# The 15 Greatest Sitcom Side Characters of All Time

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*By YPB Team · Published August 25, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-15-greatest-sitcom-side-characters-of-all-time*

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1. **Ron Swanson** — score 1000/1000
   Woodworking libertarian running the Pawnee parks department, played by Nick Offerman.
2. **Dwight Schrute** — score 699/1000
   Assistant to the regional manager at Dunder Mifflin, played by Rainn Wilson.
3. **Tracy Jordan** — score 512/1000
   Unmanageable film star on 30 Rock, played by Tracy Morgan.
4. **Milton Waddams** — score 468/1000
   Stapler-guarding cubicle worker of Office Space, played by Stephen Root.
5. **Barney Stinson** — score 363/1000
   Suit-wearing serial dater on How I Met Your Mother, played by Neil Patrick Harris.
6. **Gary Walsh** — score 363/1000
   The vice president's endlessly loyal bagman on Veep, played by Tony Hale.
7. **Jean-Ralphio Saperstein** — score 363/1000
   Pawnee's flamboyant failed entrepreneur, played by Ben Schwartz.
8. **Ann Perkins** — score 363/1000
   Nurse and Leslie Knope's best friend in Pawnee, played by Rashida Jones.
9. **Stanley Hudson** — score 299/1000
   Crossword-solving salesman at Dunder Mifflin, played by Leslie David Baker.
10. **Perd Hapley** — score 299/1000
   Pawnee's circular-talking local news anchor, played by Jay Jackson.
11. **Kelly Kapoor** — score 226/1000
   Dunder Mifflin's customer service representative, played by Mindy Kaling.
12. **Creed Bratton** — score 140/1000
   Quality assurance at Dunder Mifflin, played by the former Grass Roots guitarist of the same name.
13. **April Ludgate** — score 140/1000
   Deadpan intern turned assistant in Pawnee, played by Aubrey Plaza.
14. **Norm Peterson** — score 140/1000
   The barfly greeted by name in every Cheers entrance, played by George Wendt.
15. **Gunther** — score 38/1000
   Central Perk's manager and Rachel's quiet admirer on Friends, played by James Michael Tyler.

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