This is a list of Wonder Woman supporting characters.
Major characters
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance). { | class="wikitable" |- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" ! width="13%" |Character !!width="20%"| First appearance !!width="67%"| Description |- | Amazons || All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) || A nation of eternally youthful and super-powerful women. Notable Amazons include General Antiope, oracle Menalippe, weaponsmith Io, would-be Wonder Woman Orana, and sorceress Magala. |- | Artemis of Bana-Mighdall || Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #90 (September 1994) || Brash champion of a lost tribe of Amazons, who successfully challenged Diana for the title of Wonder Woman and now is a major leader among the Amazons. |- | Etta Candy || Sensation Comics #2 (February 1942) || Rotund, chocolate-loving, plucky, and fearless leader of the Beta Lambda sorority at Holiday College, Etta was Wonder Woman's close friend and sidekick. She later became secretary for General Blankenship of the War Department, during the period that the comics series shifted to World War II stories to reflect the first season of the Wonder Woman TV series. Post-Crisis, Candy was an Air Force officer and later agent in the Department of Metahuman Affairs. Etta was Wonder Woman's best friend and became Steve Trevor's wife but was later retconned into a relationship with Doctor Barbara Minerva. |- | Gods of Olympus || All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) || The gods of Classical Greek mythology, worshiped by the Amazons. Originally, the patron goddesses worshiped by the amazons were Aphrodite and Athena. Post-Crisis, they were joined by Hestia, Artemis, and Demeter. |- | Queen Hippolyta || All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) || The queen of the Amazons and Wonder Woman's mother, who fashioned Diana from clay, which was given life and powers by the gods. She has at times, taken up the mantel of Wonder Woman in her daughters absence. |- | Julia and Vanessa Kapatelis || Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #3 (April 1987) || A Harvard scholar, Julia and her daughter Vanessa became some of Wonder Woman's earliest friends in the Post-Crisis timeline. Diana spent years with Julia and Vanessa, forming a familial bond while she was away from Themyscira. Vanessa would later be tortured and brainwashed into becoming the super villain Silver Swan but was able to recover with the help of Diana. |- | Mala || All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) || Wonder Woman's closest friend among the Amazons, Mala was the first runner-up in the contest to determine who would enter Man's World as Wonder Woman and later became the head of the Amazons’ therapeutic center Reformation Island. |- | Nubia || Wonder Woman #204 (January 1973) || Originally Diana's long-lost twin sister who was raised by Ares. Later incarnations have seen Nubia as a demon-hunter and resident of Themyscira. She has held the title of both 'Wonder Woman' and Queen of Themyscira. |- | Paula von Gunther || Sensation Comics #4 (April 1942) || Wonder Woman's first recurring nemesis, the Baroness Paula Von Gunther was a ruthless Nazi spymaster, evil scientist, and femme fatale who later became Wonder Woman's close friend and chief Amazon scientist. Later adaptations would update Paula into being the child of Neo-Nazi terrorists rather than a Nazi herself. |- | General Phil Darnell || Sensation Comics #3 (March 1942) || Col. (later Gen.) Darnell supervised Steve Trevor's work at Military Intelligence and hired Diana Prince as his secretary. Later, he was head of the Air Force's Special Assignments Branch, tasked with intervening in crises before they develop. This character was replaced with General Blankenship in the first season of the 1970s television series. He was reinstated as Colonel Darnell in the 2017 theatrical film adaptation. |- | Philippus || Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #1 (February 1987) || General of the Amazons and one of Queen Hippolyta's most trusted warriors as well as her lover. Philippus is one of the amazons responsible for training Princess Diana. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. Philippus was not seen in this new timeline, but she did return following the May 2016 DC Rebirth as a prominent amazon. |- | Steve Trevor || All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) || An intelligence officer in the United States Army during World War II whose plane crashed in the isolated homeland of the Amazons, Capt. (later Major) Trevor became the paramour of Wonder Woman while, unbeknownst to him, working at U.S. Military Intelligence alongside Wonder Woman in her secret identity, Diana Prince. Post-Crisis, Trevor was an Air Force officer and war veteran.