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

  • 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
  • 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

It is even possible to get a character in one of the future Discworld books named after yourself. Usually people appear in the books by bidding for the privilege in charity auctions.