This article shows the complete fictional and non-fictional friends and family of Barbie, a fashion doll manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel and launched on March 9, 1959.

Main characters

Family members

Barbie's sisters

Barbie has three younger sisters: Skipper, Stacie and Chelsea, who made their collective debuts in the 2011 Christmas film Barbie: A Perfect Christmas. Chelsea, previously known as Kelly, had a lead role in the 2002 syndicated television series, Kelly’s Dream Club, in which Barbie appeared in a supporting role. Since then, they appeared as main characters in media adaptations of the franchise, including Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse and the Barbie & Her Sisters in... film entries in the film series. Since Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures in 2018, they have become permanent main characters in the overall Barbie franchise makeup. Kelly is a popular name which is suit for a doll known as Chelsea.

Barbie's parents

Discontinued characters

Extended Family Members

Roberts Family

Rawlins Family

Barbie's friends

Female best friends

Other friends

The Rockers and the Sensations

Generation Girls

Miscellaneous

Friends of family

Skipper's friends

Stacie's friends

Kelly's/Chelsea's friends

Tutti's and Todd's friends

Francie's friends

Jazzie's friends

Friends of friends

Ken's family and friends

Midge and Allan's family

From Happy Family Playline Series:

The Heart Family (Barbie's neighbors)

Cousins

Friends

Real-world celebrity/film character doll friends

Others

Model of the Moment

A collector series of dolls designed by veteran Mattel designer Robert Best. The series featured three new characters including Daria, Marisa, and Nichelle. The dolls were notable for featuring a new body sculpt known as Model Muse, which is a body designed to stay in one static pose as a display figurine. The series was discontinued after only 5 dolls, but the dolls live on as their face and body sculpts are used for other Barbie dolls ever since. The Model Muse body in particular has become the new standard body for collector dolls in the Barbie line.

Shani and friends

When first introduced, the Shani line of dolls existed outside of the Barbie character continuity. After a couple of years, the Shani character was introduced into the Barbie line.

Asha – African American Collection

A short-lived Afrocentric doll line introduced in 1994, retroactively considered Barbie friend dolls. Although the dolls are unrelated to Shani's friend Asha, the dolls still used the Shani face mold and were meant to be a successor to the Shani line.

Harlem Theatre Collection

Three character dolls from Carlyle Nuera's Harlem Theatre Collection.

Byron Lars – Passport Collection

Three dolls released in the Passport Collection by American fashion designer Byron Lars. Each doll is a multicultural and biracial character from a different part of the world.