| 1 | | | Hanna Sarajevo, 1996 |
| | Hamish | Sajjan | The official UN observer. |
| | Werner Maria | Heinrich | Hanna's mentor. |
| | Hanna | Heath | An Australian rare-book expert. |
| | Amitae | Yomtov | Hanna's acquaintance. |
| | Ozren | Karaman | Chief librarian of the National Museum. |
| | Giovanni Dom. | Vistorini | A Parish priest. |
| | Kohen | | An Italian trained cantor. |
| | Charles m. | Schulz | American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip. |
| | Kunta | Kinte | A character in the 1976 novel Roots. |
| | Danilo | | Ozren's best friend. |
| | Aida | | Ozren's wife. |
| | Alia | | Ozren's son. |
| | Amalie | Sutter | An entomologist. |
| 2 | | | An Insect's Wing Sarajevo, 1940 |
| | Lola | | A young Jewish girl, worked in the resistance against the Nazis. |
| | Dora | | Lola's little sister. |
| | Mordechai | | Lola's acquaintance. |
| | Isak | | A pharmacist's son. |
| | Rachela | | Lola's mother. |
| | Lujo | | Lola's father. |
| | Mosa | | The custodian at the Jewish community center. |
| | Avram | | An apprentice painter. |
| | Samuel | | A competent teacher of outdoor skills. |
| | Serif | Kamal | In-charged at the National Museum. |
| | Stela | Kamal | Serif's wife. |
| | Rena | | Lola's aunt. |
| | Maks | | Isak's best friend. |
| | Zlata | | One of Isak's friends. |
| | Oskar | | One of Isak's friends. |
| | Ina | | Isak's sister. |
| | Branko | | A secret Communist Party student leader. |
| | Josip Broz | Tito | Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. |
| | Joseph | Stalin | General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| | Rid | | A mule. |
| | Slava | | One of the farm girls. |
| | Milovan | | The regional Brigade Commander. |
| | Sava | | An old man who worked beside Lola's father. |
| | Habib | | Stela's son. |
| | Leila | | Lolas Muslim name. |
| | General | Faber | The feared commander of the Black Hand units. |
| | Josip | Boscovic | Serif's superior. |
| | Adolf | Hitler | The leader of the Nazi Party. |
| | Elijah | Mizrachi | Ottoman rabbi and a mathematician. |
| | Munib | | An assistant in the Museum's natural history department. |
| 3 | | | Hanna Vienna Spring, 1996 |
| | Parnassius | | A great name for a butterfly. |
| | Arthur | Schnitzler | Austrian writer and dramatist. |
| | Johann | Auer | An author. |
| | Frau | Zweig | The chief archivist at the Historisches Museum. |
| | Herman | Rothschild | An ancient manuscript specialist. |
| | M. | Martell | An author. |
| 4 | | | Feathers and a Rose Vienna, 1894 |
| | Franz | Hirschfeldt | A physician. |
| | Anna | | Dr. Hirschfeldt's wife. |
| | Gustav | Mahler | An Austrian composer and a master of the symphony. |
| | Gustav | Klimt | An Austrian symbolist painter. |
| | Mary | Vetsera | An Austrian noblewoman, mistress to Crown Prince of Austria. |
| | Rudolf | | The Crown Prince of Austria. |
| | Florien | Mittl | The bookbinder. |
| | David | | Dr. Hirschfeldt's brother. |
| | Rosalind | | Dr. Hirschfeldt's mistress. |
| | Frau | Hertzl | Anna's friend. |
| | Theodore | | Hertzl's husband. |
| | Julie | | Theodore's daughter. |
| | Lise | | Mittl's wife. |
| | Freud | | Hirschfeldt's acquaintance. |
| | Dr. | Ehrlich | Dr. Hirschfeldt's colleague. |
| 5 | | | Hanna Vienna Spring, 1996 |
| | Wally | Something | A Nigerian writer. |
| | Wole | Soyinka | Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English. |
| | Greta | | A housekeeper. |
| | Razmus | Kanaha | Chief Conservation scientist at the Fogg. |
| 6 | | | Wine Stains Venice, 1609 |
| | Paolo | | An altar boy. |
| | Pope Sixtus V | | Pope of the Catholic Church from 1585 to 1590. |
| | Judah | Aryeh | A Jewish rabbi with a gambling addiction. |
| | Pope Gregory XIII | | Pope from 1572 to 1585. |
| | Dona Reyna | de Serena | The heiress of the greatest Jewish banking fortunes in Europe. |
| | Abraham | Pinel | Owned a printing office. |
| | Lucio | de Bernadotti | Abraham Pinel's acquaintance. |
| | Sarai | | Judah Aryeh's wife. |
| | Ester | | Judah's daughter. |
| | Nicolaus | Copernicus | A Renaissance-era mathematician, astronomer, and clergyman. |
| | Galileo | Galilei | Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer. |
| 7 | | | Hanna Boston, Spring 1996 |
| | Afsana | | Raz's wife. |
| | Dr. Sarah | Heath | Hanna's mother. |
| | Dr. Max | Friosole | Dr. Sarah's colleague. |
| | Delilah | Sharansky | Hanna's grandmother. |
| | Janine | | Dr. Sarah's secretary. |
| | Brett | Whiteley | Australian artist. |
| | Sidney | Nolan | Australian artist. |
| | Arthur | Boyd | Australian painter. |
| | Aaron | Sharansky | Hanna's uncle. |
| | Dr. | Andrew | Dr. Sarah Heath's acquaintance. |
| | Gerard Manley | Hopkins | English poet. |
| | Jonah | | Delilah's son. Hanna's uncle. |
| 8 | | | Saltwater Tarragona, 1492 |
| | David Ben | Shoushan | A devout Jewish man who wrote and bound the book. |
| | Miriam | | David Shoushan's wife. |
| | Ruth Ben | Shoushan | David Shoushan's daughter. aka: Ruti. |
| | Joseph Ben | Shoushan | David Shoushan's brother. |
| | Duran | | A rabbi. |
| | Abraham | Seneor | A rabbi. |
| | Isaac | Abravanel | Abraham Seneor's friend. |
| | Reuben Ben | Shoushan | David Shoushan's son. |
| | Renato | del Salvador | Reuben Shoushan's
baptized name. |
| | Rosa | | Renato's wife. |
| | Moise | | The shochet. |
| | Micha | | A bookbinder. |
| | Thomas de | Torquemada | The queen's confessor. |
| | Ferdinand | | The King. |
| | Isabella | | The Queen. |
| 9 | | | Hanna London, Spring 1996 |
| | Francis | Bacon | Irish-born British painter. |
| | Maryanne | | Hanna's friend. |
| | Amelie | Sutter | Hanna's acquaintance. |
| | P. D. | James | English crime writer. |
| | Salman | Rushdie | British-American novelist and essayist. |
| | Clarisse M. | Morgan | Worked at the Metropolitan Police Forensic Unit. |
| | Peke | | A dog. |
| 10 | | | A White Hair Seville, 1480 |
| | Netanel | ha-Levi | A Jewish doctor. |
| | Hooman | | A Persian boy. |
| | Ibrahim | al-Tarek | Zarah al-Tarek's father. |
| | Muhammad | | Ibrahim's son. |
| | Hakim | | A calligrapher. |
| | Maulana | | Hooman's master. |
| | Nura | | An emira girl. |
| | Sahar | | Emir's cousin |
| | Abu Abd | Allah | Sahar's son. |
| | Muna | | Another name of Nura. |
| | Kebira | | Muna's another name. |
| | Pedro | | A young servant boy. |
| | Al-Mora | | A Moorish woman. |
| | Zahra | al-Tarek | A book illustrator. |
| | Benjamin | | Netanel's only son. |
| 13 | | | Hanna Arnhem Land, Gunumeleng, 2002 |
| | Butcher | | Manager of the Jabiru Station. |
| | Lofty | | A skinny kid and small for a sixteen-year-old. |
| | Jim | Bardayal | An archeologist. |
| | Keith | Lowery | Worked at Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade. |
| | Ned | Kelly | Australian bushranger. |
| | Rover | Thomas | Indigenous Australian artist. |
| | Margaret | | A receptionist. |
| | Mr. | Kessington | Lowery's acquaintance. |
| | Alfred | Rosenberg | Hitler's confidant. |
| | Biram | | A guard at the museum at night. |
| | Caliban | | Fictional
Shakespearian character. |
| | Prospero | | Character in Shakespeare's The Tempest. |
