Greg Heffley




 * “Okay, first of all, let me get something straight. This is a journal, not a diary. Yeah, I know what it says on the cover, but when my mom went out to buy this thing, I specifically told her not to buy one that said "diary" on it. This just proves Mom doesn't understand anything about kids my age. The only reason I agreed to write in this thing is because when I'm rich and famous I'll have better things to do than answer people's stupid questions all day long. Mom got me this thing so I could write down my feelings about starting middle school. But I'm gonna be fine.”
 * ―Greg Heffley

Gregory "Greg" Heffley is an American middle school student who goes to Westmore Middle School and also the main protagonist of the book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the main antagonist of Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid.

According to Jeff Kinney, he is based on his own worst qualities in middle school. Greg is very concerned about his popularity level and how he looks in public. He absolutely loves video games, comics, and being lazy, like Rodrick Heffley. He takes up a lot of traits from Rodrick (such as selfishness, laziness, etc.). He also has an interest in cartooning and making comics. He was played by Zachary Gordon in the live-action movie trilogy and by Jason Drucker in the The Long Haul reboot film, after Zach Gordon's and many other actors' puberty. In the Big Chungus Manga, his worst enemy seems to be Algebra book guy.