# The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Character guide

> Key figures in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

- [Huckleberry Finn](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/huckleberry_finn.md): The narrator and protagonist, a boy fleeing his abusive father and societal constraints.
- [Tom Sawyer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/tom_sawyer.md): Huck's imaginative friend who orchestrates elaborate plans, including Jim's escape.
- [Jim](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/jim.md): Miss Watson's enslaved man who runs away, becoming Huck's companion on the raft.
- [Pap Finn](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/pap_finn.md): Huck's abusive, drunken father who kidnaps him and tries to steal his money.
- [Aunt Sally](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/aunt_sally.md): Tom's aunt who mistakes Huck for Tom and hosts the boys at the Phelps farm.
- [Miss Watson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/miss_watson.md): The widow's sister who owns Jim and tries to civilize Huck.
- [Widow Douglas](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/widow_douglas.md): The kind woman who takes Huck in and tries to educate him.
- [Judge Thatcher](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/judge_thatcher.md): The local judge who holds Huck's money in trust.
- [Boggs](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/boggs.md): A drunken man shot dead by Colonel Sherburn in the street.
- [Colonel Sherburn](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/colonel_sherburn.md): A cold-blooded killer who shoots Boggs and faces down a lynch mob.
- [The Duke](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/duke.md): A con artist who claims to be a duke and travels with the King.
- [The King](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/king.md): A fraudulent preacher who claims to be the King of France and cons towns.
- [Mary Jane Wilks](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/mary_jane_wilks.md): The eldest Wilks daughter, kind and trusting, who Huck helps.
- [Silas Phelps](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/silas_phelps.md): Tom's uncle and a farmer who buys Jim as a runaway slave.
- [Aunt Polly](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/aunt_polly.md): Tom's aunt who arrives at the Phelps farm and sorts out the mistaken identities.
- [Buck Grangerford](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/buck_grangerford.md): A young boy from the feuding Grangerford family who befriends Huck.
- [Emmeline Grangerford](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/emmeline_grangerford.md): A deceased Grangerford daughter known for her morbid poetry and drawings.
- [Colonel Grangerford](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/col_grangerford.md): The patriarch of the Grangerford family, killed in the feud.
- [Harney Shepherdson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/harney_shepherdson.md): A young man from the Shepherdson family who elopes with a Grangerford daughter.
- [Peter Wilks](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/peter_wilks.md): The deceased man whose inheritance the King and Duke try to steal.
- [Harvey Wilks](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/harvey_wilks.md): Peter Wilks's brother, a minister who arrives to expose the fraud.
- [Dr. Robinson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/dr_robinson.md): The local doctor who sees through the King and Duke's disguise.
- [Jim Turner](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/jim_turner.md): A wounded robber left on the wrecked steamboat Walter Scott.
- [Jake Packard](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/jake_packard.md): One of the robbers on the wrecked steamboat Walter Scott.
- [Ben Rogers](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/ben_rogers.md): A boy from Tom Sawyer's gang who appears in the early chapters.
- [Jo Harper](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/jo_harper.md): A friend of Tom Sawyer and member of his robber gang.
- [Nat](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/nat.md): An enslaved man on the Phelps farm who helps with Jim's escape.
- [Levi Bell](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/levi_bell.md): A lawyer who helps sort out the Wilks inheritance.
- [Sid Sawyer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/sid_sawyer.md): Tom's younger half-brother, who appears briefly at the Phelps farm.
- [Old Jim Hornback](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/old_jim_hornback.md): A local man mentioned in the town's gossip.
- [Stephen Dowling Bots](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/stephen_dowling_bots.md): A young man whose death is commemorated in Emmeline Grangerford's poetry.
- [Miss Sophia](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/miss_sophia.md): A Grangerford daughter who elopes with Harney Shepherdson.
- [Lizabeth](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/lizabeth.md): A young enslaved girl on the Phelps farm.
- [Hines](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/hines.md): A man who helps capture the King and Duke.
- [Old Baldy Shepherdson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/old_baldy_shepherdson.md): A member of the Shepherdson family killed in the feud.
- [Preacher](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/preacher.md): A preacher at a revival meeting where the King cons people.
- [Ringmaster](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/ringmaster.md): The ringmaster of the circus Huck attends.
- [Bill](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/bill.md): One of the robbers on the wrecked steamboat.
- [George Jackson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/george_jackson.md): The alias Huck uses when he first meets the Grangerfords.
- [Sarah Williams](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/sarah_williams.md): Aliases Huck uses while in disguise as a girl.
- [Misto Tom](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/misto_tom.md): A respectful address used by Jim for Tom Sawyer.
- [Miss Hooker](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/miss_hooker.md): A woman whose house Huck visits in disguise.
- [Aunty](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/aunty.md): A term used by Huck to address Aunt Sally.
- [Juliet](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/juliet.md): A character from Shakespeare's play referenced by the Duke.
- [Hamlet](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/hamlet.md): A character from Shakespeare's play referenced by the Duke.
- [Cairo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/cairo.md): The town in Illinois where Jim hopes to reach freedom.
- [Moses](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/moses.md): Biblical figure mentioned by the Widow Douglas.
- [Louis Sixteenth](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/louis_sixteenth.md): Historical figure mentioned by the King.
- [Henry the Eighth](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/henry_the_eighth.md): Historical figure mentioned by the King.
- [Capet](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/capet.md): Historical figure mentioned by the King.
- [Nell Gwynn](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/nell_gwynn.md): Historical figure mentioned by the King.
- [Mark Twain](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/mark_twain.md): The author, mentioned in the explanatory note.
- [Poor William](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/poor_william.md): A character in the King's theatrical performance.
- [Ole King Sollermun](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/ole_king_sollermun.md): Biblical King Solomon, discussed by Jim.
- [Providence](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/providence.md): A personification of fate or God mentioned by characters.

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