# Arrowsmith — Character guide

> Key figures in Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis.

- [Martin Arrowsmith](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/martin_arrowsmith.md): A passionate young doctor and scientist who seeks truth in research while navigating love and ambition.
- [Leora Tozer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/leora_tozer.md): Martin's devoted and practical wife, a nurse who supports his scientific work.
- [Max Gottlieb](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/max_gottlieb.md): A brilliant, exacting German-Jewish bacteriologist who becomes Martin's mentor and ideal.
- [Clif Clawson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/clif_clawson.md): Martin's boisterous, loyal medical school friend with a crude but good heart.
- [Gustaf Sondelius](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/gustaf_sondelius.md): A flamboyant, globe-trotting Swedish epidemiologist who fights plague with gusto.
- [Joyce Lanyon](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/joyce_lanyon.md): A wealthy, sophisticated society woman who becomes Martin's second wife.
- [Terry Wickett](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/terry_wickett.md): A blunt, brilliant chemist who becomes Martin's closest research colleague.
- [Angus Duer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/angus_duer.md): A coldly ambitious medical student and later surgeon, Martin's rival.
- [Almus Pickerbaugh](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/almus_pickerbaugh.md): An exuberant, politically-minded public health officer in Nautilus.
- [Madeline Fox](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/madeline_fox.md): A poetic, willowy young woman who briefly courts Martin in medical school.
- [A. DeWitt Tubbs](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/a_dewitt_tubbs.md): The pompous, bureaucratic director of the McGurk Institute.
- [Rippleton Holabird](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/rippleton_holabird.md): A smooth, politically savvy scientist and administrator at the McGurk Institute.
- [Orchid Pickerbaugh](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/orchid_pickerbaugh.md): Almus Pickerbaugh's flirtatious, frivolous daughter.
- [Fatty Pfaff](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/fatty_pfaff.md): A jovial, overweight medical student and friend of Martin's.
- [Ira Hinkley](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/ira_hinkley.md): A sanctimonious medical student who later becomes a preacher.
- [Bert Tozer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/bert_tozer.md): Leora's brother, a farmer in Wheatsylvania.
- [Andrew Jackson Tozer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/andrew_jackson_tozer.md): Leora's stern, religious father, a farmer.
- [R. E. Inchcape Jones](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/inchcape_jones.md): A reserved, efficient British scientist at the McGurk Institute.
- [Doc Vickerson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/doc_vickerson.md): The elderly, alcoholic country doctor who inspires young Martin.
- [Dean Silva](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/dean_silva.md): The kindly dean of the medical school at Mohalis.
- [Irving Watters](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/irving_watters.md): A medical school classmate of Martin's, later a small-town doctor.
- [Pearl Robbins](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/pearl_robbins.md): A nurse at the McGurk Institute who assists Martin.
- [Cecil Twyford](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/cecil_twyford.md): A wealthy, eccentric Englishman who funds a plague expedition.
- [Ross McGurk](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/ross_mcgurk.md): The wealthy industrialist who funds the McGurk Institute.
- [Clay Tredgold](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/clay_tredgold.md): A wealthy, astronomy-obsessed dilettante and friend of Joyce.
- [Dawson Hunziker](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/dawson_hunziker.md): A farmer and neighbor of the Tozers in Wheatsylvania.
- [Sir Robert Fairlamb](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/sir_robert_fairlamb.md): A British colonial official involved in the plague campaign.
- [Norman Brumfit](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/norman_brumfit.md): A fellow researcher at the McGurk Institute.
- [Benoni Carr](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/benoni_carr.md): A missionary doctor in the Caribbean encountered by Martin.
- [Lloyd Davidson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/lloyd_davidson.md): A physician in Nautilus who opposes Pickerbaugh.
- [Rufus Ockford](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/rufus_ockford.md): A young doctor in Nautilus and friend of Martin's.
- [Adam Winter](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/adam_winter.md): An elderly doctor in Leopolis who mentors Martin briefly.
- [William T. Smith](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/william_t_smith.md): A fellow researcher at the McGurk Institute.
- [Roscoe Geake](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/roscoe_geake.md): A pompous scientist at the McGurk Institute.
- [Aaron Sholtheis](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/aaron_sholtheis.md): A neat, precise scientist at the McGurk Institute.
- [Mrs. Lanyon](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/mrs_lanyon.md): Joyce Lanyon's mother, a society matron.
- [Mrs. Duer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/mrs_duer.md): Angus Duer's wealthy, social-climbing mother.
- [Mrs. McCandless](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/mrs_mccandless.md): A woman encountered by Martin on a ship.
- [Miss Gwilliam](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/miss_gwilliam.md): A country-club woman who offends Sondelius.
- [President Truscott](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/president_truscott.md): The president of the university in Mohalis.
- [Nicholas Yeo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/dr_yeo.md): A British doctor on the plague expedition.
- [Dr. Hesselink](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/dr_hesselink.md): A Dutch bacteriologist who visits the McGurk Institute.
- [Dr. Entwisle](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/dr_entwisle.md): A doctor briefly mentioned at the McGurk Institute.
- [Paul H. DeKruif](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/arrowsmith_se/characters/dr_dekruif.md): A scientist mentioned in acknowledgments.

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