User blog comment:D3X1K AXYZ/who is who/@comment-4010415-20141019061640


 * Ruby - Little Red Riding Hood


 * Weiss - Snow White


 * Blake - Belle/Beauty, from Beauty and the Beast


 * Yang - Goldilocks


 * Jaune - Joan of Arc


 * Nora - Thor


 * Pyrrha - Achilles


 * Ren - Mulan


 * Cardin - Henry Beaufort, aka the Cardinal of Winchester


 * Roman - Candlewick/Lampwick, from Pinocchio


 * Cinder - Cinderella


 * The White Fang - White Fang the wolfdog from the book White Fang, by Jack London


 * Mercury - The Roman god Mercury, aka the Greek god Hermes


 * Ozpin - The wizard of Oz, from The Wizard of Oz


 * Glynda - Glenda the Good Witch, from The Wizard of Oz


 * Ironwood - The tin man, from The Wizard of Oz


 * Sun - Sun Wukong, from Journey to the West, a character that many, many, many monkey-tailed characters are based on


 * Neptune - The Roman god Neptune, aka the Greek god Poseidon


 * Velvet - The stuffed rabbit, from The Velveteen Rabbit


 * Yatsuhashi - Possibly Yatsuhashi Kengyo


 * Penny - Pinocchio


 * Professor Port - Peter, from Peter and the Wolf


 * Doctor Oobleck - Bartholomew, from Bartholomew and the Oobleck


 * Junior - The baby bear, from Goldilocks (His real name is Hei Xiong, which means Black Bear)

There are people who think that Neo is based on the Cheshire Cat, from Alice in Wonderland, but one of the guys on the RWBY crew came out and directly said that Neo is not based on the Cheshire Cat, but someone else is. However, we're all pretty sure we haven't met the character who is yet.