MASH (novel)/Characters
- Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly - from Ottumwa, Iowa, given his nickname for his extra-sensory perception
- Brigadier General Hamilton Hartington Hammond - stationed in Seoul
- Lieutenant Colonel Henry Braymore Blake - Commanding Officer, florid, balding, stutters when angry.
- Captain Walter Koskiusko "Painless Pole" Waldowski - from Hamtramck, Michigan, Dental Officer
- Captain Augustus Bedford "Duke" Forrest - from Forrest City, Georgia, age 29, under 6 feet tall, red hair, blue eyes, married with two daughters.
- Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce - from Crabapple Cove, Maine, age 28, over 6 feet tall, brown-blond hair, wears glasses, married with two sons, six brothers.
- Major Jonathon Hobson - age 35, general practitioner from the Midwest, preacher, extremely unskilled as a surgeon.
- Captain "Trapper" John Francis Xavier McIntyre - from Boston, Massachusetts, Chief Surgeon, skilled at thoracic surgery.
- Captain "Ugly" John Black - chief anesthesiologist, limpid-eyed, dark-haired, handsome.
- Father John Patrick "Dago Red" Mulcahy - from San Diego, California, Catholic chaplain, red hair.
- "Shaking" Sammy - Protestant chaplain from nearby engineering unit, loves to shake hands, tends to send letters to the families of fatally wounded soldiers saying "all is well".
- Sergeant "Mother Divine" - from Brooklyn, New York, mess tent cook, sells fake deeds of public landmarks to gullible soldiers
- Captain Frank Burns - from Fort Wayne, Indiana, born to affluence, accustomed to authority, adept at cardiac massage, but inept at everything else
- Private Lorenzo Boone - age 19, bumbling medical assistant
- Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan - Chief Nurse, Regular Army, blondish, fortyish
- Ho-Jon - from Seoul, age 17, houseboy and medical assistant, tall, thin, bright, Christian
- Dr. James Lodge - from Crabapple Cove, Maine, Dean of Androscoggin College
- Benjamin Franklin "Big Benjy" Pierce, Sr. - from Crabapple Cove, Maine, lobster fisherman
- Colonel Ruxton P. Merrill - Commanding Officer, 25th Station Hospital, Kokura, Japan
- Captain Ezekiel Bradbury "Me Lay" Marston IV - from Spruce Harbor, Maine, anesthesiologist, childhood friend of Hawkeye
- Colonel Cornwall - British officer
- Captain Bridget "Knocko" McCarthy - nurse from Boston, Massachusetts, age 35, 5'8.
- Sergeant Pete Rizzo - medical assistant, athletic
- Dr. R. C. "Jeeter" Carroll - from Oklahoma, surgeon, not very intelligent, 5'8, 150 lbs.
- Roger "the Dodger" Danforth - surgeon, 6073rd MASH, trained with Ugly John
- Colonel Horace DeLong - visiting officer, surgeon
- Lieutenant Rafael Rodriguez - medic, Colonel Blake's secretary
- Major Haskell - Chief of Psychiatry, 325th Evac
- Sergeant Vollmer - from Nebraska, Supply sergeant
- Captain Oliver Wendell "Spearchucker" Jones - from New Jersey, neurosurgeon, played football for Philadelphia Eagles, also threw javelin
- Captain Emerson Pinkham - surgeon, Ivy League, book-smart but somewhat dense, has a wife who goes insane and is sent to an asylum
- Captain Leverett Russell - surgeon, Ivy League, book-smart but somewhat dense