List of Peanuts characters

This is a list of characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts.

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Characters

Name	Date Introduced	Description
Charlie Brown	1950-10-02October 2, 1950	The main character; a lovable guy, dominated by insecurities
Snoopy	1950-10-04October 4, 1950	Charlie Brown's lovable dog
Linus van Pelt	1952-09-19September 19, 1952	Charlie Brown's blanket-toting best friend; Sally's love interest
Lucy van Pelt	1952-03-03March 3, 1952	Linus' older sister; a bossy, crabby girl
Rerun van Pelt	1973-03-26March 26, 1973	Younger brother of Linus and Lucy
Woodstock	1967-04-04April 4, 1967	Snoopy's best friend; a yellow bird
Sally Brown	1959-08-23August 23, 1959	Charlie Brown's younger sister who has a crush on Linus
Schroeder	1951-05-30May 30, 1951	The piano-playing character; Lucy's love interest; admirer of Beethoven; Charlie Brown's second best friend after Linus
Peppermint Patty	1966-08-22August 22, 1966	Marcie's bossy best friend; a freckle-faced tomboy who likes Charlie Brown
Marcie	1968-06-18June 18, 1968	The bespectacled character; Peppermint Patty's best friend; calls Peppermint Patty "Sir"; secretly likes Charlie Brown
Franklin	1968-07-31July 31, 1968	The African-American child, known for his hilarious behavior.
Pig-Pen	1954-07-13July 13, 1954	The dusty character
Frieda	1961-03-06March 6, 1961	The girl with "naturally curly hair"
Patty	1950-10-02October 2, 1950	An early character who doesn't listen to others
Shermy	1950-10-02October 2, 1950	An early character, one of the original four characters
Violet Gray	1951-02-07February 7, 1951	Lucy's and Patty's friend; one of the first characters in peanuts only character that has a major outfit change (purple to green dress)
Charlotte Braun	1954-11-30November 30, 1954	An early, short-lived female clone of Charlie Brown
Peggy Jean	1990-07-23July 23, 1990	Charlie Brown's girlfriend in the 1990s after the Little Red-Haired Girl
Jose Peterson	19671967	Baseball player on a local team

• List of minor characters in Peanuts: other characters

Snoopy's family

• Joe Cool: Snoopy's alter ego - wears sunglasses
• World War I Flying Ace: Snoopy's other alter ego - his nemesis is the Red Baron
• Andy: Snoopy's brother - fuzzy, lives with Olaf
• Marbles: Snoopy's brother - the smarter brother, has brown ears, spotted fur
• Spike: Snoopy's brother - whiskers and hat (fedora), lives in the desert, very thin
• Olaf: Snoopy's brother - fat; wears a fur cap
• Belle: Snoopy's sister; wears a pink dress, looks like Snoopy, but with long eyelashes
• Rover and Molly: Snoopy's brother and sister, only seen in the 1991 special Snoopy's Reunion, never seen in the strip
• Missy and unnamed father

Unseen characters (More Minor Characters)

• Adults implied in the strip (but not seen) include: all of the characters' parents; Linus van Pelt's teacher Miss Othmar; Miss Halverson (Miss Othmar's replacement); Charlie Brown's baseball hero Joe Shlabotnik; and Linus' blanket-hating grandmother. Adults in most of the Peanuts animated cartoons are only heard by the unintelligible (to the audience) sounds of a trombone (woh-woh-woh).
• The Little Red-Haired Girl (Charlie Brown's crush), seen in many animated television specials where she was known as "Heather", but was never seen in the strip itself (except once in silhouette).
• The Great Pumpkin, whom Linus believes appears in the most sincere pumpkin patch to deliver presents to good children.
• The Head Beagle, to whom Frieda reported Snoopy when he refused to chase a rabbit.
• The Red Baron, arch-enemy of the World War I Flying Ace.
• The Cat Next Door, also known as World War II, as shown on October 20, 1976; he always scares Snoopy.

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