Leopold Bloom

Leopold Bloom
Ulysses character
Drawing of Leopold Bloom by Joyce
Created by	James Joyce
Based on	Italo Svevo Alfred Hunter Leopoldo Popper
Portrayed by	Zero Mostel David Suchet Milo O'Shea Stephen Rea
Voiced by	Ronnie Walsh Henry Goodman
In-universe information
Alias	Henry Flower
Nickname	Poldy
Occupation	Advertising agent
Family	Rudolph Bloom (né Rudolf Virág) (father) Ellen Bloom (née Higgins) (mother)
Spouse	Marion (Molly) Tweedy (m. 1888)
Children	Millicent (Milly) Bloom (b. 1889) Rudolph (Rudy) Bloom (b. 1893 – d. 1893)
Religion	Catholicism
Nationality	Irish

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.