List of Atlas Shrugged characters

This is a list of characters in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.

Major characters

The following are major characters from the novel.

Protagonists

Dagny Taggart

Dagny Taggart is the protagonist of the novel. She is Vice-President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, under her brother, James Taggart. Given James' incompetence, Dagny is responsible for all the workings of the railroad.

Francisco d'Anconia

Francisco d'Anconia is one of the central characters in Atlas Shrugged, an owner by inheritance of the world's largest copper mining operation. He is a childhood friend, and the first love, of Dagny Taggart. A child prodigy of exceptional talents, Francisco was dubbed the "climax" of the d'Anconia line, an already prestigious family of skilled industrialists. He was a classmate of John Galt and Ragnar Danneskjöld and student of both Hugh Akston and Robert Stadler. He began working while still in school, proving that he could have made a fortune without the aid of his family's wealth and power. Later, Francisco bankrupts the d'Anconia business to put it out of others' reach. His full name is given as "Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastián d'Anconia".

Dagny

Dagny is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Geography

The river Aubetin flows northwestward through the commune.

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Dagny (name)

Dagny is a feminine given name of Scandinavian and especially Norwegian origin. Alternate forms include Dagna, Dagne and the Latvian form Dagnija.

It is derived from the combination of the Old Norse words "dagr" - "day" and "ný" "new." While appearing in Norse mythology it had virtually fallen out of use for centuries, and was revived at the second half of the 19th century, which is attributed to a character of that name in Henrik Ibsen’s 1857 play "The Vikings of Helgeland" or more likely as a result of Dagny, a Scandinavian Women's magazine founded in 1886. In any case, it was at its most common in Scandinavia in the early to mid 20th century.

Notable people with the name include:

Dagny (film)

Dagny is a 1977 Norwegian-Polish documentary film directed by Haakon Sandøy. It is narrated by, among others, Lise Fjeldstad, Daniel Olbrychski, Per Oscarsson and Nils Ole Oftebro. The subject of the film is the Norwegian writer Dagny Juel (Fjeldstad), and her relationship to such men as Stanisław Przybyszewski (Olbrychski), Edvard Munch (Oftebro) and August Strindberg (Oscarsson).

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