Jurassic Park Characters

Dr. Alan Grant is a paleontologist who specializes in the breeding and social behavior of dinosaurs including hadrosaurs and raptors. He receives funding from John Hammond and consulted for InGen in the early phases of… read analysis of Dr. Alan Grant

Dr. Ian Malcolm is a mathematician and chaos theorist hired by John Hammond to consult on his Jurassic Park project. When Donald Gennaro invites some of the consultants to visit the island and asses its… read analysis of Dr. Ian Malcolm

John Hammond is the eccentric, immensely wealthy businessman who conceives of the idea for Jurassic Park and brings it to fruition on his private island. Although he is in his mid-70s, he still possesses… read analysis of John Hammond

Donald Gennaro is both a major investor in InGen and the company’s chief legal counsel. His business association with John Hammond stretches back to the days when Hammond was wooing InGen’s initial investors, and he’s… read analysis of Donald Gennaro

John Arnold is Jurassic Park’s chief engineer. His career, before John Hammond hired him, included working on many world-famous amusement parks like Disney World and Land. It also included working with dangerous technologies, including a… read analysis of John Arnold

Dr. Henry Wu is the chief geneticist for the Jurassic Park project. As a graduate student, Wu worked in the lab of John Hammond’s former geneticist; when that man died, Hammond recruited Wu with… read analysis of Dr. Henry Wu

Robert Muldoon is the Jurassic Park warden. Along with Dr. Henry Wu and John Arnold, he bears responsibility for showing John Hammond’s early guests around the island. Muldoon grew up in Kenya… read analysis of Robert Muldoon

Dennis Nedry is the brilliant computer systems analyst hired by InGen to design the computer systems for Jurassic Park. His crass and disrespectful attitude bothers John Arnold and Dr. Henry Wu. Shrewd, intelligent, and… read analysis of Dennis Nedry

Lewis Dodgson is the chief geneticist at Biosyn, the rival of John Hammond’s company, InGen. Pure greed motivates Dodgson, and in his desire to make money he willingly engages in immoral practices like experimenting… read analysis of Lewis Dodgson

Ed Regis is the publicist for InGen’s Jurassic Park project, although John Hammond’s cost-cutting and miserliness means that Regis ends up saddled with odd jobs, like accompanying injured workers to the mainland for medical… read analysis of Ed Regis

Tim Murphy is John Hammond’s grandson and the sister of Lex Murphy, with whom he travels to Jurassic Park. Eleven years old, Tim is a bit shy and bookish, more interested in dinosaurs… read analysis of Tim Murphy

Lex Murphy is John Hammond’s granddaughter, whom he brings to the park along with her brother, Tim. Seven or eight years old, Lex is athletic and energetic. She speaks her mind and whines… read analysis of Lex Murphy

Dr. Harding is the veterinarian at Jurassic Park. Prior to being hired by John Hammond, he was the chief vet at the San Diego Zoo. His expertise in modern birds positions him as the… read analysis of Dr. Harding

Dr. Marty Guitierrez is a field biologist who trained at Yale University before moving to Costa Rica. When a mysterious lizard attacks tourist Tina Bowman, Dr. Guitierrez consults with the family and the hospital… read analysis of Dr. Marty Guitierrez

Bob Morris is a lawyer who works for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is charged with investigating John Hammond and his company InGen. He visits Dr. Alan Grant to ask questions about Hammond and… read analysis of Bob Morris

Dr. Richard Stone, the director of the Tropical Diseases Laboratory at Columbia University in New York City, receives the remains of the mysterious lizard that bit Tina Bowman. The reptile expert whom Dr. Marty… read analysis of Dr. Richard Stone

Tina Bowman is the daughter of Mike and Ellen Bowman. On vacation with her family in Costa Rica, a mysterious lizard (which turns out to be a procompsognathus, escaped from Jurassic Park) bites and… read analysis of Tina Bowman

Ellen Bowman is the wife of Mike Bowman and the mother of Tina Bowman. She is vacationing with her family in Costa Rica in part to explore the country’s natural beauty and in part… read analysis of Ellen Bowman

Elena Morales is a Costa Rican midwife who attends to patients at clinics, including the one run by Dr. Roberta Carter. She is a practical, experienced woman who nevertheless chooses to cover up her… read analysis of Elena Morales