The following is a partial list of characters from Diana Gabaldon's ''Outlander'' series as first introduced, beginning with the 1991 novel '' Outlander''. The story focuses on 20th century nurse

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, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing

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. A mix of several genres, the series features elements of

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debuted a TV series adaptation based on the novels.

Main characters

Supporting characters

Introduced in ''Outlander'' (1991)

Introduced in ''Dragonfly in Amber'' (1992)

Introduced in ''Voyager'' (1993)

Introduced in ''Drums of Autumn'' (1996)

Introduced in ''The Fiery Cross'' (2001)

Introduced in ''A Breath of Snow and Ashes'' (2005)

Introduced in ''An Echo in the Bone'' (2009)

Introduced in ''Written in My Own Heart's Blood'' (2014)

Appearances (TV series)

: = Main cast (credited) : = Recurring cast (3+) : = Guest cast (1-2)

Main cast

The following actors have been credited in the opening titles of the television series.

Recurring cast

The following actors have been credited in at least three episodes within a season of the television series. Only named characters are listed.

Guest cast

The following actors have been credited in one or two episodes within a season of the television series. Only named characters are listed.

Season 1

* Kathryn Howden as Mrs. Baird *

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as Uncle Lamb * Donald Gillies as William Talbot * Donald Sinclair as Fingal Duncan * Kenny Lindsay as Clyde MacKenzie * David MacKenzie as Kyle * Artair Donald as Malcolm * Muireann Kelly as Dolina * Tim McInnerny as Father Bain * Gillebride MacMillan as Gwyllyn the Bard * John Sessions as Arthur Duncan * Lynsey-Anne Moffat as Mrs. Baxter *

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as Niall Drummond * Nicola Clark as Shona MacNeill *

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as Geordie * Diana Gabaldon as Iona MacTavish *

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as Donalda Gilchrist * Tam Dean Burn as Alastair * Mark Kydd as Marcus * Linda Jane Devlin as Morag * Belle Jones as Shirley * Kate Donnelly as Muriel * Robert Williamson as Torcall Iverson * Martin Burns as Beathan Young * John Heffernan as Brigadier General Lord Oliver Thomas * Ian Dunn as Captain Yates *

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as Brian Fraser * Matthew Steer as Lieutenant Hughes * Edmund Digby-Jones as Corporal Hawkins * Kevin Mains as Andrew Gow * Frank Gilhooley as Torin * Hilary MacLean as Edina * Rachel McReath as Mairi * Nina Gilhooly as Isabella * John Wark as Detective Collins * Alan McHugh as Sergeant McKinney * Olivia Morgan as Sally * James Groom as Harry * Nicholas Aaron as Arnold * Gerry McLaughlin as Constable Boyle * Lochlann O'Mearain as Horrocks * Graeme McKnight as Private McGinnis * James Young as Alexander MacDonald * Andrew Rothney as Neil MacDonald * Paul Tinto as Rob MacDonald * Kern Falconer as Kilgore *

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as Watt * Johnny Austin as John Macrae *

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as Alastair Duffie * Kim Allan as Robena Donaldson * Francis Magee as Crenshaw * Richard Jack as Ronald MacNab * Matthew Douglas as Corporal Dawson * Richard Cant as Collins * Paul Charlton as Duncan * Naomi Neilson as Mabel * David Leith as Robert * Martin Brody as Seoirse Ward * Mark Jeary as Private Edward Richards * Sally Howitt as Kyrie * Richard Ashton as Marley * Frazer Hines as Sir Fletcher Gordon * Brian McCardie as Sir Marcus MacRannoch * Gary Lind as Absalom * Ian Hanmore as Father Anselm * Sandy Grierson as Brother Paul

Season 2

* Sandy Welch as Dr. Edwards * Margaux Châtelier as Annalise de Marillac * Audrey Brisson as Sister Angelique *

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as Countess St. Germain * Howard Corlett as Jules de Rohan * Siôn Tudor Owen as Silas Hawkins * Ian Bustard as Vicomte Marigny * Andrea Dolente as Danton * Herbert Forthuber as General D'Arbanville * Paul Lacoux as Monsignor Flèche *

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as Toinette * Ilario Calvo as Father Laurentin * Maureen Beattie as Maisri * James Parris as Simon Fraser * Tyler Collins as Private Lucas * Billy Griffin, Jr. as Corporal Grant * Alex Hope as Richard Anderson * Alice McMillan as Molly Cockburn * Bridget McCann as Alice McMurdo * Sarah Higgins as Allina Clerk * Tom Cox as Colonel James Gardner * Robert Curtis as Lieutenant Barnes * Brendan Patricks as Captain Claremont * Sean Hay as Donald Cameron of Lochiel * James Robinson as Greg Edgars * Carol Ann Crawford as Mrs. Berrow * Charles Jamieson as Mr. Berrow

Season 3

* Sam Hoare as Harold "Hal" Grey, Earl of Melton * Oliver Tilney as Lieutenant Wallace * Colin Stinton as Dean Jackson * Kimberley Nixon as Millie Nelson * Roger Ringrose as Dr. Thorne * Rory Barraclough as Frederick MacBean * Ryan Ralph Gerrard as Giles McMartin * Greg Esplin as Hamish * Geoff McGivern as Dr. Simms * Emma Campbell-Jones as Mary MacNab * Rufus Wright as Captain Samuel Lewis * Will Richards as Private Jenkins * Ryan Fletcher as Corporal MacGregor * Martin Delaney as Jerry Nelson * Martin Docherty as Mackay * Murray McArthur as Duncan Kerr * Sarah MacRae as Sandy Travers * Shane Quigley Murphy as Patrick * Neil Ashton as Corporal Brame * Hannah James as Lady Geneva Dunsany *

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as Lady Isobel Dunsany * Rupert Vansittart as Lord William Dunsany * Beth Goddard as Lady Louisa Dunsany * James Cameron Stewart as Lord Ellesmere * Fiona Francis as Lady Grozier * Greg Powrie as John Burton * Richard Addison as Mr. Evans * Ali Craig as Dorsey * Mitchell Mullen as Dean Tramble * Douglas Reith as Professor Brown * Cyrielle Debreuil as Jeanne LeGrand * Lorn Macdonald as Geordie * Ian Conningham as Barton * Paul Brightwell as Sir Percival Turner * Shannon Swan as Senga * Jane MacFarlane as Pauline *

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as Dorcas *

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as Peggy * Kimberly Sinclair as Molly * Ian Reddington as Harry Tompkins * Zoe Barker as Brighid * Gary French as Mr. Haugh * Robin B. Smith as McDaniel * Cora Tsang as Janet Murray * Albie Marber as Elias Pound * Nigel Betts as Aloysius Murphy *

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as First Mate Warren * Gustav Gerdener as Seaman Jones * Lawrence Joffe as Bernard Cosworth * Nathan Lynn as Joe Howard * Chanelle De Jager as Annekje Johansen * Matt Newman as Mr. Overholt * Nick Fletcher as Father Fogden * Vivi Lepori as Mamacita * James McAnerney as Kenneth MacIver * Muireann Kelly as Rosie MacIver * Apolinhalo Antonio as Hercules * Joel Rosenblatt as Henry * Thapelo Sebogodi as Temeraire * Adrian Collins as Diogo * Victor Kalambai as Abeeku * Laudo Liebenberg as Erasmo * Patrick Lavisa as Atlas * Brett Williams as Mr. Oliver * Jessica Walsh as Lucille Oliver * Nandi Horak as Mrs. Oliver

Season 4

* Rainer Sellien as Baron Penzler * Ainsley Jordan as Judith Wylie * Graeme Stirling as Mr. Stanhope * Geoffrey Newland as Mr. Lillington * Peter Collins as Sergeant Heyns * James Ringer Beck as Private Griswold *

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as Farquard Campbell *

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as MacNeill * Lee Boardman as Lieutenant Wolff * Brian Ferguson as Lucius Gordon * Cameron Jack as Overseer Byrnes * Gerry Kielty as Kyle * Jerome Holder as Rufus * Joel Okocha as Thomas * Trevor Carroll as Ta'wineonawira "Otter Tooth" * Colin Michael Carmichael as Peter * Flint Eagle as Tskili Yona *

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as Gayle * Will Strongheart as Tawodi * Wesley French as Chief Nawohali * Crystle Lightning as Giduhwa * Urs Rechn as Gerhard Mueller * Nicola Ransom as Rosewitha Mueller * David Christopher Roth as Tommy Mueller * Marie Hacke as Petronella Mueller * Hilary Lyon as Patty Baird * Stuart McQuarrie as Tim Baird * Laura Ferries as Hester * Samuel Pashby as Danny Graham * Albert Welling as Pastor Gottfried * Caoimhe Clough as Isobeail *

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as Joseph Wemyss * Caitlin Ward as Marion * Edwin Flay as John Gillette * Simon Harrison as

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* Elizabeth Appleby as Martha Washington * Nolan Willis as Tom * Jack Reid as John Frohock * John Mackie as Malachi Fyke * Tom Hardwicke as Gotarzes * Tim Barrow as Vardanes * Kieran Baker as Lysias * Andrew McIntosh as Peter * James MacKenzie as Caleb * Andrew Steele as Judge Alderdyce * Stuart McMillan as Captain McPeters * Louise Oliver as Miss Forbes * Maggie Macleod as Mrs. Alderdyce * Tim Chipping as Sergeant Southworth * Mat Urey as Sergeant Scott * Ryan Havelin as Corporal Benton

Season 5

* Mark Cox as Reverend Caldwell * Anita Vettesse as Margaret Chisholm * Luke Roskell as Lee Withers * Paul Kennedy as Herman Husband * Callum Coates as John Evans * James Doherty as Charles Turnbull * Andy Apollo as Mr. Marsden * Nicola Jo Cully as Nonie Farrish * Paul Cassidy as Leith Farrish * Carole Anders as Ruth Aberfeldy * Anja Karmanski as Ute McGillivray * Bronwyn James as Fanny Beardsley * Christopher Fairbank as Aaron Beardsley * Susan Coyle as Joan Findlay * Anna Burnett as Alicia Brown * Sarah Belcher as Meg Brown * Muireann Brown as Lucinda Brown * Connor McIndoe as Hiram Brown * Stephen McCole as Graham Menzies * Stephen Mitchell as Father Beggs * Samantha Dakin as Nurse Atwell * James Gaddas as Judge Martin Atticus * Stephen Clyde as Robert Barlow * Clive Hayward as Quincy Arbuckle * Sharon Young as Mrs. Laurence * Helen McAlpine as Mrs. Shepherd *

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as Hector Cameron * Rosie Graham as Morna Cameron * Miles Richardson as Colonel Chadwick * Matthew Cottle as Hubert Sherston * Charlotte Asprey as Phoebe Sherston * Jack Stewart as Charles Morgan * Thomas Mugglestone as Henry Jones * Leah Shine as Eppie * Lorraine McIntosh as Mrs. Sylvie * Peter Warnock as Capitano Howard * Richard Gadd as Duff * Megan McGuire as Mabel * Gerald Tyler as Arvin Hodgepile * Michael Monroe as Cuddy Brown * Alexis Rodney as Tebbe * Calum Barbour as Garrick * Andrew John Tait as Hanlon * Hayley Doherty as Rose Brown

Season 6

* Nathan Byrne as James McCready * Brian Pettifer as Old Charlie * Dyfan Dwyfor as Private Hughes * Solly McLeod as Private Lambie * Nebli Basani as Alastair McLeod * Richard Glaves as Captain Thornton * Anne Kidd as Grannie Wilson *

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as The Sin Eater * Blair Lamora as Walela * Barbara Patrick as Selu * Sinead Macinnes as Hortense MacNeill * Marty Wildman as Tehhonahtake * Michael Geary as Scotchee Cameron * Shauna Macdonald as Flora MacDonald * Russell Watters as Allan MacDonald * Freddie Stevenson as Ainsley Beeston * Dominic Wolf as Captain Chapman * David Mahoney as Fogarty Simms * Adam Kotz as Sheriff Tolliver * Michael Cooke as Ezra * Mark Rannoch as Jack * Hunter Bishop as Amon Oakes * Chris Dennis as Curtis Brown * Tim Faraday as Jacoby

Season 7

* Sarah Finigan as Sadie Ferguson *

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as Maisie Tolliver * Iain MacRae as Reverend McMillan * Reanne Farley as Elizabeth Martin * Harri Pitches as Lieutenant Tate * Harry Jarvis as Henry Grey * Euan Macnaughton as Ross Campbell * Angus Yellowlees as Rodham * Kim McGarrity as Lydia * Tobi Bakare as Walter Woodcock * Daniel Gosling as Lieutenant Stactoe * Cameron Anderson as Major General St. Clair * Olivier Raynal as Brigadier Generale Fermoy * Cameron Fulton as Andy Pfeiffer * Brad Morrison as Craig Dowd * Nikosis Sakihaw Kingfisher as Swiftest of Lizards * Daren Elliott Holmes as Antioch Johnson * Donna Williams as Mrs. Johnson * Gemma McElhinney as Mrs. Raven * Emma Hindle as Mrs. Wellman * Bradley Connell as Tommy Wellman * Henry Ashton as Lieutenant Sandy Hammond * Barry O'Connor as Colonel Daniel Morgan * Kevin Lennon as Lionel Menzies * Josh Morrison as Bobby Hurragh * Fiona Knowles as Mrs. Stewart * Mark Frost as Major General John Burgoyne *

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as Colonel Grant * Stefan Willi Wang as Baron Friedrich Von Riedesel * Felix Uff as CaptainSir Francis Clerke * Johannes Schreiber as Gruenwald * Euan Stamper as Private Taft * Rod Hallett as Major General Benedict Arnold *

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