What are the names of the Seven Dwarves or of the Harpies ? Here is my personal list of the names of individuals in collective entities – other lists are more comprehensive, and books are available with more comprehensive information, as well. Please inform me of errors that I have made or of additions that you would like to make via email.
Castaways, Gilligan's Island – [Willy] Gilligan (Bob Denver), Skipper Jonas Grumby (Alan Hale, Jr), Thurston Howell III (Jim Backus), Lovey Wentworth Howell (Natalie Schafer), Ginger Grant (Tina Louise), Professor Roy Hinkley (Russell Johnson), Mary Ann Summers (Dawn Wells)
Dwarves, Seven – Sleepy, Dopey, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Doc, Bashful
Fates (Moerai) – Lachesis (assigns fate to persons), Clotho (spins thread of life), Atropos (cuts length of life from thread)
Furies (Eumenides) – Alecto (the unresting),
Megaera (the jealous), Tisiphone (the avenger)
[N.B., do not refer to them as “Erinyes”
(Furies), lest you face the ancient punishment of being made insane. Talk
about the Kindly Ones nicely.]
Gorgons – Stheno (the mighty), Euryale (the wide-wandering), Medusa (the cunning)
Graces – Euphrosyne, Aglaia, Thalia
Harpies – Aello, Ocypete, Celeno, Thyella
Horae – Eunomia (order), Dice (justice),
Eirene (peace)
[N.B., daughters of Zeus
and Themis, they control the weather and growing and are goddesses of the
seasons.]
Muses – Calliope (epic poetry), Clio
(history), Euterpe (lyric poetry), Thalia (comedy),
Melpomene (tragedy), Terpsichore (choral dance/song),
Erato (erotic poetry), Polyhymnia (sacred poetry), Urania
(astronomy)
[N.B., these nine are daughters
of Zeus and Mnemosyne (memory).]
Reindeer, Santa's – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph
von Trapp, Family – Georg (“the
Captain”), Maria, Liesl, Louisa, Friedrich,
Kurt, Brigitta, Marta, Gretl
[N.B., Baroness Schraeder's first name was
Ilsa.]
Winds – Aeolus (keeper of the winds), Boreas (god of the north wind), Eurus (god of the east wind), Notus (god of the south wind), Zephyrus (god of the west wind); Mariah (they call the wind by her name)