# Around the World in Eighty Days — Character guide

> Key figures in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.

- [Phileas Fogg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/phileas_fogg.md): Fogg lives by clockwork precision at the Reform Club until a casual whist-table argument over a newspaper robbery propels him into a twenty-thousand-pound wager. His unshakable calm and mathematical detachment make him b
- [Passepartout](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/passepartout.md): Passepartout takes the post at Saville Row hoping for a quiet life, only to be swept into a breakneck global dash the very day he starts. His impulsive warmth — brawling with Fix on a deck, rescuing Aouda from a funeral 
- [Fix](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/fix.md): Fix first spots his quarry at Suez and spends the journey scheming to detain him on English soil until an arrest warrant catches up. His professional vanity and growing unease create a strange tension: the more he observ
- [Aouda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/aouda.md): Aouda is the cousin of a wealthy Bombay merchant, stranded in India after her husband's death and destined for the flames until Fogg and Passepartout intervene. Grateful, gentle, and observant, she becomes the one person
- [Sir Francis Cromarty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/sir_francis_cromarty.md): Sir Francis, tanned from years in the East and deeply familiar with Indian customs, becomes Fogg's occasional card partner and reluctant travel companion across the subcontinent. He finds Fogg the most eccentric man he h
- [Andrew Stuart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/andrew_stuart.md): Stuart is one of Fogg's usual whist partners, a rich and respectable clubman who trades barbs about the stolen fifty-five thousand pounds and the likelihood of catching the thief. When the conversation turns to how fast 
- [Gauthier Ralph](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/gauthier_ralph.md): Engineer and fellow Reform Club member who participates in the wager discussion.
- [John Sullivan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/john_sullivan.md): Reform Club member who follows Fogg's journey with interest.
- [Samuel Fallentin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/samuel_fallentin.md): Banker and Reform Club member involved in the wager.
- [Colonel Stamp Proctor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/colonel_stamp_proctor.md): Proctor belongs to the rough, loud world of frontier politics and saloon brawls, a man whose sense of honor runs hot where Fogg's runs ice-cold. His insult at the San Francisco meeting lodges in Fogg's memory as a debt t
- [John Bunsby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/john_bunsby.md): Captain of the Tankadere, the ship that carries Fogg from Hong Kong to Shanghai.
- [Captain Speedy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/captain_speedy.md): Speedy is a practical American mariner with a profitable cargo and no interest in detours, and his blunt resistance to Fogg's demands makes him a comic foil to the unflappable Englishman. Locked out of his own command, h
- [Mudge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/mudge.md): Driver of the sledge that carries Fogg across the American plains.
- [Elder William Hitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/elder_william_hitch.md): Mormon missionary encountered by Fogg during the train journey across America.
- [Judge Obadiah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/judge_obadiah.md): Mormon judge who briefly interacts with Fogg in Salt Lake City.
- [James Forster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/james_forster.md): Fogg's former servant who is replaced by Passepartout at the story's start.
- [Mr. Batulcar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/mr_batulcar.md): Circus impresario in Yokohama who employs Passepartout temporarily.
- [Lord Albemarle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/lord_albemarle.md): British nobleman mentioned in connection with the bank robbery.
- [The Parsee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/the_parsee.md): Indian guide who leads Fogg's party through the jungle to rescue Aouda.
- [Kiouni](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/characters/kiouni.md): Elephant purchased by Fogg for travel through the Indian jungle.

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