| Cyrus | Badger | A new zoo keeper. |
| Edward | Bean | Chicago's Brookfield Zoo director. |
| Belle | Benchley | The first female zoo director. |
| Margaret | Bourke-White | American photographer. |
| Percival T. | Bowles | Owns a traveling circus. |
| Fenemore | Cooper | American writer. |
| Dapper | Dan | American fashion designer. |
| Amelia | Earhart | American aviator. |
| Clark | Gable | American film actor. |
| Rube | Goldberg | An early twentieth-century American cartoonist. |
| Dr. | Harry | Founder of the Zoo. |
| Adolf | Hitler | The leader of the Nazi Party. |
| Mr. | Jackson | Father of the clan that owns cottages. aka: Big Papa. |
| Riley | Jones | The man in-charged of the giraffes. |
| Lionel Abraham | Lowe | A reporter. |
| Ned | Nickel | Woody's father. |
| Woodrow | Nickel | The narrator. aka: Woody, Woodrow Wilson. |
| Augusta | Red | A young journalist. |
| John D. | Rockefeller | American business magnate. |
| Eleanor | Roosevelt | Former First Lady of the United States. |
| Franklin D. | Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President. |
| George | Washington | 1st U.S. President. |
| Annie Mae | | Honey Bee's mother. |
| Augie Ann | | Red and Lionel's daughter. |
| Beaulah | | A witch. |
| Cooter | | Gas station owner. |
| Cuz | | Woodrow's third-cousin's boss. |
| Earl | | A driver. |
| Greasy | | Woodrow's acquaintance. |
| Hawkeye | | A frontiersman back in colonial days. |
| Honey Bee | | Mr. Jackson's little girl. |
| Lofty | | A boy giraffe. |
| Mabel | | A paymaster. |
| Marconey | | A galoot. |
| Moses | | Woody's new acquaintance. |
| Patches | | A girl giraffe. |
| Rosie | | Woodrow's acquaintance. |
