Best Grey's Anatomy characters

Amelia Shepherd wins 62% of her duels and tops the Grey's Anatomy ranking ahead of Jo Wilson.

Just 15 ELO points separate Amelia Shepherd from Jo Wilson in the top two positions, a razor-thin margin that underscores how evenly matched these favorites are. Jo Wilson herself wins 63% of her duels across 156 matchups, matching the win rate of Mark Sloan at rank 4. Meredith Grey, the show's titular character, lands at rank 3 with 1385 points, trailing Wilson by 19 points. The sharpest divide appears between ranks 4 and 5, where Mark Sloan edges out Cristina Yang by 30 ELO points despite Yang having logged more duels at 188. Yang wins 59% of her encounters, a respectable rate that still leaves her outside the top three. At the bottom, Erica Hahn sits at rank 42 with 899 points and a 26% win rate, revealing a character the community consistently votes against.

This ranking draws from 5960 duels submitted by 36 players across 42 Grey's Anatomy characters. Updated on 12 October 2026, it reflects the current state of fan preferences in one of television's longest-running medical dramas. Head to the Grey's Anatomy TopList to cast your vote and shift the standings.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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