Character List
Martin Arrowsmith, M.D. scientist and leading character
Leora Tozer Arrowsmith Martin's first wife
Dr. Max Gottlieb professor of bacteriology and true scientist
Dr. Terry Wickett Martin's associate in scientific research
Madeline Fox to whom Martin at one time is engaged
Joyce Lanyon Arrowsmith Martin's second wife
Gustaf Sondelius colorful Swedish physician and lecturer
Doc Vickerson who first inspired Martin to want to study medicine
Professor Edward Edwards head of department of chemistry
Dr. Norman Brumfit instructor in English
Dr. T. J. H. ("Dad") Silva dean of the medical school
Dr. John Aldington Robertshaw professor of physiology
Dr. Oliver O. Stout professor of anatomy
Dr. Lloyd Davidson professor of materia medica
Dr. Roscoe Geake professor of otolaryngology
Dr. Loiseau professor of surgery
Dr. Horace Greeley Truscott president of the university
Reverend Ira Hinkley desirous of becoming a missionary
Clif Clawson the class jester
Angus Duer brilliant, hard-driving valedictorian of his class
"Fatty" Pfaff the butt of many crude jokes
Irving Watters a serious second-year medic.
Mrs. Fox Madeline's mother
Nelly Byers probationary nurse, friend of Leora
"Dr." Benoni Carr a charlatan
Dr. Rouncefield head of the Chicago clinic
George F. Babbitt Zenith real estate king
Dr. Entwisle a youngish physiologist from Harvard
Dawson Hunziker president of Hunziker pharmaceutical firm
Mrs. Gottlieb peasant wife of the great scientist
Robert Gottlieb their worthless son
Miriam Gottlieb their faithful daughter
Another Gottlieb daughter (unnamed) who eloped with a gambler