What are the names of the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion?
Sadly, two of Dorothy’s original friends on the Yellow Brick Road don’t have names. The Scarecrow is just called “Scarecrow,” and the Lion is just called “The Cowardly Lion.” But the Tin Woodman does indeed have a name. It wasn’t given in the original book, but in the 1902 stage play he was given the name Niccolo Chopper. This was shortened to Nick Chopper in the play. The shortened version of this name then appeared in the book The Marvelous Land of Oz, and he’s been called Nick Chopper ever since. The Cowardly Lion was given the nickname “Cowy” in Ruth Plumly Thompson’s book The Enchanted Island of Oz, but it doesn’t seem to have caught on with him, his friends, or the readers. In Russia, the Scarecrow is named Strasheela (literally, “Little Scary One”), and the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion go unnamed, although the former becomes the more-apt-to-rust Iron Woodchopper, and his name when he was a flesh-and-blood person was Goode Kerly. In the 1961 television series Tales of the Wi
