History Characters / Outlander

* [[Characters/OutlanderJamieAndClairesFamily Jamie and Claire's family]] [[note]]The Murrays of Lallybroch, Marsali and Fergus's family, the MacKenzies[[/note]]

** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsBooks4To6 Books 4-6]] [[note]]Stephen Bonnet, William Buccleigh MacKenzie, The Browns, Allan Christie, Malva Christie, Donner[[/note]]

* [[Characters/OutlanderJamieAndClairesFamily Jamie and Claire's family]] [[note]]The Murrays of Lallybroch, Marsali and Fergus' family, the MacKenzies[[/note]]

** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsBooks1To3 Books 1-3]] (including ''The Exile'') [[note]]Jonathan Randall, Geillis Duncan, Dougal MacKenzie, Kenneth, Father Bain, Laoghaire MacKenzie, Le Comte St. Germain, Duke of Sandringham[[/note]]

** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsOutlanderToVoyager Books 1-3]] (including ''The Exile'') [[note]]Jonathan Randall, Geillis Duncan, Dougal MacKenzie, Kenneth, Father Bain, Laoghaire MacKenzie, Le Comte St. Germain, Duke of Sandringham[[/note]]
** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsBooksDrumsOfAutumnToBreath Books 4-6]] [[note]]Stephen Bonnet, William Buccleigh MacKenzie, The Browns, Allan Christie, Malva Christie, Donner[[/note]]
** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsEchoToMOBY Books 7-8]] [[note]]Arch Bug, Richardson, Rob Cameron[[/note]]

** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsBooks1To3 Books 1-3]] (including ''The Exile'') [[note]]Jonathan Randall, Geillis Duncan, Dougal MacKenzie, Kenneth, Father Bain, Laoghaire MacKenzie, Le Comte St. Germain, Duke of Sandringham[[/note]]
** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsBooks4To6 Books 4-6]] [[note]]Stephen Bonnet, William Buccleigh MacKenzie, The Browns, Allan Christie, Malva Christie, Donner[[/note]]
** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsBooks7To8 Books 7-8]] [[note]]Arch Bug, Richardson, Rob Cameron[[/note]]

* [[Characters/OutlanderCharactersInTheLordJohnBooks Characters in the ''Lord John'' books]] (including ''Scottish Prisoner'')[[/index]]





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! 18th Century
!! Scotland
[[folder: The MacKenzies of Castle Leoch]]


!! Dougal [=MacKenzie=]
Colum's brother, and extremely devoted to him, Dougal is just as ruthless and cunning as Colum, though much more unpredictable and hot-headed. He is a patriot, meaning a Jacobite, and is determined to help the Stuarts return to Scotland and raises funds from fellow Jacobites to enable them to do so.
* ActionDad: He is the father of four daughters, and he is the War Chieftain of Clan MacKenzie. He can certainly handle himself in a duel.
** He leads the clan into the Rising after Colum's death, and marches with them into battle.
* AfraidOfBlood: Dougal tells Claire in ''Outlander'' that while he's fine with shedding the blood of other men, he can't stand the sight of his own blood.
* BadassInCharge: He is war chieftain of Clan MacKenzie and in charge of any official business outside of Castle Leoch.
* BigDamnHeroes: He leads the men in rescuing Claire from Fort William in ''Outlander''.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The brawn to Colum's brain. Dougal is war chief of the MacKenzies, and meant to aid Colum in times of war.
* TheConfidant: To his brother Colum.
* FieryRedhead: He is red-headed like Jamie, and has one heck of a temper.
* HotBlooded: A prime reason why Colum was acknowledged as the [=MacKenzie=] Chief over him. His reaction to his sister Ellen's elopement with Brian Fraser didn't win him any points, either.
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he appears to be a jerkass most of the time, he shows shades of a better side of himself when he shows his love for his brother Colum and looks out for his clansmen and Jamie.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Immediately sent Clan MacKenzie to war for Charles Stuart after Colum's death, despite Colum having privately been against it.
* LargeAndInCharge: Dougal is definitely this.
* MasterSwordsman: He is one of the strongest fighters in the series.
* TheMentor: He taught Jamie how to wield a sword left-handed.
%%* {{Pride}}
* TheSouthpaw: He is left-handed.
* UndyingLoyalty: To his brother Colum.


[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other MacKenzies]]
!! Laoghaire MacKenzie
A girl of the [=MacKenzie=] clan who [[spoiler: falls in love with Jamie Fraser, and feels that she must have him at any cost.]] She is Mrs Fitz's granddaughter.
* AdultFear: A minor example--her daughter Marsali elopes with Fergus, travelling with him to the Americas. Though her anger at this seems unreasonable at first, after seeing how dangerous and wild life at sea (and also in the New World) can be Laoghaire does have some cause to fear for her daughter's wellbeing.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Jamie suspects that she may have been abused by one of her previous husbands, which is why she shrinks away when Jamie tries to be gentle and intimate with her during their marriage.
* BabiesEverAfter: Has two daughters in her second marriage, Joan and Marsali.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She is very attractive (at least when she is young) but is very vindictive and jealous.
%%* CharacterDevelopment
* DomesticAbuse: Is thought to have been abused by one (or both) of her husbands.
* GreenEyedMonster: In the TV series, Laoghaire towards Claire after she marries Jaime.
* {{Pride}}: Has heaps of it.
* UnrequitedLove: For Jamie.
* WomanScorned: After [[spoiler: Claire's return in ''Voyager'', Laoghaire shoots Jamie in a fit of anger]].



!! William Buccleigh MacKenzie
Son of the witch Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie.
* ActionDad: He accompanies Roger to 1739 to search for Roger's son Jem.
* TheAtoner: He seeks to atone (in part) for what he did to Roger by helping Roger search for his son Jem in the 18th century
* DeadpanSnarker: Very much so.
* DisproportionateRetribution: During the battle at Alamance Buck sees Roger MacKenzie kiss his wife; to revenge himself on him he ties him up and sets him up to be hanged as a rebel leader. It's not surprising that Roger still has troubled forgiving him years later for it.
* GreenEyes: He has the same green eyes as his mother Geillis and his descendant Roger.
* HappilyAdopted: By a MacKenzie couple in Inverness, unbeknownst to him.
* HappilyMarried: To Morag.
* HotBlooded: Is definitely this.
* IAmWho: Buck gets the shock of his life when Roger tells him that he is really the son of Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie and that he (and Jem and Amanda) is his descendant.
* InTheBlood: Being Geillis Duncan's son, he has inherited the time-travelling trait. He discovers this by accident, when he disappears through the stones at Craigh na Dun from his own time while walking on the hill there.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Buck is reluctant to return to Morag in his own time because, by his own words, he felt that she would be far happier without him in her life.
* {{Jerkass}}: What he appears to be at first.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he acts like a jerk a lot of the time, there are times when it's clear that he's not a completely horrible person. He regrets causing the hanging which injured Roger and apologises to him for it.
* MarryForLove: What he tried to do with Morag. It didn't work as well as he hoped it would.
* {{Pride}}: Has a lot of this. It's largely his pride along with his jealousy that causes him to turn Roger in to be hanged after seeing Roger kiss his wife. More specifically, seeing his wife defend the man who was seen kissing her.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He bears a strong resemblance to Dougal MacKenzie (his biological father) and has inherited Geillis Duncan's green eyes. Roger also shares some traits with Buck.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of MOBY he is nowhere to be seen when Bree and the family reunite with Jamie and Claire on Fraser's Ridge. Theories abound among fans as to whether he returned to his own time, remained in 1739 Inverness or was killed trying to time-travel.







[[folder: Frasers of Lallybroch]]


!! Jamie Fraser
A red-headed Scot who Claire meets and is forced to marry in 18th century Scotland.
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Though Jamie is not celibate during the twenty years he is separated from Claire, he never stops thinking about her and praying for her safety, and that of their child.
%%* TheAce
%%* AdultFear
%%* AFatherToHisMen
* AfraidOfNeedles: Jamie does ''not'' like having a needle stuck into him.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Inverted example as Jamie is indeed a virgin before his wedding night, and Claire is the one who shares her experiences with him.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Has this frequently toward Claire, when he sees her in danger because of her actions. A notable example is in ''Outlander'', when Jamie yells at Claire for leaving the clearing where he had left her when he had ordered her to stay put. He was terrified for her, and angry that she did not listen to him as it put their entire party in danger from the redcoats. It results in a shouting match on the side of a road at night-time, when the group is travelling away from Fort William.
** He has this also in ''Voyager'', when Claire goes onto the deck of the ship during a fight between pirates and the ship's crew. Claire is bewildered by Jamie's fury, until Mr Willoughby tells her that Jamie is not angry exactly, but scared pretty badly.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: James Alexander Malcolm McKenzie Fraser.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Brianna.
* BadassBookworm: Jamie is very educated and well-read for his time, and at the same time is lethal in a fight.
* BadassInDistress: In ''Dragonfly in Amber'' he is imprisoned in the Bastille for dueling and it is only thanks to Claire that he is freed in time to go foil Charles' attempt to raise money for an invasion fleet for the '45.
* BadassGrandpa: Is this after Jemmy is born.
* BadDreams: Jamie still has nightmares about Culloden, his time in Ardsmuir, and basically most of the other horrific experiences he has been through in his life. Claire is usually there to comfort him, except when she and Jamie are separated after Culloden.
* BattleCouple: With Claire. Jamie makes the plans and fights in conflicts; Claire is there later to provide healing and support to the injured.
* BigDamnHeroes: Busts into Fort William with only an empty gun to rescue Claire from Jack Randall.
%%* BigDamnKiss
* BodyHorror: Has horrifying layered scars on his back from repeated floggings from when he was imprisoned in Fort William for 'obstruction'. [[spoiler: During his torture in Wentworth Prison Jamie's back is flayed, his face and body are brutally beaten and bruised, his skin is marred by horrific burns caused by a hot poker, and his right hand is grotesquely broken. As eloquently stated by Jamie, the only part of him that isn't injured is between his legs.]]
** After the battle of Culloden he gains a scar on his thigh, where his leg was nearly amputated.
* BraveScot: He's Scottish and he's definitely brave.
* BreakTheCutie: Randall certainly attempts to do this during his torture of Jamie in Wentworth Prison. It's largely due to Claire that he doesn't succeed.
%%* BrokenAce
%%* BrokenPedestal
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: With Claire as the gentle girl (although she's not as gentle as the trope suggests).
* BrutalHonesty: He rarely lies to others, and is known as an honest man. However, he does lie on occasion, when he deems it necessary.
* CannotSpitItOut: Jamie has some trouble saying the words 'I love you' to Claire when they are at Lallybroch in ''Outlander'', and also cannot clearly admit that he fell in love with her.
%%* CelibateHero
%%* CharacterDevelopment
* ChildhoodFriends: Jamie with Elder Ian. They were practically brothers to each other, and even swore a blood oath during their childhood to always be there for one another.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Was tortured and raped by Jack Randall in Wentworth Prison, the night before he was meant to be hanged. Though he recovers physically and mentally from the trauma, he is haunted by it for the rest of his life.
** He has no problem with pretending to threaten Claire in front of William Grey to make the latter speak, and even goes so far as breaking the boy's arm. Claire is horrified by Jamie's actions; however, Jamie brushes it aside, claiming that what he did is usually acceptable in times of war.
%%* ConsummateLiar
* DarkAndTroubledPast: From the moment Jamie is taken to Fort William on the charge of obstruction, this trope comes into effect. Jamie suffers two brutal floggings, seeing his father die during the second flogging, is hunted as a convicted escaped murderer for four years (although he did not in fact commit the murder he was accused of), is seriously injured twice and has to return to France to recover, is brutally tortured and raped by Randall in Wentworth Prison in exchange for Claire's freedom... the list is endless.
** After Culloden he is forced to live in a cave for seven years, before he chooses to give himself up to the English to keep his family from starving. He does not seem to have many good memories of his time in Ardsmuir Prison. And then after that he is paroled and forced into indentured servitude as a groom in Helwater, basically a slave to the Dunsays... and after he finally is pardoned and allowed to return home, he finds that he's not truly home, and that he's lost his connection to the land which he grew up in.
%%* DespairEventHorizon
* DeadpanSnarker: Has some signs of this.
* {{Determinator}}: He is very stubborn, and when he chooses to do something he will do it, no matter what.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of ''Scottish Prisoner''. It's debatable whether he'd be considered the deuteragonist of the main series as well, or actually a protagonist like Claire.
%%* DidntSeeThatComing
* DomesticAbuse: Gives Claire a rough strapping (more like a beating) in ''Outlander'' to punish her for disobeying his orders to stay put in the glade and putting everyone at risk. To be exact, he put her onto his lap and beat her until his arm tired, so hard that Claire could still feel the marks days later. To be fair though, it was only meant to be a light strapping, but Claire struggled against him and Jamie lost his temper with her. It was something he swore he'd never do again, and he has not, as far as the main books go.
* DotingGrandparent: Jamie towards Jemmy.
%%* EnemyMine
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Boy, do they ever. The Duke of Sandringham makes indecent advances upon Jamie's person when Jamie is sixteen years old and staying at Castle Leoch (in fact, that is the reason why Jamie leaves the castle so abruptly during that stay), practically attempting to rape Jamie in the stables at one point. Jack Randall also makes his interest known, in a very brutal, sadistic fashion. Lord John is also madly in love with Jamie, but thankfully accepts that his love is unrequited and seems content to remain a close friend of Jamie.
* TheExile: Played straight and subverted multiple times. In ''Outlander'', because Jamie is an outlaw he is forced to flee Scotland with Claire and Murtagh after his escape from prison to avoid being recaptured by the English. It's only after the Duke of Sandringham issues an official pardon that he is able to return to his rightful place in Lallybroch. However, after the Rising Jamie is hunted as a Jacobite traitor and eventually gives himself up to the English (or rather gets someone to turn him in) to keep Lallybroch from starving to death during the famine. He ends up imprisoned in Ardsmuir and later serves parole in England for over seven years. Once he is finally pardoned and able to return to Scotland, he finds that he's lost the connection he once had to his ancestral home, and that he is a complete stranger to his people. This is part of what sends him into his depression and HeroicBSOD which compelled Jenny to convince him to marry again.
** After Claire's return, she and Jamie travel to America to rescue Young Ian from pirates. They end up staying there and settling in the Colony of North Carolina. Though it's by Jamie's own choice, he does admit that sometimes he misses Scotland and would like to return there one day.
* {{Fingore}}: Jamie's hand after ''Outlander''.
* FireForgedFriends: Jamie and Lord John, in a way. At first Jamie is hostile toward John, especially after realising that John is homosexual and in love with him, but eventually thaws and comes to trust and like him. Although they do not have to fight on the same side in anything to get to that point.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Jamie falls in love with Claire when she is treating his wounds during Claire's first night in Castle Leoch.
* FrameUp: Jamie was framed for the murder of a sergeant in Fort William during an attempted prison break, and though he was not guilty of the charge he admits that he had done for a good many other red soldiers that the accusation was not completely undeserved.
** In ''A Breath of Snow and Ashes'' he is accused of first committing adultery with Malva Christie, and then conspiring to murder her. He is thankfully acquitted of both of these charges.
%%* GoodIsNotNice
* GuileHero: Jamie is very good at using guile to trick and get past his enemies. In ''Voyager'', when trying to get back to Fergus, Marsali and the ''Artemis'', he manages to take command of an entire garrison by pretending to be a French captain called Alessandro.
* HappilyMarried: To Claire, before and after their twenty-year separation.
* HeroicBSOD: While he is recovering from his torture at the hands of Randall. It takes Claire to bring him out of it.
%%* HeroWithBadPublicity
%%* HiddenDepths
* HotBlooded: Jamie is known for this. On a number of occasions (including in Drums of Autumn, when he beat Roger to a pulp and sold him to the Iroquois) he has acted on impulse and rage, not thinking of the consequences of his actions until it was too late.
* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Lord John is sexually attracted to Jamie, and though he tries not to show it, it comes out sometimes. Jamie, having been tortured and raped before by a homosexual soldier, does not like it.
* IHaveManyNames: Red Jamie, [=MacDubh=], Alexander Malcolm.
* IndenturedServitude: He serves seven years as an indentured servant in Helwater as part of his parole from Ardsmuir Prison.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Jamie seems to have a habit of doing this.
* IOweYouMyLife: Says this to Claire after she rescues him from Wentworth and brings him out of his PTSD/ASD.
* ItsAllMyFault: Blames himself for his father's death, as he feels that if he had accepted Randall's offer of buggery instead of flogging then he would still be alive. He also blames himself for [[spoiler: the death of Geneva Dunsay, as she had died giving birth to a child that had been conceived the one night she and Jamie slept together. It's hard to say whether he is right in blaming himself so much--Geneva could have easily have died even if it had been Ellesmere's child that she had been carrying.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Has shades of this, later in the series.
* TheLostLenore: Claire is this for him-- he never stops pining for her during all the twenty years they are separated.
* LoveHurts: Boy, does it ever.
* MarryForLove: Jamie reveals to Claire that his agreeing to wed her was this.
* MistakenForCheating: In ''Outlander'' Claire accuses him of cheating on her with Laoghaire. He makes it clear that he did no such thing.
* MrFanservice: Is definitely this.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone?: Jamie's general reaction after realising that the man he beat up and sold to the Iroquois was none other than the man his daughter is in love with, and not the rapist he thought the man was. He immediately resolves to rescue Roger from his slavery and make it up to both Roger and Bree.
* MyGreatestFailure: Jamie will likely never forgive himself for [[spoiler: bedding Geneva Dunsay (although he was blackmailed into it by Geneva herself) and causing the pregnancy which led to her DeathByChildBirth. He is seen doing penance for it by Lord John a week or two after her death, by lying on the chapel floor covered with nothing but his shirt every night until Geneva's funeral.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jamie's allowing Bonnet to evade the authorities not only is repaid by Bonnet robbing him, but also results in Bree's rape.
* NotQuiteDead: Unbeknownst to Claire, Jamie survives Culloden and spends the next twenty years in complete misery without her. Quite the surprise, since Jamie meant to die that day, and everyone knows that when Jamie's made up his mind to do something, no-one and nothing can stop him from doing it.
** In ''An Echo in the Bone'', Claire and Lord John [[spoiler: receive news that the ship Jamie was meant to be sailing to America in was lost at sea during a fierce storm. Believing him to be dead, they wed so that Claire will be protected from the authorities who want to arrest her for espionage. Unknown to them, Jamie is in fact, alive, having been forced earlier to take another ship to the Colonies (since the Euterpe left before Jamie arrived to board it) and Claire and Lord John get quite a shock when he appears in Philadelphia to reclaim his wife.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Jamie and Randall. The similarities have been noted by some fans.
** Also Jamie and Stephen Bonnet. Both are men who have been outlaws at some point in their lives, and also sent to prison. Because of said similarities, Jamie feels pity for Bonnet's plight when he happens upon Bonnet trying to evade the authorities after having just escaped prison, and helps him escape from the town. Unfortunately Bonnet repays Jamie's kindness by robbing him of everything he has.
* ObliviousToLove: Jamie never realises that Laoghaire is madly in love with him until [[spoiler: they marry in 1764]].
* OhCrap: The look on Jamie and Ian's faces when they see Brianna's drawing of Roger Wakefield and realise that he was the man they beat up and sold to the Iroquois months before.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Jamie is frequently described as appearing younger and more attractive than most people his age.
* OverlyLongName: James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
* OverprotectiveDad: Jamie beats Roger McKenzie to a pulp and sells him to the Iroquois, because he believed that the man raped his daughter and got her with child. Unfortunately, this is not the case at all, as it is Stephen Bonnet who is the true rapist. After Roger is successfully rescued from his captivity among the Mohawk, Jamie begins to hunt Bonnet, at first by himself and then with Roger's help.
* PapaWolf: To Brianna. This is very apparent near the end of ''Drums'', when he threatens and slams Roger into a wall to make his point clear that he won't accept any abuse towards Bree on Roger's part.
---> '''Jamie ''(softly):''''' Treat her badly and I’ll rip your balls off and cram them down your throat.
** Even earlier, he beats Roger to a pulp and sells him to the Iroquois on the mistaken assumption that Roger is the man who raped his daughter. Clearly, Jamie won't stand for any harm coming to Bree while he can help it, and will avenge any wrongs done to her if he can.
* ParentalAbandonment: His mother died in childbirth; his father died of a stroke while watching Jamie's second flogging at Fort William.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Fergus and Marsali.
%%* PassiveAgressiveKombat
* PragmaticHero: Jamie is very careful when he makes plans of action, accounting for possible changes. He is also good at improvising if the need calls for it.
* {{Pride}}: Jamie can be a very proud man. This is pointed out by Claire in ''Drums'', during her, Jamie and Ian's stay in the Indian village where Roger is being held captive. After reuniting with Roger and Jamie (who had been separated from Claire during Alexandre's burning and the chaos afterward), Jamie begs her to tend to his injured arm. Claire immediately suspects that it is a ruse on Jamie's part, since she knows that Jamie is too proud to show his weaknesses and injuries in front of others unless he has ulterior motives for doing so.
* RapeAndRevenge: Jamie is raped by Jack Randall in the first book, and spends a quarter of the next book trying to get revenge on him after discovering that he survived Wentworth. He does get his vengeance, though he does not kill him as he wished to (because of his promise to Claire), and instead slices off Randall's cock with his dueling sword.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Is raped by Randall in Wentworth.]]
** [[spoiler: During his indenture he is blackmailed into sleeping with his master's daughter, Geneva Dunsay. Although it is debatable whether it could be called rape.]]
* RebelliousSpirit: He doesn't care much about following the law, as long as he is doing what he thinks is right and honorable. He decides to fight in the American Revolution, on the Americans' side, at first because he knows they will win, but later realises that he actually believes in what they are fighting for and ends up truly fighting for their cause with all his heart.
* RedheadedHero: Well, he is certainly red-headed.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: After he and Claire settle on the Ridge, he becomes this.
%%* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* SexualExtortion: Geneva Dunsay, the daughter of Jamie's master in Helwater, blackmails Jamie into sleeping with her for one night. If he doesn't, she threatens to reveal the treasonous contents of a letter sent by Jenny to Jamie to Lord Dunsay, which could have disastrous consequences for Jamie and his family in Scotland. This is enough to make Jamie comply.
* SirSwearsALot: Is described by Dougal's men in ''Outlander'' as having a 'filthy mouth on him'. It seemed to be cured after a stay at Ste. Anne's in France, but as Claire later finds out, apparently not.
* TheSmartGuy: Jamie is one of the smartest characters in the series, and often uses his brains to think his way out of a problem.
* TheSouthpaw: He is left-handed, though he can wield a sword well with either hand (at least before Randall mutilates his right hand in Wentworth Prison).
%%* StartingANewLife
* TheStoic: Jamie is known to have an unreadable expression when he is feeling a strong emotion.
** NotSoStoic: Jamie weeps with abandon when Claire shows him the photos of Brianna at different stages of her childhood, shortly after Claire return to the 18th century.
* TranquilFury: Like Colum, Jamie has a tendency of doing this. However, he also has the other kind of fury too, at other times.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Claire, his family and his men.
* WarriorPoet: Sort of. Jamie is a warrior, but isn't a poet, though he is well-read and educated for his time.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gets this multiple times (and also gives it to others) throughout the series.
** In ''Dragonfly in Amber'', Claire calls him out on his behaviour when he challenges Jack Randall to a duel.
** He gives one himself to Claire near the end of ''Dragonfly'', for putting Frank's life and well-being ahead of his own.
* WriteBackToTheFuture: After the MacKenzies return to the 20th century Claire and Jamie write letters to them, talking about their daily lives, to be read at some point when Bree and Roger get back.



[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Scotsmen]]


!! Father Bain
The local priest in Inverness.
%%* {{Jerkass}}



!! Arch Bug
Husband of Murdina Bug. After Murdina is killed by Ian in ''Echo'' he resolves to get his revenge on him by killing the one thing/person that Ian loves the most.
* AxCrazy: William comments that Arch looks like he's this. It is suggested that his mind broke after the death of his wife and his subsequent quest to avenge her.
* SanitySlippage: It is implied that he slowly went insane after Murdina's death.




!! Allan Christie
Son of Tom Christie and brother/lover to Malva.


[[/folder]]

!! Englishmen




[[folder: The Randalls (18th Century)]]
!! Jack Randall
* BigBad: Of the first book.
%%* DepravedBisexual
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The only person Randall has ever loved is his younger brother Alex. He will do anything for him, even report information about the English army to the Jacobites in exchange for Alex receiving treatment for his terminal illness at the hands of Claire.
%%* ForTheEvulz
* {{Sadist}}: He takes pleasure in tormenting his prisoners.
* SexIsViolence: He enjoys violent sex a lot, as seen by his torture/sex sessions with prisoners who catch his fancy. As Claire finds out, he can't experience arousal during sexual intercourse with a woman unless he hears her scream.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He bears a strong resemblance to his brother Alex and his supposed descendant Frank.




[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Englishmen]]


!! Prince Charles Edward Stuart
AKA Charlie, or Bonnie Prince Charlie. Son of James Stuart (the Old Pretender to the English throne), and keen to see his dad become king. [[spoiler: As such, the instigator (historically speaking, anyway) of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Mark me."
* ItsAllAboutMe: Charles thinks that the world revolves around him and his ambitions, and that it's everyone else's job to serve him. An example can be seen in his characteristic gesture whenever his glass is empty: he just holds it up in the expectation that someone will fill it. Justified because he's been raised in a family that believes it has a divine right to the English throne.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: The historical Charlie was this for the Highlanders in general, and his series counterpart is shaping up to follow suit.]]
* UpperClassTwit: It's never entirely clear whether Charlie is this or whether he's using ObfuscatingStupidity, but he does give a very strong impression of not having all the lights on upstairs.


[[/folder]]

[[folder: Irishmen]]
!! Stephen Bonnet
The main antagonist from ''Drums of Autumn'' to ''A Breath of Snow and Ashes''.
* BigBad: He is the main antagonist of the books ''Drums of Autumn'', ''The Fiery Cross'' and ''A Breath of Snow and Ashes''.

!! Tobias Quinn
An Irish Jacobite supporter who attempts a rebellion against the House of Hanover in 1760.
* DeathByDespair: After realising that his cause is lost, he commits suicide, by cutting the veins in his wrist so that he bleeds to death.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Frenchmen]]
!! Le Comte Saint-Germain
A French noble who becomes an enemy of Claire after she inadvertently causes his ship (and the shipments that are on it) to be fired due to there being a case of the pox on-board. He is involved in dark magic circles.
%%* {{Jerkass}}
[[/folder]]






[[folder: 20th-Century Born]]
!!Claire Beauchamp Randall [[spoiler: Fraser]]
A former World War II nurse who finds herself trapped in the year 1743 in Scotland, after she accidentally walked through a standing stone in Craigh Na Dun while on a second honeymoon with her husband Frank Randall. She meets Highlander Scot Jamie Fraser, [[spoiler: is forced to marry him and eventually falls in love with him]].
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Played straight with Claire in regards to Frank. When Claire is trapped in the 18th century, though she initially tries to make her way back to him, she ends up falling in love with Jamie and choosing to stay with him. Averted with Claire and Jamie, however, in that although they are not celibate during the years they are separated they are never truly out of each other's minds and hearts.
%%* ActionGirl
* AdultFear: Discovers that her daughter was raped by Stephen Bonnet and is now pregnant.
%%* AllLovingHero
* AttemptedRape: Claire is almost raped by Randall in Fort William in ''Outlander''. It's only thanks to Jamie that she escapes unscathed.
** In ''Dragonfly in Amber'' she is assaulted and almost raped by a gang of masked men in an alley in Paris. Again, it's mainly because of Jamie that she escapes. [[spoiler: The men attempting to rape her recognise her and call her 'The Dame Blanche' and run away from her in fright. Claire is bewildered at why they would do that until Jamie admits to her that he told the nobles and prostitutes he was with (who were making sexual advances on him) that she was a witch, 'La Dame Blanche', to stop them from trying to flirt and go to bed with him.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: Sort of. Her first attempts at conceiving with Frank did not work out, but [[spoiler: when she married Jamie and chose to be with him she found herself pregnant with his child. However, she miscarried when she was well into her fifth month, for unknown reasons, though stress was most likely a factor in it. On the eve of the battle of Culloden, she discovers that she is pregnant again, and this becomes a major force for her return through the stones to the 20th century--Jamie begs her to go, knowing that he is a dead man walking and wanting to spare Claire and their child from what he and Claire both knew would be rampant in the Highlands in the years following Culloden. Claire didn't want to leave Jamie but did so for their child's sake, a child she hated and resented during the months of her pregnancy being the cause of her separation from Jamie.]]
* BadLiar: Claire is terrible at lying--Jamie comments to her multiple times throughout the series that her face gives all her thoughts away. Though she does become marginally better at it later in the series, as [[spoiler: she hides the truth about the stones and Brianna's biological father from Brianna and Brianna does not suspect a thing until Claire tells her.]]
%%* BattleCouple
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Had a role in trying to prevent the battle of Culloden from happening, though ultimately the effort failed and it's suggested that what Jamie and Claire did to stop it only made the path toward Culloden more certain.
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
* BigDamnHeroes: Claire, Murtagh and Dougal's men, as they bust Jamie out of Wentworth Prison. Although Claire isn't a part of the actual rescue, she is the one who comes up with the plan and afterward operates on Jamie's hand so that he can still use it.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: With Claire as the gentle girl (although she's not as gentle as the trope suggests).
* BurnTheWitch: Claire and Geillie are accused of witchcraft, with this as a punishment.
%%* CharacterDevelopment
* ClingyJealousGirl: Not really to an extreme degree, but Claire is seen to be possessive of Jamie at times and jealous of other people who are in (unrequited) love with Jamie. She is ''very'' jealous of Laoghaire.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Though not necessarily convenient, Claire miscarries her first child, a girl, during her fifth month of pregnancy, due to a detached placenta.
* DamselOutOfDistress: This is a large part of Claire's character, and justified, given that she was a nurse during World War II and used to dangerous situations and the sight of men seriously injured because of war and violence. It is also because Claire has an indomitable will, and refuses to play the part of a victim in any situation. In situations such as [[spoiler: the Inverness witch trial and Randall's attempt at raping her,]] Claire openly fights back and does not let her fear overcome her.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* FireForgedFriends: Claire and Marsali, Laoghaire's daughter (and Jamie's step-daughter).
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Claire is this in the first book and first season of the TV series, as she is accidentally brought into the 1700s via the stones.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Claire can't help but notice Jamie's attractiveness while treating his wounds during her first night in Castle Leoch.
%%* GreenEyedMonster
* HappilyMarried: In the very beginning of the series, to Frank. [[spoiler: Then she goes through the stones and meets Jamie, and ends up marrying him and choosing to stay with him instead of returning to Frank. However, on the eve of the battle of Culloden Claire is forced to return through the stones to Frank, and lives the next twenty years as his wife (though it's not a happy marriage). She later returns to Jamie and after a few mishaps resumes her HappilyMarried life with him.]]
%%* HiddenDepths
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Is prone to this, given her personality. She considers Geillis Duncan a friend even after she drugs her and tries to interrogate her, and mourns her death by fire. It takes her over twenty years to realise just how dangerous Geillis is.
* ItsAllMyFault: Claire is guilt-ridden over her choice to stay in the past, as it means leaving Frank behind and betraying him by choosing to love Jamie.
* LawOfInverseFertility: After months of trying with Frank, Claire finally becomes pregnant twice by Jamie.
* LoveHurts: Boy, does it ever.
* MamaBear: To Brianna. There is nothing she wouldn't do to protect her. [[spoiler: Her main reason for killing Geillis Duncan in ''Voyager'', other than the immediate danger to herself and Jamie and Young Ian, is to stop the woman from travelling back to the 20th century and ensnaring Brianna in one of her insane plans to 'free Scotland' from British rule. Despite her previous friendship with Geillis, the realisation that Geillis's actions would place Brianna in harm's way made Claire adamant to protect her daughter from her in any way possible, even if it meant killing Geillis herself.]]
* TheMedic: Claire was a combat nurse during the Second World War, and as such is used dealing with blood, horror and violent deaths. In the 18th century she acts as a physician to the people of Castle Leoch and to Jamie, who she treats multiple times for serious injuries, although she is not actually qualified as a doctor. [[spoiler: After she returns to the 20th century she enters medical school and finally becomes a certified doctor.]]
* TheMentor: Is this to Malva Christie in ''Breath''.
* MercyKill: In 1968, Claire helps a terminally ill Scottish old man to die, having befriended him and believing it to be the right thing to do. However, a nurse sees her with the needle in her hand following the deed, and the hospital is notified. The result of this is that Claire is bumped up to a desk job and discreetly encouraged to take leave from the hospital for a time.
* MistakenForCheating: Frank accuses Claire of sleeping with Joe Abernathy, who is just a friend to her. Earlier in ''Outlander'', after Frank sees a man looking up at Claire from outside the boarding-house in Inverness, he questions whether Claire had had an affair with one of her patients. Claire vehemently denies having done so, and is furious at Frank for thinking it of her.
%%* MyGreatestFailure
* NearDeathExperience: Plenty. In ''Outlander'' Claire is almost burnt to death as a witch in Inverness, almost torn apart by wolves during her flight from Wentworth Prison after being forced to leave Jamie behind there in the hands of Randall, and almost tortured and killed by Randall himself at some points during the course of the story.
** In ''Breath'' she falls ill with a mysterious illness and almost dies. At one point she envisions herself outside of her body and sees Jamie close to her body, grieving for her, with Malva beside him. Seeing that Malva stands intimately close to him and touching him, Claire is annoyed and chooses not to die so that she can put a stop to it.
** In ''MOBY'' she is shot while tending to soldiers wounded during a battle, and would definitely have died from it if it had been a gut-shot.
* NiceGirl: Claire doesn't seem to have a mean bone in her body.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Claire's attempt to rescue Jamie from Wentworth Prison fails dismally. She's captured, and Jamie has to agree to Black Jack's terms to get Claire released.
* ParentalAbandonment: Both Claire's parents died in a car accident when she was five years old; her uncle Lamb, who had been her guardian since then, was killed during the Blitz.
* ObliviousToLove: She has no clue that Jamie is in love with her until sometime after they are married.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Claire is frequently described as appearing younger and more attractive than most people her age.
* PluckyGirl: She just ''never gives up''!
%%* {{Pride}}
* RapeAsDrama: She is raped and brutally beaten by a band of thugs (who have abducted her to get at Jamie) in ''A Breath of Snow and Ashes''. She never truly gets over it.
%%* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
* SecondLove: After finding herself moored in the 18th century in ''Outlander'', Claire falls in love with Jamie Fraser and chooses to stay with him. However, after Culloden Claire finds herself separated from Jamie and back in the 20th century, where she reunites with Frank and becomes wife to him again (though there isn't any true love in the marriage). Then after Frank's death, Claire discovers with Roger Wakefield's help that Jamie is in fact still alive in the 18th century, and sets off to reunite with him.
* SirSwearsALot: Claire curses surprisingly a lot for a woman of her time, and it is frowned upon by Frank in the 20th century. In the 18th century, Dougal's men are shocked at the words that come out of her mouth when she is treating Jamie's shoulder wound on the side of a road.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Claire returns to the 20th century pregnant with Brianna. It's stated that Brianna was so much like Jamie (even as a baby) that whenever Claire looked at her she was instantly reminded of him.
* StartingANewLife: First, in the beginning of ''Outlander'', she and her husband Frank go on a second honeymoon to Scotland to rekindle their relationship and start a new life together. After going through the stones Claire has to acquaint herself with life in 18th century Scotland, and eventually is forced to marry Jamie Fraser to protect herself from Black Jack Randall, thus starting her life as a wife to him (Jamie). After Claire finally chooses to stay permanently with Jamie in the 18th century as his wife, they journey to Lallybroch to set Jamie's affairs in order and meet Jenny, Jamie's sister, thus signalling another new beginning. And, after [[spoiler: Jamie's escape from Wentworth, his, Claire and Murtagh's hurried flight across the Channel, arrival in Ste Anne's monastery, and after Jamie heals from his physical and emotional wounds that BJR's torture left on him, Jamie and Claire decide to take up an offer to go to Paris and have Jamie become a companion to Prince Charles and manager of a wine business run by Jamie's cousin Jared Fraser.]]
** On the eve of Culloden a pregnant Claire is forced to return to the 20th century, and reunites with Frank and becomes wife to him again. Soon after Frank takes Claire and they settle in Boston, Massachusetts, where he takes a job as a history professor.
** After discovering that Jamie is in fact alive, Claire returns to the 18th century to reunite with him. Soon after, they end up travelling to the Colonies, where they settle in Fraser's Ridge.
* SurprisePregnancy: Claire's pregnancy with Bree is certainly this. The realization of it shocks Claire, on the eve of Culloden when she attempts to insist staying with Jamie in the 18th century (and dying with him there, as they both know Jamie will die, whether in the battle or by execution). Although Jamie had known for weeks (or months), Claire did not know she was pregnant (or was unwilling to admit it to herself) until Jamie pointed it out to her.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Is known for this. Her identity as a medic and her forgiving and generous heart cause her to feel pity and also often sympathy for her enemies when others would not.
** In ''Breath'', despite having been brutally beaten and raped by Lionel Brown and his men, she finds it in herself to try and treat Lionel Brown's injuries, something which Jamie is astonished at. Later in the novel she offers to do the same for one of the men who have wrongfully arrested herself and Jamie for murder, and is rejected with much disgust on the man's part. In response, a hurt and angry Claire coldly tells him that he can let himself rot if he wants to.
* TeamMom: Becomes this to extended family and friends on the Ridge.
* TimeTravelersAreSpies: In ''Outlander'' Claire is accused a number of times of being a spy, because of her uncanny knowledge of events to come.
* TookALevelInBadass: Near the end of ''Outlander'' Claire boldly searches the Highlands for Jamie with just Murtagh by her side, sneaks into Wentworth to find Jamie, and is later beset upon by wolves outside the prison and manages to kill one with her bare hands (and a scarf!). She is also the one who forms the plan which gets Jamie out of Wentworth Prison and away from the death sentence hanging over his head. Not to mention she successfully and very practically sets Jamie's mangled right hand in [=MacRannoch=]'s house with only 18th century medicine to help her.
* TookALevelInCynic: By 1968, after twenty years of separation from Jamie, unfaithfulness on Frank's part and her own trauma and grief over Jamie's death and what happened during the Rising, Claire has become a lot more cynical than she was before.
%%* TraumaCongaLine
* WildHair: Claire often complains of her extremely curly hair, which she finds hard to brush properly.
* WriteBackToTheFuture: After the MacKenzies return to the 20th century Claire and Jamie write letters to them, talking about their daily lives, to be read at some point when Bree and Roger get back.
* YouAreNotAlone: Claire says this to Jamie in ''Voyager'', after he admits that [[spoiler: he fathered a bastard named Willie.]]

!! Geillis Duncan
A Scottish woman who Claire meets in 18th century Inverness. Geillis is red-haired with extraordinary green eyes, and a slim figure. She is very attractive, so much so that Claire thinks that she could find a husband/lover in Inverness quite easily if she wished for it. However, she has a calculating, practical and cunning mind, seen when she chooses for a husband the fat and old Arthur Duncan, for his position and wealth, and later [[spoiler: takes Dougal [=MacKenzie=] as a lover, for his political and social influence and charismatic personality. Geillis is a patriot at heart, and this motivates many of her actions. She is determined to help Charles Stuart regain the throne of Scotland.]]
* AxCrazy: As she grows older, Geillis seems to become more and more mentally unstable--on the island of Jamaica it is clear to Claire that Geillis Duncan [[spoiler: Abernathy]] is mad as anything and dangerous to boot. When Roger reads her grimoire in ''Drums of Autumn'', he is chilled by it and later tells Brianna that it shows that she is completely crazy.
%%* TheBaroness
* BeenThereShapedHistory: While in Paris, Geillis was approached by the mother of revolutionary Marat, who asked if she should name her child 'Rudolph'. Geillis immediately told her that it was a bad idea. Later she wonders to Claire what would have happened if she had given the woman a different answer.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Is described as very beautiful, at least when she is younger, but deep inside she is not a nice person, callous and unfeeling, ready to do anything to get what she wants (even committing murder).
* BlackWidow: She killed two of her husbands--Edgars as a sacrifice so she could travel through the stones and Arthur Duncan to prevent her pregnancy and affair with Dougal [=MacKenzie=] from being discovered.
* BurnTheWitch: Claire and Geillie are accused of witchcraft, with this as a punishment.
* TheCynic: Has a very cynical view of the world, which is seen through her actions and her DeadpanSnarker trait.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her first husband was abusive towards her, and she did not seem to have much of a social life outside of the SNP. It's not surprising that ''her husband'' became the person she used as a sacrifice to travel through the stones.
* FieryRedhead: She has red hair and can have a fiery temper at times.
* GreenEyes: Has extraordinary green eyes.
* IHaveManyNames: Geillis Duncan, Gillian Edgars, Geillis Abernathy, Melisande Robisceux.
%%* PragmaticHero
* RebelliousSpirit: She hates Scotland's dependence on England and is determined to make Scotland independent by any means necessary.
* SecretIdentity: In the past, no one (except Kenneth and later Claire and Jamie) knows that she is a time traveller from the future. After her faked death she masquerades as a fortune-teller in Paris, Melisande Robisceux, hiding in plain sight.
* SirSwearsALot: She has quite a mouth on her.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: She gradually poisons her husband with his tonic, and kills him for good by placing cyanide in his food during the grand feast for the Duke of Sandringham. [[spoiler: In ''The Exile'' it is revealed that she also poisoned Colum, though he recovered from it.]]
* TheUnfettered: Will do anything to see Scotland become independent of England and its rightful monarchy restored.

** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsOutlanderToVoyager Books 1-3]] (including ''The Exile'') [[note]]Jonathan Randall, Geillis Duncan, Dougal MacKenzie, Kenneth, Father Bain, Laoghaire MacKenzie, Le Comte St. Germain, Duke of Sandringham[[/note]]
** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsBooksDrumsOfAutumnToBreath Books 4-6]] [[note]]Stephen Bonnet, William Buccleigh MacKenzie, The Browns, Allan Christie, Malva Christie, Donner[[/note]]
** [[Characters/OutlanderAntagonistsEchoToMOBY Books 7-8]] [[note]]Arch Bug, Richardson, Rob Cameron[[/note]]

[[index]]* [[Characters/OutlanderCharactersInTheLordJohnBooks Characters in the ''Lord John'' books]] (including ''Scottish Prisoner'')[[/index]]

[[index]]* [[Characters/OutlanderCharactersInTheSTARZAdaptation Characters in the STARZ adaptation]][[/index]]

[[index]]* [[Characters/OutlanderJamieAndClaire Jamie and Claire]]

!! Morag MacKenzie
Wife of William Buccleigh MacKenzie.
* NiceGirl: Very sweet and kind. One has to wonder how a nice girl like that married a man like Buck.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her defending of Roger after Buck caught him kissing her only further enraged Buck and led to him turning Roger in to be hanged as a rebel leader.

!! Jeremiah MacKenzie (Jemmy)
Morag and Buck's infant son.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Castle Leoch Characters]]


!! Rupert
One of Dougal's men.

!! Angus Mhor
One of Dougal's men.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He is never heard or seen from again after ''Outlander''.

!! Old Alec
The horsemaster at Castle Leoch. He only has one eye.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He is never heard or seen from again after ''Outlander''.




[[folder: Clan Fraser: Beauly Branch]]
!! The Old Fox

!! Young Simon
[[/folder]]

!! Arthur Duncan
The fiscal of Inverness, and Geillis's husband. [[spoiler: He dies in ''Outlander'', after consuming cyanide that Geillis had placed in his food during the welcome banquet for the Duke of Sandringham at Castle Leoch for that very purpose.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He is this, as the fiscal of Inverness. Though he doesn't have as much page-time as some of the other characters, it's clear that he's only trying to do his job and is very good at it.

!! [=MacRae=]
The locksmith of Inverness.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He is never heard or seen from again after ''Outlander''.

!! Murdina Bug
Wife of Arch Bug. She is accidentally killed by Ian at the beginning of ''Echo''.

!! Lizzie Wemyss
A bond-servant who Brianna buys out of pity for her circumstances. She travels to the New World with her, and eventually settles on Fraser's Ridge.
* TheAtoner: After the Roger mess, Lizzie feels extremely guilty for her part in what happened to him, and drives Roger mad trying to make it up to him.
* IllGirl: She contracts Malaria while on her way to America with Bree and never fully recovers from it. Claire has to treat her for various relapses she has over the course of the series.
* {{Polyamory}}: Eventually begins a relationship with both of the Beardsley twins, going as far as marrying them and having their children.

!! Mr Wemyss
Lizzie's father. He is also a bond-servant and is bought and eventually freed by Jamie.

!! Tom Christie
A lowlander who was imprisoned in Ardsmuir alongside Jamie.

!! Malva Christie
Daughter of Tom Christie, and sister/lover to Allan Christie.

[[folder: The Dunsays of Helwater (18th Century)]]
!! Lord Dunsay
The Lord of Helwater, husband of Lady Dunsay and father of Isobel and Geneva. He agrees to take on Jamie as an indentured parolee, despite having bitterness towards Jacobites due to his son having been killed at Culloden. He is a kind and fair man.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He outlives his daughter Geneva, who dies giving birth to her firstborn child.


!! Lady Dunsay
Lord Dunsay's wife, and mother of Geneva and Isobel.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She outlives her daughter Geneva, who dies giving birth to her firstborn child.

!! Geneva Dunsay
A spoilt, spirited girl who develops an infatuation with Jamie during his time on parole in Helwater. After receiving news that she is to be married to an elderly man called Ellesmere, she blackmails Jamie into sleeping with her.
* DeathInChildbirth: She dies giving birth to Willie, because of internal complications which cause her to hemorrhage.

!! Isobel Dunsay
Geneva's sister, and later Lord John's wife and adoptive mother of William.
* ParentalSubstitute: Is this for William.

[[/folder]]

!! Alexander Randall
Jack Randall's younger brother, and [[spoiler: Frank Randall's real ancestor]]. He is a clergyman who is in love with Mary Hawkins, but unable to wed her due to his low-born status.
* StarCrossedLovers: Him and Mary. First their union is unaccepted by both the English and French nobility, with the Duke of Sandringham firing Alex from his job and sending him back to England, thus preventing them from getting married together. They are both devastated about this. Then when Mary finally has the chance to escape her life and be with Alex, she discovers that he is dying from tuberculosis and doesn't have much longer to live.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks very like his brother Jack and [[spoiler: his descendant Frank]].

!! Denys Randall-Isaacs
Son of Alex Randall and Mary Hawkins.

[[folder: Fraser's Ridge Characters]]
!! Jo and Kezzie Beardsley
!! Amy [=MacCallum=]
!! Bobby Higgins
[[/folder]]

* TheUnfettered: Will do anything to see Scotland become independent of England and its rightful monarchy restored.

!! Jeremiah MacKenzie (Jerry)
Roger's father. He was a World War II pilot who was shot down supposedly over the English Channel. [[spoiler: In actuality he was shot down over Northumberland and was accidentally transported back in time time through the standing stones that were there.]] He was a generally decent man who was well loved by his family.
* ActionDad: He was a fighter pilot during the Second World War; he had a son, Roger, who was still a small child when he disappeared.
[[/folder]]


[[folder: Scotsmen]]
!! Reverend Wakefield
An old minister who resides in Inverness, called 'Reggie' by his friends. He is the adopted father of Roger Wakefield McKenzie.

!! Mrs Graham
Reverend Wakefield's housekeeper.


[[/folder]]

[[folder: Americans]]

[[/folder]]

!! Colum ban Campbell [=Mackenzie=]
The Laird of the Mackenzie Clan, and also Jamie's uncle on his mother's side. Often called 'The [=MacKenzie=]', he is ruthless, sly, charming, and cunning. Colum has Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome, causing him to have bent, misshapen legs which barely hold up his body. Despite his disability, Colum is the true laird of the [=MacKenzies=], with his excellent showmanship skills and a good eye for strategy.
* AdultFear: In ''Outlander'', in one instant he sees his son Hamish thrown off his horse and is so afraid that he is badly injured or even dead that he is close to tears.
* AffablyEvil: Though he can be very calculating and cold, he rarely shows this in public, instead acting charismatic and friendly. Except when he is in a temper, he always shows a good face to everyone, even his enemies.
* ArrangedMarriage: To his wife Letitia.
* BadassBookworm: He is very well-read and educated, and he is badass in his own way.
* BadassInCharge: Is leader of the MacKenzie Clan.
* BerserkButton: He does ''not'' like having his orders disobeyed. This is especially apparent in the TV series. When Jamie goes to see the Duke of Sandringham about pardoning him for his crimes, he is provoked into fighting with some MacDonald clansmen (who are enemies of the MacKenzies) and ends up spilling their blood. Colum is furious, as it means that he may have to deal with another blood feud in the making, and punishes Jamie for it by exiling him to Dougal's estate alongside Dougal himself.
** Also hates anyone treating him differently because of his illness and his stunted legs. In the TV series, he snaps at the tailor at Leoch who had made him a coat with tails that hid his legs, and forces the man to make a new one with tails of the normal length.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Is the brain to Dougal's brawn. While Dougal can be cunning if he wants to be, it's made clear that Colum is the most cunning and pragmatic of the two, hence the reason he leads the clan.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has a moment of this in the TV series.
* HandicappedBadass: His legs may be stumped, but he is not someone you should fool around with.
* HappilyMarried: To Letitia.
* TheLeader: Of the MacKenzie clan.
* {{Pride}}: Is seen to be very proud, especially when it comes to his appearance. Special mention goes to the scene in the TV series episode "The Way Out", in which Colum calmly and quietly rebukes a tailor for fashioning a coat that is designed to hide his legs.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* RefusalOfTheCall: He refuses to send the clan to fight in the Uprising, as he doesn't support Charles Stuart and doesn't feel that it would benefit the MacKenzies. Dougal isn't happy about this.
* TranquilFury: Is just as likely to resort to this as he is to full-blown shouting.

!! Marsali MacKimmie Fraser
Laoghaire's eldest daughter and Jamie's step-daughter. She falls in love with Fergus and thus travels to the New World with Claire, Jamie and Fergus so that she can marry him.
* ActionMom: When a man assaults her and her infant son in ''Drums of Autumn'', she kicks him in the face.
* BabiesEverAfter: Has many children with Fergus.
* FireForgedFriends: With Claire.
* HappilyMarried: To Fergus, after the events of ''Voyager''.
* MayDecemberRomance: With Fergus-- he is fifteen years older than her.
%%* PregnantBadass

!! Joan MacKimmie
Youngest daughter of Laoghaire by her second husband, and sister of Marsali. Possesses seer-like abilities which frighten her and influence her into leaving Scotland for the life of a nun in France. However, once she arrives, she realises that nothing is what it seems.
* {{Seer}}: Sees visions or shadows of those who are fated to die.

!! Mrs Fitzgibbons
Mrs [=FitzGibbons=], affectionately known as "Mrs Fitz," is Colum's headwoman at Castle Leoch. She is very highly regarded by him, and is kind and cheerful.
%%* CoolOldLady
* TheMedic: Though not to the same degree as Claire, Mrs Fitz certainly has some skill in healing, and is the person the inhabitants of Castle Leoch go to for healing before Claire's arrival.
* TeamMom: Seems to be this for the people in Castle Leoch, as she treats Dougal's men and even Claire, who is a stranger there, with the same affection she and regard she has for her biological grand-daughter, Laoghaire.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She is never seen or heard from again after the events of ''Outlander''.

!! Ned Gowan
A lawyer who has been living at Leoch for some decades and is loyal to the [=MacKenzie=].
* TheBore: Is seen as this by many people. During the witch trial he does this as a deliberate act to give Jamie time to return from the hunt and rescue Claire.
* NonActionGuy: Is one of the only male characters Claire meets who isn't a warrior like Dougal or Jamie.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Subverted initially-- while it seems like he has disappeared without explanation from the series, he turns up again in ''Voyager'', when he settles Jamie's legal troubles with Laoghaire. Jamie also tells Claire beforehand about what Ned has been doing for the past twenty years after Culloden. Later however after Claire and Jamie leave for America he is never seen or heard from again.
** Also seems to be this when he mysteriously doesn't show up for the second day of the witch trial like he promised Claire he would. [[spoiler: In ''The Exile'', it is explained that the reason he didn't go is because he was tending to Colum, who was poisoned by Geillis sometime previously.]]
[[/folder]]

!! Brian Fraser
Jamie and Jenny's father and Ellen's husband. Called 'Black Brian'.
* AdultFear: Sees his son Jamie be whipped to the point where he thinks Jamie is dead at the end of it. Seeing his son apparently dead is what triggers the stroke which kills Brian.
* BlackSheep: He has cut ties with Clan Fraser after eloping with Ellen, and even beforehand his relationship with the Frasers at Beauly was strained.
* GoodParents: Brian is seen to care very much for Jamie and Jenny, and does his best to raise them well.
* HappilyMarried: To Ellen before her DeathByChildbirth.
* InSeriesNickname: Is called Brian Dubh, or 'Black Brian', among his friends and others who know him.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Decides to elope with Ellen MacKenzie not even a day after having first met her.
* ManlyTears: Cries when he sees what he thinks are the ghosts of Ellen and his baby son ([[spoiler: who are really Brianna and her son Jem]]) while visiting Ellen's grave.
* MarryForLove: Chose to do this with Ellen.
* NiceGuy: Despite his rather ominous-sounding nickname, he is actually quite kind and understanding. Once he realises that Roger isn't a threat to his family, he is very warm and friendly towards him and willingly assists him in locating Jem.
* PosthumousCharacter: Zigzagged. He ''was'' deceased during the events of Outlander, but [[spoiler: as a result of Roger and Buck travelling too far back in MOBY to search for Jem, he makes a surprise appearance in the series, and ends up helping them in their quest to find Jem]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is this for the people of Lallybroch. He is perfectly willing to help Roger search for his missing son, but only as long as it doesn't put his own people in danger.

!! Ellen MacKenzie Fraser
Jamie and Jenny's mother, Brian Fraser's wife, and sister to the MacKenzie brothers. She eloped with Brian long ago in defiance of Colum's wishes and chose to wed him.
* DeathByChildbirth: She died from childbed fever not long after giving birth to a son (who also died).
* FieryRedhead: She is red-headed like most of Clan MacKenzie and has a feisty and strong-minded personality.
* GoodParents: Both she and Brian were this for Jamie and Jenny.
* HappilyMarried: To Brian before her death.
* TheLostLenore: Is this for Brian. Even ten years later he still hasn't gotten over losing her.
** Also is this for Murtagh and MacRannoch, who were both in love with her but lost her to Brian. Murtagh is particular ''never'' stops mourning and loving her and swears to protect her children with his life.
* MarryForLove: Her marriage to Brian is this.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her and Brian's eldest child Willie died of smallpox at age eleven. Ellen died a few years later.
* PosthumousCharacter: She was dead before the beginning of the series. The only information we get about her is through other characters' memories of her.
* RebelliousSpirit: While her brothers were choosing a good marriage for her (as was the norm of the time), she decided to choose one herself. This led to her going behind their backs to elope with Brian.

!! Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser
Jamie's godfather. He is extremely loyal to Jamie, and [[spoiler:had sworn an oath at Jamie's birth to protect and look after him. It is also possible that he had been in love with Jamie's mother, Ellen [=MacKenzie=].]] Murtagh is dour and rarely smiles, though he can sing very well.
* BigDamnHeroes: Aids Claire in breaking Jaime out of Wentworth Prison in ''Outlander''.
* HeroicSacrifice: Chooses to stay by Jamie's side to fight during the battle of Culloden, despite knowing that it may mean his death. It's possible (and implied) that he may have been killed in an attempt to save Jamie's life.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He is the main POV character in ''The Exile'', while being a minor supporting character in the main Outlander books. [[spoiler: It turns out that he foiled an assassination attempt on Jamie's life when Jamie was with Claire at Craigh na Dun, killing the one responsible.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Jamie.
* UnrequitedLove: For Ellen, Jamie's mother. Because of his love for her he swore never to marry another and spend his life protecting Ellen's children.

!! William 'Willie' Fraser
Eldest son of Brian and Ellen. He died of smallpox at age eleven.

!! Jenny Fraser Murray
Jamie's sister.
* ActionGirl: When her brother is taken by English soldiers and Claire is determined to go and search for him, Jenny -- despite having given birth only a few days earlier! -- straps on a couple of pistols, mounts a horse and [[ScarilyCompetentTracker tracks the English patrol]] to their camp in the forest, whereupon she traps a soldier, tortures him into revealing that he's a courier, and enables them to find out where Jamie has gone. She is fully prepared to kill the courier to stop him revealing that they are looking for Jamie, except that Murtagh gets there first. Action Girl indeed.
* AdultFear: Agrees to let Young Ian swim for the seal's gold after Jamie promises to keep him safe, but instead Ian ends up abducted by pirates and horribly abused.
* AttemptedRape: Was almost raped by Jack Randall on the day Jamie was arrested and sent to Fort William to be flogged.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Jamie. Although the two may bicker and fight, in the end they are still very loyal to one another and would do anything for each other. Special mention goes to the moment in ''Outlander'' when Jamie and Claire return to Lallybroch to stay, after fleeing from the witch trial. There is a terrible argument between Jenny and Jamie, because of a mistaken assumption on Jamie's part, but in the end the two reconcile and have a heartwarming sibling-bonding moment together.
* BabiesEverAfter: Jenny has six children with Ian.
%%* BigSisterInstinct
%%* TheCaretaker
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Sometime during the famine that comes after Culloden, Jenny miscarries a baby girl. Though it's not reated as convenient.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments.
%%* {{Determinator}}
* FireForgedFriends: Jenny and Claire.
* HappilyMarried: To Ian Murray, [[spoiler: until his death in ''Echo''.]]
* MarryForLove: What Jenny did with Ian.
* TheMedic: Treated Jamie's leg and brought him past his fever after Culloden.
%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero
* ParentalSubstitute: For Fergus, who she raised as one of her own children after the battle of Culloden.
* PluckyGirl: Has a very stubborn and determined streak.
* PromotionToParent: Her mother died in childbirth when Jenny was ten years old, forcing her to become the unofficial Lady of Lallybroch and perform all the duties her mother had when she was alive. It's also revealed in ''Outlander'' that she helped Brian raise Jamie to adulthood. Even when they are both grown up, Jenny still acts like a mother toward Jamie in many ways.
%%* SilkHidingSteel
* StartingANewLife: After Ian's death Jenny returns with Jamie to America, claiming that she cannot bear to stay in Lallybroch due to the memories of Ian that linger there. Jamie also notes later to Claire that it was also likely that Jenny left to avoid clashing with Young Jamie's wife, who has now become the new Lady of Lallybroch and has taken over the household duties Jenny once had.

[[folder: Murrays of Lallybroch]]
!! Ian Murray (Elder Ian)
Jamie's closest friend, and like a brother to him. He is married to Jenny, Jamie's sister.
* ActionGuy: As a young man he worked as a mercenary in France.
* BabiesEverAfter: Has six children with Jenny.
%%* BloodBrothers
* ChildhoodFriends: With Jamie Fraser.
* HappilyMarried: To Jenny, [[spoiler: before his death in ''Echo'']].
* MarryForLove: What Ian did with Jenny.
%%* NonActionGuy
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is this to the people of Lallybroch.

!! James Murray (Young Jamie)

!! Michael Murray
A son of Ian and Jenny, and a wine merchant in Jared Fraser's business in France.
* HeroicBSOD: Is very depressed and lonely after the recent death of his much-loved wife.
* TheLostLenore: His deceased wife is this for him.
* NiceGuy: He is very nice and understanding, with an open-minded personality.
* RedHeadedHero: He is the only one of Jenny and Ian's children to have inherited the MacKenzie red hair. He is a protagonist in the novella ''The Space Between''.
* SecondLove: Joan is this for him.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He is said to be much like Colum MacKenzie.

!! Ian Murray (Young Ian)
Jamie's nephew, he is the youngest son of Jenny and Ian. He is first introduced in ''Voyager''.
* ActionGuy: Not as much before his stay with the Indians, though he does take part in Roger's beating and selling into slavery, and is involved in the mission to rescue Claire from the Browns and their party. After his return, however, he is this to the max.
** During the Revolutionary War he acts as a scout for the Rebels.
* AdultFear: Is abducted by pirates while diving for the seal's gold, which leads to his enslavement at Rose Hall on Jamaica. Geillis Duncan Abernathy uses him as a sex slave in her attempts to find a male virgin to help her get through the stones, and once she realises that he isn't a virgin she decides to use him anyway as a blood sacrifice. Jamie and Claire get there in the nick of time to rescue him. It should also be noted what happened to the other boys Geillie used sexually the way she tried to use Ian. Their fates were so horrible that Jamie refused to tell Ian about them.
** Much later, Ian remains with the Indians to replace the Indian who was killed, and ends up marrying an Indian woman, Emily. At first they are very much in love, but then when Emily falls pregnant she miscarries the child. Emily's love for Ian begins to lessen, and after the third miscarriage Emily kicks Ian out of her home completely, effectively ending their marriage. Ian is left alone, heartbroken and guilt-ridden, because he believes (as the Indians did) that the miscarriages were his fault.
* AccidentalMurder: At the beginning of ''Echo'', during a chase through Fraser's Ridge Ian accidentally shoots Murdina Bug, killing her. Unfortunately for him, though he never gets in trouble for it by local authorities, he ends up earning the rage of Murdina's husband Arch Bug, who swears to revenge himself on him by taking away what (or who) Ian loves the most.
* BabiesEverAfter: Has a baby near the end of MOBY, which the Fraser's Ridge clan collectively nicknames ''Oggy''.
* CanineCompanion: He has a faithful dog called Rollo who follows him everywhere.
* ConvertingForLove: Talked about in-story, but averted. Ian and Rachel accept that though Ian would be willing to become a Quaker if it meant being with Rachel, he does not have the right personality for that sort of way of life. And as Ian says, Rachel would not want him to try to be something that he is not.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was abducted by pirates while trying to swim for the seal's gold, and ended up as a sex-slave to Geillis Abernathy. During this time he was sexually abused by Geillis who was searching for a way to travel back through the stones to the 20th century, and in the end was almost used as a blood sacrifice in Geillis' attempt to time-travel. It's a wonder that he's not more traumatized by it all.
%%* {{Determinator}}
* TheExile: Ian is abducted and taken away from Scotland by pirates, who sell him as a slave to Geillis Abernathy. He is eventually rescued by Jamie and Claire and settles with them in North Carolina. He doesn't return to Scotland for over a decade.
** After Ian chooses to remain with the Indians, he sacrifices all his former cultural and familial connections, thus making him an exile again. Though he does later return to his old life.
* FacialMarkings: He has markings on his face from his time with the Indians.
* FamilyOfChoice: Though he remembers his parents and siblings fondly and does love them very much, he chooses to stay with Jamie and Claire and their close-knit group of friends/family. Later books make it evident that Jamie is like a father to Ian, just as Claire is like a second mother to him. He also views Bree and Roger as a close part of his family (though he develops a crush on Bree when she first comes to the 18th century).
* FireForgedFriends: Ian and William... sort of. After their talk about Rachel while on their way to the house Claire is staying at, they appear to be much more at ease with one another and less antagonistic.
* InSeriesNickname: Others in his family call him Young Ian, to distinguish him from his father, who is also called Ian.
* ItsAllMyFault: For a long time Ian blames himself for the miscarriages Emily went through which ultimately resulted in the end of their marriage, as it was a part of the Indians' beliefs that a miscarriage was caused by the woman's husband and meant that they were not meant to be together. It didn't help that Emily left him for another man for this very reason. It also doesn't help that Claire affirms that the miscarriages were caused because of incompatible blood types, which Ian takes to mean that it ''was'' his fault on one level. However, Claire is quick to tell him that it was something beyond his control and that he shouldn't beat himself up over it.
* LongDistanceRelationship: For a time, when Ian travels with Claire and Jamie to Scotland to see his family. He and Rachel are already a couple, though they haven't made it official yet, though one could see his leaving Rollo in her care as telling her how he feels about her. Though they don't communicate at all during this period, mainly because of how long it takes for a letter to get from America to Scotland and vice versa. In any case, Ian is quick to return to America to be with Rachel again (and is even encouraged to do so by his dying father).
* MadeASlave: He was abducted by pirates and sold as a slave to Geillis Abernathy in Rose Hall. He was eventually rescued from it by Jamie and Claire.
* MarryForLove: What he does with Rachel in MOBY.
* NonHumanSidekick: He is constantly followed by his devoted wolf-dog Rollo.
* ParentalSubstitute: Jamie and Claire are this for him after they settle in the New World. Justified, since Ian is separated from his own parents and likely never to see them again (except for the occasional visit) for years at a time.
* RapeAsDrama: Was forced multiple times into sleeping with Geillis Duncan Abernathy during his tenure as her slave.
* SecondLove: With Rachel (his first being Works With Her Hands).
* SexSlave: His role as a slave in Rose Hall.
* TattooAsCharacterType: After he returns from his stay with the Indians, those tattoos on his face practically ''scream'' that he is someone not to be messed with.
* TookALevelInBadass: After returning from the Indians.
* TroubledButCute: Becomes this after his return from the Indians. Though he is very attractive, he is haunted by his memories Work With Her Hands (aka Emily) and the unfortunate events which sent their relationship rolling downhill.
* WeddingDay: His and Rachel's wedding takes place in MOBY.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Greys]]
!! Benedicta Grey
Mother of Lord John and Hal.

!! Harold 'Hal' Grey
Brother of Lord John Grey.
%%* ActionGuy
%%* AntagonisticOffspring
* CulturedWarrior: He is a veteran soldier in the English Army, and also very educated and well-read.
* {{Determinator}}: He refuses to give up his search for Ben, and refuses to believe that Ben is dead even when William discovers what appears to be Ben's grave.
* FireForgedFriends: With Jamie, and eventually Claire.
%%* HonorBeforeReason
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* MarryForLove: What he does with Minnie.
%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero
%%* OverprotectiveDad

!! Lord John Grey
An English lord who Jamie befriends in Ardsmuir. He develops feelings for Jamie which he tries to keep in check daily. He is very noble and honorable.
%%* ActionGuy
* BadassBookworm: He is a total badass, and also well-read and educated for a man of his time.
* BadassInDistress: In ''Scottish Prisoner'' he is arrested by authorities in Ireland and imprisoned. Jamie and Tom have to work together to break him out.
%%* Bishonen
* CelibateHero: Because of his sexual orientation, he is this most of the time. Though he does have on-and-off affairs with Stephan and a brief relationship with Percy Beauchamp.
%%* CharacterDevelopment
* CulturedWarrior: Lord John is a veteran soldier who is also well-read and scholarly.
* DeadpanSnarker: Is very well known for this.
* DuelToTheDeath: Participates in one in ''Scottish Prisoner'', against Twelvetrees. He wins (though he almost ''does'' die in the attempt).
* FireForgedFriends: Notably with Jamie Fraser, who he first met at Carryarick and was later a sort of parole officer for while Jamie was a Jacobite prisoner-of-war. Because John is attracted to Jamie, their relationship is very rocky until they work together on a mission in Ireland.
* HappilyMarried: To Isobel Dunsay, before her death.
%%* HeroicBSOD
%%* HonorBeforeReason
* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Lord John is sexually attracted to Jamie, and though he tries not to show it, it comes out sometimes. Jamie, having been tortured and raped before by a homosexual soldier, does not like it.
%%* IncompatibleOrientation
* IOweYouMyLife: John to Jamie, very reluctantly after Jamie spares his life at Carryarick.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Behaves this way towards Jamie.
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* MrFanservice: Is described as very good-looking.
%%* OfficerAndAGentleman
* ParentalSubstitute: To William.
%%* TheQuest
* RapeAsBackStory: Was raped sometime before Culloden when he was in his teens.
* StraightGay: Lord John is homosexual, though he has to keep it a secret since homosexuality is outlawed in Britain.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In ''Scottish Prisoner'', with Jamie when they are completing a crucial mission in Ireland.

!! Minnie Grey
Hal's wife. She is a former Jacobite supporter.
%%* FireForgedFriends
%%* SilkHidingSteel

!! Benjamin Grey
One of Hal and Minnie's sons. He goes missing in MOBY and is eventually presumed dead, though his family refuse to believe it and continue to search for him.
%%* AdultFear

!! Henry Grey
One of Hal and Minnie's sons.
%%* MayDecemberRomance

!! Dorothea Grey Hunter
The only daughter of Hal and Minnie.
* AdultFear: In MOBY, she finds out that her older brother has gone missing and is presumed dead. She does not take it well.
* ConvertingForLove: Chooses to become a Quaker in order to marry her sweetheart Denzell Hunter.
* TheCutie: She is very pretty and a picture of innocence, at least at first glance.
* {{Determinator}}/PluckyGirl: She is dead-set on wedding Denzell and turning Quaker, even if it's against her father's wishes.
* FireForgedFriends: With Claire, Jamie and Rachel, due to their working together during the American Revolution.
* HiddenDepths: At first, she appears to be kind, gentle and innocent. Then it's discovered that she's in love with a Quaker man (who is also a revolutionary) and is determined to be with him.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Claire and Jamie.
* MarryForLove: Her wedding to Denzell is this.
* NiceGirl: She is very sweet and kind, and doesn't seem to have any ill-will towards ''anyone''. Of all the characters in the series, she is the only one (along with Denzell) who isn't a {{Jerkass}} or a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* SilkHidingSteel: Though she appears to be very sweet and innocent, she displays a lot of fortitude and determination after she becomes involved in the Revolutionary War effort and chooses to be a Quaker to be with Denzell.
* TheWedding: Her wedding to Denzell is shown in MOBY.

[[/folder]]

!! William Ransom
[[spoiler: Jamie's bastard son, conceived the night Jamie was forced to sleep with Geneva Dunsay.]] Lord John is his stepfather and cares for him deeply.
%%* ActionGuy
* BigDamnHeroes: He saves Rachel ''twice'' from being murdered by AxeCrazy Arch Bug at the end of ''Echo''. The first time, he hadn't much choice about it, since Mr Bug had caved his head with an axe and meant to kill him. The second time he came upon her, Ian and Arch as Arch was about to attack them both with his axe. William promptly shot him dead with his pistol.
* CharacterDevelopment
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: William's mother died in childbirth; Ellesmere, who William believes [[spoiler: (at least until the end of ''Echo'')]] is his biological father, was killed by Jamie Fraser, in order to prevent the man from throwing newborn William out the window.
* DeclarationOfProtection: William takes two prostitutes into his care (unwillingly at first) and resolves to keep them safe until they can start a new life in a new city.
* {{Determinator}}: He's dead-set on seeing Fanny and Jane to safety, even after discovering the reason the sisters are on the run.
* HotBlooded: Very much so, like his father.
%%* HonorBeforeReason
* HurtingHero: Jane's death truly gets to him, and he's never the same afterwards.
* IAmWho: Poor Willie has no clue that he is a bastard until he meets Jamie face to face at the end of ''Echo'' and sees the resemblance to himself. It does not go over well with him.
* IGaveMyWord: He's as much fond of this trope as Jamie and Lord John are. Considering who's son he is and who raised him, it's not surprising. He's very insistent on delivering Jane and Fanny to a safe place even when they are trying to get away from him, because he swore that he'd do so.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be prideful and a bit arrogant, but he has a good heart and is willing to go out of his way to help another person. In MOBY his sense of honor compels him to take two prostitutes under his wing while in the English Army and see them to a safe place in the north of America.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Rachel and William. Though William initially is in love with Rachel and hopes to court her, after Rachel/Ian become an item this trope comes into effect.
* LoveTriangle: There is one between himself, Ian Murray and Rachel Hunter. [[spoiler: He loses.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Jamie is Willie's biological father.]]
%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Ian Murray after he is revealed to be William's cousin (and also a rival for Rachel's love). Every time they happen to meet, William is not happy to see him and only works with him when need be because of necessity.
** In MOBY, William is pulled into seeing Ian safely to where Claire and Jamie are staying while Rachel escorts Jane and Franny to a Quaker settlement around two hours away from where they are now. Needless to say, he has mixed feelings about being with Ian for even a small while. They end up having a deep conversation about Rachel.
* ParentalSubstitute: Both Isobel and Lord John for Wille, who practically raise him from infancy.
* {{Pride}}: He has a huge amount of pride which is sorely tested after he discovers his true parentage.
* SpoiledBrat: A minor example. Because his grandmother and aunt pamper him so much as a child, he receives little discipline and believes he can have his own way with anything. However, after Lord John becomes his guardian it's possible that he ends up receiving more discipline than would have been otherwise.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Though he lacks the trademark red hair, many characters comment on how much he looks like Jamie, his biological father. It gets to the point where it becomes a RunningGag.
* UnrequitedLove: For Rachel Hunter.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between William and Jane.

!! Fergus Claudel Fraser
A young Frenchman who Jamie found in a brothel in Paris and eventually adopted in 1744.
%%* ActionGuy
%%* ActionDad
* AdultFear: His youngest son is born a dwarf, in a society which believes that dwarves are spawns of the devil and should be killed at birth. Fergus has a hard time accepting this, and is out of his mind with fear and worry for Henri-Christian's future, especially after a group of boys try to murder him. This incident leads to Fergus attempting suicide. In addition to this, Fergus is also plagued with guilt and frustration over his inability to properly look after his family financially and as a protector due to his missing hand, and this also plays a role in his deciding to kill himself.
* BabiesEverAfter: Fergus and Marsali have many children together, two of which are Germain and Henri-Christian.
* BodyHorror: He is branded by Jack Randall in Paris.
* CheerfulChild: As a child in Paris he is surprisingly cheerful, given his past history of being raised in a brothel and living on the streets without parents to care for him.
* DaughterOfAWhore: His mother was allegedly a prostitute in a brothel in Paris. Fergus comments to Claire in ''Dragonfly in Amber'' that he would often take shelter in the brothel where he was born and imagine which one of the ladies is his mother.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: His mother is dead; his father is unknown.
* DisappearedDad: His father has not been seen or identified in the series yet; not even Fergus himself knows who he is.
* FireForgedFriends: With Jamie and Claire during their stay in Paris.
%%* FrameUp
* HandicappedBadass: Though he has a hook in place of one hand, he's still a damn good fighter.
* HappilyAdopted: Is unofficially adopted by Jamie and Claire Fraser during their stay in Paris, and ends up accompanying them back to Scotland.
* HappilyMarried: To Marsali, after the events of ''Voyager''.
* HookHand: After losing his hand it is replaced by a hook.
* InterruptedSuicide: After hearing of the near-murder of Henri-Christian Fergus breaks down and attempts to kill himself by cutting the veins of his wrist. Jamie comes by just in time to stop him.
* MarryForLove: He elopes with and marries Marsali for love.
* MayDecemberRomance: With Marsali-- he is ten years older than her.
%%* MrFanservice
* ParentalSubstitute: Jamie, Claire and later Jenny are this for him.
* {{Pride}}: He hates being unable to properly support his family on Fraser's Ridge and feels that he is not much of a man because of it. This (and the near-murder of Henri-Christian) results in his attempted suicide.
* RapeAsDrama: When he was living on the streets as a child in Paris,sometimes while taking shelter in the brothel he would sometimes be mistaken for one of the prostitutes and chosen by certain customers of the brothel to 'please' them. In ''Dragonfly in Amber'', he is similarly raped by Jack Randall, who (probably) mistook him for one of the prostitutes of the brothel. This is the event which sends Jamie over the edge an causes him to break his vow to Claire to not duel Randall until after the birth of Randall's child.
* StartingANewLife: Fergus returns with Jamie and Claire to Lallybroch, where he eventually settles in and becomes like a son to Jenny, who raises him alongside her own children. After Claire's return in 1766 he accompanies Jamie and Claire on their quest to the New World to rescue Young Ian from the pirates who have abducted him and eventually makes a life for himself as a printer in the American Colonies.
* StreetUrchin: Before being adopted by Jamie, Fergus spent his childhood in the streets, occasionally taking shelter in a brothel, and took to thieving to survive.
%%* TookALevelInBadass
* UndyingLoyalty: To Jamie Fraser.

!! Mother Hildegarde
The head-nun of the nunnery in Paris and a close friend of Claire.
%%* CoolOldLady
%%* HiddenDepths
* TheMedic: Runs the L'Hopital des Anges where Claire works voluntarily in ''Dragonfly in Amber''.

[[folder: Quakers]]
!! Denzell Hunter
A Quaker who is a doctor in the Continental Army.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He and Rachel are put out of meeting for joining the Continental Army.
* HappilyMarried: To Dottie by the end of MOBY.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Jamie and Claire Fraser.
* TheMedic: He is a doctor in the Continental Army.
* NiceGuy: Is by far one of the kindest characters in the series. Even when Hal is snapping at him for 'seducing' Dottie he doesn't hold it against him and treats Hal's asthma without letting any personal feelings he may have get in the way.
* OfficialCouple: With Dottie.
* RebelliousSpirit: Was put out of meeting because of his choice to support the rebel cause by acting as a war doctor in the Continental Army. It's said by Rachel that he didn't like the idea of capitulation to the King.
%%* StartingANewLife
* TheWedding: His and Dottie's wedding is shown in MOBY.

!! Rachel Hunter
A Quaker girl who resides with the Continental Army.

* BabiesEverAfter: At the end of MOBY she gives birth to a baby boy which the people on Fraser's Ridge collectively nickname 'Oggy'.
%%* BerserkButton

%%* TheCutie
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her and her brother were put out of meeting for joining the Continental Army.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Her mother died giving birth to her; her father drowned three years later.
* {{Determinator}}: As Ian tells William, she can be very stubborn; once she's made up her mind to do something no one can stop her from doing it.
* HappilyMarried: To Ian Murray (Young Ian), by the end of MOBY.
%%* HiddenDepths
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Claire and Jamie Fraser.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Her and William.
* LoveTriangle: There is one between her, William and Ian.
* NiceGirl: She is very kind and welcoming to everyone.
* ObliviousToLove: She seems completely unaware that William Ransom is in love with her.
* OfficialCouple: Rachel with (Young) Ian.
* ThePromise: Just before he travels to Scotland with Jamie and Claire Ian promises Rachel that he will come back to her, and even leaves his dog in her care as proof of his word. Rachels never doubts him on this.
%%* RebelliousSpirit
* SecondLove: Rachel is this for Ian.
%%* SheCleansUpNicely
%%* SilkHidingSteel
* StartingANewLife: Rachel accompanies her brother Denzell when he joins the Continental Army to become an army doctor. Later she falls in love with Ian Murray and returns with him to live on Fraser's Ridge.
%%* TrueCompanions
* WeddingDay: Her wedding to Ian is shown in MOBY.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: River Run and Cross Creek Characters]]
!! Jocasta MacKenzie Cameron [[spoiler: Innes]]
!! Duncan Innes
!! Ulysses
!! Phaedre
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Fraser's Ridge Characters]]
!! Jo and Kezzie Beardsley
!! Amy [=MacCallum=]
!! Bobby Higgins
[[/folder]]




! Time-Travellers ([[spoiler: Descendants of Raymond]])
[[folder: Spoiler Character]]
!! Master Raymond
A mysterious apothecary who Claire befriends during her and Jamie's stay in Paris. He is involved in dark magic circles.
* FamousAncestor: He is the ancestor of all time-travellers.

* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler: He was born in the prehistoric era, at around 400 B.C. His exact age is unknown though.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: 18th-Century Born]]


[[/folder]]

[[folder: 20th-Century Born]]
!!Claire Beauchamp Randall [[spoiler: Fraser]]
A former World War II nurse who finds herself trapped in the year 1743 in Scotland, after she accidentally walked through a standing stone in Craigh Na Dun while on a second honeymoon with her husband Frank Randall. She meets Highlander Scot Jamie Fraser, [[spoiler: is forced to marry him and eventually falls in love with him]].
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Played straight with Claire in regards to Frank. When Claire is trapped in the 18th century, though she initially tries to make her way back to him, she ends up falling in love with Jamie and choosing to stay with him. Averted with Claire and Jamie, however, in that although they are not celibate during the years they are separated they are never truly out of each other's minds and hearts.
%%* ActionGirl
* AdultFear: Discovers that her daughter was raped by Stephen Bonnet and is now pregnant.
%%* AllLovingHero
* AttemptedRape: Claire is almost raped by Randall in Fort William in ''Outlander''. It's only thanks to Jamie that she escapes unscathed.
** In ''Dragonfly in Amber'' she is assaulted and almost raped by a gang of masked men in an alley in Paris. Again, it's mainly because of Jamie that she escapes. [[spoiler: The men attempting to rape her recognise her and call her 'The Dame Blanche' and run away from her in fright. Claire is bewildered at why they would do that until Jamie admits to her that he told the nobles and prostitutes he was with (who were making sexual advances on him) that she was a witch, 'La Dame Blanche', to stop them from trying to flirt and go to bed with him.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: Sort of. Her first attempts at conceiving with Frank did not work out, but [[spoiler: when she married Jamie and chose to be with him she found herself pregnant with his child. However, she miscarried when she was well into her fifth month, for unknown reasons, though stress was most likely a factor in it. On the eve of the battle of Culloden, she discovers that she is pregnant again, and this becomes a major force for her return through the stones to the 20th century--Jamie begs her to go, knowing that he is a dead man walking and wanting to spare Claire and their child from what he and Claire both knew would be rampant in the Highlands in the years following Culloden. Claire didn't want to leave Jamie but did so for their child's sake, a child she hated and resented during the months of her pregnancy being the cause of her separation from Jamie.]]
* BadLiar: Claire is terrible at lying--Jamie comments to her multiple times throughout the series that her face gives all her thoughts away. Though she does become marginally better at it later in the series, as [[spoiler: she hides the truth about the stones and Brianna's biological father from Brianna and Brianna does not suspect a thing until Claire tells her.]]
%%* BattleCouple
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Had a role in trying to prevent the battle of Culloden from happening, though ultimately the effort failed and it's suggested that what Jamie and Claire did to stop it only made the path toward Culloden more certain.
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
* BigDamnHeroes: Claire, Murtagh and Dougal's men, as they bust Jamie out of Wentworth Prison. Although Claire isn't a part of the actual rescue, she is the one who comes up with the plan and afterward operates on Jamie's hand so that he can still use it.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: With Claire as the gentle girl (although she's not as gentle as the trope suggests).
* BurnTheWitch: Claire and Geillie are accused of witchcraft, with this as a punishment.
%%* CharacterDevelopment
* ClingyJealousGirl: Not really to an extreme degree, but Claire is seen to be possessive of Jamie at times and jealous of other people who are in (unrequited) love with Jamie. She is ''very'' jealous of Laoghaire.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Though not necessarily convenient, Claire miscarries her first child, a girl, during her fifth month of pregnancy, due to a detached placenta.
* DamselOutOfDistress: This is a large part of Claire's character, and justified, given that she was a nurse during World War II and used to dangerous situations and the sight of men seriously injured because of war and violence. It is also because Claire has an indomitable will, and refuses to play the part of a victim in any situation. In situations such as [[spoiler: the Inverness witch trial and Randall's attempt at raping her,]] Claire openly fights back and does not let her fear overcome her.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* FireForgedFriends: Claire and Marsali, Laoghaire's daughter (and Jamie's step-daughter).
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Claire is this in the first book and first season of the TV series, as she is accidentally brought into the 1700s via the stones.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Claire can't help but notice Jamie's attractiveness while treating his wounds during her first night in Castle Leoch.
%%* GreenEyedMonster
* HappilyMarried: In the very beginning of the series, to Frank. [[spoiler: Then she goes through the stones and meets Jamie, and ends up marrying him and choosing to stay with him instead of returning to Frank. However, on the eve of the battle of Culloden Claire is forced to return through the stones to Frank, and lives the next twenty years as his wife (though it's not a happy marriage). She later returns to Jamie and after a few mishaps resumes her HappilyMarried life with him.]]
%%* HiddenDepths

!! [[spoiler: Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie]]
Claire and [[spoiler: Jamie's]] daughter.
%%* ActionGirl
* ActionMom: In MOBY she manages to crown a burglar with a pair of denim jeans while only wearing a T-shirt and underwear.
* AdultFear: Gets a huge dose of this after Jem is kidnapped by Rob Cameron, and fears that he was taken back in time through the stones. Later she realises that this was not the case, but by then Roger and Buck had already gone back to search for him, leaving no way for Bree to contact them to tell them to return to the 20th century. She begins to fear that she'll never see Roger again as he won't ever stop searching for Jem in the 18th century until he's found him. At the same time she has to deal with Rob Cameron and his group who are targeting her and her children because of their time-travelling trait, and also ends up on the run from MI6 who are hunting her family for almost the exact same reason.
* AttemptedRape: Rob Cameron tries to rape her in ''MOBY'' after he breaks into Lallybroch to tell her that he has Jemmy. He gets as far as making her take off her pants before Bree fights back.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Frequently with Jamie.
* BabiesEverAfter: She and Roger have two children, Jem and Amanda.
* BetaCouple: Alongside Fergus and Marsali.
%%* BigDamnHeroes
%%* BreakTheCutie
* BrokenPedestal: Her view of Jamie is shattered when she discovers that he beat up the man she loved and sold him into slavery with the Iroquois.
** RebuiltPedestal: She eventually accepts that her father isn't perfect and with Lord John's help is able to forgive him for what he did.
%%* CharacterDevelopment
* DaddysGirl: She ''adores'' Frank, even though he is not her biological father, and calls him 'daddy'. She is quick to defend him and say that he ''was'' her father as much as Jamie is, and knows that she will always love and remember him.
%%* DamselInDistress
* DamselOutOfDistress: As the daughter of Jamie and Claire, this is a given. Bree is headstrong and courageous, and always tries to think her way out of a difficult situation. Notable examples include her attempts to escape from Bonnet near the end of ''Breath'' (and her convincing the prostitute to alert Jamie and Roger to where she is headed and how), and her confrontation with Rob Cameron at the beginning of ''MOBY''.
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Determinator}}/PluckyGirl: She never seems to give up or lose hope. In ''A Breath of Snow and Ashes'', when [[spoiler: she is being held captive by Stephen Bonnet]] she attempts to convince a prostitute that Bonnet had hired to please him to help her escape. When that fails, she trades in her much-loved wedding ring to the girl to get her to send a message to Jamie, Roger or Jocasta to tell them the ship's next stop. She even promises that Jamie would pay the prostitute well for her trouble. This, in addition to [[spoiler: Eppy's relationship with Manfred McGillisvray]] helps her family to locate and rescue her and apprehend Bonnet.
* FieryRedhead: Brianna has red hair, and also has inherited the fierce temper which all Frasers seem to have.
%%* GoodIsNotSoft
* HappilyMarried: To Roger Wakefield [=MacKenzie=].
%%* HotBlooded
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: By the end of ''The Fiery Cross'', Bree and Roger have chosen to remain with Jamie and Claire in the 18th century and not return to their own time.]]
** Subverted when Bree and her family return to the present time to take care of Mandy's heart condition.
* InSeriesNickname: 'Bree', by her mother, her husband and her friends in the 20th century.
* LongDistanceRelationship: With Roger, before and for a time during their stay in the 18th century.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Two days after making love to Roger in an inn in the Colonies, Brianna is raped by Stephen Bonnet and finds herself pregnant soon after. The problem is, having slept with both Bonnet and Roger within two days of one another, it is nigh on impossible to tell which man is the baby's father.
* MamaBear: To Jemmy and Mandy.
* MarryForLove: What she does with Roger.
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: The chapters focusing on Bree and Roger when they are in 1980s Scotland become this trope.
* MixedAncestry: Is half-English and half-Scottish due to her parentage, and also considers herself an American by birth.
* NiceGirl: She is as kind and warm-hearted and generous as Claire, but is enough like Jamie that she isn't as prone to putting trust in the wrong people, especially after her rape.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If she had actually told her parents that Roger was also known as 'MacKenzie' and even described him to them, then Jamie would never have mistaken him for Brianna's rapist and beat him up and sold him to the Iroquois. Not to say that there weren't other factors involved in making the whole mess, but Brianna's was a major one.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her [[spoiler: adopted father Frank was killed in a car accident]], while her mother leaves her two years later to go through the stones and reunite with Jamie Fraser, her one true love and Brianna's biological father. Although Brianna accepts her mother's choice and blesses her trip through the stones, it is revealed much later that she does feel abandoned by her.
* {{Pride}}: Has this in bucketloads. She gets it from Jamie.
* RapeAsDrama: She is raped by Stephen Bonnet, a convicted criminal who Jamie allowed to escape a few years before out of a sense of compassion and empathy. It's something which Jamie never really forgives himself for.
%%* ReasonYouSuckSpeech
* RedHeadedHero: Brianna has flaming red hair, just like her father. She is a protagonist in the story from ''Drums of Autumn'' onward.
%%* SheCleansUpNicely
* StatesqueStunner: Brianna is over six feet tall, and described as very beautiful.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Resembles Jamie down to her flaming red hair, slanted Fraser eyes and tall, majestic figure.
%%* SympathyForTheDevil
%%* TookALevelInBadass
* TrappedInThePast: After she gives birth to her child she is essentially trapped in the 18th century, as a baby would not survive the journey through the stones. Brianna would never choose to go back and leave behind a child of her blood.
** Becomes subverted when she, Roger and their children are forced to go back to the 20th century to take care of Mandy's heart condition.
%%* TraumaCongaLine
%%* WhatTheHellHero

!! [[spoiler: Roger Wakefield [[=MacKenzie=]]]]
A young historian who is first introduced in ''Dragonfly in Amber''. He develops feelings for Claire's daughter Brianna and [[spoiler: eventually marries her.]]
* ActionDad: During his stay in the past he becomes quite the fighter, and participates in Claire's (and later Brianna's) rescue in ''Breath''.
** He also goes back into the past to search for Jem at the end of ''Echo''.
* BabiesEverAfter: Roger and Brianna have two children in later books, Jem and Amanda.
* BadassPreacher: Becomes an unofficial minister in ''Breath'' to the Protestant settlers on Fraser's Ridge. He attempts to become officially ordained at one point, but after hearing of Bree's abduction chooses instead to leave and help rescue her from Bonnet.
* BetaCouple: Roger and Brianna, alongside Marsali and Fergus.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Roger is usually a friendly, mild-mannered man, but if one gets on his bad side then he can become really fearsome. When Henri-Christian is attacked by ignorant boys in ''Breath'', he is truly enraged, and gives them all a lecture about it which they won't forget in a hurry.
* BigDamnHeroes: Is a part of the rescue raid in ''Breath'' to free Claire from her captors (who abducted her to get at Jamie), and even beats on the Scottish jungle drums himself, which alerts Claire to the Ridge men's approach.
* BodyHorror: Roger is mistakenly hanged in ''The Fiery Cross'' which results in a scarred throat for him.
%%* CharacterDevelopment
* CompellingVoice: After he begins preaching as a minister, Roger's voice (when he puts his mind to it) is one of the most compelling in the series, despite his damaged throat. It is enough to frighten miscreants into good behaviour, and still entire crowds of people. Claire in ''Breath'' narrates that if Roger had been present when the angry mob came for herself and Jamie, then he may have been able to pacify the people before they did them true harm.
** Has another moment of this in ''Breath'', when he sees a group of boys on the Ridge attempt to drown Henri-Christian because of his dwarfism. He yells at them to stop, which they do, and berates them for trying to kill an innocent baby and quotes evidence from the bible about the wrongness of what they are doing. By the end of it, the boys are penitent and terrified, and vow never to do such a thing again.
* ConvertingForLove: Roger is willing to do this to marry Brianna, since Jamie insists on their being wed by a catholic priest. However this is ultimately subverted as the priest is delayed and Bree and Roger take things into their own hands by convincing a protestant minister to marry them instead (much to Jamie's disapproval).
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: His father was killed fighting an aerial battle over the English Channel, and his mother was killed during the Blitz.
* {{Determinator}}: After choosing to stay with Brianna in the 18th century, he strives to mend the relationship between himself and Bree, and does whatever it takes to prove to her that he loves her and wants to marry her and be a father to Jemmy out of love and not duty.
** In ''MOBY'' he refuses to give up searching for Jem in 1739 until he's found him and safely brought him home.
%%* FormerTeenRebel
%%* GoodParents
* HappilyMarried: to Brianna, after the events of ''The Fiery Cross''.
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: By the end of ''The Fiery Cross'', Bree and Roger have chosen to remain with Jamie and Claire in the 18th century and not return to their own time.]]
** Subverted at the end of ''Breath'', though, when they do end up returning to their own time to take care of Mandy's heart condition.
* IHaveManyNames: Roger Wakefield, Roger MacKenzie, MacKenzie, Roger Mac.
* LongDistanceRelationship: With Brianna, before and for a time during their stay in the 18th century.
* ManlyTears: Is said by Jem to have been weeping after emerging from the Ocracoke stones into the 1980s. In ''MOBY'' he breaks down into tears when he is unexpectedly reunited with Jem and Mandy outside Lallybroch in 1739.
* MarryForLove: What he does with Brianna.
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: The chapters focusing on Bree and Roger when they are in 1980s Scotland become this trope.
* NearDeathExperience: Roger is mistakenly hanged in ''The Fiery Cross'' and would have died if Claire had not performed an emergency operation on him.
* PapaWolf: Though Roger is one of the more reasonable and pacific characters in the series, he can be extremely fierce when his children are threatened.
** In ''Echo'', when he discovers that Jem has been wrongly punished by a teacher at school for speaking Gaelic in class, he is furious, and goes straight to the school to let the principal know just what he thinks about it. Though he manages to settle the matter without any further conflict, he is determined to support Jem no matter what and makes sure that the principal speaks to the teacher about what she did to Jem.
* ParentalSubstitute: Rev. Reginald Wakefield was one to him, as his own parents had died when he was very young.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Becomes this to the protestants (and also others) on the Ridge after he begins preaching as a minister.
%%* SingleTargetSexuality
* SympathyForTheDevil: In MOBY, during his soujourn in 1739 Roger encounters Jack Randall in Fort William, and is surprised by how friendly and ''human'' he looks, knowing from Claire what he would eventually do to Jamie and Lallybroch. Rather than hate the man for what he will become, Roger feels sorry for him, and offers to give him a minister's blessing, so that he may have a chance of finding heaven after his death.
* TrappedInThePast: Chooses to stay in the past because Brianna cannot return to the 20th century with him. He would rather stay with her and raise Jem rather than go back alone.

!! Jeremiah Fraser MacKenzie (Jem)
Son of Brianna and Roger.
%%* AdultFear
%%* CheerfulChild
%%* HotBlooded
%%* InTheBlood
* PsychicLink: Shares one with his sister Mandy.
%%* SirSwearsALot
* StrongFamilyResemblance: To his mother Brianna and his grandfather Jamie.

!! Amanda Hope Fraser MacKenzie
Daughter of Brianna and Roger, and younger sister to Jem.
%%* AdultFear
%%* CheerfulChild
%%* InTheBlood
* PsychicLink: Is linked mentally to her brother Jem.
%%* StrongFamilyResemblance

! 20th Century
[[folder: Englishmen]]
Characters born in the 20th century.
!! Frank Randall
Claire's first husband, and the adopted father of Brianna.
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: After Claire's disappearance Frank tries to move on with his life but never forgets Claire or falls out of love with her. Claire however plays this trope straight in regards to Frank, as after she has spent some time in the 18th century she finds herself falling for Jamie instead and chooses to stay with him as a result.
* ActionGuy: In the mid-season finale of the first season, he easily defends himself against a band of miscreants who are trying to rob him. Before then he was shown to be a NonActionGuy; that scene made it clear that he can be vicious and aggressive if he has to be.
%%* AdultFear
* BaitAndSwitch: All through ''Outlander'', it is believed that Claire is barren as she and Frank fail to produce any children together before their holiday in Inverness. At the very end of the novel Claire becomes pregnant with Jamie's child, revealing that it is Frank with the fertility issues. Later Frank admits that he took a fertility test during Claire's absence which showed that he was indeed barren.
%%* BerserkButton
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
%%* CharacterDevelopment
* DerailingLoveInterests: Frank's racism, although entirely typical of the time period, is never indicated in the first book, and seems to come out of nowhere to give Claire an excuse to return to Jamie.
%%* [[DisposableFiance Disposable Husband]]
* DoesntTrustThoseGuys: Frank displays a large amount of racism towards Claire's African-American friends the Abernathys, complaining to Claire at one point that he doesn't want to see Brianna dating their son or even marrying him.
* DrivenToSuicide: The circumstances of his death imply this, as it was after Claire finally told him that she would never love him that he drove away and was killed in a car accident.
%%* GoodParents
* HappilyMarried: To Claire, before her disappearance at Craigh na Dun.
* HeroicSacrifice: Implied to have done this in ''Voyager'', by killing himself in a car crash.
%%* HiddenDepths
* {{Hypocrite}}: In ''Outlander'', he asks whether Claire was having an affair with one of her patients during the war (albeit only to say that, if she were, he would understand and it wouldn't stop him from loving her), and yet he himself is implied to have been involved in romantic affairs as well. In ''Voyager'', it's revealed through flashbacks that he believed that Claire was in a romantic relationship with Joe Abernathy, who was only just a friend to her, and he confronted her about this. However, ''he'' was a worse offender than Claire, as he was involved with multiple various women for years during his and Claire's marriage.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Stays close friends with Reverend Reginald Wakefield, who shares his interest in Jacobite history.
%%* {{Irony}}
* MayDecemberRomance: Claire is only eighteen when they first fall in love and marry; Frank himself is in his thirties or forties.
* NiceGuy: Played with. While Frank is genuinely a good man and friendly to those around him, he also harbors a more vicious side (seen in the mid-season finale).
%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Frank gives one to one of the robbers in the TV series' mid-season finale.
* NonActionGuy: Is usually this. However, as seen in the mid-season finale, he can be violent and go on the offensive if he has to.
%%* OverprotectiveDad
* PapaWolf: He cares very deeply for Brianna
%%* ParentsAsPeople
%%* {{Pride}}
* SecretlyDying: In a letter to the Reverend Wakefield which Roger discovers in the manse, Frank confesses that he is dying from a terminal heart condition. He never tells Claire or Bree about it, for whatever reason, and they only find out when they read his letter in the 18th century.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: He looks eerily like his ancestor Jonathan Randall, so much so that Claire mistakes Randall for Frank when she first arrives in the 18th century. Alex Randall also bears a strong resemblance to him.
* YourCheatingHeart: During their twenty-year marriage Frank cheats on Claire regularly, with the excuse that she will not let him into her bed and love emotionally and psychologically.
** It's implied that he was involved with other women during his time as an officer during the Second World War.
[[/folder]]

!! Fiona Graham Buchan
Mrs Graham's granddaughter, and the current caller of Inverness' secret druid club. She aids Roger and Brianna greatly during the series, because of her knowledge of the standing stones.
* BabiesEverAfter: Has three daughters with Ernie Buchan.
* HappilyMarried: To Ernie Buchan.
%%* HiddenDepths

!! Joe Abernathy
A close friend of Claire's, who she met in medical school.