Dan Humphrey

Dan Humphrey
Gossip Girl character
Penn Badgley as Daniel Humphrey
First appearance	Novel: Gossip Girl Television: "Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance	Novel: I Will Always Love You Television: "New York, I Love You XOXO" (episode 6.10)
Created by	Character Cecily von Ziegesar Developed for Television Josh Schwartz Stephanie Savage
Portrayed by	Penn Badgley
Information
Full name	Daniel Randolph Humphrey
Nickname(s)	Dan Television: Cabbage Patch (by Blair) Humphrey (by Blair) Lonely Boy (by Gossip Girl) Brooklyn (by Chuck)
Aliases	D, Lonely Boy
Occupation	Novels: Poet High school student (at Riverside Preparatory; graduated) College student (at Evergreen State) Television: Author Freelance writer High school student (at St. Jude's; graduated) College student (at NYU) Former W Magazine intern
Family	Rufus Humphrey (father) Jennifer "Jenny" Humphrey (younger sister) Novels: Jeanette Humphrey (mother; estranged) Television: Alison Humphrey (mother; estranged) Lillian "Lily" van der Woodsen (former stepmother) Scott Rosson (paternal half-brother)
Spouse(s)	Television: Serena van der Woodsen (wife; flash-forward)

Daniel Randolph "Dan" Humphrey is a fictional character in the best selling Gossip Girl series of novels. He is one of the central male characters in the television adaptation of the same name, where he is portrayed by Penn Badgley. Dan Humphrey is the son of Rufus Humphrey and has a younger sister, Jenny, while his mother remains absent for the majority of the series. Dan and his family live in Brooklyn, New York, the alternative of the old-moneyed and conservative Upper East Side. He attends St. Jude's Preparatory School for Boys on the West Side as a scholarship student. His life changed dramatically when his father, Rufus Humphrey, married the wealthy Lily van der Woodsen, moving the family to the Upper East Side.

He is described as being attractive and sensitive, loves to write poetry, and one of his poems, "Sluts," was featured in The New Yorker. He revealed his favorite word is death and drinks copious amounts of dark coffee. He over analyses and is easily frustrated. Dan is very close and protective of little sister Jenny who attends an exclusive private school, called the Constance Billard School for Girls, a small, elite, all-girls school located at 93rd and Madison Avenue.

Daniel Humphrey lives with his father Rufus, and sister Jenny in Upper West Side, New York. He is tall, pale, quite neurotic, quite "intense" and enjoys drinking coffee. He is considered to be an intellectual when it comes to writing and literature, and was in fact an intern for The Strand one summer. His favorite past time is writing on his black journals. He goes to St. Jude's Preparatory School for Boys, on the Upper East Side, with Chuck Bass and Nate Archibald.

In the first part of the books, he is in love with Serena Van Der Woodsen because of a party he threw at their apartment before he went to boarding school. When Serena returned to the Upper East Side, she was ostracized by her peers, so she made friends with Dan and Jenny. Dan later realizes that he has feelings for Vanessa, so he begins a relationship with her.