List of Guardians of Ga'Hoole characters

• Soren: the main protagonist. He is a male barn owl. Soren was born in the Kingdom of Tyto, where he lived with his family. He is snatched by patrols from St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls after Kludd pushes him from the nest. He later escapes with his friend Gylfie and they meet Twilight and Digger before journeying to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. On their way to the tree, Soren is reunited with Mrs. Horace Plithiver, his family's nest maid snake. Soren becomes a Guardian of Ga'Hoole, leader of The Band, leader of the Chaw of Chaws, a member of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, the ryb of the weather interpretation, and colliering chaw after Ezylryb dies. He is the mate of Pellimore and the father of Bell, Blythe, and Bash. Soren has starsight, which allows him to view glimpses of the future through his dreams. At the end of The War of the Ember he becomes king of the Great Tree after the death of his nephew, Coryn. Voiced by Jim Sturgess in the film.
• Gylfie: a female elf owl who is Soren's best friend and part of "The Band". Gylfie was hatched in a cactus in the Desert of Kuneer and is snatched by patrols from St. Aegolius after trying to fly before her wings had completely fledged. She escapes with Soren, and after befriending Twilight and Digger, arrives at the Great Ga'hoole Tree. She becomes the navigation ryb. Voiced by Emily Barclay in the film.
• Twilight: a male great gray owl. He was orphaned only moments after hatching, and his only memory of the time is the fact that he hatched at twilight, hence the name. Twilight brags about what he calls “The Orphan School Of Tough Learning”, where he was taught survival by a bald eagle. In The Guide Book to the Great Tree, Twilight is revealed to be the son of a famous poet, Skye, and was named Cassius when he was hatched. He was snatched by St. Aggie's but escaped when he bit one of his captor's talons off. He is part of "The Band". Soren and Gylfie meet him after escaping from St. Aegolius. He claims that he taught himself everything about surviving and was abandoned within hours of hatching. He deals the final blow to Kludd in the Battle of the Burning. In The War of the Ember, it is revealed that he has two brothers, Tavis and Cletus, that he had never met. He is now a Guardian of Ga'Hoole and works in the search-and-rescue chaw. Voiced by Anthony LaPaglia in the film.
• Digger: a tracking burrowing owl who is part of "The Band". He was born in the Desert of Kuneer and separated from his parents when owls (Jatt and Jutt) from St. Aegolius attacked his family and ate his brother. He is a Guardian of Ga'Hoole and works in the tracking chaw. Despite being an owl, he is better at digging than flying, hence his name. It is revealed in The Shattering that he has a huge crush on Sylvana. Voiced by David Wenham in the film.
• Primrose: a female northern pygmy owl. Eglantine's best friend. A member of the search-and-rescue-chaw.
• Pellimore: a female barn owl nicknamed "Pelli". She is Soren's mate and the mother of Bell, Blythe, and Sebastiana. She is introduced in The Outcast. She is rescued by Soren from a forest fire, and the duo bond over their love of reading before becoming mates. She is also the ryb of the Search and Rescue chaw. She is almost killed in the battle during Exile but is saved by her daughter, Bell. At the end of The War of the Ember, Pelli becomes the queen of the Great Tree when Soren becomes its king following Coryn's death.
• Otulissa: a female spotted owl. She is the Ga'Hoolology ryb at the Great Tree, chief ryb, a member of the Chaw of Chaws, and a superb collier and weather interpreter. Since Strix Emerilla, her ancestor, is the mate of Hoole, she is a direct descendant of Hoole. She lost an eye in battle and now wears a bandana over it. Mate of Cleve and mother to 4 yet-to-hatch chicks. Voiced by Abbie Cornish in the film as a short-eared owl rather than a spotted owl.
• Martin: a male northern saw-whet owl. He is a member of the Chaw of Chaws; a Guardian at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree and a member of the colliering and weather interpretation chaw.
• Ruby: a female short-eared owl. She is in the colliering and weather interpretation chaw.
• Coryn/Nyroc: a male barn owl. He is Kludd and Nyra's chick, and is the first to not perform the Special Ceremony (Tupsi) as a Pure One. Nyra kills his best friend Phillip. He is considered to be one of the greatest monarchs since Hoole and also has firesight. He dies from blood loss when The Striga cuts off his wing and becomes a constellation in the sky. He is the nephew of Soren.

• Boron: a male snowy owl. He is the former king of Ga'Hoole, and died when Coryn came to the Great Tree. Voiced by Richard Roxburgh in the film.
• Barran: a female snowy owl. She is the former queen of Ga'Hoole, and died when Coryn came to the Great Tree. She was the ryb of the search-and-rescue chaw and was Boron's mate. Voiced by Deborra-Lee Furness in the film.
• Ezylryb/Lyze of Kiel: (deceased) a male whiskered screech-owl who was the mentor at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. He is originally known as Lyze of Kiel when he was a warrior of the Kielian League in the Northern Kingdoms, and fought in the Battle of the Ice Claws. He was the ryb of the weather interpretation and colliering, and head librarian before he died of old age. Ezylryb mentors Soren and tells him that he should be his ward. He dies when Coryn comes to the Great Tree. Voiced by Geoffrey Rush in the film and by Robin Atkin Downes in the video game.
• Madame Plonk: a female snowy owl who is a singer in the Great Tree. She is a descendant of The Snow Rose.
• Eglantine: a young, female barn owl who is Soren and Kludd's younger sister. She is captured by the Pure Ones and Kludd and rescued in the Great Downing. She is a member of the search and rescue chaw. Voiced by Adrienne DeFaria in the film.
• Kalo: A burrowing owl who is Coryn's childhood friend. She is nearly burned as part of Striga's plans.
• Coryn (a.k.a. Cory): Kalo's younger brother, named for Coryn after he rescued him as an egg. He helps the original Coryn recover from his trance caused by the striga in Exile.
• Elvan/Elvanryb: A great gray owl who was the ryb of the colliering chaw.
• Mrs. Plithiver: a female blind snake who was formerly the nest maid for Soren's family, and is now a member of the harp guild at the Great Tree. Voiced by Miriam Margolyes in the film as a snake with eyes.
• Octavia: Female Kielian snake who was the nest maid for many years to Ezylryb and Madame Plonk. She is blinded in the War of the Ice Claws and adapts the senses of a true blind snake.
• Audrey: a female nest-maid snake who used to be the nest maid for Otulissa's family. She makes owlipoppen (fake owlet dolls) in The Burning.
• Doc Finebeak: A male snowy owl who is a freelance tracker formerly employed by the Pure Ones.
• Bubo: A male great horned owl who is the blacksmith at the Great Tree. Voiced by Bill Hunter in the film.
• Strix Struma: a female spotted owl. She was the ryb of the Navigation chaw before she is killed by Nyra in The Siege. She is a descendant of Strix Strumajen. Voiced by Sacha Horler in the film.
• Sylvana: a young female burrowing owl, ryb of the tracking chaw.
• Dewlap: a female burrowing owl and ryb of the Ga'Hoology chaw before Otulissa. Dewlap betrayed the Great Tree during The Siege. She is manipulated into helping the Pure Ones, who use her intense devotion to the Great Tree's health to convince her to help them. After her betrayal, she becomes a broken owl and is later taken to the Glauxian Sisters Retreat.
• Matron: a female short-eared owl who the head caretaker of wounded owlets at the Great Tree.
• Poot: A male boreal owl who is the first captain of the weather interpretation chaw, and becomes the leader when Ezylryb is captured.
• Trader Mags: a female common magpie that comes around annually to sell her wares.
• Silver: a male lesser sooty owl who is a member of the weather interpretation chaw and is rescued from the Great Downing.
• Nut Beam: a male Australian masked owl who is a member of the weather interpretation chaw and is rescued from the Great Downing.
• Fritha: a female Eurasian pygmy owl who is a student in the Great Tree and apprentice of Otulissa. She later reveals she is a kraal – a pirate owl of the Northern Kingdoms.
• Blythe: a female barn owl who is the eldest daughter of Soren and Pellimore.
• Sebastiana/Bash: a female barn owl who is the second daughter of Soren and Pellimore.
• Bell: a female barn owl who is Soren and Pellimore's youngest daughter. She trusts the Striga after he rescues her.
• Elyan: a male great gray owl who is the chairman of the Great Tree under Coryn. He is sent to the Glauxian Sisters Retreat as punishment.
• Gemma: a female whiskered screech owl who is the chaplain of the Great Tree. She tricks Elyan and other owls who are enthraled with the Ember of Hoole into turning the Tree into a prison for owls who do not worship the ember. She deserts Elyan and escapes the Tree as to avoid punishment from Coryn when he arrives and finds out what she has done. She is later declared a dangerous outlaw in the Southern Kingdoms.

• The Old High Tyto: the first Pure One's leader. In the books, he is only mentioned, having already been killed by Kludd and Nyra. In the film, he is the main antagonist and first "Metal Beak" (voiced by Joel Edgerton)—a greater sooty owl named Surtr (as revealed in the game only) who is also Ezylryb's arch-enemy: his face was scarred in the War of Ice Claws by the latter, and he wears a metal mask to hide the disfigurement. He is killed by Soren, who stabs him with a burning stick.

• Kludd/Metal Beak/High Tyto II: a male barn owl who is Soren and Eglantine's older brother. In the books, he is the only Metal Beak and the leader of the Pure Ones. Trained by Nyra, he becomes a Pure One guard. He falls into a forest fire when he tries to kill Soren, but is saved by a Fish Owl. He marries Nyra to become Metal Beak. In the books, he is killed by Twilight. Voiced by Ryan Kwanten in the movie.
• Nyra: a female barn owl who is Kludd's mate. She is killed when Soren throws an ice splinter into her chest and then being burned when the lava from the volcanoes pours into the cavern in The War of the Ember. Coryn believes her to be a hagsfiend in The First Collier. Voiced by Helen Mirren in the film as a much older owl and Surtr's mate.
• Wortmore: a male barn owl (identified in The Capture as a sooty owl) who is a Pure One lieutenant. He supposedly dies from flying snake venom in The Siege, but he reappears in The Golden Tree. Wortmore dies in the battle of the Middle Kingdom.
• Wort: a male barn owl who is a Pure One corporal. He dies in the battle of the Middle Kingdom.
• Uglamore (born Bartholomew IV): a male barn owl who is a Pure One sublieutenant. He deserts the Pure Ones and sacrifices himself for Coryn in The Outcast.
• Stryker: a male barn owl and Pure One lieutenant (later promoted to lieutenant major then commander) under Nyra, second in command later in the series; he is killed by Tengshu.
• Phillip "Dustytuft": a male greater sooty owl. He is a low caste owl of the Pure Ones who befriended Coryn at his hatching. He is killed by Nyra, who rips his heart out when Coryn refuses to do his Tupsi ceremony.
• Tarn: a male burrowing owl who is first in command under Nyra.
• Orlando/The Striga: a blue dragon owl from the Middle Kingdom who seeks a more meaningful life. He betrays Coryn and the Great Tree by joining Nyra. He is the leader of the Blue Brigade and is known for his brainwashing flattery. He takes control of the Great Tree, and has The Band exiled. Soren kills him by slicing his head off in the War of the Ember's last battle after the Striga cuts off Coryn's wing and kills him.
• Ginger: Nyra's comrade who gets wounded and is treated at the Tree, where she becomes a slipgizzle (spy) for them. She gets close to Eglantine, helps Nyra trick her, and rejoins the Pure Ones.
• Kylor: A turned slipgizzle who used to serve for the Guardians before being bought over to Nyra and the Striga's side. He feeds the Guardians falsified information.

• Field Marshal Cram: a male great horned owl who is first in command under the Striga. He is killed during the battle on Balefire Night by Gwyndor.

The St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls is an organization that portrays itself as an orphanage, but secretly seek to dominate the owl world through moon-blinking. They are defeated by the Pure Ones, who recruit, enslave or kill most of its members.

• Jatt and Jutt: Two long-eared owl cousins work at St. Aegolius and killed Digger’s family and ate his brother and abducted Soren and Kludd. Voiced by Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson respectively in the film.
• Skench: a female great horned owl who is the ablah general of the academy. She is killed by Soren when she attacks the Guardians.
• Spoorn: a female western screech owl who is Skench's first lieutenant. She is killed by Martin with an ice splinter when she betrays them.
• Ork: a male long-eared owl who is part of the snatching patrol that attempt to steal Bess.
• "Auntie" Finny: a female snowy owl who is Soren's pit guardian at the academy. She is the owl that Soren fears the most when he infiltrates St. Aegolius. She pushes Hortense off a cliff after finding out that she was saving eggs from the Hatchery. Finny is slashed by Soren in the neck and bled to death.
• Hortense (a.k.a. Mist): A female spotted owl. She is originally from Ambala and is an adult despite her looks. She infiltrates St. Aegolius and saves eggs that the patrols had snatched. She is pushed off a cliff by Finny, but is saved by the eagles Streak and Zan.

• Duncan MacDuncan: the leader of the MacDuncan clan of dire wolves in Beyond the Beyond and an ally of Coryn and the Chaw of Chaws. He later dies of old age in the Wolves of the Beyond series.
• Dunleavy B. MacHeath: the chieftain of the MacHeath clan of dire wolves in Beyond the Beyond and an ally of the Pure Ones. He recruits the members of the MacHeath clan to come with him to become vyrwolves and murders any who refuse.
• Gyllbane: a former member of the MacHeath clan. Her pup, Cody, was maimed and her mate was chased off both by Dunleavy B. Macheath.
• Cody: Gyllbane's son and a MacHeath (with MacDuncan ancestry). He is maimed by Dunleavy MacHeath in a desperate attempt to petition for a MacHeath to join the Sacred Watch and is the only survivor of Dunleavy's massacre. He dies when saving the Book of Kreeth in The Golden Tree.
• Hamish: a gnaw wolf In the MacDuncan clan. He is friends with Coryn, and becomes the new Fengo when Coryn returns the Ember of Hoole. In the Wolves of the Beyond series, Hamish has been revealed to have died sometime after the owl war.
• Brygdylla: a female dire wolf who appeared with Dunleavy MacHeath when he returned. She is later revealed to be a vyrwolf and slaughters MacHeaths who refused to become Vyrwolves themselves.

• Grimble: a male boreal owl who is captured as an adult by the St. Aegolius patrols. He is killed by Skench as he helps Soren and Gylfie escape. Voiced by Hugo Weaving in the film, where he is killed by Nyra due to Skench not being in the film.
• Noctus: Soren, Kludd, and Eglantine’s father. Also voiced by Hugo Weaving in the film.
• Marrella: Soren, Kludd, and Eglantine’s mother. Voiced by Essie Davis in the film.
• The Rogue Smith of Silverveil: a female snowy owl who is Madame Plonk's sister. She eventually gave up making weapons and turned to art. She is killed by Nyra when she is shoved into a fire. Her name is revealed to be Thora Plonk in the Lost Tales of Ga'Hoole.
• Streak and Zan: Two bald eagles who rescue Hortense. Zan is mute. Streak is voiced by Fred Tatasciore in the video game.
• Cleve of Firthmore: A male spotted owl healer and prince from the royal hollow of Snarth in the Northern Kingdoms.
• Gwyndor: A male Australian masked owl who is a rogue smith. He realized that Nyroc has seen the Ember of Hoole and helped the future king reach his goal. He became a useful ally to Coryn (Nyroc). It is mentioned in the Wolves of the Beyond series that he died sometime after The War of the Ember was won by the Guardians.

• Echidna: the Echidna is a mystic who carries a walking stick and gives directions to the Great Tree to Soren and his friends. Voiced by Barry Otto.
• Allomere: a great gray owl who was a slipgizzle at the Great Tree for the Pure Ones. He is betrayed by Metal Beak and taken away by the latter's bat minions. Allomere manages to escape in secret but is killed by his former apprentice Shard after the latter finds out that he was responsible for his parents' deaths. Voiced by Sam Neill in the film and Andre Sogliuzzo in the video game.