| Tatyana Alexeyevna | Afanassjewa | Paul's wife. A mathematician. |
| Francis | Bacon | English philosopher. |
| Nils Aall | Berricellic | Jonas's new colleague. |
| Julian | Bigelow | Jonas's co-inventor of M.A.N.I.A.C. |
| Niels | Bohr | One of Oppenheimer's physicists. |
| Ludwig | Boltzmann | Paul's mentor. |
| Sydney | Brenner | A South African biologist. |
| George | Cantor | Creator of set theory. |
| Rudolf | Carnap | One of the physicists. |
| Charles | Dan | Klari's father. |
| Klari | Dan | Janos's second wife. |
| Martin | DAvis | A logician and mathematician. |
| Virginia | Davis | A famous artikst. Martin's wife. |
| Paul | Dirac | Wigner's brother-in-law. |
| Arthur | Ehrenfest | Paul's brother. |
| Paul | Ehrenfest | The Austrian physicist who shot his own son. |
| Vassily | Ehrenfest | Paul's son. |
| Paul | Ehrenfest JR. | Paul's child. |
| Albert | Einstein | One of Wigner's genius friends. |
| Heinrich | Faust | The great scholar. |
| Michael | Fekete | Janos's co-author. |
| Richard | Feynman | One of Oppenheimer's men. |
| Vincent | Ford | Janos's attache. |
| Klaus | Fuchs | The soviet's spy. |
| Charles | Galton-Darwin | Charles Darwin's grandson. Turing's boss. |
| Chris | Garlock | An American commentator. |
| Adele | Godel | Kurt's wife. |
| Kurt | Godel | An Austrian logician. |
| Samuel | Godsmit | Paul's friend. |
| Mrs. | Gottlieb | Vassily's teacher. |
| Kenneth | Griesen | One of Oppenheimer's men. |
| General | Groves | The man in charge of Manhattan Project. |
| Demis | Hassabis | The brainchild of AlphaGO. A chessmaster. |
| Werner | Heisenberg | The man in charge of Hitler's nuclear program. |
| David | Hilbert | A scientist. Janos's master. |
| Aja | Huang | Senior programmer from Deepmind. |
| Jack | Hubbard | Manhattan's team leader. |
| Fan | Hui | A Go player. |
| Kim | Hyun-Jin | Lee's wife. |
| Ke | Jie | The Chinese prodigy. |
| Franz | Joseph | The emperor. |
| Guo | Juan | A Chinese GO player. |
| Kweon | Kab-Yong | Founder of Go Academy. Sedol's master. |
| Iwamoto | Kaoru | Utaro's challenger. |
| Anatoly | Karpov | Garry's greatest opponent. |
| Garry | Kasparov | A chess player legend. |
| Mariette | Kovesi | Janos's first wife. |
| Bela | Kun | Hungary's former leader. |
| Gu | Li | One of Lee Sedol's historic rivals. |
| Ernst | Mach | Paul's friend. A positivist. |
| Nelly Posthumus | Meyjes | Paul's mistress. |
| Carl | Morgenstern | Oskar's son. |
| Dorothy | Morgenstern | Oskar's wife. |
| Oskar | Morgenstern | Janos's colleague. |
| Max | Neumann | Janos's father. |
| Alfred | North-Whitehead | Russell's colleague. |
| | Oppenheimer | Leader of Los Alamos Atomic Bomb Project. |
| George | Polya | One of Janos's professors in Budapest. |
| Michael | Redmond | The only western player to achieved 9 dan status. |
| Bertrand | Rusell | One of Europe's foremost logicians. |
| Arend | Rutgers | One of Paul's PhD students. |
| Lee | Sedol | 9 Dan Master of GO. |
| Anselm | Strittmatter | The priest who performed Janos's burial rite. |
| Gabor | Szego | One of Eugene's senior teachers. |
| Leo | Szilard | Wigner's close friend. |
| Edward | Teller | Wigner's close friend. |
| Peter | Thiel | A rich venture capitalist. |
| Alan | Turing | A mathematician and computer scientist. Janos's colleague. |
| Stan | Ulam | Janos's friend. |
| Hashimoto | Utaro | The national GO champion. |
| Theodore | Von Karman | Hungarian mathematician. |
| Jansci | Von Neumann | Wigner's genius classmate. Father of computer. AKA: Johnny, Janos. |
| Margit Kann | Von Neumann | Janos's mother. |
| Marina | Von Neumann | Janos and Mariette's daughter. |
| Nicholas Augustus | Von Neumann | Janos's brother. |
| Eugene | Wigner | Janos's childhood friend. AKA: Jeni Pal. |
| Emperor | Yao | The inventor of the game of GO. AKA: Yao-Mu. |
| San | Yi | Yao's concubine. Danzhu's mother. |
| Herber | York | Director of the Weapons Laboratory at Livermore. |
| Bethe | | One of Oppenheimer's physicists. |
| Brouwer | | One of the physicists. |
| Danzhu | | Yao's son. |
| Eisenhower | | Current US President. |
| Fermi | | One of Oppenheimer's physicists. |
| Galinka | | Paul's child. |
| Heyting | | One of the physicists. |
| Lili | | Janos's eldest cousin. |
| Tatyana | | Paul's child. |
| Ulam | | One of Oppenheimer's physicists. |