| 1 | Dean | | The owner of the colonial house. |
| | Phineas | | Gene's best friend. Aka: Finny. |
| | Elwin | Lepellier | Finny's friend. A senior student. Aka: Leper. |
| | Chet | Douglass | Finny and Gene's schoolmate. |
| | Gabriel | Oak | The Farmer at Mudding Crowd. |
| | Batsheba | Everdene | The heroine of the Pastoral. |
| 2 | Mr. | Prud'homme | Gene's substitute masters. |
| | Gene | Forrester | Protagonist. |
| | Mr. | Patch-Withers | The substitute headmaster for the summer. |
| | Mrs. | Patch-Withers | Mr. Patch-Withers's wife. |
| 3 | Franklin | Delano-Roosevelt | The President of the United States. |
| | Winston | Churchill | The Prime Minister of United Kingdom. |
| | Josef | Stalin | The Premier of the Soviet Union. |
| | Hopkins | Parker | The record holder of Devon's swimming team. |
| | Lazarus | | The man that Jesus restored from dead. |
| | Thomas | Hardy | An English Novelist. |
| 5 | Dr. | Stanpole | Finny's doctor. |
| | General | MacArthur | The American military leader. |
| 6 | Mr. | Pike | One of Finny and Gene's masters. |
| | Brinker | Hadley | One of Gene's colleague. |
| | Quackenbush | | The crew manager at the crew house. |
| | Mr. | Ludsbury | The school's headmaster. |
| 7 | Brownie | Perkins | Brinker's roommate. |
| 8 | Elliot | Roosevelt | An American Aviator. The son of President Roosevelt. |
| | Mr. | Carhart | The chaplain. |
| 9 | Betty | Grable | A dancer and an actress. |
| | Hazel | Brewster | The new dietitian. |
| 11 | Beethoven | | The German composer. |
| | Caesar | | One of the historical figures Phineas refused to believed in. |
| | Marvel | | The football captain. |
| 12 | Phil | Latham | The wrestling coach. |
| | Miss | Windbag | The night nurse. |
| | General | De Gaulle | France's current president. |
| | Chiang | Kai-Shek | The current leader of China. |
