Alison Bechdel
The protagonist and author of Fun Home. She discovers she is a lesbian at age 19 and, soon after, learns that her father is gay.
Bruce
Bruce Bechdel, Alison's father, around whom the memoir centers.
Tammi
Alison's childhood friend.
Christian Bechdel
One of Alison's younger brothers.
Helen
Alison's mother, Helen Bechdel, is an English teacher and former actress.
Ruth
One of Bruce's sisters, who lives right down the street from Alison's family.
Sue
One of Bruce's sisters, who lives right down the street from Alison's family.
Ed
One of Bruce's sisters, who lives near Alison's family.
Old School Chum
A nameless friend of Bruce, who often asks him to come out to the woods to drink.
Grandfather
Bruce Bechdel's father, whose heart attack caused Bruce and Helen to return from Europe.
Grandmother
Bruce Bechdel's mother, with whom Bruce and Helen lived briefly upon returning from Europe.
Edgar T. Bechdel
Alison's great-grandfather, who founded the family funeral home business.
A local
A woman chatting with Helen in one of the drawings of West Germany.
John
Alison Bechdel's youngest brother.
Mort Dehaas
The mailman who pulled Bruce free of the mud when he got caught as a little boy.
Roy
Alison, Christian, and John's babysitter while they were children. He was having an affair with their father, Bruce.
Joan
Alison's first girlfriend at college, whom she was dating when she got the news of her father's death.
Alison's cousin
A distant cousin almost exactly Alison's age is killed in a car crash near the Bechdel home, along with two other people.
Mark Douglas Walsh
The seventeen-year-old boy for whom Bruce buys beer after picking him and asking about his brother, Dave.
Dave Walsh
The boy who, after having a sexual relationship with Bruce, calls the police when he sees Bruce dropping Dave's brother Mark off at home.
Nancy Gryglewicz
Beth's mother, who proposes group sex to the Bechdels.
Dr. Gryglewicz
Beth's father, who, along with his wife Nancy, proposes group sex to the Bechdels.
Beth Gryglewicz
Alison's childhood best friend, with whom she dresses up as a man for the first time.
Randy
The boy with whom Alison and Beth Gryglewicz were supposed to get a ride to the Labor Day dance.
Jack
The actor in Mother's production of The Importance of Being Earnest who befriends Bruce at the Bechdel family's Labor Day party.
Elly
Helen's ex-roommate, with whom the family often stays when they visit New York.
Richard and Tom
Elly's gay friends, to whom Alison is introduced in New York City at age fifteen.
Mr. Avery
The professor who teachers Alison's Ulysses course the year her father dies.
Uncle Fred
Bruce's brother who gives Bruce a pornographic calendar to hide at the Bullpen.
Elsie
Uncle Fred's wife, from whom he wants to hide his pornographic calendar.
