| Haidar | Ali | Tipu's father. |
| Akbar | Ali Khan | One of the envoys. |
| Marie | Angele | A Nun. |
| Mr. | Bazeley | The assistant surgeon. |
| Thomas | Beddicker | Abba's co-sailor. One of the narrators. |
| Khadijah | Begum | Tipu's wife. Deceased. |
| Zubaida | Begum | One of the high-ranking consorts of Tipu's senana. |
| Sahra | Bhabhi | Junaid's wife. |
| Madame | Boldt | One of Jehan's customers. |
| Captain | Bowser | The H.M. Frigate Egyptienne Commander. |
| Mrs. | Chapman | One of Lady Selwyn's housemaids. |
| William | Congreve | The man who will make a replica of Tipu's rocket. |
| Mrs. | Cruickshank | Fellowes's mother. |
| Mr. | Dickens | One of Lady Selwyn's servants. |
| Jehanne | Du Leze | Martine's daughter. Lucien's wife. Aka: Jehan. |
| Lucien | Du Leze | Tipu Sultan's French friend. Abbas's master. |
| Mr. | Flood | One of Selwyn's footmen. |
| Madame | Gardam | Isabelle's friend. |
| Sayyid | Ghaffur | One of Tipu's most distinguished officers. |
| Mr. | Grimmer | The master carpenter. |
| Khwaja | Irfan | Zubaida's assistant. |
| Middle | John | The farmer that Abbas met. |
| Madhava | Jr. | One of the leatherworkers. |
| Abdul | Khaliq | Muiz's older brother. |
| Bahadur | Khan | One of the tigers. |
| Khan Jehan | Khan | One of Tipu's most distinguished officers. |
| Raja | Khan | One of Tipu's servants. |
| Tariq | Khandan | One of the leatherworkers. |
| Samuel | Lowden | William's elder brother. |
| William | Lowden | Thomas's messmates. |
| Ustad | Mahfuz | One of the leatherworkers. |
| Captain | Maquet | The commander of the confiance. |
| The | Maraths | One of Tipu Sultan's enemies. |
| Jacques | Martine | De Leze's former classmate. Tipu's engineer. |
| Abbas | Muhammad | A toymaker. Protagonist. |
| Ghulam | Muhammad | One of Tipu's sons. |
| Junaid | Muhammad | Abba's older brother. |
| Yusuf | Muhammad | Abba's father. |
| The Nizam | of Hyderabad | One of Tipu Sultan's enemies. |
| The Nairs | Of Malabar | One of Tipu Sultan's enemies. |
| Muhammad | Ousman Khan | One of the envoys. |
| Rangappa | Rao | Selwyn's aide de camp. Aka: Rum. |
| Muhammad | Raza | One of Tipu's most distinguished officers. |
| Admiral | Ripaud | The leader of Jacobins. |
| Ustad | Saadat | One of the leatherworkers. |
| Mir | Sadiq | One of Tipu's most distinguished officers. |
| Horace | Selwyn | One of General Harris's colonel. |
| Lady | Selwyn | Colonel Selwyn's wife. Aka: Aggie, Agnes. |
| Richard | Selwyn | Lady Selwyn's only son. |
| Madhava | Sr. | One of the leatherworkers. |
| Tipu | Sultan | The tiger of Mysore. Aka: Fath Ali khan. |
| John | Townshend | Middle John's father. |
| Khasa-Charmaraja | Wodeyar | The most recent King. |
| Louis | XVI | The King of France. |
| Al-Jazari | | Son of rice merchant. |
| Allan | | One of the prize agents. |
| Ammi | | Abba's mother. |
| Baillie | | The colonel. |
| Benki | | Tipu's cousin. |
| Bertie | | The man that Rum met. |
| Bilal | | One of the leatherworkers. |
| Blaque | | Du Leze's business partner. |
| Cornwallis | | Khaliq and Muiz's guardian. |
| Devi | | Du Leze's cook. |
| Fellowes | | Lady Selwyn's butler. |
| Godin | | A clockmaker. |
| Gordon | | One of Thomas's messmates. |
| Gourcuff | | A soldier. |
| Harris | | Tipu's enemy. A general. |
| Isabelle | | Du Leze's sister. |
| Laurent | | The lieutenant. |
| Muiz-ud-in | | Tipu's favorite son. |
| Munir | | Abba's fellow stretcher bearer. |
| Northcote | | The captain. |
| Purnaiya | | One of Tipu's most distinguished officers. |
| Riyad | | Tipu's taster. |
| Sadiq | | The head of Mysore's troops. |
| Stuart | | A general. Tipu's colleagues. |
| Sukumaran | | Du Leze's new cook. |
| Via | | One of Lady Selwyn's maids. |
| Wellesley | | The current governor. |
| Wonderhand | | Superintendent of Goldsmiths. |
