THE GOLDEN GATE
Characters - Alphabetical
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| FIRST NAME | LAST NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| Charles | Abbott IV | Nicole's date. |
| Mr. | Adrianakis | One of the witnesses. |
| Jim | Archimbault | A medical examiner. |
| Cassie | Bainbridge | Issy's cousin. |
| Genevieve | Bainbridge | Issy's grandmother. |
| John | Bainbridge | Sadie's brother. Cassie and Nicole's father. |
| Nicole | Bainbridge | Issy's cousin. Cassie's sister. |
| Sadie | Bainbridge | Issy's mother. |
| Karl | Bendetsen | A colonel in the U.S. Army. |
| Ethel | Biddleston | Sadie's housekeeper. |
| Archibald | Burns | The Bainbridge family lawyer. |
| Vern | Callaghan | Sergeant of SFPD Chinatown's squad. AKA: Headbanger. |
| Jane | Chao | The mystery girl. Murdered. AKA: Shirley Wang. |
| Madam | Chiang Kai-Shek | Chiang Kai-Shek's wife. |
| To | Choy | One of the laundry crew. |
| Margaret | Chung | Sadie's psychologist. |
| Diarmuid | Doogan | The District Attorney for Alameda county. |
| Eddie | Gong | The head boss of Hip Sing Tong. |
| Moses | Gottlieb | Sullivan's grandfather. |
| Chief | Greening | The police chief. |
| Eliana | Halikias | The woman who knows Wilkinson's killer. |
| J. Edgar | Hoover | The founder of FBI. |
| Mark | Hopkins | Issy's great great great-uncle. |
| Sal | Ibarra | Eliana's cousin. |
| Salvatorre | Ibarra | Nicole's friend. |
| Father | Johmann | The Abbott. |
| Juanita | Juarez | The Mexican basement girl. |
| Mrs. | Liang | Lady Shek's friend. |
| Tony | Lima | Mickey's boss. A mafia boss. |
| Mr. | Lipman | The President of Wells Fargo. |
| Lo | Mein | One of the laundry crew. |
| Miriam | Milsap | Sullivan's half-sister. |
| Julia | Morgan | A renowned architect. Roger's boss. |
| Gladys | Mulkerrins | The principal at Del Mar. |
| Mrs. | Newark | Penelope's boss. |
| Jack | O'Brien | One of Rosemary's boyfriends. |
| Dicky | O'Gar | The police who was supposed to guard Wilkinson. |
| George | Pulaski | A laundry basement service agent. |
| Kaz | Sasaki | Genevieves house caretaker. |
| Yuko | Sasaki | Kaz's daughter. |
| Chop | Seuy | One of the laundry crew. |
| Iris | Stafford | Issy's sister. Murdered. |
| Isabela | Stafford | Iris's sister. AKA: Issy. |
| Roger | Stafford | Issy's father. |
| Alejo | Sullivan | Protagonist. AKA: Al, Alejo Guiterez. |
| Mao | Tse-Tung | The communist. |
| Chick | Uhalt | The hotel weekend day manager. |
| August | Vollmer | The former Berkeley PD Chief. AKA: Gus. |
| Mr. | Von Urban | Tillie's husband. |
| Tillie | Von urban | Best friend of Issy's mother. |
| Earl | Warren | The governor. |
| Walter | Wilkinson | Murder victim. |
| Toby | Worlad | A police lieutenant. AKA: Dutch. |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | The leader of China. | |
| Collinson | A witness in Wilkinson's case. | |
| Diego | Sullivan's brother. | |
| Douvray | The man who heard the gunshot. | |
| Gratian | The master beekeeper. | |
| Helena | Genevieve's sister. | |
| Holly | Sullivan's secretary. | |
| Jackie | The communications officer. | |
| Jessup | A businessman. | |
| Johnny | The police photographer. | |
| Julie | The maitre d' hotel. | |
| Justyna | John's wife. | |
| Lionel | Sadie's father. | |
| Mabel | One of the maids. | |
| Mcrae | A police officer. | |
| Mickey | An owner of a restaurant. | |
| Miguel | Sullivan's brother. | |
| Miller | The man who heard the gunshot. | |
| Moss | The judge. | |
| Noel | One of Eddie's employees. | |
| Penelope | Eliana's mother. | |
| Petrocelli | Dicky's partner. | |
| Pound | The old elevator man. | |
| Roosevelt | The U.S. President. | |
| Rosemary | Miriam's mother. | |
| Tankersley | One of the policemen. |
