Noir Detective Name Generator

Hard-boiled names for gumshoes, cops, and femme fatales

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Generate noir detective names in the clipped, hard-boiled style of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe: one-syllable first names, blunt Anglo, Irish, and Italian surnames, plus the cops, femme fatales, and informants who fill a 1940s case file. Made for crime novels, radio-drama pastiche, and detective RPGs.

About noir detective names

Noir detective names are short, blunt, and Anglo-American in the way 1930s and 40s pulp magazines were. Sam Spade, Mike Hammer, Lew Archer, Jake Gittes: a one-syllable first name that a bartender could shout, and a surname that sounds like a tool or a weapon. Chandler and Hammett leaned on Irish, English, and Scots names for their gumshoes (Marlowe, Archer, Malloy) and gave the underworld Italian, Jewish, and Eastern European surnames (Eddie Mars, Kasper Gutman, Joel Cairo). Cops get a rank in front, so Lt. Frank Nagle or Sgt. Joe Malloy, and small-time hoods get a physical nickname like Fingers, Cueball, or The Fat Man.

Women in noir are named to sound expensive or dangerous. Femme fatales carry soft, glamorous names with a hard edge somewhere in them (Phyllis Dietrichson, Kathie Moffat, Vera Kane, Gilda Mundson), while the loyal secretary gets something plain and warm like Effie Perrine or Della Street. Names ending in -a and surnames with French or Italian flavor were the era's shorthand for trouble.

The list mixes canon characters from Hammett, Chandler, Cain, and classic film noir with invented names built on the same rules, so you can cast an entire case file without breaking the period feel: private eyes, society clients, women investigators, reporters, nightclub staff, racket bosses, port-city exiles, cabbies, sergeants and snitches.

How to choose noir detective names

  • Keep the detective's first name to one syllable (Sam, Mike, Jake, Nick, Ray) and the surname to two at most.
  • Choose surnames from the era's ethnic mix: Irish for cops and PIs, Italian and Jewish for the rackets, WASP for the rich client, French for the femme fatale.
  • Never give two important characters the same first initial; noir moves fast and readers track names by sound.
  • Add a rank (Lt., Sgt., Det.) for police and a physical nickname for hoods; the private eye alone goes by his plain name.
  • Read the name aloud in a first-person line: 'The name's Ray Corrigan. I find things people would rather stay lost.' If it doesn't land, try again.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a name sound like a noir detective?

Brevity and hardness. Classic noir detectives have short, common first names and surnames that sound like objects (Spade, Hammer, Archer, Steele). Anything long, ornate, or fantasy-flavored breaks the spell.

Are famous names like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe copyrighted?

The famous characters belong to their authors, estates and studios and are included as reference examples. The invented names in this list, such as Ray Corrigan or Vera Kane, follow the same rules but have not been checked against existing books, films or trademarks, so search a name before you publish under it.

How should I name a femme fatale?

Pair a soft, glamorous first name (Vera, Lana, Ava, Gloria, Kathie) with a surname that sounds either wealthy or slightly foreign (Delacourt, Falcone, Sinclair, Moffat). The contrast between silk and steel is the whole point.

Do these work for a modern crime story or a detective RPG?

Yes. Contemporary hard-boiled writers such as Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane still use the same clipped style (Harry Bosch, Patrick Kenzie), and the names transfer easily to games like Blades in the Dark or Call of Cthulhu 1920s campaigns.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 32 names

  • Abby Winter
  • Abe Lazarus
  • Abel Stark
  • Ace Diamond
  • Adele Rochambeau
  • Agnes Lozelle
  • Al Ferraro
  • Al Kowalski
  • Al Roberts
  • Alderman Sid Rankin
  • Alderman Tim Gilhooley
  • Alonzo Emmerich
  • Althea Renwick
  • Ambrose Kittredge
  • Andre Rousseau
  • Angie Passarelli
  • Anna Dundee
  • Anne Riordan
  • Anneliese Reuter
  • Annie Laurie Starr
  • Ansel Wachter
  • Anton Zelko
  • Arabella Lockwood
  • Archie Goodwin
  • Arnie the Mechanic
  • Art Landrum
  • Art Sexton
  • Arthur Gwynn Geiger
  • Artie Lubow
  • Asst. D.A. Jean Ormsby
  • Asst. D.A. Phil Radcliffe
  • Ava Delacourt

B: 67 names

  • Babs Sheridan
  • Bail Clerk Wally Zane
  • Bailiff Ned Oakes
  • Ballin Mundson
  • Bandleader Tex Averill
  • Barkeep Louie Stavros
  • Barney Lutz
  • Baron Kurt von Steigl
  • Barrie Craig
  • Bart Tare
  • Barton Keyes
  • Bea Quinn
  • Bebe Lombardo
  • Bellhop Jimmy Aldo
  • Ben Kessler
  • Ben Latch
  • Ben Slattery
  • Benny the Book
  • Bernice Kowalski
  • Bernie Gunther
  • Bernie Ohls
  • Bertha Duncan
  • Betty Schaefer
  • Bianca Montrose
  • Big Ed Somers
  • Big Eddie Kessel
  • Big Jim Colfax
  • Big Mike Cusack
  • Big Oscar Lund
  • Big Tony Vecchio
  • Bill Corvino
  • Bill Crane
  • Bill Szabo

B, continued

  • Billie Cross
  • Bix Calder
  • Blackie Costa
  • Blanche Ridley
  • Blind Louie Zell
  • Blythe Carrington
  • Bo Kincaid
  • Bo Ridgely
  • Bobbie Thatcher
  • Bookie Chick Fazio
  • Bookie Mel Trimble
  • Bootblack Sammy Tubbs
  • Bootsie Karras
  • Boss Dan Garrahy
  • Boston Blackie
  • Bottles Ferrigno
  • Bouncer Tiny Kolchak
  • Boyd Mattis
  • Bradford Galt
  • Brendan Frye
  • Brick Mason
  • Brigid O'Shaughnessy
  • Bruno Antony
  • Bruno Hartz
  • Bud Kowal
  • Bud Ostermann
  • Bud White
  • Bugs Cantrell
  • Bugsy Weinstein
  • Bunny Lake
  • Burt Kellner
  • Buttons Shapley
  • Buzz Kendrick
  • Buzz Nolan

C: 88 names

  • Cabbie Hector Salas
  • Cabbie Moe Jablonski
  • Cain Cornell
  • Cal Brody
  • Cal Rourke
  • Cal Tackett
  • Camille Soto
  • Candles Wojtowicz
  • Candy Matson
  • Capt. Amos Fairchild
  • Capt. Emmet Dwyer
  • Capt. Harlan Boyd
  • Capt. Joe Farrow
  • Capt. Lucien Arnaud
  • Capt. Luther Banks
  • Capt. Roy McAllister
  • Capt. Walt Sheridan
  • Cardsharp Ace Remy
  • Carl Lindgren
  • Carla Rinaldi
  • Carlotta Brisbane
  • Carmen Sternwood
  • Carter Hadley Jr.
  • Cass Boland
  • Celeste Marlot
  • Chalky Dunne
  • Charles Haskell
  • Charlie Kwan
  • Charlie Song
  • Charlie the Chauffeur
  • Chester Drum
  • Chet Ambler
  • Chet Durgin
  • Chick Sanderson
  • Chief Dan Hanrahan
  • Chief Ed Grady
  • Chief Ned Truscott
  • Chief Wade Thornhill
  • Chief Walt Beckett
  • Chris Lavery
  • Christopher Cross
  • Chuck Darrow
  • Cigarette Girl Dot Hale
  • Clare Hennigan

C, continued

  • Clarissa Van Dorn
  • Claudine Roux
  • Clay Draper
  • Clement Dufresne
  • Clete Ogilvie
  • Cliff Barnes
  • Clint Hallett
  • Clocks Prudhomme
  • Clyde Wynant
  • Cody Jarrett
  • Col. Ainsley Rutledge
  • Col. Basil Thornycroft
  • Cole Phelps
  • Commissioner Cyrus Ballard
  • Commissioner Giles Harlow
  • Conrad Stahl
  • Constance Ashby
  • Coop Harrigan
  • Cora Papadakis
  • Cora Wells
  • Coral Chandler
  • Coral Devane
  • Corinne Mallard
  • Cormoran Strike
  • Cornelius Haverford
  • Coroner Ambrose Pike
  • Coroner Felix Haupt
  • Coroner Lester Quigg
  • Coroner Sam Beecham
  • Councilman Ray Kirby
  • Counselor Elias Finch
  • Counselor Royce Pettigrew
  • Counselor Wendell Ames
  • Counterman Nick Pappas
  • Countess Olga Marenko
  • Croupier Emile Fabre
  • Crystal Kingsley
  • Cueball Merrick
  • Cufflinks Arno
  • Curt Lonergan
  • Customs Inspector Leon Batiste
  • Cutter Malone
  • Cy Bannerman
  • Cy Pender

D: 78 names

  • D.A. Howard Stannard
  • D.A. Lyle Fenwick
  • D.A. Miles Farrow
  • D.A. Morton Sills
  • D.A. Ross Whitaker
  • D.A. Vernon Blythe
  • D.A. Ward Kimball
  • Dale Kimmel
  • Dan Ashford
  • Dan Tierney
  • Dan Turner
  • Danny Chen
  • Danny Kaminski
  • Danny Shaw
  • Danny Vega
  • Dash Hammond
  • Dave Bannion
  • Dave Hackett
  • Dave Robicheaux
  • Deadline Dugan
  • Dean Hollis
  • Debby Marsh
  • Deke Samuels
  • Del Fontaine
  • Del Rooker
  • Delia Marchbanks
  • Della Street
  • Deputy Hank Stubbs
  • Derace Kingsley
  • Desk Clerk Cecil Moss
  • Desk Sgt. Mo Finnerty
  • Desmond Rutherford
  • Det. Ann Devlin
  • Det. Burt Haskins
  • Det. Clem Hodge
  • Det. Frank Novak
  • Det. Harv Yost
  • Det. Joe Wick
  • Det. Kay Lonnigan

D, continued

  • Det. Lou Tancredi
  • Det. Nate Silverman
  • Det. Ray Ishikawa
  • Det. Rose Delaney
  • Det. Ruth Feeney
  • Det. Sam Barlow
  • Det. Sam Ricci
  • Det. Tim Moynihan
  • Dewey Yates
  • Dex Raynor
  • Diane Coburn
  • Dick Tracy
  • Dimes Hanlon
  • Dinah Brand
  • Dirk Renner
  • Dix Handley
  • Dixie Marchetti
  • Doc Emmett Bower
  • Doc Hollister
  • Doc Riedenschneider
  • Dockhand Red Kavanagh
  • Dolly Trent
  • Dolores Gonzales
  • Dolores Vane
  • Dom Savino
  • Dominic Vasari
  • Dominoes Laszlo
  • Doorman Otis Greeley
  • Doris Wexford
  • Dorothy Wynant
  • Dr. Emil Sartorius
  • Dr. Lucius Varn
  • Drew Stanton
  • Dudley Smith
  • Duke Cunningham
  • Duke Ferrell
  • Duke Santangelo
  • Dutch Meyer
  • Dwight McCarthy

E: 34 names

  • Earl Sturm
  • Easy Rawlins
  • Ed Exley
  • Ed Gavel
  • Ed Kowalczyk
  • Ed Noon
  • Ed Strand
  • Eddie Ferrante
  • Eddie Mars
  • Eddie the Ear
  • Eddie Valiant
  • Eddie Wong
  • Edie Thorsen
  • Editor Abe Lerner
  • Editor Gus Wolcott
  • Effie Perrine
  • Eileen Wade
  • Eleanor Markham
  • Eli Strauss
  • Elihu Willsson
  • Ellen Graham
  • Ellery Queen
  • Ellie Stratton
  • Elsa Hartmann
  • Emil Vossler
  • Emilio Varela
  • Emmett Raines
  • Endicott Pryce
  • Ernie Fosse
  • Estelle Marchesi
  • Etta Washington
  • Eunice Platt
  • Evangeline Tate
  • Evelyn Mulwray

F: 35 names

  • Father Tom Kelleher
  • Fats Provenza
  • Faye Larkin
  • Felicity Harrow
  • Felix Durant
  • Fence Otto Gruber
  • Fern Abbott
  • Fingers Malone
  • Finn Mulcahy
  • Fitz Garvey
  • Fixer Odell Moss
  • Flash Bixby
  • Flashgun Casey
  • Fletcher Wyndham
  • Flint Steele
  • Flo Hennessy
  • Floyd Pruitt
  • Francine Loring
  • Frank Bigelow
  • Frank Bullitt
  • Frank Chambers
  • Frank Chisel
  • Frank Corcoran
  • Frank Dolan
  • Frank Mackey
  • Frank McCloud
  • Frank Ostrowski
  • Frank Rourke
  • Frankie Dane
  • Frankie Sable
  • Frankie the Fixer
  • Fred Cask
  • Freighter Captain Nils Aaberg
  • Frenchy DuBois
  • Fry Cook Gus Hrabak

G: 28 names

  • Gabe Ruiz
  • Gambler Jack Delmar
  • Garrett Stillman
  • Gaye Dawn
  • Gen. Hobart Sterne
  • George Peatty
  • Georgia Blaine
  • Georgina Stackpole
  • Gil Rennick
  • Gilda Mundson
  • Gimlet Skaggs
  • Ginger Talbot
  • Gino Tedesco
  • Giselle Navarre
  • Gladys Tuttle
  • Glenn Varick
  • Gloria Sinclair
  • Gloves Banaczek
  • Goldie Marks
  • Grant Usher
  • Granville Peabody
  • Greer Maitland
  • Greta Lindahl
  • Gus Malone
  • Gus Petrakis
  • Gus Rivet
  • Guy Haines
  • Guy Kestrel

H: 42 names

  • Hackie Irv Glick
  • Hal Bracken
  • Hal Proudfoot
  • Hank Cutter
  • Hank Fallon
  • Hank Mallet
  • Hank Quinlan
  • Hank Reardon
  • Hap Tolan
  • Harbor Master Olaf Brandvold
  • Hardy Cathcart
  • Harriet Slade
  • Harrison Leeds
  • Harry Bosch
  • Harry Fabian
  • Harry Jones
  • Harry Lime
  • Harry Naylor
  • Harv Pennington
  • Hassan Kadri
  • Hatcheck Girl Peg Monahan
  • Hattie Burke
  • Hazel Coyle
  • Helen Brent
  • Henrietta Lodge
  • Herb Lindqvist
  • Herb Zielinski
  • Herr Doktor Vogel
  • Herschel Biggs
  • Hildy Swenson
  • Hob Winters
  • Hollis Mulwray
  • Holly Martins
  • Homer Cobb
  • Honor Lavelle
  • Horn Player Skeets Dupree
  • Hostess Vera Lind
  • House Detective Barney Oates
  • Howie the Owl
  • Hoyt Lassiter
  • Hugh Dorsett
  • Hugo Brandl

I: 23 names

  • Ice Pick Kaminsky
  • Ida Mae Colby
  • Ida Sessions
  • Ike Bernstein
  • Ike Trask
  • Ilene Whitcomb
  • Ilona Varady
  • Ilsa Brandt
  • Ilsa Lund
  • Inga Sorensen
  • Ingrid Solvang
  • Inky Feldman
  • Inspector Ed Quinlan
  • Inspector Hal Greaves
  • Inspector Miles Bascombe
  • Inspector Neil Crowley
  • Ira Loomis
  • Irene Sallis
  • Iris Sterling
  • Isobel Crane
  • Iva Archer
  • Ivories Chester Lyle
  • Izzy Blum

J: 66 names

  • Jack Callahan
  • Jack Fallon
  • Jack Kearney
  • Jack Kerrigan
  • Jack Marlow
  • Jack Ravelli
  • Jack Taylor
  • Jack Vincennes
  • Jackie Lorne
  • Jacqueline Sorel
  • Jake Ferris
  • Jake Gittes
  • Jake Sullivan
  • Jan Verhoeven
  • Janet Henry
  • Janitor Stosh Novacek
  • Jean Scully
  • Jed Crowder
  • Jeff Bailey
  • Jeff Markham
  • Jeff Regan
  • Jellybean Tatum
  • Jerome Kingsbury
  • Jess Tanner
  • Jim Reardon
  • Jim Strode
  • Jim Thornton
  • Jimmy the Hat
  • Jo Carmichael
  • Joan Whelan
  • Jock Carmody
  • Joe Brannigan
  • Joe Brody

J, continued

  • Joe Cardigan
  • Joe Friday
  • Joe Gillis
  • Joe Rake
  • Joe Steele
  • Joe Stefanos
  • Joel Cairo
  • John Blacksad
  • John Hartigan
  • John Shaft
  • Johnny Clay
  • Johnny Dollar
  • Johnny Farrell
  • Johnny Kane
  • Johnny Liddell
  • Johnny Madero
  • Johnny O'Clock
  • Johnny Pell
  • Johnny Prince
  • Johnny Rocco
  • Josie Fairbanks
  • Joyce Mannion
  • Jud Maddox
  • Jud Prosser
  • Judge Everett Prine
  • Judge Harlan Cutler
  • Judge Marcus Hale
  • Judge Roland Pierce
  • Judge Thaddeus Wren
  • Judge Wendell Hargrove
  • Judge Wilbur Ashcroft
  • Jules Amthor
  • June Halloway

K: 15 names

  • Karl Voight
  • Kasper Gutman
  • Kate Brennan
  • Kathie Moffat
  • Kathleen Stewart
  • Katya Morozova
  • Kay Rafferty
  • Kinsey Millhone
  • Kip Waverly
  • Kit Mallory
  • Kitty Collins
  • Kitty Malone
  • Kitty March
  • Knuckles Ryan
  • Kurt Sloane

L: 59 names

  • Lana Marsh
  • Landlady Mrs. Dunwoody
  • Landlady Mrs. Kopecky
  • Larry Ballentine
  • Lars Ekberg
  • Lash Canino
  • Laura Hunt
  • Lavinia Proctor
  • Ledger Quade
  • Lee Garrity
  • Lee Hazzard
  • Lefty Rourke
  • Legs Cavallo
  • Len Hatcher
  • Len Okada
  • Lenny Roth
  • Leo the Ledger
  • Leona Strand
  • Leopold Eisler
  • Lew Archer
  • Lila Devereaux
  • Lily Chen
  • Linda Loring
  • Lindsay Marriott
  • Little Abe Koenig
  • Little Augie Perez
  • Little Nicky Rossi
  • Liz Hardesty
  • Locksmith Pete Dvorak
  • Lois Henning
  • Lola Dietrichson
  • Lon Driscoll
  • Loretta Sands
  • Lorna Prescott
  • Lottie Baines
  • Lou Fujimoto
  • Lou Garner
  • Lou Marchetti
  • Louie the Lip
  • Lowell Dunnigan
  • Lt. Art Maddigan
  • Lt. Carl Dremmel
  • Lt. Dundy
  • Lt. Ed Corrigan
  • Lt. Frank Nagle
  • Lt. Gene Pulaski
  • Lt. Lou Escobar
  • Lt. Marty Shaughnessy
  • Lt. Otis Rademacher
  • Lt. Ray Bannion
  • Lt. Ray Doherty
  • Lt. Sol Abrams
  • Lt. Vince Carbone
  • Luc Morand
  • Lucia Fuentes
  • Luke Farraday
  • Luke Trammell
  • Lyle Crocker
  • Lynn Bracken

M: 95 names

  • Mabel Hutchins
  • Mac Devane
  • Machine Gun Manzetti
  • Mack Mercer
  • Madame Lisette
  • Madame Zora
  • Madge Purcell
  • Mae Strickland
  • Magda Lengyel
  • Maggie Dunleavy
  • Maitre d' Armand Leclerc
  • Maj. Dieter Hollweg
  • Manny Calavera
  • Manny Cortez
  • Manny Kaplan
  • Marbles McGinty
  • Marek Sobol
  • Marguerite Lowe
  • Marie Garson
  • Marjorie Pettibone
  • Mark McPherson
  • Marlene Voss
  • Martha Ivers
  • Marty Feld
  • Marty Shea
  • Marv
  • Marvin Unger
  • Mary Bristol
  • Matches Kovac
  • Matron Bertha Kunkel
  • Matt Scudder
  • Matty Walker
  • Mavis Weld
  • Max Payne
  • Max Thaler
  • Max von Mayerling
  • Maxine Thayer
  • Maxwell Thorpe
  • Mayor Chester Dunphy
  • Mayor Leland Voorhees
  • Medical Examiner Ruth Albrecht
  • Meg Tolland
  • Mei Lin Tsang
  • Mel Fairbrother
  • Meta Carson
  • Michael Shayne
  • Mickey Doyle

M, continued

  • Mickey the Mouthpiece
  • Mike Bolt
  • Mike Costello
  • Mike Hammer
  • Mike Lagana
  • Mike Rafferty
  • Mike Vargas
  • Mildred Pierce
  • Miles Archer
  • Millie Novak
  • Milt Gannon
  • Mimi Jorgensen
  • Mimi Katz
  • Mireille Dax
  • Miss Daphne Wainwright
  • Miss Dot Kessler
  • Miss Peggy Ryan
  • Miss Priscilla Thorndike
  • Miss Wilma Gantry
  • Mittens Gorman
  • Moe Fishbein
  • Mona Castellano
  • Mona Mars
  • Monsieur Fabron
  • Montgomery Ware
  • Monty Beragon
  • Moose Malloy
  • Morris Weiss
  • Mort Shale
  • Mouse Alexander
  • Mouthpiece Ned Larrabee
  • Mr. Benedict Loor
  • Mr. Julius Orne
  • Mr. Octavian Shaw
  • Mr. Sweet
  • Mr. Valentine Cray
  • Mrs. Agatha Rowe
  • Mrs. Augusta Pemberton
  • Mrs. Beatrice Lathrop
  • Mrs. Cordelia Vandermeer
  • Mrs. Helen Grayle
  • Mrs. Honoria Blackwood
  • Mrs. Lucille Bannister
  • Mrs. Olive Stanhope
  • Mrs. Winifred Crandall
  • Ms. Tree
  • Muriel Chess
  • Myrtle Osgood

N: 45 names

  • Nadine Reyes
  • Nails Petrucci
  • Nan Fogarty
  • Nan Sharpe
  • Nancy Callahan
  • Nat Fiore
  • Nat Shapiro
  • Nate Cordray
  • Nate Heller
  • Ned Beaumont
  • Ned Hollander
  • Ned Racine
  • Ned Scanlon
  • Neil Hagen
  • Nell Trelawney
  • Nero Wolfe
  • Newsie Tim Corbin
  • Nick Belane
  • Nick Bianco
  • Nick Carter
  • Nick Cassano
  • Nick Cassidy
  • Nick Charles
  • Nick Falco
  • Nick Lathe
  • Nick Marlowe
  • Nick Papadakis
  • Nick Stefanos
  • Nick Valentine
  • Nickels Trumbull
  • Night Editor Walt Hagerty
  • Night Watchman Pop Deaver
  • Nikki Arcane
  • Nikos Stavrakis
  • Nils Halvorsen
  • Nina Castell
  • Nine-Lives Nolan
  • Nino Zachetti
  • Noah Cross
  • Nora Charles
  • Nora Fitzgerald
  • Nora Temple
  • Norm Gault
  • Norma Desmond
  • Nunzio Ferrara

O: 14 names

  • Octavia Brill
  • Odessa Fontenot
  • Officer Bill Tarkowski
  • Officer Pat Clancy
  • Old Man Cavendish
  • Ole Andreson
  • Opal Winslow
  • Operator Lorraine Bell
  • Orfamay Quest
  • Oswald Trevelyan
  • Ott Wexler
  • Otto Brandt
  • Owen Thorne
  • Ozzie Platt

P: 38 names

  • Pat Novak
  • Pat Quill
  • Patrick Kenzie
  • Patrolman Denny Fitch
  • Patrolman Eddie Zuk
  • Patrolman Gus Lindstrom
  • Patrolman Tom Brophy
  • Paul Brandeis
  • Paul Madvig
  • Paula Gibson
  • Paulette Marais
  • Paulie the Plumber
  • Pavel Hrdina
  • Pearl Okamoto
  • Peg Donnelly
  • Peggy Sorrell
  • Pete Callaghan
  • Pete Ruggiero
  • Peter Gunn
  • Phil Deegan
  • Philip Marlowe
  • Philip Raven
  • Phyllis Dietrichson
  • Pickpocket Lew Spivey
  • Pierce Patchett
  • Pilar Montoya
  • Pinky Grillo
  • Pinstripe Hogan
  • Pockets Fanelli
  • Policewoman Alma Reese
  • Policewoman Grace Dolan
  • Polly Driscoll
  • Popeye Doyle
  • Pres Whitfield
  • Press Agent Solly Kern
  • Prince Dmitri Volkov
  • Promoter Duke Hannon
  • Public Defender Clara Mott

Q: 3 names

  • Quentin Fairweather
  • Quiet Carl Moeller
  • Quint Harker

R: 51 names

  • Race Williams
  • Radio Stankiewicz
  • Rafe Belden
  • Ramon Ortega
  • Ramona Vega
  • Randolph Mayhew
  • Raoul Santerre
  • Ratso Marino
  • Ray Bishop
  • Ray Chandler
  • Ray Corrigan
  • Ray Duquesne
  • Ray Landis
  • Ray Sturges
  • Red Halloran
  • Renata Corso
  • Rewrite Riley
  • Rex Callahan
  • Rex Danvers
  • Rex Halyard
  • Rex Marlin
  • Rex Sterling
  • Rhea Gutman
  • Richard Diamond
  • Rick Blaine
  • Rick Deckard
  • Rip Callister
  • Rip Murdock
  • Rita Falcone
  • Rock Hardcastle
  • Rocky Jordan
  • Rod Brannock
  • Roger Wade
  • Roman Castaine
  • Ronnie Wilde
  • Rosa Delgado
  • Rosalie Vantine
  • Rosalind Faber
  • Roscoe Pratt
  • Ross Kelso
  • Ross Macready
  • Rowena Fitzhugh
  • Roy Earle
  • Roy Fenner
  • Roy Kettering
  • Roy Slaughter
  • Ruby LaRue
  • Rudy Vance
  • Russ Halpern
  • Rusty Galloway
  • Rusty Regan

S: 81 names

  • Sabine Kessel
  • Sailor Jack Muldoon
  • Sal Benedetto
  • Sal Marconi
  • Sam Brogan
  • Sam Crowe
  • Sam Delgado
  • Sam Masterson
  • Sam Spade
  • Sam Whitlock
  • Sam Wild
  • Sammy Two-Shoes
  • Sawdust Olsen
  • Scoop Hanratty
  • Scott Varney
  • Senator Clayton Mowbray
  • Sgt. Ben Grogan
  • Sgt. Bill Fenton
  • Sgt. Cal Wozniak
  • Sgt. Con Flaherty
  • Sgt. Dom Peretti
  • Sgt. Earl Tibbets
  • Sgt. Ike Washburn
  • Sgt. Joe Cutler
  • Sgt. Joe Malloy
  • Sgt. Leo Mendoza
  • Sgt. Otto Krieger
  • Sgt. Pat Riordan
  • Sgt. Stan Gorski
  • Sgt. Walt Petrie
  • Shad O'Rory
  • Sharon McCone
  • Sheila Durand
  • Shelby Carpenter
  • Shell Scott
  • Sheridan Vale
  • Sheriff Amos Tate
  • Sherry Peatty
  • Shoeshine Petty
  • Shutterbug Kowalik

S, continued

  • Sid Amato
  • Sid Hudgens
  • Sid Navarro
  • Simon Templar
  • Simone Arden
  • Skinny Palermo
  • Slade Hunter
  • Slam Bradley
  • Sleepy Pete Vanek
  • Slim Cardoza
  • Slim Dundee
  • Smokes Renfro
  • Sniffles McGraw
  • Snitch Farrell
  • Sob Sister Tillie Crum
  • Soda Jerk Callan
  • Sol Reznik
  • Solly the Clock
  • Sonia Petrova
  • Sparrow Quist
  • Special Agent Dale Whitlow
  • Special Agent Roy Ostrander
  • Stage Manager Hy Brodsky
  • Stefan Bekowsky
  • Stefan Radek
  • Stella Duvall
  • Stenographer Enid Farr
  • Sterling Babcock
  • Steve Thompson
  • Stevedore Axel Bergstrom
  • Stevie Garrick
  • Stitches O'Dowd
  • Stoolie Mousey Krantz
  • Store Detective Mort Yeager
  • Suds Maguire
  • Sue Rackham
  • Sunny Bianchi
  • Super Leo Banaszak
  • Sy Kantor
  • Sybil Thackeray
  • Sylvia Rand

T: 50 names

  • Tad Lockhart
  • Tamara Orlova
  • Ted Marsden
  • Teddy the Torch
  • Terry Lennox
  • Tess Mahoney
  • The Accountant
  • The Barber
  • The Broker
  • The Commodore
  • The Continental Op
  • The Deacon
  • The Dentist
  • The Dutchman
  • The Fat Man
  • The Florist
  • The Night Clerk
  • The Professor
  • The Tailor
  • The Undertaker
  • Thelma Garland
  • Thimble Reardon
  • Thornton Greer
  • Three-Finger Frankie
  • Tibor Kemeny
  • Ticker Flood
  • Tilda Baxter
  • Tin Ear Dobbs
  • Tobias Hargreave
  • Toby Peters
  • Tom Delacroix
  • Tom Grady
  • Tom Polhaus
  • Tom Rooney
  • Tom Stone
  • Tombstone Hicks
  • Tommy Udo
  • Toni Bellini
  • Tony Lark
  • Tony Two-Times
  • Tony Villanueva
  • Toothpick Zabel
  • Torch Singer Lola Marchand
  • Torch Singer Ruby Devine
  • Trixie Vaughn
  • Trucker Bull Haney
  • Tug Braddock
  • Turnkey Bert Lomax
  • Two-Bit Tommy Rudd
  • Ty Boone

U: 1 name

  • Uncle Joe Grandi

V: 24 names

  • V.I. Warshawski
  • Val Kerrigan
  • Vance Latimer
  • Veda Pierce
  • Velma Costa
  • Velma Valento
  • Vera Kane
  • Vern Calloway
  • Verna Jarrett
  • Verna Lockridge
  • Vi Castleton
  • Vic Halloran
  • Vic Hasp
  • Vic Ryan
  • Vic Sable
  • Vic Torrance
  • Vince Black
  • Vince Moretti
  • Vince Stone
  • Vinnie the Fish
  • Virgil Tibbs
  • Vivian Blake
  • Vivian Sternwood
  • Vivienne Ashe

W: 24 names

  • Wade Corliss
  • Waitress Jo Beth Rigg
  • Waitress Mabel Stenson
  • Waldo Lydecker
  • Wally Burgan
  • Wally Prentiss
  • Walt Brisco
  • Walt Kessler
  • Walter Neff
  • Wanda Kruger
  • Warden Jasper Coyne
  • Weasel Wojcik
  • Web Tully
  • Wes Collier
  • Wes Tolliver
  • Whispering Joe Bruno
  • Whit Sterling
  • Whitey Malone
  • Will Pascoe
  • Willie the Whistle
  • Wilmer Cook
  • Winks Hauser
  • Winona Faye
  • Wyatt Kroll

Y: 5 names

  • Yale Burdick
  • Yolanda Cruz
  • Yusuf Demir
  • Yvette Laurent
  • Yvonne Sable

Z: 2 names

  • Zeke Pardo
  • Zelda Fairchild