| Tar |
Baby | One of the baby that Eva takes in. |
| Willy |
Fields | The orderly. |
| Edna |
Finch | An Ice Cream parlour owner. |
| Mr. |
Finley | The man who choke on a chicken bone. |
| Paul |
Freeman | Hannah's uncle. |
| Jake |
Freeman | Paul's brother. |
| Jude |
Greene | Nel's husband. |
| Nathan |
Greene | Jude's older brother. |
| Mr. |
Hodges | A funeral parlor owner. |
| Mrs. |
Jackson | A cow oner.. |
| John |
L. | Sula and Nel's childhood neighbor. |
| Chicken |
Little | The boy who accidentaly drowns after being swung by Sula and Nel. |
| Henri |
Martin | The man who wrote a letter to Helen about her grandmother. |
| Devey |
One | One of the little boys that Eva takes in. |
| Sula Mae |
Peace | One of the protagonists,Nel's friend. |
| Hannah |
Peace | Sula's mother. |
| Eva |
Peace | Sula's one-legged grandmother. |
| Boyboy |
Peace | Eva's husband,Sula's grandfather. |
| Pearl |
Peace | Eva's daughter,Sula's sister. Aka: Eva. |
| Ralph |
Peace | Eva's son,Sula's brother. Aka: Plum. |
| Mrs. |
Rayford | Nel's neighbor. |
| Buckland |
Reed | The schoolteacher. |
| Cecile |
Sabat | Wiley's great-aunt,Helen's grandmother. |
| Helen |
Sabat-Wright | Nel's mother,Wiley's wife. Aka: Helene. |
| Mrs. |
Suggs | Eva's neighbor. |
| Mr. |
Suggs | Mrs. Suggs's husband. |
| Devey |
Three | One of the little boys that Eva takes in. |
| Devey |
Two | One of the little boys that Eva takes in. |
| Wiley |
Wright | Nel's father. |
| Nel |
Wright | One of the protagonists. |
| Ajax |
| Sula's lover. Aka: Albert Jacks. |
| Betty |
| Teapot's mother,a neglectful mother. |
| Cora |
| Dessie's friend. |
| Deal |
| The reverend. |
| Dessie |
| Hannah's friend. |
| Elk |
| Dessie's father. |
| Hester |
| Valentine's son. |
| Irene |
| Owner of palace of cosmetology. |
| Ivy |
| One of Sula's friends. |
| Laura |
| Sula's cook. |
| Master |
| A good white farmer who promised freedom and piece of a land to his slave. |
| Patsy |
| One of Hannah's friends. |
| Reba |
| Owner of Reba's grill. |
| Rekus |
| Hannah's husband,Sula's father. |
| Rochelle |
| The Creole girl that Nel met at her grandmother's house. |
| Rudy |
| Patsy's son. |
| Shadrack |
| Founder of National Suicide Day. |
| Shirley |
| Sula and Nel's childhood neighbor. |
| Slave |
| Master's servant. |
| Teapot |
| Betty's son. |
| Valentine |
| One of Hannah's friends. |