Character may refer to:

• Character (persona), a social role
• Fictional character, a character who has never existed
• Non-fictional character, usage of a real person in a fictional context
• Moral character
• Sacramental character, a Catholic teaching
• Character structure, personal traits

In symbols:

• Chinese character, a written language symbol
• Character (computing), a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme
• Character (mathematics)

In accounting and mathematics:

• Character (income tax), a type of income for tax purposes in the USA

In entertainment:

• Character (1997 film)
• Character (album), by Dark Tranquillity
• Characters (album), by Stevie Wonder
• Character Options, a toy company
• The Characters, a book by the Greek philosopher Theophrastus