List of characters in Jurassic Park
The following is a list of characters from
Michael Crichton’s novels Jurassic Park and
The Lost World. Details are also given on the
characters’ roles in Steven Spielberg’s film
adaptations,
Jurassic Park and The Lost
World: Jurassic Park, as well as Jurassic Park
III, directed by Joe Johnston. The latter is not
an adaptation but contains characters and
events based on Crichton’s novels.
Recurring characters
These characters appear more than once in
the franchise.
Dr. Alan Grant
Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film),
Jurassic Park III
Dr. Alan Grant is one of the main charac-
ters in Michael Crichton’s novel and in the
films Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. In
the novel, Grant is described as a wide-ches-
ted, bearded man with a strong affinity for
children, especially due to their liking for di-
nosaurs. Grant is said to be one of the
world’s most renowned paleontologists, his
speciality being the hadrosaurs, or duck-
billed dinosaurs such as Maiasaura. He is
mentioned only once in the sequel novel The
Lost World by Richard Levine, who claims he
had proposed a ridiculous theory that the
Tyrannosaurus rex could not function in rainy
climates.
In the films, he was portrayed by Sam
Neill. The film’s Dr. Grant does not like chil-
dren at all and seems to be a rather introver-
ted person. He is never said to be a widower,
and instead, he is dating paleobotanist Ellie
Sattler. The film version of the character is a
specialist in Velociraptor, and he is among
the many paleontologists that believe birds
are descended from that kind of dinosaurs.
In the first film, Grant is asked by John
Hammond, the creator of Jurassic Park, to
take a tour of Jurassic Park and endorse it, so
that Hammond’s investors will be more con-
fident about the park. Grant agrees, not
knowing that Hammond has managed to
clone real dinosaurs. However, when the
creatures escape and start killing people,
Grant becomes stranded in the park with
Hammond’s grandchildren. Although this ex-
perience changes his