The Swallows[]
The Amazons[]
The Ds[]
The Coot Club[]
- Tom Dudgeon
- Nell Farland
- Bess Farland
- Joe
- Bill
- Pete
- The Ds, Dick & Dot.
- (see The Coot Club for other members)
The Eels[]
- The Mastodon (aka Don or Donald)
- Daisy
- Dee
- Dum
Friendly Natives[]
- Mrs Walker
- Mrs Blackett
- James Turner (Captain Flint)
- Daddy
- Timothy Stedding (Squashy Hat)
- Professor Callum
- The Missionaries
- Mr Dixon
- Mrs Dixon
- Mr Jackson
- Mrs Jackson
- Old Billy and Young Billy The Billies
- M Braithwaite, the cook at Beckfoot
- Sammy Lewthwaite (policeman)
- Billy Lewthwaite
- Mrs Lewthwaite
- Miss Powell
- Jim Brading
- Mary Swainson and her grandparents
- Jack the woodman (also Bob the woodman, the other woodman in SD)
- Slater Bob
- Jacky Warriner (also his father, and Bess their sheep-dog)
- The postman
- The doctor
- Police sergeant
- Mrs Barrable
- Dr Dudgeon
- Mrs Dudgeon
- Our baby
- Mr Farland
- Mrs McGinty
- The Owner of the Cachalot (a fisherman, he is never named)
- Jim Wooddall
- Simon Fastgate
- Harry Bangate
- PC Tedder
- Old Bob
- Jack and Mrs Whittle and Hawkins on the wherry Welcome
Unfriendly Natives[]
Non-human characters[]
- Gibber
- Polly
- William
- Ratty
- Great Northern Divers (see Birds in the Books)
- The coot with a white feather (see Birds in the Books)
- Sinbad
Other characters[]
- Peter Duck, called Mr Duck on this wiki, to avoid confusion with the eponymous book
- Red-haired Bill
- Black Jake
- George Owdon
- Ralph Strakey
- Rob (from Ranworth) (see The Coot Club for all members)
- Miss Lee
- Taicoon Chang
- Taicoon Wu
- The McGinty (note that this is a pseudonym)
- Ian, son of the McGinty
- Angus, also known as the Dogmudgeon
- Miss Huskisson
- Miss Thornton
Characters from non-Swallows books[]