Minor Characters
Kiki Holcombe
– Ralston Holcombe’s wife, Kiki Holcombe holds an architectural salon every Sunday that every famous architect in the city attends.
Hopton Stoddard
Hopton Stoddard is a wealthy man who atones for his unethical behavior by turning to religion. On Toohey’s advice, he gives Roark the commission to build the Stoddard Temple, but he is very displeased with the final product and sues Roark for damages.
Athelstan Beasely
Athelstan Beasely is the “court jester of the A.G.A.” (the Architects’ Guild of America), who writes articles mocking Roark’s work.
Helen
Helen is Ellsworth Toohey’s older sister and Catherine Halsey’s mother.
Aunt Adeline
Aunt Adeline is Ellsworth Toohey’s maiden aunt who comes to live with the family after his mother dies.
Kent Lansing
Kent Lansing is a man of integrity who persuades a corporation to award Howard Roark the contract to build the Aquitania luxury hotel.
Lancelot Clokey
The Banner’s foreign correspondent, Clokey writes a terrible book about his travels and Toohey ensures that it becomes a bestseller.
Mitchell Layton
Mitchell Layton is a billionaire and communist sympathizer. Toohey gets Layton to become a shareholder of the Banner by buying the shares through proxies, thus guaranteeing that Layton will be a member of the Banner’s board and that Toohey can exercise his influence on Wynand through Layton.
Eve Layton
Eve is Mitchell Layton’s wife.
Homer Slottern
Slottern is a rich businessman who wants to pull his ads out of the Banner because he dislikes Wynand’s support of Roark and worries that it is endangering the popularity of the Banner.
Renée Slottern
– Renée is Homer Slottern’s wife.
Professor Peterkin
Peterkin is the professor of design at the Stanton Institute of Technology who campaigns for Roark’s expulsion.
Shlinker
Shlinker is Keating’s academic rival at the Stanton Institute of Technology.
Tim Davis
Tim Davis is the most favored draftsman at Francon & Heyer when Keating joins the firm. Keating befriends him and offers to do most of his work, and then has him fired for being redundant.
Mrs. Dunlop
Mrs. Dunlop is a wealthy woman who is a potential client for Francon & Heyer. Keating secretly convinces her to hire Stengel for the job so Stengel will quit the firm to start his own, leaving his job open for Keating to take.
Mrs. Sanborn
Mrs. Sanborn is Whitford Sanborn’s wife, who is not pleased with his decision to choose Roark as their architect since she wants their house to look like a French chateau and Roark refuses to do this.
Weidler
Weidler is a member of the board of directors at the Manhattan Bank Company.
Slotnick
Slotnick is one of the owners of the Cosmo-Slotnick Building.
Neil Dumont
Dumont is Keating’s new partner at the firm after Francon retires. Though Dumont has no talent as a designer, Keating picks him because he comes from a distinguished family.