impersonates Bertie. A member of the Junior Ganymede, a club for butlers and gentlemen's personal gentlemen on Curzon Street whose Rule 11 requires members to keep a record at the club of their employers' personal oddities and peccadilloes. Jeeves' calling is to oversee the habit of Bertie and to extricate him and his intimates from all sorts of personal embarrassment, a task for which his large brain (encased in a size 14 cerebellum) and alleged diet of fish render him eminently fit. Specializes in solutions based upon the psychology of the individual. Remarkable for his quiet entrances: he doesn't seem to have any feet at all. He just streams in. Describes Bertie to Pauline Stoker in TY34 as "mentally somewhat negligible," and to a temporary understudy in 22AA /IJ23 as "mentally quite negligible." There is a keen sporting streak in Jeeves, and he is fond of fishing. Every year he downs tools about the beginning of July and goes off to Bognor Regis for the shrimping. On the origin of the name, PGW writes "I was watching a county match on the Cheltenham ground before the first war, and one of the Gloucestershire bowlers was called Jeeves. I suppose the name stuck in my mind, and I named Jeeves after him." -letter to a Mr. Simmons, 10/20/60. Percy Jeeves, son of Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Jeeves of Manuel St., Goole, died at the Battle of the Somme at the age of 28 on 8/4/16, the same year the first Jeeves story appeared.

Roderick Spode of Totleigh Towers, head of the Black Shorts in CW38, secretly designs ladies' underclothing under the trade name of Eulalie Soeurs, of Bond Street knowledge of which renders him harmless to Bertie, whom he despises, distrusts, and often threatens with violence. Cf. Sir Oswald Mosley, 1930's leader of the British Union of Fascists. An eloquent public speaker, Spode is founder and head of the Saviours of Britain, a mob of underlings wearing black shorts who shout "Heil, Spode!" or words along those general lines. His idea, if he doesn't get knocked on the head with a bottle in one of the frequent brawls in which his followers indulge, is to make himself Dictator. A club acquaintance of Tom Travers, he becomes seventh Earl of Sidcup on the death of his uncle in JF54, exits Eulalie Soeurs, and some time thereafter disbands the Black Shorts. About eight feet high with a small moustache and the sort of eye that can open an oyster at sixty paces. His aunt, Mrs. Wintergreen, is engaged to Sir Watkyn Bassett in SU63. He himself is engaged to Madeline Bassett in SU63 and M071, where he suspects Bertie of trying to alienate her affections.