| Salvador | Allende | Former President of Chile. |
| Miguel Angel | Asturias | A Guatemalan novelist. |
| Marcel | Bruguera | Roser's son. |
| Roser | Bruguera | A girl who loved music. |
| Pedro Aguirre | Cerda | Former Chilean President. |
| Winston | Churchill | Former British prime minister. |
| Carme | Dalmau | Victor's mother. |
| Guillem | Dalmau | Victor's brother. |
| Marcel Lluis | Dalmau | Victor's father. |
| Victor | Dalmau | A medical auxiliary. |
| Pedro | de Vizcarra | Laura's father. |
| Delia | del Carril | Pablo Neruda's wife. |
| Felipe | del Solar | Laura's oldest son. |
| Isidro | del Solar | A businessman. |
| Laura | del Solar | Isidro del Solar's wife. |
| Luis Miguel | Dominguin | Famous bullfighter from Spain. |
| Buenaventura | Durruti | Spanish insurrectionary. |
| Elisabeth | Eidenbenz | A Swiss nurse. |
| Matias | Eyzaguirre | Ofelia's fiancé. |
| Francisco | Franco | Spanish general and dictator, assumed the title Caudillo. |
| Mahatma | Gandhi | An Indian lawyer. |
| Federico | Garcia Lorca | Spanish poet, playwright and theatre director. |
| Oswaldo | Guasayamin | An Ecuadorian painter. |
| Che | Guevara | An Argentine Marxist revolutionary. |
| Santiago | Guzman | A history professor. |
| Adolf | Hitler | German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. |
| Aitor | Ibarra | A driver. |
| | Ibarra Sr. | Aitor's father. |
| Dolores | Ibarruri | A communist politician. Aka: La Pasionaria. |
| Victor | Jara | A singer-songwriter. |
| Henry | Kissinger | Former U.S. Secretary of State. |
| Antonio | Machado | Spanish poet. |
| Jordi | Moline | Owned a shoe factory. |
| Benito | Mussolini | Former Prime Minister of Italy. |
| Juana | Nancucheo | A housekeeper. |
| Orinda | Naranjo | A midwife. |
| Pablo | Neruda | A Chilean poet diplomat. |
| Richard | Nixon | 37th U.S. President. |
| Manuel Luis | Osorio | Brazilian military officer. |
| Pablo | Picasso | A Spanish painter. |
| Augusto | Pinochet | Former President of Chile. |
| Captain | Pupin | The ship captain. |
| Eleanor | Roosevelt | Former First Lady of the United States. |
| Valentin | Sanchez | Former Venezuelan ambassador. |
| Helga | Schnake | Ingrid's adoptive mother. |
| Ingrid | Schnake | Ofelia and Victor's daughter. |
| Walter | Schnake | Ingrid's adoptive father. |
| Joseph | Stalin | Former gen. sec. of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| Senator | Trueba | Isidro del Solar's acquaintance. |
| Senora | Trueba | Senator Trueba's wife. |
| Vicente | Urbina | A priest. |
| Agnes | | A child who was born in the ship. |
| Angel | | A mountain guide. |
| Aunt Teresa | | A nun. |
| Eki | | Aitor's acquaintance. |
| Gosset | | Carme's dog. |
| Izan | | Eki's friend. |
| Julen | | Izan's brother. |
| King Alfonso XII | | King of Spain. Aka: El Pacificador, The Peacemaker. |
| King Alfonsol Xlll | | King of Spain Aka: El Africano, The African. |
| Lazaro | | A young soldier. |
| Leonardo | | Laura's son. Aka: Baby. |
| Louis XV | | King of France. |
| Matilde | | Neruda's third wife. |
| Meche | | Victor and Roser's neighbor. |
| Michaelangelo | | Italian sculptor. |
| Nuria | | A little girl who lost her family. |
| Ofelia | | Laura's daughter. |
| Pius XII | | A Pope. Head of the catholic church. |
| Ramiro | | Meche's husband. |
