The following people departed on October 14, 2011.
- Rebeca Arthur ("Penguin One, Us Zero")
- Anthony Bourdain ("Pilot")
- Rikeem Burd (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Gary Busey ("Pilot," "The Book of Kevin")
- A. Caporuscia (pornographer, according to Matt's newspaper, “Two Boats and a Helicopter”)
- Fran Clary (name read on Heroes' Day, "Pilot")
- Douglas Isaac Durst ("Pilot")
- Erin Durst ("Pilot")
- Jeremy Durst ("Pilot")
- Paul Glouski (Departed while imprisoned in a fridge in the woods as a prank, "Solace for Tired Feet")
- Judge Roy Hader (Criminal Court judge; departed from his car, resulting in the accident that caused Mary's condition; according to Matt's newspaper, took bribes from a firm called Jones & Denton that affected his verdicts, supporting his lavish lifestyle, including homes in Mapleton's exclusive Garden Heights district and Vero Beach, Florida) (“Two Boats and a Helicopter”)
- Rumilo Ishii (habitual drunk driver, according to Matt's newspaper, “Two Boats and a Helicopter”)
- Amber Johnson (maiden name Amber Richardson; nickname "Bambi"; wife and mother of three; served in the PTA; pharmacist trainee who stole and sold prescription drugs to Clinton Community College students) (according to Matt's newspaper, “Two Boats and a Helicopter”)
- Jeff Kajan (robber, according to Matt's newspaper, “Two Boats and a Helicopter”)
- Jennifer Lopez ("Pilot")
- Reann Martinez (name written on Jarden sign, as "Ry + Reann Martinez," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Ry Martinez (name written on Jarden sign, as "Ry + Reann Martinez," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Bill McMullen (name read on Heroes' Day, "Pilot")
- Prince Harry Mountbatten-Windsor ("Pilot")
- Bob Nash (name read on Heroes' Day, "Pilot")
- Shaquille O'Neal ("Pilot")
- Kanita Ollect (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Bill Olley (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Colby Parker (name read on Heroes' Day, "Pilot")
- Charles Patterson (34-year-old with Down Syndrome) ("Penguin One, Us Zero")
- Bronson Pinchot ("Penguin One, Us Zero")
- Sam Playford (Grace's husband) ("Crazy Whitefella Thinking")
- Margery Prentiss (man asks John to communicate with his sister; DSD website, "G'Day Melbourne")
- Bonnie Raitt ("Pilot")
- Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph Ratzinger) ("Pilot")
- Condoleezza Rice ("Pilot")
- Susan Rockett (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Maggie Roninberg (name read on Heroes' Day, "Pilot")
- Salman Rushdie ("Pilot")
- Andrew Sasaki (gambled away his paycheck and his kids' college fund every week at the "Indian casino in Connecticut"; used to work with Craig MacNair; “Two Boats and a Helicopter”)
- Albert Wayne Studdard (abducted a young girl walking home from school, violated her, and strangled her to death; departed from his jail cell) (according to Matt's newspaper, “Two Boats and a Helicopter”)
- Annie Tate (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Mr. Tunney ("Pilot")
- Gary Van Nuis (name read on Heroes' Day, "Pilot")
- Mikey D. Washer (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Alice West (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Milton West Sr. (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Melanie Wilson ("Penguin One, Us Zero")
- Joyce Wong (name read on Heroes' Day, "Pilot")
- Patrick Richard Younger (name read on Heroes' Day, "Pilot")
- Gerald Marcus Zimmerman (name read on Heroes' Day, "Pilot")
Full Name Unknown[]
- Abbye (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Akshanay (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Alan (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Alex (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Alice (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Alysse ("Pilot")
- Ang (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography"; end of name is likely cut off)
- Anne McM. (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Annie (on banner in Amarillo community center. "B.J. and the A.C.")
- Anya (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Arielo (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography"; letters may be cut off at the beginning of the name)
- Bar (name written on Jarden sign, as "Rob + Bar + Bobby," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Barb (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Barb (name written on Jarden sign, as "Barb + Ed," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Bernadette (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Bobby (name written on Jarden sign, as "Rob + Bar + Bobby," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Bobby (memorial board in honky tonk: "Bobby where are you?" "Ten Thirteen")
- Brown Man (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Carley (name written on Jarden sign, "Dave + Carley," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Charlie (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Chase (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Chris (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Dana (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Dane (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Daniel (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Dave (name written on Jarden sign, "Dave + Carley," in "A Matter of Geography")
- David (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Diane J. (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Dominic (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- E.D.E. (name written on Jarden sign, "J.C.S. + E.D.E.," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Ed (name written on Jarden sign, as "Barb + Ed," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Elena S. (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Ellie Belly (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Emily (14-month-old daughter of Christian radio show caller Andy) ("I Live Here Now")
- Emma (from Houston; written on Jarden sign, "Willie and Emma," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Emma (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Erika (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Fabian (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Gary (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Gina (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Grace (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Guinod (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Iain (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Ingrid (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Isaac (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- J.C.S. (name written on Jarden sign, "J.C.S. + E.D.E.," in "A Matter of Geography")
- JMG (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- J. Power (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- James (on banner in Amarillo community center. "B.J. and the A.C.")
- James (name written on Jarden sign, as "Kara + James," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Jane (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Jesella (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Jessica (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Jill (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Jniya (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Joanne (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Joe (name written on Jarden sign, as "Uncle Joe," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Johnny (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Jon (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Jonathan (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Kaeter (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Kara (name written on Jarden sign, as "Kara + James," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Kate (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Katie (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Ken (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Kenny (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Kristii (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Laura (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Lauren (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Lena (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Leoriley (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Lisa (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Martin (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Martha (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Mary S. (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Matt (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Milan (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Mindy (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Nikole (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Paul (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Rhonda (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Rob (name written on Jarden sign, as "Rob + Bar + Bobby," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Rod (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Roxanne (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Ryan (name written on Jarden sign in, as "Sean + Ryan," "A Matter of Geography")
- Sadie (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Sal (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Sally (on banner in Amarillo community center. "B.J. and the A.C.")
- Samantha (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Sam ("Pilot ")
- Sean (name written on Jarden sign, as "Sean + Ryan," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Seth (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Shaina (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Sophia (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Sophie (sign through window on G'Day Melbourne, "G'Day Melbourne")
- Susan (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Tim (on sign at parade in "Pilot")
- Tim S. (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Vakria (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Vash (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Victoria (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Wolfgang (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
- Willie (from Houston; written on Jarden sign, "Willie and Emma," in "A Matter of Geography")
- Zack (name written on Jarden sign in "A Matter of Geography")
Name Unknown[]
- Little Boy's father ("Pilot ")
- Jay Dofrman's little sister ("Pilot")
- Wayne Gilchrest's son ("Pilot")
- Paul (Kevin's neighbor)'s brother (implied, "Penguin One, Us Zero")
- Porter (casino manager)'s nine-year-old niece (“Two Boats and a Helicopter”)
- "Older Cop"'s brother-in-law (considered "kind of a dipshit") ("Pilot")
- Jeffrey Stewart's husband ("Guest")
- Someone related to Lauren Dieter (per Legacy badge, "Guest")
- Someone related to Ronni Basis (per Legacy badge, "Guest")
- Patrick Johansen's parents, and two others ("Guest")
- Someone related to Celia Odalys ("Guest")
- Younger Asian woman (seen in "The Garveys at Their Best"; the older woman is placing a mosaic of the younger woman's face on the side of the house in Pilot)
- Woman who beat her kids (according to Matt's newspaper, "Pilot")
- Man who abandoned his family (according to Matt's newspaper, "Penguin One, Us Zero")
- Woman who committed adultery (according to Matt's newspaper, “Two Boats and a Helicopter”)
- A pederast (according to Matt's newspaper, “Two Boats and a Helicopter”)
- Girl from the electrical circuit Jill and Tom were making at the science fair ("The Garveys at Their Best")
- The Woman Kevin was having sex with at the moment of the Departure ("The Garveys at Their Best")
- Laurie's fetus ("The Garveys at Their Best")
- Man sitting in Greenway Park ("The Prodigal Son Returns"; seen as Loved One)
- Person cleaning gutter on house ("The Prodigal Son Returns"; seen as Loved One)
- The register girl at the Big W in the town near Grace ("Crazy Whitefella Thinking")
- Man in supermarket (Nora says she encountered him in the 2% World; he says everyone in the supermarket but him disappeared, "The Book of Nora")
- Woman (Nora says she encountered her in the 2% World; her husband, three children, and eight grandchildren were all part of the 98%, "The Book of Nora")
Book[]
The following is a list of individuals who are said to have departed in the novel on which the show is based.
- Mr. Boundy (Tom's junior high substitute teacher whose bad breath was the stuff of legend)
- Ernie Costello (former bartender at the Midway Lounge)
- Shirley De Santos (her students carry a banner on Heroes' Day)
- Doug Durst
- Erin Durst
- Jeremy Durst
- Dr. Hillary Edgers (a respected pediatrician Matt attacks in his newsletter for her bisexual college years)
- Henry Gilchrest (son of Wayne and Tori; 8 years old; good at baseball, soccer, chess)
- Chip Gleason (Alpha Tau Omega pledge at Syracuse U.; secretly taped the girls he had sex with then showed the tapes in the TV room; apparently departed while Stacy Greenglass rode him reverse cowgirl-style)
- Ed Hackney (universally despised vice principal from Tom's high school)
- Jennifer Lopez
- "The nerdy guy in the Verizon ads" (Paul Marcarelli)
- John Mellencamp
- Shaquille O'Neal
- Bud Phipps (marchers have a "We Miss Bud Phipps" banner in the Heroes' Day parade)
- Vladimir Putin
- Adam Sandler
- Carl Stenhauer (the only member of Kevin's Carpe Diem softball team to depart; a mediocre pitcher and second-string outfielder)
- Jen Sussman (Jill's childhood friend; departed in her basement while she and Jill watched a "sad but hilarious video of a little kid punching himself in the head and pretending like it didn't hurt")
- Greta Van Susteren
- Jon Verbecki (Tom's childhood friend; sensitive, bothered by labels in his clothes; had to listen to "Julia" by the Beatles on loop to sleep; family moved to New Hampshire in sixth grade; departed while on an elliptical at the gym; Tom's "special someone")
- Eva Washington (a classmate of Reverend Kaminsky in Divinity School; when Wayne speaks at Kaminsky's Rochester church, she is Kaminsky's "special someone")
- Ashley (three-year-old granddaughter of Martha Reeder, who works the stamp window at the Mapleton Post Office)
- Bob (Melissa Hulbert's husband of twenty years, who left her for his assistant; departed while in an elevator in a parking garage next to his office)
- Donnie ("Where's Donnie?" is burned in the grass along the entire length of the high school football field)
- Emily (departed fiancee of Boston Barefoot Person Eggy; former graduate student at the Kennedy School of Government)
- Giuseppe (crazy Italian guy who used to own Mario's Pizza Plus)
- Jamie (husband of Jill's beloved fourth-grade teacher Holly Maffey)
- Marbles (janitor at Tom's high school)
- Nancy (wife of Carpe Diem cleanup hitter and star first baseman Mike Whalen)
- Yvonne (Jamaican housekeeper of someone Tom knows named Dave Keegan)
- Tom Garvey's Psych instructor at Syracuse U.
- Twin of girl in Tom Garvey's English class at Syracuse U.
- Mapleton health inspector Bruce Hardin's wife
- Meg Lomax's mother
- Meg Lomax's father's boss
- Wife of Marty Powers (former softball teammate of Kevin)
- Plumber Ralph Sorrento's daughter
- Brother of Stan Washburn (cop and former Pop Warner coach of Kevin)
- Aimee's mother
- Gary's cousin
- A guy Gary used to work with
- Sister of Boston Barefoot Person Lucy "Ouch"
- Miss Texas
- The Pope
- Chick who'd been dissed on The Bachelor
- Latin American tyrant
- Quarterback who'd never fulfilled his potential
- Retired Supreme Court Justice
- Witty political consultant
- Various superstar chefs
- Three members of Tom's high school graduating class
- Two girls Meg Lomax knew in college