Daniel Randolph "Dan" Humphrey

Daniel Randolph "Dan" Humphrey (born April 26, 1990) is a fictional character in the best selling Gossip Girl book series. He is one of the main male characters in thetelevision series of the same name and is portrayed by Penn Badgley. Dan Humphrey is the son of Rufus Humphrey and has a younger sister, Jenny Humphrey. His absent mother, who ran off with a European aristocrat, returns to support Dan for a while. Dan and his family live in Brooklyn, New York, the alternative of the old-moneyed and conservativeUpper East Side. He attends St. Jude's Preparatory school for Boys, where wealthy playboy Chuck Bass attends, on the West Side as a scholarship student. At the end of the series, he matriculates to Evergreen State College in Washington.