| Athar | Abbas | The chief spokesman for the army. |
| Miangul | Abdul-Haq-Jehanzeb | Wadood's son. |
| Miangul | Abdul-Wadood | The King of SWAT. Aka: Badsha Sahib. |
| Dr. | Afzal | A hospital owner. Ziauddin's friend. |
| Fiona | Alexander | The editor of Birmingham post and a long-term journalist. |
| Dr. Shamsher | Ali | A well-known ANP and politician. |
| Liaquat | Ali | The first prime minister of Pakistan. |
| Nawab | Ali | Malala's Urdu teacher. |
| Sharafat | Ali | The man who helped Ziauddin. |
| Shia-t | Ali | The leader of Islam. |
| Mohammad | Ali Jinnah | The founder of Pakistan. |
| Zulfikar | Ali-Bhutto | The prime minister. |
| Ayman | Al-Zawahiri | Bin Laden's deputy. |
| Rohul | Amin | Malala's grandfather. |
| Shela | Anjum | A Pakistani journalist. |
| Irfan | Ashraf | A Pakistani journalist. |
| Abdul | Aziz | A religion leader. |
| Malak | Bakht-Baidar | Ziauddin's friend who was kidnapped. |
| Abu | Bakr | The leader of Caliph. |
| Shad | Begum | An activist in Dir. |
| Usman | Bhai Jan | The school bus driver. |
| Benazir | Bhutto | A politician. |
| Osama | Bin Laden | A Saudi millionaire. |
| Sheikh-Abdullah | Bin-Zayed | Former minister of UAE. |
| Gordon | Brown | The U.N. envoy for special education. |
| Olaf | Caroe | The former British Governor in the province of Pakistan. |
| Yma | Choudhury | The jolly director of operations. |
| Dr. Fiona | Davis | A British doctor. |
| Raymond | Davis | A CIA agent. |
| Shah | Douran | Fazlullah's deputy. |
| Ehsanullah | Ehsan | A spokesman for the TTP. |
| Adam | Ellick | An American Video Journalist. |
| Malka | E-Noor | Malala's class rival. |
| Mohammad | Farooq | The Vice Chancellor of SWAT University. Ziauddin's friend. |
| Maulana | Fazlullah | A militant leader. |
| Abdul | Ghaffar-Khan | The Pashtun leader. |
| Dr. | Haider Ali | A well-known psychiatrist. |
| Abdul | Hai-Kakar | A BBC radio correspondent. |
| Fazli | Hakim | Rohul's nephew. |
| Haider | Hoti | The chief minister of Pakistan province. |
| Dr. | Humayun | Owner of a hair transplant institute. |
| Altad | Hussain | The MQM leader. |
| Zahid | Hussain | A well-known journalist. |
| Mian | Iftikhar-Hussein | The provincial information minister. |
| Colonel | Imam | The head officer of ISI. |
| Allama | Iqbal | Pakistan's national poet. |
| Richard | Irving | A surgeon. |
| Syed | Javid | Pakistan's deputy commissioner. |
| Qaumi | Jirga | The spokesman of Qaumi Jirga. |
| Colonel | Junaid | A neurosurgeon. |
| Ghulam | Kamar | The major general commander. |
| Arfa | Karim | A child computer genius in Punjab. |
| Ashfaq | Kayani | The chief of staff of army. |
| Dr. Javid | Kayani | A British doctor. |
| Akbar | Khan | Ziauddin's mentor. |
| Ataullah | Khan | Malala's attacker. |
| Azaday | Khan | A wealthy philanthropist. |
| Imran | Khan | The cricketer-turned-politician. |
| Janser | Khan | Malala's grandfather. Tor Pekai's father. |
| Kamran | Khan | A journalist. |
| Muslim | Khan | The Taliban's spokesman. |
| Naeem | Khan | Ziauddin's colleague. |
| Zahid | Khan | A fellow campaigner of Malala's father. |
| Zahid | Khan | Ziauddin's friend and fellow activist. |
| Kushal | Khan-Khattak | A warrior and a poet. |
| Musa | Khan-Khel | A T.V. reporter who was killed. |
| Ayatollah | Khomeini | The Supreme Leader of Iran. |
| Ban | Ki-Moon | The U.N. Secretary General. |
| Maulana | Liaquat | Fazlullah's brother. |
| Rehman | Malik | Pakistan's interior minister. |
| Reman | Malik | The interior minister. |
| Madam | Maryam | Malala's school principal. |
| Baitullah | Mehsud | The leader of Pakistan Taliban. |
| Faiz | Mohammad | Tor Pekai's brother. Malala's uncle. |
| Faqir | Mohammad | The leader of militants in bajaur. |
| Sufi | Mohammad | A friend of Malala's father. |
| Sufi | Mohammad | The founder of TNSM. |
| Sher | Mohammad-Baba | A school assistant. |
| Sher | Mohammad-Khan | The finance minister of the first ruler of SWAT. |
| Lord | Mountbatten | The last British Viceroy of India. |
| Faqir | Muhammad | An influential local cleric. |
| Dr. | Mumtaz | A neurosurgeon. |
| Pervez | Musharaff | Sharif's chief general. The 4th military ruler. |
| Aunt | Najma | Malala's aunt. |
| Barrack | Obama | The U.S. President. |
| Mulah | Omar | The Taliban's leader. |
| Nasir | Pacha | Ziauddin's relative. |
| Khyber | Pakhtunkhwa | The Chief Minister of Pakistan. |
| Tor | Pekai | Malala's mother. |
| Lewano | Pir | The saint of the mad. |
| Ghulam | Qamar | The head of Military in SWAT operations. |
| Raheela | Qazi | A local MP from Jamaate-Islami Party. |
| Saeed | Ramzan | Jehan's brother. Aka: Khan Dada. |
| Abdul | Rashid | Aziz's brother. A religion leader. |
| Adnan | Rashid | A Taliban commander. |
| Yusuf | Raza-Gilani | The Prime Minister of Pakistan. |
| Ronald | Reagan | The U.S. President. |
| Sultana | Rome | Malala's cousin. |
| Miss | Rubi | Malala's favorite. |
| Hafiz | Saeed | The leader of LeT. |
| Mullah | Saidullah | A preacher. Aka: Mad Fakir. |
| Rahmat Shah | Sayel | A famous poet. |
| Ahmad | Shah | Ziauddin's friend and fellow activist. |
| Ahmad | Shah | Ziauddin's friend. |
| Ahmad | Shah | Ziauddin's friend. |
| Maulana | Shah-Dauran | One of Fazlullah's deputy. |
| Rahmat | Shah-Sayel | The famous poet. |
| Nawaz | Shariff | Bhutto's rival. A prime minister. |
| Shahbaz | Shariff | The Chief Minister of Punjab. |
| Miss | Shazia | One of Malala's teachers. |
| Khalid | Sheikh-Mohammad | The mastermind of 9/11. |
| Ahmad | Shuja-Pasha | The head of ISI. |
| Salman | Taseer | The governor of Punjab. |
| Margaret | Thatcher | The prime minister of U.K. |
| Julie | Tracy | The head nurse. |
| Desmond | Tutu | An archbishop from South Africa. |
| Miss | Ulfat | One of Ziauddin's staff. |
| Miss | Ulfat | Malala's kindergarten teacher. |
| Zia | Ul-Haq | A general. The dictator of Pakistan. |
| Ihsan | Ul-Haq Hassini | The President of the Students Group in Jehanzen College. |
| Atal | Yousafzai | Malala's brother. |
| Jehan Sher Khan | Yousafzai | A cousin of Malala's father. |
| Malala | Yousafzai | Protagonist, narrator, and author. Aka: Jani Mun, Pisho, Lachi, Gul Makai. |
| Ziauddin | Yousafzai | Malala's father. |
| Sher | Zaman | One of Ziauddin's students. |
| Wahid | Zaman | Ziauddin's friend. |
| Asif | Zardari | The President of Pakistan. |
| Amal | | Bin Laden's wife. |
| Amjad | | The teacher who put a big poster of Malala's face. |
| Aneesa | | Malala's cousin. |
| Ayesha | | Madam Maryam's younger sister. |
| Babar | | Malala's childhood friend. |
| Basit | | Malala's childhood friend. |
| Fatima | | Malala's schoolmate. |
| Hannah | | Madam Maryam's daughter. |
| Haroon | | The boy who wrote a love letter to Malala. |
| Hidayahtullah | | Ziauddin's colleague. |
| Honey | | Wife of Malala's cousin. |
| Iftikhar | | A local commander. |
| Jajai | | Pacha's wife. |
| Karachi | | Ziauddin's brother-in-law. |
| Khanjee | | Malala's cousin. |
| Kharoo | | The former maid of Ziauddin. |
| Khushal | | Malala's brother. |
| Mehboob | | A Geo TV correspondent. |
| Mehmud | | Muslim Khan's colleague. |
| Moniba | | Malala's best friend. |
| Nooria | | Kharoo's daughter. |
| Obaidullah | | Malala's chemistry teacher. |
| Reena | | Malala's cousin. |
| Rehanna | | The Muslim Chaplain that Malala met. |
| Riaz | | One of Ziauddin's friends. |
| Safina | | Malala's childhood friend. |
| Safina | | Malala's friend. |
| Seema | | A beautiful girl. Malala's acquaintance. |
| Shabana | | A Pakistani singer and dancer who was killed. |
| Shahida | | One of Ziauddin's employees. |
| Shazia | | One of Malala's friends. |
| Shehnaz | | Sultana's daughter. |
| Shiza | | Malala's friend. |
| Sonia | | Shiza's mother. |
| Sultana | | The former maid of Ziauddin. |
