Leopold Bloom

Leopold Bloom
Ulysses character
Drawing of Leopold Bloom by Joyce
Created byJames Joyce
Based onItalo Svevo
Alfred Hunter
Leopoldo Popper
Portrayed byZero Mostel
David Suchet
Milo O'Shea
Stephen Rea
Voiced byRonnie Walsh
Henry Goodman
In-universe information
AliasHenry Flower
NicknamePoldy
OccupationAdvertising agent
FamilyRudolph Bloom (né Rudolf Virág) (father)
Ellen Bloom (née Higgins) (mother)
SpouseMarion (Molly) Tweedy (m. 1888)
ChildrenMillicent (Milly) Bloom (b. 1889)
Rudolph (Rudy) Bloom (b. 1893 – d. 1893)
RelativesLipoti Virag (grandfather)
ReligionCatholicism
NationalityIrish

Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem: The Odyssey.