| Pro | Ann | Fleming | Ian's wife. AKA: Ann O'Neill. |
| | Ian | Fleming | Protagonist. |
| | Richard | Fleming | Ian's brother. |
| | Mary | Fleming | Richard's daughter. |
| | Peter | Fleming | Ian's brother. |
| | Hilary | Bray | Ian's old school friend. |
| | Caspar | Fleming | Ian's son. |
| | Michael | Fleming | Ian's brother. |
| | Valentine | Fleming | Michael's son. |
| | Elizabeth | Fleming | Valentine's wife. |
| | Blanche | Blackwell | Ian's mistress. |
| | Fionn | Blackwell | Ian's stepdaughter. |
| | Francis | Grey | Ann's nephew. |
| | Edward | Burnley | The reverend. |
| | Tish | Fleming | Valentine's mother. |
| | Susan | Wooliams | Daughter of Ann's driver. |
| | Corey | | Susan's grandson. |
| | Joan | Prew | A cleaner. |
| | | | Part 1 |
| 1 | John | Fleming | Lord Provost of Aberdeen. Ian's great-uncle. |
| | Robert | Fleming | Ian's grandfather. |
| | Kate | Fleming | Ian's grandmother. |
| | Eve | Fleming | Ian's mother. |
| | David | Bruce | American Ambassador. |
| | James | Angleton | CIA's Head of Counter Intelligence. |
| | Logan | Roy | A media patriarch. |
| | Desperate | Dan | Dundee's most favorite. |
| | Winston | Churchill | Dundee's most ignored prodigy. |
| | Jack | Cuc | Winston's brother. |
| | Edward | Baxter | Robert's former boss. |
| | Gilly | | Ian's niece. |
| | Philip | Fleming | One of Robert's sons. |
| | Sandra | Fleming | Philip's niece. |
| | Kate | Hindmarsh | Robert's bride. |
| | Mary | | Kate's great-granddaughter. |
| | Lord | Wyfold | Mary's grandfather. |
| | Rupert | Hart-Davis | Peter's best friend. |
| | Valentine (2) | Fleming | Ian's father. AKA: Val. |
| | Robin | Fleming | Philip's son. |
| | Fergus | | One of Val's' grandsons. |
| | George | Lyttelton | Ian's English teacher. |
| 2 | William | Stephenson | One of Ian's friends. |
| | Harcourt | | Eve's brother. |
| | Amaryllis | | Ian's half-sister. |
| | Ernan | Forbes-Dennis | Ian's tutor. |
| | Hester | Chapman | Daughter of Ian's prep-school headmaster. |
| | George | Rose | Eve's father. |
| | Beatrice | Rose | Eve's mother. |
| | Philip | Rose | George's father. |
| | Benjamin | Disraeli | British Prime Minister. |
| | Richard | Quain | Eve's grandfather. |
| | Ivor | | Eve's brother. |
| | Richard | White | Ivor's father-in-law. |
| 3 | Maud | Rusell | One of Ian's lovers. |
| | Raymond | | Maud's son. |
| | Gerald | Coke | Ian's friend. |
| | Kate | Fleming | Peter's daughter. |
| 4 | Tom | Pelatt | A private school owner. |
| | Nell | Pelatt | Tom's wife. |
| | Cyril | Alington | Eton's headmaster. |
| | Claude | Elliott | Eton's headmaster. |
| | William | Pitt | A Prime Minister. Former Owner of the Pitt House. |
| | Gwendoline | Churchill | Jack's wife. |
| | Arthur | Villiers | Val's fellow officer and friend. |
| | Kathleen | Fleming | Peter's sister. |
| 5 | Basil | Maine | Ian's first teacher. |
| | Arthur | Worsley | Ian's teacher. |
| 6 | Phyllis | Bottome | A novelist. One of Ian's mentors. |
| | Paul | Gallico | An American Novelist. |
| | Ernie | Cuneo | Ian's former teacher. |
| | Gladwyn | Jebb | Special Operations Executive. |
| | Gerald | Yorke | Former Captain of the Oppidans. |
| | Dunstan | Curtis | Ian's intelligence gathering head. |
| | John | Carter | Ian's editorial director. |
| | Jonathan | Cape | Ian's publisher. |
| | Henry | Woodyer | Architect of Timbralls. |
| | Edward | Vere-Slater | Ian's housemaster. |
| | Ludovic | Kennedy | The broadcaster. |
| | Sam | Slater | A mountain-climbing bachelor. |
| | Hugo | Charteris | Ann's brother. |
| | Ivor | Bryce | Amaryllis's brother. |
| | Augustus | John | A painter. Eve's lover. |
| | Basil | Maine | One of Ian's teachers. |
| | Dorothy | Fleming | Val's sister. |
| | Le | Chiffre | Ian's first villain. |
| | Robert | Harling | One of Ian's friends. |
| | Loelia | Am | Duchess of Winsminster. Ian's friend. |
| 7 | William | Trevor | Owner of Lathbury Park. |
| | David | Herbert | Son of the Earl of Pembroke. |
| | Lord | Ellesmere | Eve's friend. |
| | Cyril | Connolly | Lord Ellesmere's nephew. |
| | Ronald | Fellowes | Ian's army commander. |
| | Lord | Ailwyn | A Major. Ian's commanding officer. |
| | Peggy | Bainbridge | One of Ian's former girlfriends. |
| | Charles | Cockran | A Major General. |
| | Ralph | Arnold | One of Dennis's new intakes. |
| 8 | Lisl | Jokl | One of Ian's former girlfriends. |
| | Edith | Morpugo | One of Ian's former girlfriends. |
| | Muriel | Wright | One of Ian's former girlfriends. |
| | Frederica | Freer | Ernan's niece. |
| | John | Buchan | Phyllis's boss. |
| | Conrad | O'Brien | A British Intelligence Officer. |
| | Fred | | Ernan's older brother. |
| | Alfred | Adler | One of Freud's inner circle. |
| | Roderick | Meiklejohn | Civil Service Commissioner. |
| | Percy | Muir | A Music Hall Entertainer. |
| | Helen | Muir | Ian's daughter. |
| | Selby | Armitage | Ian's friend. |
| | Franz | Schlick | A tennis champion. |
| | Paula | Von Lamberg | Schlick's wife. |
| | Nigel | Dennis | Ernand's nephew. |
| | Henrik | Akst | Impoverished Newspaper Vendor. |
| 9 | Joshua | Bierer | Ian's earlier analyst. |
| | Leonard | Seif | Another Adler's disciple. |
| | Joan | Regent | Eve's housemaid. |
| | Kathleen | | Eve's sister. |
| 10 | Tina | Keller-Jenny | Ian's new landlady. |
| | Carl | Jung | Tina's close fiend. |
| | Leo | Perutz | Australian Novelist. |
| | Gisela | Von Stolzenberg | A German Baroness. |
| | Eric | Drummond | The Commission's secretary. |
| | William | Wiseman | British Secret Service Rep. |
| | Deirdre | | One of Ian's girls. |
| | Daphne | Finch-Hatton | One of Ian's girls. |
| | Monique | Panchaud de Bottens | One of Ian's girls. |
| | Lucien | Panchaud de Bottens | Monique's father. |
| | Simone | Panchaud de Bottens | Monique's mother. |
| | Hilda | Gee | One of Eve's maids. |
| 11 | Alaric | Jacob | Reuters's diplomatic correspondent. |
| | Roderick | Jones | Owner of Reuters News Agency. |
| | Rickatson-Hatt | | Jones's personal assistant. |
| | John | Buchan | Phyliss's war-time employer. |
| | Ernest | Simpson | Rickatson-Hatt's best friend. |
| | Donald | Healy | Car designer. |
| | Margaret | Alan | A female racing driver. |
| | A.H | Pass | A car racing driver. |
| | Harold | Nicholson | Lady Sackville's son-in-law. |
| | Andrew | Bond | James Bond's father. |
| | Reader | Bullard | The diary owner. |
| | Allan | Monkhouse | The company chief engineer. |
| | Leslie | Thornton | In-charge of building turbines. |
| | Jack | Whittingham | The screenwriter. |
| | Robin | Kinkead | One of Ian's friends. |
| | Walter | Duranty | One-legged pulitzer winner. |
| | Zachariah | Mikhailov | Secretary-interpreter. |
| | Aleksei | Brobinsky | Son of a former count. |
| | William | Macdonald | An engineer. |
| | Anna | Kutuzova | Thornton's secretary. |
| | Andrei | Vyshinsky | A state prosecutor. |
| | Allan | Monkhouse | Thornton's boss. |
| 13 | Wilfred | Ashley | A politician. |
| | Christopher | Chancellor | Ian's assistant. |
| | Gilbert | Rusell | A banker friend of Churchills. |
| | Harold | Hemming | A financier. |
| | Frau | Zwilgmeyer | The Hemming's landlady. |
| 14 | T.S | Eliot | Ian's neighbor. |
| | Garabed | Bishirgian | An Armenian client. |
| | Lancy | Hugh-Smith | Rowe and Pitman's senior partner. |
| | Aubrey | | Lancy's brother. War-time Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. |
| | Jack | Bowes-Lyon | One of Ian's partners. |
| | Hugo | Pitman | Rowe and Pitman's senior partner. |
| | Jemima | Pitman | Hugo's daughter. |
| | Alec | Waugh | A best-selling novelist. |
| | Evelyn | Waugh | Alec's sister. |
| | P.B | Mais | A BBC Broadcaster. |
| 15 | Oswald | Mosley | Harold Nicolson's former boss. |
| | Harry | Popper | A gay designer. |
| | Rosie | Reiss | An Interior Designer. |
| | Raymond | | Ian's step-son. |
| | Alice | Hemming | Ian's prim-American girlfriend. |
| 17 | Gilbert | Rusell | Ian's maitresse en titre. Maud's husband. |
| | Emily | | Maud's granddaughter. Editor of her diary. |
| | Lord | Kemsley | Ian's bridge partner. |
| 18 | Ian | Colvin | Vansittart's biographer. |
| | Robert | Hudson | The overseas trade minister. |
| | Sefton | Delmer | A Daily Express journalist. |
| | John | Godfrey | A rear admiral. |
| | Reginald | Hall | Former director of Naval Intelligence. AKA: Blinker. |
| | Montagu | Norman | Governor of the Bank of England. |
| | Roderick | Jones | Ian's former boss. |
| | Christopher | Chancellor | Jone's general manager. |
| | Alexander | Cadogan | Vansittar's succesor. |
| | Claude | Hermonhodge | Lord Wyfold's brother. |
| | Esmond | Rothermere | Ian's bridge partner. Ann's former husband. |
| | William | Donovan | A wealthy republican lawyer. AKA: Wild Bill. |
| 19 | Richard | Dearlove | Former head of MI6. |
| | Michael | Smith | Intelligence historian. |
| | Norman | Denning | Godfrey's
successor. |
| | Christopher | Moran | Professor of US National Security. |
| 20 | Dallas | Brooks | Director of Political Warfare Executive. |
| | Stewart | Menzies | Chief of Combined Operations. |
| | Louis | Mountbatten | First Sea Lord. |
| | Colins | Gubbins | Head of S.O.E. |
| | Bill | Cavendish-Bentick | The JIC Chair. |
| 21 | Alan | Hilgrath | A new naval
attaché. |
| | Edward | Peacock | Managing director of Baring Brothers. |
| | David | Eccles | An economic adviser. |
| | Desmond | Morton | Churchill's personal adviser. |
| 22 | John | Reith | The minister for information. |
| | Adrian | Carton de Wiart | Peter's commanding officer. |
| | Raymond | O'Neill | Ian's stepson. |
| | Francois | Darlan | French Navy's commander-in-chief. |
| | Pierre | Barjot | Peter's close colleague. |
| | Lord | Tyrell | Former Ambassador of France. |
| | Boffy | Dunderdale | S.I.S. Station Chief in Paris. |
| | Patrick | Beesly | Ian's new acquaintance. |
| | Ned | Pleydell-Bouverie | The Naval Attache. |
| | Camille | Gutt | Belgian Minister. |
| | Louis | Franck | Ian's new friend. Belgian Banker. |
| | Francis | De Marneffe | A rower. |
| 23 | J.Edgar | Hoover | Director of FBI. |
| | William | Stephenson | Ian's close companion. AKA: Little Bill. |
| | Alice | | Hemming's wife. |
| | George | Johnson | Former Minsiter of Health and Education. |
| | Ronald | Dahl | One of Stephenson's war-time recruits. |
| 24 | Henry | Stimson | Former War Secretary. |
| | Edward | Merrett | Ian's former solicitor. |
| 25 | Archibald | Wavell | Commander-in-chief of Middle East. |
| | Harold | Caccia | Ambassador of Washington. |
| 26 | Jack | Beevor | S.O.E. Head In Lisbon. |
| | Ronald | Campbell | New Ambassador of Naval Intelligence team. |
| | Paul | Furse | A Naval Attache. |
| | Dixie | Clipper | One of Ian's girls. |
| | Elsie | Schiaparelli | One of Ian's girls. |
| | Dorothy | Simpson | American Columnist. |
| 27 | Louis | Franck | The Belgian banker. |
| | Jan | Aylen | A commander. One of Ian's officers. |
| | Samuel | Hoare | Britain's ambassador in Madrid. |
| | Herbert Oliver Peter | Hungtington-Whiteley | Ian's favorite officer. AKA: Red. |
| | David | O'Keefe | A Canadian Historian. |
| 28 | Victoria | Glendinnings | A Biographer. |
| | Joan | Bright | General Ismay's assistant. |
| | William | Plomer | Ian's book editor. |
| | James | Kirkup | A homosexual poet. |
| | Philip | Larkin | Ian's admirer. |
| | Raymond | | Fionn's brother. |
| 29 | John | Steinbeck | A war correspondent. |
| | Margaret | Bax | Ian's colleague. |
| | Robert | Harling | The man who handles the topographical material. |
| | Dunstan | Curtis | Head of the section. |
| 30 | Humphrey | Quill | Royale Marine colonel. |
| | Archie | Clark-Kerr | Britain's ambassador to Moscow. |
| | Simon | Winder | British author. |
| | Alan | Hillgrath | Chief of British Naval Officer. |
| | Clare | Bashard | A 2nd officer. |
| | Peter | Thorne | Peter's 2nd-in-command. |
| | Noel | Coward | Director of Which We Serve. |
| 31 | Douglass | Stott | A specialist coder. |
| | Hans-George | Von Friedeburg | German Admiral. |
| | Hellmuth | Walter | The man that Curtis arrested. |
| | Dunstan | Curtis | Leader of 30AU Field Team. |
| 32 | Charles | Grey | One of the US Intelligence officers. |
| | David | Kohnen | A US Naval Historian. |
| | Jim | Glanville | S.O.E. Agent. |
| | Ilona | Von Ortenburg | The woman that Ian met at the castle. |
| | Paddy | Beaumont-Nesbitt | Wavell's former boss. |
| 33 | Shane | O'Neill | Ian's close friend. Ann's former husband. |
| | | | Part 2 |
| 34 | Frank | Pakenham | Mary's brother. |
| | Lord | Camrose | Telegraph owner. |
| | Gomer | Kemsley | Camrose's brother. |
| 35 | Sheila | | Bryce's wife. |
| | Eroll | Flyn | Tasmanian-born film star. |
| | Violet | | Ian's housemaid. |
| | Daisy | | Ian's cook. |
| | Holmes | | Ian's gardener. |
| | Anne | | Ian's old maid. |
| | Hall | | Ian's houseboy. |
| 36 | Denis | Hamilton | Ian's future editor and protector at the Sunday Times. |
| | Una | Trueblood | Ian's secretary. |
| | Godfrey | Smith | Kemsley's personal assistant. |
| 37 | Gomer | Berry-Kemsley | Ian's new employer. AKA: K, Groucho. |
| | Merthyr | Tydfil | A department store owner. |
| | Eric | Siepmann | A novelist. |
| | James | Agate | Ian's theatre critic. |
| | Frank | Giles | Ian's sucessor. |
| | Robert | Harling | One of Ian's first hirings. |
| 38 | David | Cornwell | A novelist. AKA: John Le Carre. |
| | Donald | McLahlan | A journalist. |
| | Christopher | Moran | Intelligence Historian. |
| | Henry | Brandon | One of Ian's four-star appointments. |
| | Donald | McCormick | One of Ian's four-star appointments. |
| | Richard | Hughes | One of Ian's four-star appointments. |
| | Antony | Imbert-Terry | One of Ian's four-star appointments. |
| | Rachel | | Terry's girlfriend. |
| | Vladimir | Wolfson | Assistant Naval Attache. |
| | Nicholson | Elliott | Ian's main link with S.I.S. |
| | Jakie | Astor | Conservative M.P. |
| 39 | Richard | Sorge | German Journalist. |
| | General | Apraxin | Head of KGB Security. |
| | Clarissa | | Eden's wife. |
| | John | Cork | A Bond Historian. |
| 40 | William | Hadley | Editor of Sunday Times. |
| | Harold | Hodson | Hadley's assistant. |
| | Bone | | Literary Editor of Our World. |
| 41 | Margot | Asquith | Ann's aunt. |
| | Mary | Charteris | Ann's grandmother. |
| 42 | Millicent | Roger | Ian's girlfriend. |
| | Don | Iddan | American Columnist. |
| | Olaf | Hambro | Columnist. |
| 43 | John | Goodwin | Founder of James Bond Club. |
| 44 | Edith | Sitwell | Ian's colleague. |
| | Rosamond | Lehmann | Edith's friend. |
| | Harold | Caccia | Peter's diplomat friend. |
| | Jock | Campbell | Ian's golfing friend. |
| | Stephen | Potter | Ian's golfing friend. |
| | Cubby | Broccoli | Film Prodcuer. |
| | Rene | Mathis | Bond's French counterpart. |
| 45 | Cole | Lesley | Coward's secretary. |
| 46 | Dr. James | Bond | An author, curator. |
| | Mary | Bond | Dr. James Bond's wife. |
| 47 | Barbara | | Cyril's new wife. |
| | Daniel | George | Cape's editor. |
| | Peter | Cheyney | Pulp fiction crime writer. |
| | Dick | Troughton | Head of the booksellers W.H. Smith. |
| 48 | Robert | Ryder | Captain of V.C. MP. |
| | Nanny | Sillick | Caspar's nanny. |
| 49 | Mrs. | Cricmere | Ann's cook. |
| 54 | Christopher | Hitchens | Journalist. |
| | Marcus | Dick | A philosophy professor. Ann's lover. |
| | Rachel | Toynbee | Caspar's girlfriend. |
| | Charlie | D'Acosta | Cyril's former pupil. |
| 55 | Robert | Murphy | Curator of birds. |
| 57 | Jo | Hartford | Queen Elizabeth's best friend. |
| | Oatsie | | Ian's friend. |
| | Gary | Powers | American pilot. |
| | Bobby | | Jack's brother. |
| | Joseph | Kennedy | Jack's older brother. |
| | Nigel | Hamilton | Kennedy's biographer. |
| | John | Kennedy | Current U.S. President. AKA: Jack. |
| | Allen | Dulles | CIA Director. |
| | Desmond | Fitzgerald | Head of CIA's Cuban task force. |
| | Ted | Sorensen | Kennedy's adviser. |
| 58 | Malcolm | Muggeride | Journalist. |
| | Kathleen | Sutherland | Graham's wife. |
| | Graham | Sutherland | An artist. |
| 59 | Kevin | McClory | The man that Ian hates. |
| | Bobo | Sigrist | McClory's fiancé. |
| | Miss | Brand | Undercover special branch officer. |
| 62 | Jack | Beal | Ian's doctor. |
| | Franz | Groedel | One of Ian's doctors. |
| | Beryl | Griffie-Williams | Ian's new secretary. |
| 63 | Matthew | Farer | Ian's solicitor. |
| 66 | Francis | Grey | Caspar's cousin. |
| | Louise | Allison | Caspar's first girlfriend. |
| | Alexander | Quenell | Peter Quenell's son. |
| | Terence | O'Neill | Ann's uncle. |
| 67 | Wolf | Mankowitz | Dr. No's writer. |
| | Richard | Astley | Joan Bright's son. |
| | Arnold | Goodman | One of Ann's lovers. |
| 68 | Ottman | Merchow | German specialist. |
| 69 | Jock | Campbell | Chairman of a sugar company. |
| | John | Campbell | Jock's son. |
| | Chales | De Mestral | Monique's son. |
| | Selby | Armtage | One of Ian's oldest friends. |
| | Sister | Agnes | One of Ian's nurses. |
| | Sister | Bridget | One of Ian's nurses. |
| Epi | Michael | Wilson | Broccoli's co-producer. |