Famous Characters

Famous Characters are characters that fit into the Club Penguin storyline and missions. Meetable famous characters, also called Mascots, are meetable and give out a free background at parties.

Guests of Club Penguin
* indicates that a character has been removed from game files, and will not return as a mascot.

Non-meetable Characters
Other characters have made major or important appearances, and are considered to be famous. Some former non-meetable characters have been promoted to mascots (Rookie, Herbert, and Dot. Some have made appearances as sprite character in game. To be considered a famous non-meetable character, they must have made at least two nonconcurrent appearances.
 * Jet Pack Guy
 * Rory
 * Tourdude
 * Shadow Guy and Gamma Gal (fictional characters)
 * Gariwald
 * Tusk
 * Klutzy
 * Protobot
 * Test Bots
 * Famous creatures
 * Yarr
 * Lolz
 * Pete
 * Darwin
 * Keeper of the Boiler Room
 * Keeper of the Stage
 * Elite Puffles

Visitors
Some characters have appeared once and were not meetable, but warrant recognition because of their action. Examples include party visitors who were not mascots, or one-off villains who participated only in their event.

Friendly

 * The Muppets
 * Cole Plante
 * Zendaya
 * Sabrina Carpenter
 * Violetta
 * Elsa
 * Anna
 * Olaf

Villainous

 * Skip
 * Scorn
 * Constantine
 * Pirate Crabs
 * The Inquisitor
 * Tusk's Minions (Sly, Scrap, and Tank)

Moderators
Many penguins consider Moderators and their test accounts famous:

Trivia

 * After the 2011 Buddy List update, while trying to add a famous penguin to your buddy list, a message will pop, saying you have to meet them, in order to add them as Friends.
 * Some mascots have special dances for their outfits. Rookie can fly with his propeller cap, and the Penguin Band can play their instruments.
 * Throughout 2013, all mascots were updated to appear in the new penguin art style. As a result, some (Aunt Arctic, Sensei, Rockhopper) were given outfits for the first time. Others (PH, Dot, Jet Pack Guy) were given new or updated outfits.
 * If you have a mascot as a friend, you can earn the latest background they give out on the Buddy List without meeting them.
 * On April 25, 2013, Rocky and CeCe's in-game sprites and player cards have been completely removed from Club Penguin files, meaning they will not come back at any time.
 * A common misconception is that all mascots are only controlled by bots. However, they are actually controlled by moderators as well as bots.