# Naming vtkActors

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/naming-vtkactors/9958
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 25, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/naming-vtkactors/9958 "2022-11-25T21:02:24Z")
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### Author: ![dgobbi](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/dgobbi/32/18_2.png) [@dgobbi](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/dgobbi)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/naming-vtkactors/9958/3 "2022-11-26T14:11:06Z")

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In VTK 9.2, you can use [SetObjectName()/GetObjectName()](https://vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkObject.html#ad8d3b69403d91d88295d423f7539e0a6) to label your actors.

If you’re using Python, you can add custom attributes to VTK objects:

```python
a = vtk.vtkActor()
a.name = 'Kevin'

```

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