Among the 1174 identifiable Disney characters featured in the official animated canon, there are a total of 62 characters who wear glasses, from half-moon spectacles, like Smee, to round eyeglasses, like Mirabel and Doc. That's about 5%.
Some are popular and easily recognizable, in large part because they wear glasses; others are so obscure that only die-hard Disney fans are likely to know them by name.
Here's a look at our 16 favorite Disney characters with glasses from the latest to the earliest:
Mei Lee - Turning Red (2022)
Meilin Lee, familiarly known as Mei, is the confident, dorky thirteen-year-old main character from Pixar's Turning Red. Whenever she gets too excited (which is practically always), she "poofs" into a giant red panda. When in human form, Mei wears silver-rimmed glasses.
Priya is a chill, mellow girl who appears in the Pixar film Turning Red as one of Mei's best friends. She wears round, navy blue glasses.
Mirabel Madrigal - Encanto (2021)
Mirabel is the only non-magical member by birth of the Madrigal family. She's the first lead female character to wear glasses in Disney animated movie history! Mirabel wears glasses with round, bright green frames. She seems to like that style, as she's worn the same glasses since she was little.
Sadness is one of the five emotions inside the mind of young Riley Andersen. Due to her nature, she finds it difficult to be positive. She wears large dark purple glasses.
Honey Lemon - Big Hero 6 (2014)
Honey Lemon is part of the Big Hero 6 superhero team. This bubbly chemistry whiz wears large magenta-rimmed glasses.
Carl Fredricksen - Up (2009)
Carl is an old and cranky retired helium balloon salesman who uses thousands of his balloons to lift his house up from its foundations and off on a trip he had promised his late wife to Paradise Falls. He wears large black square glasses.
Ace "Chicken Little" Cluck - Chicken Little (2005)
Chicken Little is the main character from the movie that bears his name. Believing the sky is falling since a piece of the sky shaped like a stop sign fell on his head, he sets out to warn everyone in the town of Oakey Oaks. He wears green glasses that match his striped shirt.
Edna Mode - The Incredibles (2004)
Edna is a fashion designer, creating original designs for supers. She wears large black glasses.
Roz is an old slug who works at Monsters, inc. She wears black cat-eye glasses.
Milo Thatch - Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Milo is a budding linguist and cartographer who joins an expedition to find the lost city of Atlantis.
Merlin - The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Merlin is a powerful, eccentric wizard from the dark ages who helps educate young king-to-be Arthur.
Smee - Peter Pan (1953)
Mr. Smee is Captain Hook's loyal but bumbling first mate in the movie Peter Pan. Rather soft in nature, he often consoles Hook when things don't turn out as planned. He wears half-moon spectacles.
John is a main character from Peter Pan. With the help of some pixie dust from Tinker Bell and some quick flying lessons from Peter Pan, he flies to Neverland along with his brother Michael and sister Wendy.
The White Rabbit is a minor character from Alice in Wonderland that first appears racing past Alice exclaiming "I'm late! I'm late for a very important date!", which arouses Alice's curiosity. He wears round glasses, through which he often looks at his watch.
Gepetto - Pinocchio (1940)
Gepetto is a toymaker who, one night, wishes upon a star that his puppet Pinocchio might be a real boy. Soon thereafter, the Blue Fairy appears and brings Pinocchio to life. Gepetto wears small square glasses.
Doc - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Doc is one of the seven dwarfs who shelter Snow White from the Evil Queen in their cottage in the woods. He works in a diamond mine. He's the only one of the seven dwarfs who wears glasses.
