List of Dune Fremen

The following is a comprehensive list of Fremen, who are desert dwelling characters from the fictional created by Frank Herbert.
The Dune science fiction franchise originated with Herbert's 1965 novel Dune, which is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history. It won the 1966 Hugo Award and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was later adapted into a 1984 film and a . Herbert wrote five sequels, and the first two were presented as a in 2003. The Dune universe has also inspired some traditional games and a series of video games. Since 2009, the names of planets from the Dune novels have been adopted for the real-world nomenclature of plains and other features on Saturn's moon Titan.
Assan Tariq
Assan Tariq is a 14-year-old Fremen, son of . In Children of Dune he acts as a guide for the blind desert madman known as The Preacher.
Buer Argarves
Buer Argarves is a member of Sietch Tabr who later becomes an aide to Zia, the bodyguard of the Imperial Regent Alia Atreides. In Children of Dune Alia takes Argaves as a lover, and promises to appoint him Naib of Sietch Tabr in return for killing Stilgar. Through Alia's treachery, Argaves is instead slain by Stilgar.
Chani
Farok
Farok is a Fedaykin who fights at Paul's side during his war with the Harkonnens in Dune. Disillusioned by the changes this brings to Dune and his own experiences in Muad'dib's Jihad, in Dune Messiah he joins the conspiracy to unseat the Atreides Emperor.
Farok was portrayed by Ivo Novák in the 2003 TV miniseries Children of Dune.
Geoff
Geoff was the father of Harah's first child before he was bested by Jamis.
Harah
Harah is the wife of in Dune; when Paul Atreides kills Jamis in a ritual fight to the death, he is faced with the Fremen custom of taking responsibility for Harah and her children, as his wife or servant. He takes her as his servant; she later becomes fiercely devoted to and protective of Paul's young sister Alia. Harah notices that four-year-old Alia "only pretends to be a little girl, that she has never been a little girl." She tells the pre-born Alia "You're not a freak!" Paul responds, "It saved your life ... What matter that Alia made fun of you with that name? My daughter is Ghanima, a spoil of war." Emily Asher-Perrin of Tor.com wrote, "Karel Dobrý, who played Kynes in Dune, is recast here as the betraying priest Korba ... which seems an apt metaphor in the transition, yet never succeeds in being anything less than confusing."
The character is also featured in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
Ramallo
Sabiha
Sabiha is a member of the clandestine Sietch known as Fonduk (formerly Jacurutu). In Children of Dune she nurses Leto Atreides while he is forced to undergo a spice trance. Leto foresees that he and Sabiha could become lovers in the future, but chooses to avoid this path in order to realize his own destiny.
Selim Wormrider
In the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (2002-2004), Selim is the original Fremen exiled to the desert by his sietch for being falsely accused of stealing precious water. As soon as he leaves the protection of the rocks his sietch is built on, a great sandworm attempts to devour him. In an act of divine intervention, he is able to ride the worm; after a day of riding for his life, the worm dies and Selim is alone again. He stumbles upon a scientific facility built thousands of years before by surveyors from the Old Empire. After many months Selim decides to leave the building, and starts his own sietch. Over time he learns to ride the worms and teaches other exiles like himself how to ride them as well. When Arrakis begins to be exploited for its precious melange (a by-product of the sandworm life cycle), Selim and his Fremen decide to raid the traders' caravans. Selim dies by allowing himself to be eaten by a sandworm while fighting the leader of the sietch that exiled him.
Shadout Mapes
Shadout Mapes is introduced in Dune as the mysterious Fremen housekeeper at the palace of Arrakeen. Paul saves her life from a deadly hunter-seeker intended to kill him, and she warns of a traitor in the Atreides household. She is killed by that same traitor, Suk doctor Wellington Yueh, before the Harkonnen attack on House Atreides. "Shadout" is a Fremen honorific that translates as "well-dipper."
Mapes was portrayed by Linda Hunt in the 1984 film Dune, and by Jaroslava Siktancova in the 2000 TV miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune.
Stilgar

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