| Louis | Armstrong | American trumpeter. |
| Blanche Ross | Auzello | Claude Auzello's wife. |
| Claude | Auzello | Director of the Ritz Hotel. |
| Josephine | Baker | American-born French entertainer. |
| Josephine | Beauharnais | The first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. |
| Sarah | Bernhardt | French stage actress. |
| Leon | Blum | French socialist politician and three-time Prime minister of France. |
| Napoleon | Bonaparte | A French statesman. |
| | Bricktop | American dancer. |
| Cab | Calloway | American singer. |
| Robert | Capa | Hungarian-born American war photographer and photojournalist. |
| Mrs. | Carter | Claude's acquaintance. |
| | Chabat | A florist. |
| Coco | Chanel | "a Coco Chanel French fashion designer." |
| Maurice | Chevalier | French actor. |
| Edouard | Daladier | French Radical-Socialist politician and Prime Minister of France. |
| Charles | de Gaulle | Former President of France. |
| Claude | Debussy | "French composer." |
| Marlene | Dietrich | German-American actress and singer. |
| Hans Günther | Dincklage | German jurist. |
| Thomas | Dorsey | American jazz trombonist. Aka: Tommy. |
| Francois | Dupre | French, hotelier, art collector. |
| Erich | Ebert | A colonel. |
| Adolf | Eichmann | One of the major organizers of the Holocaust. |
| Hans | Emliger | Claude's manager. |
| Herr | Enreich | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| Auguste | Escoffier | French chef. |
| Scott | Fitzgerald | American writer. |
| Zelda | Fitzgerald | American novelist, socialite, and painter. |
| Greta | Garbo | Swedish-American film actress. |
| Judy | Garland | American actress, singer, and dancer. |
| Benny | Goodman | American jazz clarinetist and bandleader. |
| Hermann | Goring | German political and military leader. |
| Ernest | Hemingway | American journalist. |
| Martha | Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway's wife. |
| Adolf | Hitler | German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. |
| Barbara | Hutton | Philanthropist. |
| Lily | Kharmanyoff | Blanche's friend. |
| General | Leclerc | French soldier. |
| Lucien | Lelong | French couturier. |
| Abraham | Lincoln | "16th U.S. President. 16th U.S. President" |
| Clement | Marot | French Renaissance poet. |
| Monsieur | Marquet | The owner of Claridge Hotel. |
| Elsa | Maxwell | American gossip columnist and author. |
| Frank | Meier | Claude's friend. |
| Dame Nellie | Melba | "a Nellie Melba Australian operatic soprano." |
| Glenn | Miller | American trombonist. |
| Lee | Miller | American photographer. |
| Gerald | Murphy | American painter. |
| Benito | Mussolini | "Former Prime Minister of Italy." |
| Jean | Patou | French fashion designer. |
| Duchesse | Perigord | The former Anna Gould, an American heiress and socialite. |
| Philippe | Petain | Former French Ambassador to Spain. |
| Edith | Piaf | French singer-songwriter. |
| Pablo | Picasso | Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker. |
| Jack | Pickford | Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer. |
| Mary | Pickford | Canadian-born American film actress and producer. |
| Cole | Porter | American composer and songwriter. |
| Marcel | Proust | French novelist. |
| Monsieur | Renaudin | Claude's superior. |
| Monsieur | Rey Ritz | The owner of Ritz Hotel. |
| Cesar | Ritz | Swiss hotelier and founder of the famous Hotel Ritz. |
| Madame | Ritz | Monsieur Ritz's wife. |
| Marie-Louise | Ritz | Cesar Ritz's wife. |
| Mickey | Rooney | American actor. |
| Franklin D. | Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President. |
| Gioachino | Rossini | Italian composer. |
| Blanche | Rubenstein | Real name of Blanche Ross Auzello. |
| George | Scheuer | Frank Meier's former lieutenant. |
| Elsa | Schiaparelli | Italian fashion designer. |
| Foxy | Sondheim | New York fashion designer. |
| Hans | Speidel | German general during the Second World War. |
| Gertrude | Stein | American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. |
| Herr | Steinmetz | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| Richard | Strauss | "German composer." |
| Carl-Heinrich | Stulpnagel | German general. |
| Gloria | Swanson | American actress and producer. |
| Olive | Thomas | American silent-film actress and model. |
| Rudolph | Valentino | Italian actor. |
| Berthe | Valery | A plastic surgeon. |
| Moule | Valery | Berthe Valery's husband. |
| Madeleine | Vionnet | French fashion designer. |
| Pearl | White | American film actress. |
| Walter | Winchell | American columnist. |
| Alice | | Gertrude's friend. |
| Arletty | | French actress, singer, and fashion model. |
| Astrid | | Colonel Ebert's secretary. |
| Astrid | | Blanche's acquaintance. |
| Bloch | | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| Cleopatra VII | | The last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. |
| Edward VII | | The former King of the United Kingdom. |
| Elise | | Blanche's acquaintance. |
| Friedrich | | A young soldier. |
| George V | | Former King of the United Kingdom. |
| Greep | | One of Frank Meier's friends. |
| Heifer | | Lorenzo's acquaintance. |
| Jacoby | | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| Jacques | | A shoeshine boy. |
| J'Ali | | English actor of Pakistani descent. |
| Katrin | | Friedrich's girlfriend. |
| Klaus | | A driver. |
| Linda | | Cole Porter's wife. |
| Lorenzo | | Lily's new lover. |
| Martin | | Claude's friend. |
| Mary | | A reporter. |
| Michele | | One of Martin's acquaintances. |
| Mistinguett | | French actress and singer. |
| Raphael | | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| Robert | | Lily's husband. |
| Simone | | One of Martin's acquaintances. |
| Spatzy | | Blanche's acquaintance. |
| Turk | | Greep's friend. |
| Victor | | Blanche's acquaintance. |
