| Willie | Adams | American football player. |
| Jane | Addams | American activist. |
| Spiro | Agnew | Former Vice President of the United States. |
| Fred | Astaire | American dancer. |
| Russell | Baker | American journalist. |
| Lucille | Ball | An American actress. |
| Phyllis | Basquette | A female cop reporter. |
| Bob | Bauer | A columnist. |
| Harry | Belafonte Jr. | American singer. |
| Jack | Benny | American comedian. |
| Tony | Blair | Former British Prime Minister. |
| Nellie | Bly | American journalist. |
| Anne | Boleyn | Queen of England. |
| Mary | Boleyn | Anne's sister. |
| Margaret | Bourke-White | An American documentary photographer. |
| Marlon | Brando | American actor. |
| Jim | Bready | A journalist. |
| Bambi | Brewer | Designer, roboticist. |
| Frank | Brooks | A baseball player. |
| Ned | Brown | A creative director and writer. |
| Victor Charles | Buono | American actor, comic and briefly a recording artist. |
| Richard | Burton | A Welsh actor. |
| Julia | Child | An American chef. |
| Craig | Claiborne | An American restaurant critic, food journalist. |
| Betty | Cooke | American designer. |
| Stephen | Corwin | The pet shop clerk. |
| Jack | Diller | A cop reporter. |
| Jonathan | Diller | John Diller's father. Aka: Jonny. |
| Allan | Durst Jr. | Maddie's ex-boyfriend. |
| Allan | Durst Sr. | Allan Durst Jr.'s father. |
| Amelia | Earhart | American aviator. |
| Martha | Ellis Gellhorn | An American novelist, travel writer, and journalist. |
| Andy | Etchebarren | American professional baseball player. |
| Alice | Faye | American actress. |
| Bobby | Fine | Tessie's father. |
| Tessie | Fine | A missing girl. |
| Mrs. | Finkelstein | A pet store owner. |
| Ella | Fitzgerald | American jazz singer. |
| Peter | Forrester | Editor of Beacon's newspaper. |
| E. M. | Forster | An English novelist. |
| Claudia | Frederick | One of Taylor's helpers. |
| Douglas | Frederick | One of Taylor's helpers. |
| Shell | Gordon | Ferdie's friend. |
| Martha | Graham | American modern dancer and choreographer. |
| Oscar | Hammerstein | American lyricist. |
| Nancy | Hanks | Abraham Lincoln's mother. |
| Warren | Harding | 29th U.S. President. |
| Don | Heath | A columnist. |
| Victoria | Holt | A name also used by Eleanor Alice Hibbert. |
| Catherine | Howard | Queen consort of England. |
| Jack | Jones | An American jazz singer. |
| Bob | Jones Jr. | The second president and chancellor of Bob Jones University. |
| Jacqueline | Kennedy | Former First Lady of the United States. |
| Jerome | Kern | American composer. |
| Paul | Klee | A Swiss-born artist. |
| Honor | Livingstone | The features editor. |
| | Lopez | A baseball player. |
| Juliette | Low | The founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. |
| Thomas | Ludlow | A bartender. Aka: Tommy; Spike. |
| George | Mahoney | The long-shot Democratic candidate for governor. |
| Partick | Mahoney | Armed force officer. |
| Mr. | Marshall | Paper's top editor. |
| Glenn | Martin | American aviation pioneer. |
| Willie | Mays | Baseball center fielder. |
| Harry | McGuirk | One of Maryland's last old-time Democratic machine leaders. |
| H.L. | Mencken | A reporter. |
| Clarence | Mitchell III | American politician. |
| Patrick | Monaghan | Judith's new boyfriend. |
| Marilyn | Monroe | American actress, model, and singer. |
| Tattie | Morgenstern | Maddie's mother. |
| Grandma | Moses | American folk artist. |
| Edward R. | Murrow | American broadcaster. |
| Edward R. | Murrow | American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. |
| Lee Harvey | Oswald | Former U.S. Marine who assassinated U.S. President J.F.K. |
| Dorothy | Parker | American poet. |
| Ray | Parks | Filipino-American professional basketball player. |
| Harvey | Patterson | Canadian politician. |
| Jean | Plaidy | An English author Eleanor Alice Hibbert's penname. |
| Ferdinand | Platt | A patrolman. aka: Ferdie |
| Sidney | Poitier | American-Bahamian actor. |
| Jerry | Pollock | Research scientist. |
| Enoch | Pratt | American businessman and philanthropist. |
| Ronald | Reagan | 40th U.S. President. |
| Paul | Revere | American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist. |
| Ricky | Ricardo | Lucille's husband. |
| Brooks | Robinson | An American professional baseball player. |
| Eleanor | Rosengren | Maddie's friend. |
| Betsy | Ross | American upholsterer. |
| Babe | Ruth | American professional baseball player. |
| Madeline | Schwartz | Milton Schwartz 's wife. aka: Maddie |
| Milton | Schwartz | A lawyer. |
| Mr. | Schwartz | Milton's father. |
| Cleo | Sherwood | Worked at the Flamingo Club. |
| Mr. | Sherwood | Cleo's father. |
| Edna | Sperry | The labor reporter. |
| Barbara | Stanwyck | American actress. |
| Elizabeth | Taylor | American-British actress. |
| Ezekiel | Taylor | Mr. Gordon's favorite guest. Aka: EZ. |
| Hazel | Taylor | Ezekiel Taylor's wife. |
| Latetia | Tomkins | Cloe's friend. |
| Diana | Vreeland | Columnist and editor in the field of fashion. |
| Deborah | Wasserman | American politician . Aka: Debbie. |
| Calvin | Weeks | The assistant city editor. Aka: Cal. |
| Jack | Weinstein | Owner of a jewelry store. |
| Judith | Weinstein | A jeweler. |
| Verda | Welcome | First black city councilwoman. |
| Violet | Whyte | A woman cop. |
| Wallace | Wright | A TV host. Former Wally Weiss. |
| Andrew | Young | Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations. |
| Paul | | A patrolman. |
| Ali | | Milton's new love. |
| Alice | | Teddy's aunt. |
| Bettina | | Wally's ex-wife. |
| Betty | | Bauer's wife. |
| Bill | | One of Tommy's friends. |
| Donald | | Judith's favorite brother. |
| Elijah | | Prophet. |
| Eunetta | | Real name of Cleo Sherlock. |
| Euridice | | The wife of Orpheus. |
| Fang | | A dog. |
| Helen | | Mythical character. Aka: Helen of Troy. |
| Henry VIII | | Former King of England. |
| Lionel | | Eunette's son. |
| Madame Claire | | A psychic. |
| Maguire | | Spike's former boss. |
| Merva | | Cloe's mother. |
| Nathan | | Judith's brother. |
| Noel Darleen | | American actress. She is known for playing Lois Lane. |
| Orpheus | | A musician, poet and prophet in Greek mythology. |
| Queen Esther | | Jewish queen. |
| Rabbi | | Tessie's friend. |
| Ron | | One of Tommy's friends. |
| Sammy | | A fourteen year old honor student at Hamilton Junior High. |
| Seth | | Maddie's child. |
| Sheila | | The Moviegoer's wife. |
| Sophia | | Paul's wife. |
| Suzanne | | Real name of Madame Claire. |
| Theodore | | Eunette's son. Aka: Teddy. |
| Twiggy | | Model. |
| Uncle Box | | Cleo's acquaintance. |
| Walker | | Cleo's cousin. |
