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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Howard Roark | Howard Roark is an idealistic and uncompromising young architect. He is the main character in the novel. Read More |
| Ellsworth Toohey | Ellsworth Toohey is a powerful trend-setter of modern taste. He stands in direct opposition to all individualists like Roark. Read More |
| Dominique | Dominique is the glamorous and beautiful young woman who loves Howard Roark. She opposes Roark by marrying and supporting two other men. Read More |
| Peter Keating | Peter Keating is an initially successful young architect. He admires Roark but follows Toohey's advice for success and happiness. Read More |
| Gail Wynand | Gail Wynand is a powerful businessman. He has pulled himself up from nothing to become one of the most powerful and wealthy men in New York. Read More |
| Catherine Halsey | Catherine Halsey is a young woman in love with Peter Keating. She is devoted to service to the downtrodden as guided by her Uncle Toohey. Read More |
| Henry Cameron | Henry Cameron is an architect who gives Roark his first job. |
| Lois Cook | Lois Cook is a popular experimental writer who glories in duping her readers. |
| Dean of the School of Architecture at the Stanton Institute of Technology | The dean is the guardian of the reputation of the school, whose recommendations make or break the careers of young architectural students. |
| Roger Enright | Roger Enright is a wealthy businessman who gives Roark a commission to build the Enright House from which Roark gains a reputation. |
| Guy Francon | Guy Francon is Dominique's father and a successful architect. He gives Peter Keating his first job as a draftsman in his firm. |
| Austen Heller | Austen Heller is a successful businessman and supporter of Roark's ideals who commissions him to build his house. |
| Lucius Heyer | Lucius Heyer is the elder partner the firm Heyer & Francon. |
| Mrs. Ralston Holcombe | Mrs. (Kiki) Ralston Holcombe is a social trend-setter who "collects architects." |
| Ralston Holcombe | Ralston Holcombe is a popular and influential architect who only takes on the wealthiest clients in New York. |
| Mrs. Keating | Mrs. Keating is Peter Keating's mother. |
| Kent Lansing | Kent Lansing is a wealthy client who admires Roark's designs, engages him to design the Aquitania Hotel, and buys the ruined Cortland project so that Roark can rebuild it. |
| Mitchell Layton | Mitchell Layton is an outspoken, young and very wealthy man Toohey brings to the board of The Banner. |
| Steven Mallory | Steven Mallory is a passionate sculptor. He shoots at Toohey because he is afraid Toohey represents the "beast" Mallory fights against. |
| Mike | Mike is a construction electrician who befriends Roark. |
| Gordon Prescott | Gordon Prescott is a successful and conservative architect. |
| Alvah Scarret | Alvah Scarret is a journalist with the Banner and a good friend of Toohey. |
| John Eric Snyte | John Snyte is a successful architect who hires Roark to create modernistic designs. |
| Claude Stengel | Claude Stengel is the gruff chief designer at Francon & Heyer who touches up every design before it goes to Francon. |
| Hopton Stoddard | Hopton Stoddard is a wealthy client who hires Roark to design the Temple of the Human Spirit. |
| Mrs. Wayne Wilmot | Mrs. Wilmot is a wealthy client who attempts to unsuccessfully dictate to Roark the style of house she wants him to design for her. |
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