"Famous" is extremely relative. The most-recognized characters are different from the characters everyone would really love to play or the characters that have the most lines.
However, Puck, from A Midsummer Night's Dream stands pretty high up on the list, I'm sure. The title character of Richard III, is up there too. Julius Caesar is probably most recognizable simply because he is a real historical figure known around the world, not just in England or in Shakespeare's era.
Sir John Falstaff was so famous in Shakespeare's day that he wrote another play, The Merry Wives of Windsor, just to showcase that character and it's now one of the best comic roles in the canon.
And of course, the tragic five are also recognized famously because they are studied academically, theatrically, and critically: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, and the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet.
There is no character which appears in all of Shakespeare's plays. It is in fact unusual to have the same character appear in more than one. When this happens, it is usually because the play is based on historical figures. Thus Mark Antony is in both Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra; Henry of Monmouth is the Prince of Wales in both parts of Henry IV and the titular king in Henry V; Richard of Gloucester along with his brothers George Duke of Clarence and Edward IV appear in the third part of Henry VI and also in Richard III.
Apart from these historical figures, the plays each have 12 (Othello) to 50 (Henry VI Part 2) named characters, although the usual number is around 20. Although they sometimes share a name (there are quite a few called Antonio), they are all separate characters. If you want to know them all, you must read all the plays. They include Dick the Butcher, the wisecracking second-in-command to Jack Cade in Henry VI Part 2, Abhorson, an executioner in Measure for Measure who is proud of his guild secrets, Parolles, a blowhard scam artist in All's Well that Ends Well, Luce, a serving woman in Comedy of Errors who is "spherical, like a globe", Morgan, a character on the lam in Cymbeline who lives in a cave, Ludovico, an emissary from Venice in Othello, who is shocked by the change in Othello, Jessica, Shylock's daughter in Merchant of Venice, who elopes and converts to Christianity and then seems to regret her choice, the gardener in Richard II who uses his garden as a political allegory and so on and on.
Of course, every part in Shakespeare has been played by hundreds of thousands of different actors over the last 400 years. Some of the actors who were in The Lord Chamberlain's men and who would have played in these plays when they were first performed include Richard Burbage, Will Kemp, William Sly, Shakespeare himself, Augustine Phillips, John Heminges, Henry Condell and Christopher Beeston.
Some of his best known characters would be romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Othello, all from plays of the same name. I may know them the best because these are the ones our school studies, as well as other works of shakespeare i have read
Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, you know! Important characters are bolded.
All's Well that Ends Well: Helena, Countess Rousillion, Widow, Diana, Violenta, Mariana
Antony and Cleopatra: Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, Octavia
As You Like It: Rosalind, Celia, Phoebe, Audrey
Comedy of Errors: Adriana, Luciana, Luce, Aemelia
Coriolanus: Volumnia, Virgilia, Valeria
Cymbeline: Imogen, Queen, Helen
Hamlet: Gertrude, Ophelia
Henry IV Part I: Lady Percy, Lady Mortimer, Mistress Quickly
Henry IV Part II: Lady Northumberland, Lady Percy, Mistress Quickly, Doll Tearsheet
Henry V: Princess Katherine, Queen Isabel, Alice, Hostess
Henry VI Part I: Joan la Pucelle, Margaret, Countess of Auvergne
Henry VI Part II: Queen Margaret, Eleanor Duchess of Gloucester, Margery Jourdain
Henry VI Part III: Queen Margaret, Lady Grey, Princess Bona
Henry VIII: Queen Katharine, Anne Bullen
Julius Caesar: Portia, Calpurnia
King John: Constance, Queen Elinor, Blanch of Spain, Lady Falconbridge
King Lear: Goneril, Regan, Cordelia
Love's Labour's Lost: Princess of France, Rosaline, Maria, Katharine, Jaquenetta
Macbeth: Lady Macbeth, Three Witches, Lady Macduff
Measure for Measure: Isabella, Mariana, Juliet, Francisca, Mrs. Overdone
Merchant of Venice: Portia, Nerissa, Jessica
Merry Wives of Windsor: Mrs. Page, Mrs. Ford, Anne Page, Mrs. Quickly
Midsummer Night's Dream: Hermia, Helena, Titania, Hippolyta
Much Ado About Nothing: Beatrice, Hero, Ursula, Margaret
Othello: Desdemona, Emilia, Bianca
Pericles: Marina, Thaisa, Dionyza, Lychorida
Richard II: Queen, Duchess of Gloucester, Duchess of York
Richard III: Lady Anne, Queen Margaret, Queen Elizabeth, Duchess of York
Romeo and Juliet: Juliet, Nurse, Lady Capulet, Lady Montague
Taming of the Shrew: Katherine, Bianca, Widow
Tempest: Miranda
Timon of Athens: Phrynia, Timandra
Titus Andronicus: Tamora, Lavinia
Troilus and Cressida: Cressida, Helen, Andromache, Cassandra
Twelfth Night: Viola, Olivia, Maria
Two Gentlemen of Verona: Sylvia, Julia,Lucetta
Two Noble Kinsmen: Emilia, Jailer's Daughter, Hippolyta, Three Queens
Winter's Tale: Perdita, Paulina, Hermione, Emilia, Mopsa, Dorcas
Plus of course innumerable servants, ladies, Shepherdesses and other extras.
Look at the titles of many of his plays. If that isn't helpful, try the list of characters located at the beginning of most published plays.
romeo & Juliet
Romeo, Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet.
Men and boys played these parts. It was considered indecent for women to appear on stage.
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I think, probably, Romeo and Juliet.
In one of his great plays, his main characters, in a love play, were Romeo and Juliet.
Men and boys played these parts. It was considered indecent for women to appear on stage.
All of the plays called histories are about the Kings of England and the political events of their reign, although some of the kings, like Henry IV and Henry IV, are not major characters in the plays that bear their names.
memorable characters
chips and beans
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Petruchio and Kate.
I first found Shakespeare's plays when I was introduced to them at school.
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hamlet
The Globe Theater, London.