The People of "Gilmore Girls"

• Lorelai Gilmore is a thirty-two-year-old inn manager.
• Rory is Lorelai's daughter.
• Sookie St. James is an accident-prone chef.
• Lane Kim is Rory's best friend. She comes from a super-strict Korean family.

Above: Lorelai inserts herself into a conversation between Lane and Rory.

• Michel Gerard is the French concierge at Independence Inn.
• Luke Danes owns a coffee shop in Stars Hollow.
• Paris Geller attends Chilton with Rory. She is Rory's enemy.
• Tristan Dugray is Paris' friend.
• Mr. Medina is Rory's English teacher.
• Miss Patty is the local dance teacher. She knows just about everything about everyone in town.
• Emily and Richard Gilmore are Lorelai's parents. Rory and Lorelai go to their house once a week for dinner.
  In return, they help to pay for Rory to go to Chilton.
• Rachel is Luke's girlfriend. In "Concertus Interruptus," Lorelai steals her sweater from a rummage sale pile. Then Rachel shows up, in "Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers." She is, in a few words, a curly-haired, perky, photographer. Lorelai got her a drawer in Luke's apartment (whoo-hoo!). She later leaves, in the season finale, "Love and Daisies and Troubadours."
• Christopher is Rory's dad. He doesn't live with the family and talking about him is a no-no. He came for a visit, once in "Christopher Returns" and in "Presenting Lorelai Gilmore." In the second of those two, he had a girlfriend and a steady job.

Above: Babette Dell talks with Rory as Lorelai fixes coffee.

• Morey and Babette Dell are Lorelai and Rory's neighbors. They have a cat, Apricot, and used to have one named Cinnamon.
  Cinnamon died, and everyone in town attended the funeral.