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