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