Looking for a list of Star Wars minifigures
BrickLink is your friend. Use the Catalog Search function to find all Star Wars related minifigures ever produced (all 896 of them as per today). Clicking on each minifig gives you the set(s) it came in.

Here are the results if you search for Type = Minifig, Theme = Star Wars, ordered by year of release: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?v=5&amp;pg=1&amp;catLike=W&amp;catType=M&amp;catID=65