Fallout: New Vegas Characters

Legend
vau The characters are grouped by their initial location. All columns can be sorted. Temporary followers have a brown checkmark instead of a green one. There are 373 total characters in the game, not including add-ons.

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 * symbol1 =
 * desc1  =Character starts game dead.
 * symbol2 =
 * desc2  =Character only appears under certain conditions or as part of a quest.
 * symbol3 =
 * desc3  =Character is essential.
 * symbol4 =
 * desc4  =Character will play Caravan.
 * symbol5 =
 * desc5  =Character provides doctor services, i.e. healing, cleansing radiation and curing addictions.
 * symbol6 =
 * desc6  =Character can be traded with.
 * symbol7 =
 * desc7  =Character can repair equipment.
 * symbol8 =
 * desc8  =Character is a companion.

Aerotech Office Park

 * ¹Horowitz and the other Vault 34 survivors will only be found here if the Courier chooses to save them during the Hard Luck Blues quest.

Bitter Springs

 * ¹ Oscar Valasco will only be here prior to the completion of Climb Ev'ry Mountain.

Camp McCarran

 * ¹ Following the completion of Three-Card Bounty the members of First Recon will move to Camp Forlorn Hope, and Little Buster will move to Freeside and be killed.

Crimson Caravan Company

 * ¹ Only if the Courier completes Ghost Town Gunfight.

The Fort

 * ¹Only if Benny survives Ring-a-Ding-Ding!
 * ²Only during Laurifer Gladiator

Freeside

 * ¹Beatrix Russell and Fisto will relocate to the Atomic Wrangler following completion of Wang Dang Atomic Tango.
 * ²Either Santiago or Old Ben can be sent to work for the Atomic Wrangler during Wang Dang Atomic Tango.

Goodsprings

 * ¹Ringo will relocate to the Crimson Caravan Company following Ghost Town Gunfight

Hoover Dam

 * ¹Only during Arizona Killer/You'll Know It When It Happens

NCR Correctional Facility

 * ¹Meyers will relocate to Primm following My Kind of Town if you choose to make him sheriff.

New Vegas Strip

 * ¹Alerio only appears if Vulpes Inculta has been killed prior to visiting the Strip.

Nipton

 * ¹Gabban only appears if Vulpes Inculta has been killed prior to the Courier's arrival in Nipton.

Primm

 * ¹Following the completion of My Kind of Town, Deputy Beagle will wander Primm, and the Ruby and Johnson Nash will relocate to the Nash residence.

Ranger Stations

 * ¹Only if sent there during We Will All Go Together.

Red Rock Canyon

 * ¹Melissa will only be here following Don't Make a Beggar of Me.

Miscellaneous Honest Hearts locations

 * ¹ Only during Sanctity of the Dead.
 * ² Salt-Upon-Wounds' location depends on which quest line the Courier follows.