Zaphod Beeblebrox

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Zaphod Beeblebrox is from a planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.

He is a "semi-cousin" of Ford Prefect, with whom he "shares three of the same mothers". Due to "an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine", his direct ancestors from his father are also his direct descendants.

Zaphod has two heads, three arms and is "clever, imaginative, irresponsible, untrustworthy, extrovert, nothing you couldn't have guessed". he was briefly President of the Galaxy. His responsibilty in that position was to draw attention away from the true rulers of the universe. To that end, Zaphod and his outrageous behavior  were highly successful. And he is the only man to have survived the Total Perspective Vortex (albeit in an electronically synthesised universe which was created especially for him). He used his position as President of the Galaxy to steal the Heart of Gold, a spaceship taking advantage of Infinite Improbability Drive, at its unveiling. He is also the inventor of the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, and is the only person alive who can drink more than three in a single sitting.

In the radio show it seems that the third arm is part of his species that has an opt in policy, since he grows it back for Trillian. In the movie it is said that the second head is required of every president to separate the irrational portion of their mind(which still doesn't seem to help Zaphod). In the books when Zaphod scans his brain with every type of scan imaginable, including some that he made up, after putting the scans of both of his brains together he discovered the reason why he ran for President.

Zaphod has a sucessful buisness in secondhand biros. This may be due to his discovery of a planet where biros escape to to live a nice biroey life. If so he employed a man to sit on this now empty planet denying the whole thing.