Top 30 LOST Characters

Having just finished the masterful six-season show LOST, created by J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber and Damon Lindelof, I felt it appropriate to list my 30 favourite characters from the show. A lot of my choices will be unusual and might not go down well with fellow fans, but what do I care. Here goes:

30. Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey)

29. Michael Dawson (Harold Perrineau)

28. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox)

27. Boone Carlyle (Ian Somerhalder)

26. Cassidy Phillips (Kim Dickens)

25. Rose & Bernard Nadler (L. Scott Caldwell and Sam Anderson)

24. Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje)

23. Alexandra "Alex" Rousseau (Tania Raymonde)

22. Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan)

21. Ana-Lucia Cortez (Michelle Rodriguez)

20. Miles Straume (Ken Leung) 

19. Vincent (Madison/Pono)

18. Walter "Walt" Lloyd (Malcolm David Kelley)

17. Elizabeth "Libby" Smith (Cynthia Watros)

16. Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader) 

15. Penelope "Penny" Hume (Sonya Walger)

14. Shannon Rutherford (Maggie Grace)

13. Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin)

12. Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies)

11. John Locke (Terry O' Quinn)

10. Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia)

09. Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly)

08. Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson)

07. Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim)

06. Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim)

05. Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews)

04. Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell)

03. Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan)

02. Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick)

01. James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway)