All Babel characters Listed With Descriptions

All T characters Listed With Descriptions

BABEL

by R. F. Kuang

Characters By Chapter

EDITOR:
Remy Hale

QUICK EDITION (QE)

CH	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION
1	Richard	Lovell	Professor at the Royal Institute of Translation
	Mrs	Piper	Professor Lovell's Scottish housekeeper
	Richard	Hakluyt	English writer and Anglican priest
	Elizabeth	Slate	English governess. Aka: Miss Betty
	Adam	Smith	Scottish economist and philosopher
	Robin	Swift	British-born Chinese boy brought to Oxford to study translation
2	William	Blake	English poet and painter
	Mr	Felton	Latin instructor
	Mr	Chester	Strict and harsh tutor
2	Mr	Woodbridge	Former principal of Woodbridge Senior High School
	Mr	Ratcliffe	Racist tutor
	Helena	Napier	British academic and anthropologist
	George	VI	Former King of the United Kingdom
	Charles	Dickens	English novelist
	Napoleon	Bonaparte	Former Emperor of France
	Princess	Victoria	Crown Princess of Sweden
	Alexander	Pope	English poet
	William	Wilberforce	Member of Parliament; abolitionist
	Robert	Wedderburn	British-Jamaican radical, abolitionist
	Mary	Wollstonecraft	English writer and philosopher
	Jane	Austen	English novelist
	Thomas	Bertram	Fictional character
	Thomas	Hope	Dutch-British Regency designer
	James	Morier	British diplomat and author
	Mary	Shelley	English novelist
	Frederick	Marryat	Royal Navy officer and novelist
	Marcus Tullius	Cicero	Roman statesman and lawyer
	Livy		Roman historian
	Virgil		Roman poet
	Horace		Roman poet
	Juvenal		Roman poet
	Xenophon		Greek philosopher and historian
	Homer		Ancient Greek poet
	Lysias		Athenian orator
	Plato		Ancient Greek philosopher
	George	IV	Former King of the United Kingdom
	William	IV	Former King of the United Kingdom
3	Ramiz Rafi	Mirza	Brilliant Muslim Indian student. Aka: Ramy
	Jonathan	Scott	Canadian TV personality
	Antoine	Galland	French orientalist and archaeologist
	Harun	al-Rashid	Abbasid caliph
	Dean	Mahomed	First Muslim from Bengal to migrate to the West
	Colin	Thornhill	Prejudiced Oxford student
	Edgar	Sharp	Fellow student
	Edward	Sharp	Edgar's twin brother
	Bill	Jameson	Robin's fellow student
	Elias	Ashmole	English antiquary and politician
	Mary	Davis	Irish social entrepreneur
	Bulkeley	Bandinel	Scholar and librarian
	Richard	Gough	Scottish former footballer
	Queen	Anne	Former Queen of Great Britain
	Queen	Mary	Queen of Scots
	James	II	Former King of England
	John	Radcliffe	Physician and Oxford benefactor
	Abraham	van Linge	Window painter
	Henry	Giles	Glass painter
	Sterling	Jones	Actor
	Sir William	Jones	Judge and philologist
4	Letitia	Price	Student at Babel. Aka: Letty
	Anthony	Ribben	Postgraduate in French/Spanish/German
	Victoire	Desgrabes	Haitian student at Babel
	Charles	V	Former Holy Roman Emperor
	Vimal	Srinivasan	Former Babel student; Hermes Society
	Jerome	Playfair	Professor at Babel
	Gideon		Member of the Hermes Society
	Herodotus		Greek historian
5	Griffin	Harley	Older half-brother of Robin Swift
	Philippa		Chinese woman who dies of cholera
	Dick		Younger half-brother of Robin Swift
	Johanna		Lovell's wealthy wife
	Horace	Wilson	Senior British government official
6	Johann	Breitinger	Swiss philologist
	Erasmus		Dutch humanist and theologian
	John	Denham	English politician; Secretary of State
	Heinrich	Heine	German poet
	Alexander Tytler	Fraser	Advocate and judge
	Margaret	Craft	Only female professor at Babel
	Anand	Chakravarti	Professor at Oxford
7	Ilse	Dejima	Former Babel student; Hermes Society
	Philip	Wright	English actor
8	Cathy	O'Nell	American mathematician and data scientist
	John	Dryden	English poet and critic
	Hilary	Duff	American singer and actress
	Elton	Pendennis	Rich, pretentious Babel student
	Woody	Guthrie	American singer-songwriter
9	Evie	Brooke	Former Babel student
	Gaeli		Grandmother of Cathy O'Nell
	Anthony	Ribben	Postgraduate student at Babel
10	Qianlong	Emperor	Former Emperor of China
11	Joseph	Harding	Professor at Oxford Institute
	Ibn	Khaldun	Islamic scholar, historian, sociologist
	Antoine de Sacy	Silvestre	French linguist
	Hugo	Leblanc	Professor at Babel
12	Peter	Gaskell	Founding member of the CCRI
	William	Blake	English poet
	Oliver	Twist	Fictional poor orphan
	Adam	Moorhead	Film and television professional
13	August Wilhelm	Schlegel	German scholar and poet
14	Vincy	Woolcombe	British student at Oxford
	Minna		German student at Babel party
15	Samuel	Morse	American inventor
	Sima	Qian	Chinese historian
	Thucydides		Ancient Greek historian
	Horace Hayman	Wilson	Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
	Charles	Trevelyan	Former Assistant Secretary to the Treasury
	Mary	Willcocks	Feminist author; aka Princess Caraboo
	Birdie		Robin Swift's nickname
	Macaulay	Culkin	American actor
	George	Macartney	British diplomat
	William	Amherst	Governor-General of India
	Jiaqing	Emperor	Former Emperor of China
	William	Napier	Royal Navy officer
	William	Baynes	Queensland legislator
17	Afong	Moy	First known Chinese immigrant to U.S.
	Lin	Zexu	Chinese philosopher and statesman
	Mr	Baylis	British corporate representative
	Karl	Gützlaff	German missionary
	Reverend	Gützlaff	Missionary
	Captain	Elliot	U.S. Naval officer
	William	Botelho	Interpreter for High Imperial Commissioner
18	Jemima	Smythe	American Christian missionary
	William	Jardine	Head of British trading firm
	James	Matheson	Co-head of British trading firm
19	Confucius		Chinese philosopher
	Ludwig van	Beethoven	German composer
20	Mrs	Clemens	Friendly neighbor of Lovell
	Lord	Palmerston	British statesman; Prime Minister
21	Dr	Hastings	Professor at Babel
	Archduke	Alexander	Palatine of Hungary
	Professor	De Vreese	Babel professor
22	William	Jones	Welsh scholar and judge
	Christopher	Columbus	Italian explorer
	James	Graham	British statesman; Home Secretary
	Viscount	Mahon	Undersecretary of State
	William	Gladstone	Prime Minister of the UK
	William	Laird	Scottish shipbuilder
25	John	Locke	Father of liberalism
	Montesquieu		French judge and political philosopher
	Lincoln		Point: Letty's brother
	Amelia	Price	Letty's mother
	Admiral	Price	Letty's father
26	King	Ahab	King of Israel
	Melvin	Conway	Computer scientist
	Margaret	Craft	Latin professor at Babel
	Ibrahim		Student at Oxford's Royal Institute
	Juliana		Babel student
	Yusuf		Babel student; strike member
	Meghana		Babel student; strike member
28	Abel	Goodfellow	Working-class laborer
	Lord	Hill	English plenipotentiary
	Augustus	Pugin	Famous architect and designer
	Pharaoh		Ruler of ancient Egypt
	Peter	Gaskell	Surgeon
	Caligula		Roman emperor
33	Socrates		Ancient Greek philosopher
	Cato		Roman senator
Epi	Jean Pierre	Brissot	French journalist and abolitionist
	Henry	Christophe	Haitian revolutionary ruler
	Emile	Desjardins	Employer of Victoire's family
	Martlet		Child of Professor Lovell
	Oriel		Child of Professor Lovell
	Rook		Child of Professor Lovell

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