I can't remember the first D&D character. I think I was in the 3rd grade and had the old red box sext for D&D. I know that he was a Cleric though. We only had the patience to play one game, and I think I died anyway. The first campaign character I remember was when I was a freshman in highschool. It was a West End D6 Star Wars campaign and his name was Alexander Pylar. He was based off the rebel pilot template, and became a jedi (Now that's never happened before!)
My first character was Sir Rollo the Red I have a vague recollection that the name was inspired by Sanford & Son.
How embarrassing!
I was in fifth grade and we were playing 1e AD&D. There's no way that character sheet still exits, after all, it was only half of a sheet of notebook paper.
Elaisias Vaeronshraive....I so still have his character sheet,he was my first character ever in Adnd and I made him a raistlin rip off I confess. What can I say I was in love with raist and the world of krynn.
Well, the first time I ever got to PLAY D&D (other than DM it) was in 1987 or so.
The character was an Elven Fighter/Magic-user/Thief, and like 50% of all D&D players everywhere, I cannot remember his name.
The SECOND AD&D character I played was a Half-orc Fighter/Cleric by the name of Grizzle Greasyguts (inspired by a computer game from the 1980's. He lasted for all of three sessions, and was never played again.
He lives on, somewhere in my homebrew campaign, as a worshipper of the war god, as a real rotten bastard, and as an ultimate survivor of all hard luck and the tyrannies that life threw him.
My first character was a wizard named Balcathor. Brown book D&D and created in 1975. Still have the character sheet.
He is now a 27 level wizard and I still play him very occasionally now and then.
I kept ALL of my characters since 1975. The character roster is now 87 characters ranging from 4th - 30th level. All played from 1st level. All converted to 3E D&D.