List of Hannah Montana characters

'Mamaw' Ruthie Ray Stewart () is Miley and Jackson's paternal grandmother and Robby's mother ("Mamaw" is a nickname given to a grandmother). She lives in Tennessee but occasionally visits California. Ruthie is a demanding and opinionated woman, often seen nagging Robby about his habits and parenting skills. Ruthie also makes fun of him for being fat. While in high school Ruthie dated fellow Tennessean Elvis Presley and claimed to have been the one to first give him the nickname "The King" after playing checkers with him. Elvis eventually started dating Aunt Dolly which began a 30-year feud between the two women. A former Olympian who played volleyball at the 1964 Olympics, Ruthie maintained her competitive streak throughout life: From 1982 to 1999, she won "Lunch Lady of the Year" from the North Central Nashville School District every single year and in "Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Play Favorites" she was seen competing with Queen Elizabeth II in an arcade dance-game. Both Miley and Jackson love "Mamaw," but they often find her overbearing. Ruthie alienates Miley in "Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Play Favorites" by clearly showing favoritism toward Jackson. Ruthie feels that because of all Miley's success, Jackson is often overlooked in the family, not realizing she is overlooking Miley's feelings as well. Ruthie reconciles with Miley and teaches her to better appreciate her brother. In the episode "B-B-B-Bad to the Chrome", Ruthie is seen to have a battered old car called Loretta (a 1980s Cadillac Eldorado convertible). Loretta has 40 years of smells including her husband's hair tonic and tomato sauce in between the seats. Ruthie has appeared once in Season 1, 2, and 4, and twice in the third. The episodes include: "Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Play Favorites," "I Will Always Loathe You," "You Give Lunch a Bad Name," "B-B-B-Bad to the Chrome", and "I Am Mamaw, Hear Me Roar!"

Vicki Lawrence

"Bubba" Joe Stewart was Ruthie's husband and Robby's father. Very little is said about him except that he had large ears and that he and Ruthie started dating after a school dance. He is presumably deceased as the family refers to him in the past tense

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Grandma Ruby () is Jackson and Miley's maternal grandmother, Robby's mother-in-law, and Susan's mother. She lives in Crowley Corners, Tennessee. She is rarely mentioned in the series, although Robby says that she goes to singles bingo.^[28] In Hannah Montana: The Movie, Ruby's birthday is Robby's excuse for taking the family back to Tennessee for two weeks. Ruby helps teach Miley the value of family and staying true to oneself

Margo Martindale

Aunt Dolly () is a long-time friend of the Stewart family, long enough to remember when Robby was in diapers. Although not a blood relation, the Stewarts consider her a family member as she is Miley Stewart's godmother. Miley is seen to rely on her advice and encouragement. Dolly is also partly responsible for Miley's parents getting married. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and dog Rufus. She has appeared in two episodes: "Good Golly, Miss Dolly" and "I Will Always Loathe You" in which she visits California. The character is primarily based on Parton herself who is the real-life godmother of Miley Cyrus. It is unclear if, like Dolly Parton, Aunt Dolly has a career in music; although she does mention that she used to perform on stage, and she was a go-to person for Miley when she was considering becoming a professional singer and, in "I Will Always Loathe You", Ruthie tells Dolly she "put the 'old' in Grand Ole Opry". She returned for the episode, "Kiss It All Goodbye". Her 30-year feud with Mamaw Ruthie Ray Stewart is due to both having dated Elvis Presley

Dolly Parton

Uncle Earl () is one of Robby's brothers from Tennessee. Earl seems to have provided the family with endless stories and jokes, often at his own expense. Most of the stories about Uncle Earl concern his being overweight, lazy, smelly, or his fun-loving, childlike personality. For example, Uncle Earl once drilled for oil and accidentally hit a sewage pipe;^[29] Uncle Earl once tried to box a kangaroo and got knocked out cold;^[30] Uncle Earl once found a week-old sardine in his fat fold when he was looking for the remote;^[31] Uncle Earl once fell off a horse and it took four people to help him up; and Uncle Earl once chased a rolling quarter through a car wash and it was the cleanest he ever was in his life.^[32] It is learned that Earl enjoys watching football and playing poker, and he is a huge fan of Shakira.^[33] Robby says that Earl is one of the all-time great pranksters.^[34] He once went to college, but only stayed for four days.^[35] Earl is an unseen character for much of the series, but finally makes an appearance in the second-season episode "(We're So Sorry) Uncle Earl." It is revealed that Earl's lifelong ambition is to be a rock star, and he hopes that Miley will be able to help him achieve that goal. Miley learns in a dream sequence that the table with the brightly colored mannequin legs, often seen in the Stewarts' kitchen, was bought by Robby at one of Uncle Earl's garage sales^[36]

David Koechner

Aunt Pearl is Earl's wife. In a similar manner to Earl, she has provided the family with endless stories and jokes. Unlike Earl, who did eventually appear, Aunt Pearl has remained completely unseen on screen, making her the longest-running unseen character in the show whose voice has not been heard

Luann Stewart (Miley Cyrus) is Miley's identical cousin who visits from Tennessee in the episode "Torn Between Two Hannahs." She looks very similar to Miley, except that she wears overalls, braids her hair, and speaks in a more exaggerated southern accent. Miley is convinced that Luann is evil, although Robby doesn't believe it. Miley claims that Luann pushed her down a well when she was six years old; Robby thinks that Luann is nice because she pulled Miley back out. Luann causes Miley trouble by dressing up as Hannah Montana and threatening to reveal her secret. Oliver and Luann are attracted to each other, but they never date. Throughout the episode, Miley makes several witch-related comments about Luann in keeping with the episode's Halloween theme

Bobby Ray Stewart () is Robby's identical twin brother and Luann's father. Like his daughter, Bobby has an exaggerated southern accent^[37]

Billy Ray Cyrus

Francis Corelli () is a teacher of Miley, Lilly and Oliver. He is sometimes weird. He often teaches in an exaggerated fashion, by trying to be the "cool teacher", but he is the cool and fun teacher. He is usually star struck when he meets a celebrity like Jake or Hannah Montana. Even though he is unaware that Miley is Hannah Montana. It is later revealed that he lives in his mom's basement. He was Hannah's private tutor in the episode "When You Wish You Were the Star"

Greg Baker

Karen Kunkle (Erin Matthews) is a teacher of Miley, Lilly, Oliver, Jackson and Rico. She is very strict to Miley and Jackson. In an attempt to get good grades, Jackson sets his father up on a date with Karen Kunkle but fails when his father has an argument with her over his cooking ingredients. She revealed to Miley that she is from , and that she doesn't find her country sayings charming, but she was impressed with her "Bone Dance" she did during her Biology Test, calling it "The Best Study Technique she has ever seen"

Detroit

Lori () is a nurse at Seaview High School whom Robby Ray is dating. Miley first overhears her phone-conversation with her mother (continuously trying to set her up with dates in order to get discounts) and sets her up with Robby Ray. She only appears in three episodes

Christine Taylor

Rachel () is Miley and Jake's classmate from Spanish class. She and Jake Ryan start dating in "Good Golly, Miss Dolly," a fact that Miley learns just after working up the courage to tell Jake her feelings for him. In "People Who Use People", it is said that Jake broke up with Rachel

Summer Bishil

Lucas () boyfriend of Lilly in the episode "My Best Friend's Boyfriend". Miley finds out he is cheating on Lilly in the same episode and then Lilly breaks up with him

Sterling Knight

Henrietta Laverne (Jaelin Palmer) also known as "The Cracker" appears in "Schooly Bully". She bullies Dandruff Danny, then starts to bully Miley. Miley and Lilly hear rumor that she was kicked out of her old school and they get scared. Miley asks Roxy for help, but she refuses so Miley tries to scare The Cracker off with fake martial arts skills, which does not work. In the end, Miley and Lilly conduct a plan for the principal to catch The Cracker, and it worked, which turned out to be Roxy using . It is also assumed that she bullies people because she was bullied because of her name

reverse psychology

Guillermo Montoya () is, in Oliver's opinion, the greatest tennis player in the world. He appears backstage at a Hannah concert where he meets Hannah, Lola, and for the first time, Mike Standley. He is a fierce competitor and claims to never lose. He plays in the United People's Relief Celebrity Pro-Am tournament, and picks Hannah as his celebrity partner after Kelly Clarkson has to drop out^[44]

Michael Steger

Joey Vitolo () is a retired Major League Baseball player and was the first player to hit five home runs in his first five at bats. His career was abruptly ended after he injured his shoulder doing a celebratory cartwheel on his last home run. After leaving baseball, he owns and operates "Vitolo's", an Italian restaurant in Pasadena. He tends to shy away from fans, possibly from the ill treatment he has received by sportscasters after his retirement. It is also revealed that he has an ambition of becoming a pop star. He performs with Hannah at "Vitolo's". His daughter, Angela Vitolo (Juliette Goglia), is a huge fan of Hannah Montana

Joey Fatone

Cindy Merriweather () is the puppeteer of Pancake Buffalo (actually performed by Victor Yerrid, voiced by Susie Geiser), the puppet star of a long running children's television program. Pancake is a purple buffalo puppet and has a large number of loyal fans, known as "Buffalo Buddies." Merriweather pretends that Pancake is real. She has a weakness for Swiss truffles^[45]

Edie McClurg

Isis () is a famous pop star who has dominated the charts for 20 years. Both Miley and Lilly have been fans of Isis since they were young. Hannah and Lola meet Isis in "Yet Another Side of Me" where she makes Hannah question her career. Isis is based on the real-life pop star Madonna. Both are named after revered maternal figures (Isis and the Madonna) and both are known for regularly changing their image. Isis' songs "Immaterial Girl" and "Impress Yourself" reference Madonna's songs "Material Girl" and "Express Yourself"^[46]

Rachel York

Austin Rain () is a young country rocker who collaborates with Hannah for the successful duet "Us Isn't Us Without You." Austin and Hannah's publicists have them fake date in public, but they both secretly hate each other. Hannah comes clean about the relationship live on The Real Deal with Colin Lassiter, his real name is Albert Niedermayer

Mark Hapka

Evan (Kunal Sharma) is Traci's boyfriend in "It's My Party and I'll Lie If I Want To". Traci mentioned having an ex-boyfriend in "Once, Twice, Three Times Afraidy"

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Holly () is an actress who appeared in a commercial for a toe fungus treatment. She stars alongside Jake Ryan in a film and they fake date to increase publicity^[48]

Josie Lopez

Marissa Hughes () is an actress who stars in Teen Gladiators and the Sword of Fire with Jake Ryan. According to Jake, he and Marissa pretend to be dating to increase interest in the film, similarly to how he had earlier dated Holly. On Jake and Marissa's fake date, he says Miley's name rather than Marissa's^[38]

Nicole Anderson

Alison () is Jackson's on and off-again girlfriend. She appeared in episodes, "No Sugar, Sugar (cancelled)", "Jake... Another Little Piece of My Heart" and "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)." She was last seen when she dumped Jackson after he got a good mark on a test because of her

Katerina Graham

Heather (Gina DeVivo) is a skateboard competitor. She has beaten Lilly multiple times in an annual competition and enjoys taunting Lilly about it. Her sidekick friend is Kim (Destiny Edmond)

(Ashley Tisdale), a character originating in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, is an employee of Boston's Tipton Hotel and a big fan of Hannah Montana. Maddie appears in "On the Road Again?" in which she meets Hannah and Robby while they visit the Tipton on tour. Hannah says that Maddie is a friend of hers, presumably from when they met in the Suite Life episode "The That's So Suite Life Of Hannah Montana." Hannah gave Maddie tickets to her concert. Maddie's mother, Margie Fitzpatrick, is a fan of Robbie Ray. Maddie is starstruck when she meets him. She later appears in San Diego to see Robbie Ray's comeback performance but arrives too late to see the show. She is nonetheless excited to see that they have not left yet

Maddie Fitzpatrick

(John D'Aquino) is the President of the United States. Hannah performs a concert for him and his family. The character originated in Cory in the House. The president embarrasses his daughter by trying to act cool in front of Hannah Montana. Roxy saves him from contaminated sushi, and he immediately asks her to work for the Secret Service^[28]

President Richard Martinez

(Madison Pettis) is President Martinez's seven-year-old daughter, also originating in Cory in the House. Sophie is an enthusiastic Hannah Montana fan and is excited when she gets to meet her. She later dresses up like Hannah, and Lilly dresses up like Hannah in order to cover for Miley while she goes to look for Roxy. Sophie is unconvinced that Lilly is Hannah because she has no talent^[28]

Sophie Martinez

Agent Kaplan () is a childish Secret Service agent who is assigned to protect President Martinez and Sophie. He seems to enjoy playing with dolls and is excited about going to the "Make-A-Moose" store. He does not appear on Cory in the House, yet appears in the crossover episode "Take This Job and Love It"

Laird Macintosh

from The Suite Life on Deck appears in the episode "Super(stitious) Girl" as part of the Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana crossover event. Mr. Moseby spends most of the time trying to make Hannah's stay on the SS Tipton comfortable by keeping her away from crazed fans. Miley appears solely as Hannah in the whole crossover event

Marion Moseby

Lydia is a maid on board the S.S. Tipton who finds Miley's charm anklet

(Brenda Song) is bitter at Hannah that she will not record the theme song for Yay Me Starring London Tipton. She finds Hannah's anklet and accidentally drops it overboard in disgust after learning the diamonds are synthetic imitations. Hannah apparently performed at one of London's birthday parties, but she was never paid, and is still owed

London Tipton

(Dylan Sprouse) spots Hannah on the S.S. Tipton and tries to impress her by getting dessert for her

Zack Martin

(Cole Sprouse) and Bailey Pickett (Debby Ryan) appear as a couple in "Super(stitious) Girl." Hannah gives them tickets to her concert in Hawaii, as well as to the afterparty. Hannah met Cody years earlier, in "The That's So Suite Life Of Hannah Montana," though she was only able to recognize Cody (mistaking him for Zack) in Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana when he had cake on his shirt. (This was because in "That's So Suite Life Of Hannah Montana" she ate cake off Zack's shirt)

Cody Martin

was the first celebrity to guest star as himself. He appeared in "My Best Friend's Boyfriend" along with his daughters Cazzie and Romy David. The Davids wait over an hour to be seated at a restaurant. In order to get seated faster, Larry tells the maître d' (Jorge Luis Abreu) it is Romy's birthday, and then Cazzie's birthday. When Hannah arrives at the restaurant she is seated immediately, prompting Romy to say "face it dad, she's bigger than you." Cazzie then remarks if "Uncle Jerry" can let them in. This scene is a reference to the popular Seinfeld episode "The Chinese Restaurant"

Larry David

attends a Hannah Montana concert in "When You Wish You Were the Star." He later invites Hannah to come with him and some friends to "The Dragon Room" (a reference to "The Viper Room"), but Hannah is unable to go because Miley is too busy. This leads her to make the wish that she was Hannah all the time, thinking that life would be much easier. After making her wish, Jesse McCartney is her hopelessly infatuated boyfriend. He even buys her a private island called "Papoey.". He also guest starred as himself in an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a guest of the Tipton Hotel

Jesse McCartney

The (Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas) appear in "Me and Mr. Jonas and Mr. Jonas and Mr. Jonas" Hannah and Robbie Ray first meet the Jonas Brothers at the recording studios. Robby develops a friendship with the boys and writes the song "We Got the Party" for them. Robby seems to have so much fun hanging out with the Jonas Brothers, that Miley becomes jealous and tries to discredit his songwriting in front of the Jonas Brothers. Hannah later collaborates with the band in a rendition of "We Got the Party"

Jonas Brothers

comes to town for his new film in "Don't Stop Till You Get the Phone." Johnson falls victim to Miley's plot to get an embarrassing picture of him – something Miley does to keep a picture of Hannah being published that could reveal her secret. Miley and Lilly masquerade as complimentary hotel beauticians, visiting Johnson at his room and tricking him into getting a makeover. The plan works perfectly, although Miley immediately feels guilty about the plan and offers the picture back to Johnson. The girls wind up befriending him and he helps Miley get the Hannah picture back from the publisher

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

appears at a charity auction for beach conservation in "We're All On This Date Together." Osmond serves as the auctioneer, credited as himself

Donny Osmond

appears on "Love That Let's Go." Jackson flips to a page in a wrestling magazine with John Cena, with the top of the page reading, "Grrrrr...." on it. When he moves and says, "What are you looking at me for, you troglodite?" Cena walks up to him from behind and touches him. Jackson steps away and Cena tells him to read the book (not the magazine). Jackson replies, "But reading hurts," so Cena picks him up and slams him. Then, he locks him up in a submission, uses the Attitude Adjustment on him, does his signature "You Can't See Me" and uses the Five Knuckle Shuffle. At the point of Jackson almost getting hit, he wakes up

John Cena

, the star of the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, appears in "We're All On This Date Together." A round of golf with Romano is being offered at a charity auction which is eventually sold to Oliver for $11. Oliver winds up going with Lilly instead because Romano is too embarrassed that nobody knows who he is and that he only went for $11 (out of pity)

Ray Romano

, one of the top film directors in Hollywood, directs the feature film Indiana Joannie and the Curse of the Golden Cobra (a parody of the Indiana Jones film series) which stars Chace Crawford and Hannah Montana. Hannah at first desperately wants the part, but later tries to lose the job in order to impress Oliver. Hannah acts like a diva in front of Riener who assumes that she is trying to impress him with her acting skills. Hannah proves that she is not acting by dumping a cup of ice water down Reiner's shirt^[28]

Rob Reiner

appears as herself in "Cheat It." She interviews Hannah and Austin Rain on the red carpet at the 15th annual Teen Scene Awards^[50]

Nancy O'Dell

comes to California in "Promma Mia" in order to do some recording. He asks Hannah to record a duet with him ("I Wanna Know You") and she accepts, while at the same time going back on her promise to attend prom with her schoolmate Aaron. While recording the song, Archuleta gives Hannah a rose which reminds her of Aaron. She then decides not to break her promise, says a quick goodbye to Archuleta, and leaves the studio before finishing the song

David Archuleta

appears as herself in Season 4 and sings a duet with Hannah called "Need a Little Love"

Sheryl Crow

appears as himself in Season 4 "Hannah's Gonna Get This" and sings a duet with Hannah called "Gonna Get This" after her failure to make her fans like her new song

Iyaz

appears as himself

Jay Leno

Travis Brody () is Miley's love interest in Hannah Montana: The Movie and comes from Crowley Corners in Tennessee. He was a childhood friend of Miley's and doesn't know her secret. When the towns people were angry about a mall being built, he suggests that Miley gets Hannah to perform a concert to support the town. When he finds out her secret, he is upset that he was lied to, but learns to forgive her when she reveals her secret to the crowd at the concert. Their relationship doesn't last into the TV series, as Miley ends up with Jesse

Lucas Till

Vita () is Hannah's publicist and only appears in Hannah Montana: The Movie. She was not happy when she got into a fight with Tyra Banks over shoes, and later appears near the end of the film, to help keep Miley's secret under wraps

Vanessa Williams

Oswald Granger () is the main antagonist of the film. He is a paparazzo who tries to discover Miley's secret. He follows her to Crowley Corners, on a tip given to him by Lilly. When he snaps a picture of Lilly dressed as Hannah, and thus keeps a low profile in the movie. When Miley decides to confess her secret to the people of Crowley Corners, Oswald snaps a picture and is chased down and cornered. He threatens to send the pictures to his editor but is convinced by his own daughters not to spoil the secret

Peter Gunn

Lorelai () is Robby Ray's love interest in Hannah Montana: The Movie. She is connected to the mayor as she was able to set up a meeting with him

Melora Hardin

Mr. Bradley () is a land developer who plans on building a mall on the fields of Crowley Corners, much to the townspeople's objection, because of the loss of open land. He seems pretty set on his goal as he taunts the town by telling them they won't stop him. Travis convinces Miley to invite Hannah to support their town. After the concert at the end of the movie the mall development doesn't pull through

Barry Bostwick

Lucinda (Jane Parr) is the editor of BonChic, a British Magazine and Oswald's boss. She has a goal to find out Hannah Montana's secret and expose it to the world, and has Oswald follow her to Crowley Corners, often giving him phone-calls to get his job done. When Oswald decides not to expose Miley/Hannah's secret, he calls her and quits, calling Lucinda out for making others miserable