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The people of Grand Theft Auto

Protagonists, antagonists and the supporting cast, across the franchise. Search by name, alias, crew or voice performer, and filter by game, era, role or affiliation.

Characters
364
Games
17
Appearances
477
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160

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Characters

  • Ricardo Diaz, as they appear in GTA: Vice City Stories.

    The man the Vice City drug trade runs through, wealthy beyond counting and paranoid in exact proportion.

    AntagonistGTA: Vice City Stories · GTA: Vice City
  • A Lifeinvader programmer who lets Michael into the building believing he is tech support, loses his job over what follows, and turns hacker for hire.

    SupportingGTA Online · GTA V
  • A Cuban who runs Umberto Robina's boat work and rides along on the raids into Little Haiti.

    SupportingGTA: Vice CityCubans
  • Rocco Pelosi, as they appear in GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

    An Ancelotti family associate collecting on Tony's debts, and convinced throughout that he is running the situation.

    AntagonistGTA V · GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay TonyAncelotti crime family
  • Roman Bellic, as they appear in GTA IV.

    Niko's cousin, whose letters home described a life he does not have. Runs a failing cab firm, gambles what it earns, and is the only person in the city Niko will not walk away from.

    SupportingGTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony · GTA IV: The Lost and Damned · GTA IV
  • Ron Jakowski, as they appear in GTA V.

    Trevor's business partner and permanent target, running an airfield and a conspiracy radio station out of the same stretch of trailer park.

    SupportingGTA Online · GTA VTrevor Philips Enterprises
  • A discharged Air Force pilot turned mercenary, and the helicopter gunner Pavel can call in over Cayo Perico.

    SupportingGTA Online
  • Rudy D'Avanzo, as they appear in GTA: Chinatown Wars.

    A Messina family figure who offers Huang an alliance against the Triads and is playing several sides of the same war.

    AntagonistGTA: Chinatown WarsMessina crime family
  • Salvatore Leone, as they appear in GTA: Liberty City Stories.

    Don of the Leone family and the most durable figure in the 3D Universe, running Liberty City across three games and treating every useful person in it as disposable.

    CharacterGTA: Liberty City Stories · GTA: San Andreas · GTA IIILeone crime family
  • A police officer on the wrong side of his own job, handing out work in the original game's Vice City. The rap sheet it gives him runs to theft, kidnapping and a suspicion of cannibalism.

    SupportingGTA
  • An Algonquin woman preoccupied with her own looks, who asks Niko for a lift home and keeps asking.

    SupportingGTA IV
  • Sean Johnson, as they appear in GTA: San Andreas.

    Sean Johnson

    Sweet · Sweet Johnson

    Carl's older brother and the leader of Grove Street, who has held the set together through the crack years and will not forgive the brother who left.

    SupportingGTA: San AndreasGrove Street Families
  • Victor Vance's other commanding officer at Fort Baxter, and the one who has to act on what Jerry Martinez plants in his barracks.

    SupportingGTA: Vice City Stories
  • A dealership owner who employs Franklin to repossess the cars he has just finished selling, and lectures anybody in range about the debt they owe him.

    SupportingGTA Online · GTA V
  • Solomon Richards, as they appear in GTA V.

    A Richards Majestic producer of long standing and older taste, and the closest thing Michael has to a legitimate ambition.

    SupportingGTA V
  • Sonny Forelli, as they appear in GTA: Vice City.

    The Forelli boss who sent Tommy to prison, then sent him to Vice City, and expects to be paid for both.

    AntagonistGTA: Vice CityForelli crime family
  • Steve Haines, as they appear in GTA V.

    A federal agent running his own agenda and a television career at the same time. He blackmails the crew into an escalating run of jobs and regards every one of them as expendable.

    AntagonistGTA VFIB
  • Steve Scott, as they appear in GTA: Vice City.

    A film director working at the far end of the industry and convinced he is at the other one.

    SupportingGTA: Vice City
  • Stretch, as they appear in GTA V.

    Stretch

    Harold Joseph

    Out of prison and determined to restart a war the neighbourhood has moved on from.

    CharacterGTA VChamberlain Gangster Families
  • Ran Fa Li's assistant, and the man who turns his employer's grunts into instructions.

    SupportingGTA: San AndreasSan Fierro Triads
  • Head of the Hare Krishna in the Industrial District — a pacifist order that has taken up gang warfare anyway, which is the joke the faction exists for.

    SupportingGTA 2Hare Krishna
  • T-Bone Mendez, as they appear in GTA: San Andreas.

    The muscle of the Loco Syndicate, suspicious of everybody and correct about most of them.

    SupportingGTA: San AndreasLoco Syndicate, San Fierro Rifa
  • A getaway driver, available to hire for heists.

    SupportingGTA Online · GTA V
  • Tanisha Jackson, as they appear in GTA V.

    Franklin's ex, who left the neighbourhood by marrying out of it and tells him plainly that he has not managed the same.

    SupportingGTA V
  • Tao Cheng, as they appear in GTA Online.

    Wei Cheng's son, sent to negotiate on his father's behalf and rarely sober enough to manage it.

    SupportingGTA Online · GTA VTriads
  • A North Holland dealer under Pegorino protection who stopped paying Ray Boccino back, which is a shorter arrangement than he expected.

    SupportingGTA IV
  • Terry Thorpe, as they appear in GTA IV: The Lost and Damned.

    The chapter's armourer, who can put a weapon in anybody's hands anywhere in the state at short notice.

    SupportingGTA V · GTA IV: The Lost and DamnedThe Lost MC
  • The Truth, as they appear in GTA: San Andreas.

    A Flint County grower with a camper van, a conspiracy for every occasion and rather better government contacts than any of them should imply.

    SupportingGTA: San Andreas
  • A congressman who uses The Lost MC to remove obstacles to his own career and settles the family inheritance while he is at it.

    SupportingGTA IV: The Lost and Damned
  • A senior member of the Epsilon Program who sets Michael a run of tasks on the way to enlightenment.

    SupportingGTA VEpsilon Program
  • Head of guest services at the Diamond Casino & Resort, and keener on the champagne than anybody he serves.

    SupportingGTA Online
  • An Algonquin lawyer holding a file on Francis McReary, and therefore a problem Francis subcontracts rather than settles.

    SupportingGTA IV
  • Tommy Vercetti, as they appear in GTA: Vice City.

    Out of prison after fifteen years and sent south by the Forelli family to open Vice City for them. The deal is ambushed, the money is gone, and Tommy decides to take the city instead of apologising for it.

    ProtagonistGTA: Vice CityForelli crime family, Vercetti crime family
  • Toni Cipriani, as they appear in GTA: Liberty City Stories.

    A Leone family caporegime in GTA III and the protagonist of Liberty City Stories three years earlier, where the same man is still trying to earn his mother's approval and the family's respect.

    ProtagonistGTA: Liberty City Stories · GTA IIILeone crime family
  • A childhood friend of Franklin's from Forum Drive, still on the street he grew up on and still claiming to know him better than he admits.

    SupportingGTA V
  • Kazuki Kasen's wife, kept at arm's length from a family she outranks in everything but name, and quietly commissioning Toni Cipriani to dismantle her own household.

    SupportingGTA: Liberty City StoriesYakuza
  • Tracey De Santa, as they appear in GTA V.

    Michael's daughter, chasing a reality-television career her father would happily burn Vinewood down to prevent.

    SupportingGTA Online · GTA V
  • Trevor Philips, as they appear in GTA V.

    A former bush pilot running guns, meth and grievances out of Sandy Shores. Violently unpredictable, oddly loyal, and the only one of the three who never pretended he had retired from anything.

    ProtagonistGTA Online · GTA VTrevor Philips Enterprises
  • The Zaibatsu Corporation's boss in the Downtown District, and the first of the three the conglomerate fields across Anywhere City.

    SupportingGTA 2Zaibatsu Corporation
  • Umberto Robina, as they appear in GTA: Vice City Stories.

    The head of the Cuban community in Little Havana, running a café, a gang war with the Haitians and a running commentary on everybody else's courage.

    SupportingGTA: Vice City Stories · GTA: Vice CityCubans
  • The gang leader behind the original game's San Andreas work, running an operation the game's own rap sheet credits with piracy, opium and murder — and whose age it puts at a hundred and thirty.

    SupportingGTA
  • The Zaibatsu Corporation's boss in the Industrial District, the last and roughest of Anywhere City's three, where a high enough wanted level brings out the army.

    SupportingGTA 2Zaibatsu Corporation
  • Victor Vance, as they appear in GTA: Vice City Stories.

    A soldier discharged from Fort Baxter almost immediately, supporting a family he cannot afford and building an operation he keeps insisting is temporary. Vice City, set years later, opens with the end of him.

    ProtagonistGTA: Vice City Stories · GTA: Vice CityVance crime family
  • Vincenzo Cilli, as they appear in GTA: Liberty City Stories.

    A Leone soldier who has spent Toni's exile taking his place, and hands him work designed to keep him at the bottom of the family.

    AntagonistGTA: Liberty City StoriesLeone crime family
  • The better-connected half of the partnership, and the man Mike spends the game avenging.

    CharacterGTA Advance
  • Vlad Glebov, as they appear in GTA IV.

    A loan shark working out of a Hove Beach bar who holds Roman's debt and mistakes Niko for somebody who will tolerate him.

    SupportingGTA IV
  • Wade Hebert, as they appear in GTA V.

    A hanger-on Trevor keeps for errands and abuse. Considerably better at finding people than at understanding why he has been asked to.

    SupportingGTA VTrevor Philips Enterprises
  • Wade Heston, as they appear in GTA: Chinatown Wars.

    A police detective whose partner's death has cost him his marriage and most of his judgement, and who uses Huang rather than arrests him.

    SupportingGTA: Chinatown Wars
  • Wei Cheng, as they appear in GTA V.

    A Triad boss who arrives in Los Santos looking for a partner and ends up dealing with Trevor instead.

    AntagonistGTA VTriads
  • The manager of the player's arcade, who texts about repair bills and has Jimmy De Santa's attention whether she wants it or not.

    SupportingGTA Online
  • One of the three musicians behind Jezz Torrent in Love Fist, in Vice City for the residency Kent Paul is supposed to be managing.

    SupportingGTA: Vice CityLove Fist
  • Wu Lee, as they appear in GTA: Chinatown Wars.

    Wu Lee

    Kenny

    Huang's uncle, running a Triad operation he is not respected enough to hold.

    CharacterGTA: Chinatown WarsTriads
  • Wu Zi Mu, as they appear in GTA: San Andreas.

    Wu Zi Mu

    Woozie

    The blind head of the Mountain Cloud Boys and later of a Las Venturas casino operation, unnervingly good at everything his condition should make impossible.

    SupportingGTA: San AndreasTriads, Mountain Cloud Boys
  • Wyman outside a garage in a visor, glasses and a vest printed "Wyman's World Auto Salvage Co.", raising a wrench, with classic cars parked behind him.

    An eccentric collector who also works as a local fixer, and the one behind the Classic Car Collection: finding abandoned classics and half-finished project cars and restoring them.

    SupportingGTA VI
  • Ling's younger brother and an enforcer for the same family, a teenager living in Cerveza Heights who holds Huang responsible for what happens to his sister.

    SupportingGTA: Chinatown WarsTriads
  • Asuka Kasen's niece, and the reason the Yakuza take an interest in Mike at all. She is the one member of the family the handheld title introduces rather than inherits.

    SupportingGTA AdvanceYakuza