| A | B |
|---|
| Ackley, Robert | social misfit at Pencey; rooms next to Holden |
| Jane Gallagher | Holden's friend from summer that he never calls |
| Phoebe | Holden's sister |
| Stradlater,Ward | Holden's roommate at Pencey |
| Mr. Antolini | Holden's former English teacher whom he runs to for advice |
| Holden Caulfield | the narrator of the story |
| Professor Spencer | History teacher who reads Holden's essay before he leaves Pencey |
| Sunny | the prostitute Holden hires |
| Carl Luce | psychiatrist's son who says Holden is immature |
| Maurice | the elevator man/pimp at the Edmont hotel |
| Sally Hayes | the girl Holden calls a lot; he asks her to marry him |
| D.B. | Holden's brother; a screenwriter in Hollywood |
| the nuns | Holden gives money to them |
| the three secretaries | Holden meets them in the Lavender Room Bernice, Marty, and Laverne |
| Horwitz | the cab driver that Holden asked about the ducks |
| Ernie | nightclub owner and pianist |
| Lillian Simmons | the phony that D.B. once dated |
| Allie | Holden's brother who died of Lukemia |
| Rudolf Schmidt | janitor at Pencey Prep; Holden uses his name with Mrs. Morrow |
| Harris Macklin | roomate of Holden's at Elkton Hills calls him a bore a great whistler |
| James Castle | the boy that dies by falling out a window at Elkton Hills |
| boys in museum | Holden meets them near the mummies while waiting for Phoebe |
| Dick Slagle | Holden's Elkton Hill's roommate who pretended Holden's suitcases were his |
| Miss Aigletinger | teacher who took the kids to the Museum of Natural History |
| Ed Banky | Pencey basketball coach who loaned the guys his car |
| Bernice Crabs/Krebs | the blonde secretary, a good dancer |
| Eddie Birdsell | Princeton student who took Faith Cavendish to a dance |
| Faith Cavendish | burlesque stripper Holden calls |
| Ernest Morrow | Pencey student whose mother Holden meets on the train |
| Hazle Weatherfield | Phoebe's pen name |
| Alfred Lunt & Lynne Fontanne | theater actors; Holden takes Sally to their show |
| Mal Brossard | Holden's friend at Pencey; a wrestler |
| Laverne | one of the "ugly" secretaries in the Lavender Room. |
| Marty | one of the "ugly" secretaries in the Lavender Room. A bad dancer |
| Jim Steele | Holden's alias with the secretaries in the Lavender Room |
| Gary Cooper | famous movie star |
| Peter Lorre | famous movie actor |
| Buddy Singer | band leader in the Lavender Room |
| Selma Thurmer | daughter of the Pencey headmaster |
| Estelle Fletcher | singer who recorded "Little Shirley Beans" |
| Bobby Fallon | boy in Maine Holden went biking with, leaving Allie behind |
| Richard Kinsella | Pencey student who was always called for "Digression!" |
