| John | Adams | A colliery's secretary. |
| | Algernon | Borthwick's father. |
| Leo | Amery | A journalist. |
| Robert | Ascroft | One of the members of the Parliament. |
| John Black | Atkins | A journalist. |
| Bernard | Baker | An American businessman. |
| Arthur | Balfour | Lord Salisbury's nephew. |
| Henry | Bannerman | Would become a Prime minister in 1905. |
| Barney | Barnato | A British mining magnate. |
| Oliver | Borthwick | An editor of the Morning Post. |
| Mr. | Boshof | A storekeeper. |
| Louis | Botha | The Transvaal parliament. |
| P. Maritz | Botha | The first criminal landdrost, or magistrate. |
| Philip Rudolpf | Botha | A man with his two sons joined the Great Trek. |
| John Palmer | Bravazon | Prince of Wales's close friend. |
| Adam | Brockie | An Irish segeant major. |
| Robert | Browning | An English poet and playwright. |
| Redvers | Buller | Appointed as Commander-in-Chief in South Africa. |
| Thomas | Burberry | A British clothier. |
| Julius | Burlein | Owner of the most productive collieries in Witbank. |
| Charles | Burnett | A captured officer from the 18th Hussars. |
| Charles | Burnham | A shopkeeper. |
| John | Buttery | An editor for the Standard and Diggers News. |
| Ben | Caunt | Former heavy weight champion in England. |
| Joseph | Chamberlain | The secretary of state for the colonies. |
| George | Churchill | Winston's uncle. |
| Jack | Churchill | Winston's younger brother. |
| John | Churchill | The first Duke at Marlborough. |
| Randolf | Churchill | Winston Churchill's father. |
| Winston | Churchill | A soldier and a journalist. |
| Bourke | Cockran | An American politician. |
| Piet | Cronje | A general of the South African Republic's military forces. |
| Jeremiah | Cullingworth | Burnham's grandmother. |
| | D'Abernon | The British ambassador to Berlin. |
| Geoge | Danton | The leader of the French Revolution. |
| Charles | Darwin | An English naturalist. |
| Michael | Davitt | An Irish journalist and activist. |
| Diederick | de Beer | Johannes's brother. |
| Robert | de Bruce | King of Scotland. |
| F.W. | de Klerk | Boer's new President. |
| Louis | de Souza | Kruger's secretary of state for war. |
| Koos | dela Rey | The legendary Boer general. |
| Dan | Dewsnap | The mine engineer. |
| Florence | Dixie | The first female correspondent. |
| Alfred | Douglas | Had an affair with Oscar Wilde. |
| Arthur Conan | Doyle | A British writer. |
| P. | Eloff | Kruger's grandson. |
| Alfred | Emmot | One of Churchill's opponents. |
| Tom | Frankland | A young officer in the batallion. |
| Mohandas | Gandhi | An Indian lawyer and activist. |
| Edouard | Girouard | A railway builder and chronicler of the war. |
| William | Gladstone | Former British Prime Minister. |
| Park | Gray | A young trooper. |
| Conyngham | Greene | A British diplomat. |
| Robert | Grenfell | The man who took Churchill's place as 2nd Lieutenant. |
| Ivor | Guest | Churchill's cousin. |
| Jan | Gunning | Opperman's assistant. |
| Aylmer | Haldane | Churchill's old friend. |
| Lillian | Hamersley | George's wife. |
| Ian | Hamilton | Acting adjutant general of the Natal Field Force. |
| Thomas | Hardy | An English novelist and poet. |
| Alfred | Harmsworth | A publisher. |
| Arthur Fitzroy | Hart | Commanding officer of South Africa field force. |
| Henry | Hildyard | A British army officer. |
| Howard | Hillegas | An American journalist. |
| Emily | Hobhouse | A British social worker. |
| Adrian | Hofmeyr | A clergyman from Cape Colony. |
| Catherine | Holmes | A young girl who remembered the Churchill's escape. |
| John | Howard | Former politician. |
| Clementine | Hozier | Churchill's wife. |
| Erasmus | Jacobs | Son of a South African farmer. |
| Leander | Jameson | A British colonial politician. |
| Jennie | Jerome | Lord Randolf's wife. |
| Leonard | Jerome | American financier and speculator. |
| Leonie | Jerome | Winston's aunt. |
| Samuel | Johnson | An English writer. |
| Piet | Joubert | A commanding general. |
| Trui | Joubert | Mariano's wife. |
| | Keuzenkamp | A burgher. |
| Genghis | Khan | Founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. |
| Rudyard | Kipling | A journalist. |
| Horacio | Kitchener | Walter's brother. |
| Walter | Kitchener | A member of the Buller's staff. |
| Paul | Kruger | The President of the Transvaal. |
| Henri | Lansdowne | British secretary of state of war. |
| Frederick | Le Mesurier | A prisoner. |
| W.E.H. | Lecky | An Irish historian. |
| Willem | Leyds | Then state secretary of the Transvaal. |
| David | Livingstone | The famous Scottish missionary and explorer. |
| William | Lockhart | Then commander-in-chief of Her Majesty's army in India. |
| Charles | Long | Left in temporary command by his superiors. |
| Mariano | Luis | de Souza's father. |
| Victor Bulwer | Lytton | 2nd Earl of Lytton and godson of Queen Victoria. |
| Hans | Malan | Kruger's grandson. |
| Nelson | Mandela | A charismatic young lawyer. |
| Nathan | Marks | Accused of being Boer's spy. |
| Edward | Marsh | Churchill's private secretary. |
| James | Mawdsley | Churchill's running mate. |
| Hiram | Maxim | An American inventor. |
| Joe | McHenry | One of the Scottish's miners. |
| Joe | McKenna | One of the Scottish's miners. |
| William | McKinley | President of U.S. at that time. |
| Stuart | Menzies | A prolific British author. |
| Paul | Methuen | A commanding officer of the First Division of the Brirish army. |
| Lucas | Meyer | Commander Botha's old friend and mentor. |
| Alfred | Milner | The governor of Cape Colony. |
| John | Milton | One of the outstanding students. |
| A.W. | Moore | Lord Randolf's private secretary. |
| James Wolfe | Murray | A British army officer. |
| Johannes | Nicolaas | A farm owner. |
| Alfred | Novel | The inventor of the dynamite. |
| David | Ogilvy | In-charge of the Naval guns. |
| R.W.L. | Opperman | Commandant of the guard. |
| James | Oswald | Ascroft's counterpart. |
| Solomon | Plaatje | South African's journalist. |
| Pamela | Plowden | A beautiful young woman with whom Churchill had fallen in love. |
| Trevor John | Plowden | Pamela's father. |
| Alexander | Pope | An English poet. |
| Robert Baden | Powell | Founder of the Boy Scouts. |
| Andries | Pretorius | Close friend of Louis Botha's grandfather. |
| Caryl | Ramsden | One of Jennie Jerome's lover. |
| Deneys | Reitz | Frances William Reitz's son. |
| Francis | Reitz | The Transvaal secretary of state. |
| Cecil | Rhodes | Former Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. |
| Freddy | Roberts | Only son of Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts. |
| Frederick | Roberts | A renowned combat leader. |
| Charlotte | Robinson | A palm reader. |
| Theodore | Roosevelt | Youngest President in US history. |
| Alexander | Ross | A British Consul General. |
| Mrs. | Runciman | Walter's wife. |
| Walter | Runciman | One of Churchill's opponents. |
| John Singer | Sargent | Most famous painter of the Victorian era. |
| Alexander | Scott | Winston's first biographer. |
| Walter | Scott | A Scottish novelist. |
| Felix | Semon | Renowned throat specialist. |
| Frederick | Smith | Churchill's close friend. |
| Jan | Smut | The Transvaal state attorney. |
| Cecil | Spring Rice | Roosevelt's friend. British ambassador to US. |
| George | Steevens | A journalist. |
| Robert Louis | Stevenson | A Scottish novelist. |
| Frederick | Stopford | Buller's military secretary. |
| Kate | Stuart | Haldane's wife. |
| Arthur | Sullivan | A composer. |
| Jonathan | Swift | An Anglo-Irish essayist. |
| William Penn | Symons | One of the most experienced officers in the British army. |
| Danie | Theron | One who had witnessed Churchill's captivity. |
| Alexander | Todd | A Nobel-Prize winning chemist. |
| Consuelo | Vanderbilt | Wife of the 9th Duke of Marlborough. |
| Adolf | Vischer | A Swiss surgeon. |
| Thomas | Walden | Churchill's valet. |
| Edgar | Wallace | A journalist. |
| George | West | Jennie's boyfriend. |
| Patsy | West | George Cornwallis-West's mother. |
| George | White | Penn Symons counterpart. |
| Sytze | Wierda | A Dutch architect. |
| Oscar | Wilde | Mrs. Robinson's devoted client. |
| Kaiser | Wilhelm II | Son of Queen Victoria's oldest daughter. |
| Arthur | Wilson | Third Naval Lord and controller of the Navy. |
| James | Yule | Penn Symons second-in-command. |
| Albert | | Queen Victoria's husband. |
| Al-Mahdi | | A Muslim leader. |
| Anne | | Queen of England. |
| Cornelia | | Ivor's mother. Lord Randolf's older sister. |
| Dengane | | Shaka's half brother. |
| Edward VII | | Kaiser Wilhelm's cousin. |
| Elizabeth II | | Queen Victoria's great-great granddaughter. |
| Henry V | | King of England. |
| James II | | The King of England. |
| Jeune | | Churchill's friend. |
| Leopold | | Emperor of the Roman Empire. |
| Marie | | Souza's wife. |
| Morris | | Chief customs officer. |
| Napoleon | | A French statesman. |
| Salisbury | | The Prime Minister of India. |
| Shaka | | A young warrior. |
| Sunny | | Winston's cousin. |
| Victoria | | Former Queen of the United Kingdom. |
| William III | | King of England Aka: William of Orange. |
