The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Important Characters

Huckleberry Finn - narrator and protagonist

Jim - Miss Watson's runaway slave

Tom Sawyer - Huck's best friend who enjoys extravagant stories and schemes

Pap Finn - Huck's abusive, drunken father

The Duke - con man who claims to be the Duke of Bridgewater and takes control of Huck and Jim's raft

The King - older con man who claims to be French royalty and takes control of Huck and Jim's raft

Widow Douglas - widow who tries to civilize and take custody of Huck

Miss Watson - Widow Douglas's sister

Aunt Polly - Tom Sawyer's aunt and guardian

Judge Thatcher - town judge who watches over Huck's reward money.

The Grangerfords - family who watches over Huck and maintains a deadly feud with the neighboring Shepherdsons

Buck Grangerford - youngest Grangerford boy who befriends Huck

The Shepherdsons - family who feuds with the Grangerfords

Boggs - Arkansas town drunkard who is shot by Colonel Sherburn

Colonel Sherburn - man who shoots Boggs and repels the lynch mob

Peter Wilks - deceased townsman. His grieving family takes in the duke, the king, and Huck as Peter Wilks's two brothers and boy servant

William and Harvey Wilks - Peter Wilks's brothers who live in England

Mary Jane, Susan, and Joanna - Peter Wilks's daughters who are tricked by the duke and the king

Silas Phelps - Tom Sawyer's uncle

Aunt Sally Phelps - Tom Sawyer's aunt