| Omar |
Abdullah | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir. |
| Julie |
Andrews | Actress and singer. |
| Richard |
Avedon | American photographer. |
| Leon |
Bakst | Russian painter and scene designer. |
| George |
Balanchine | Georgian-American choreographer. |
| Bill |
Blass | Renowned American fashion designer. |
| Betsy |
Bloomingdale | American socialite. |
| Jackson |
Browne | American musician and singer-songwriter. |
| Pat |
Buckley | Gala co-chair. |
| Howard |
Carter | British archaeologist and Egyptologist. |
| Luigi Palma di |
Cesnola | Italian-American soldier and archaeologist; first director of the Met. |
| Beville |
Chamberlain | Former Prime Minister of England. |
| Agatha |
Christie | English author. |
| Jean |
Cocteau | French poet and playwright. |
| Charlotte |
Cross | Associate Curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum, 1978. |
| Bill |
Cunningham | American photographer. |
| Oscar |
de la Renta | Dominican-American fashion designer. |
| Claude |
Debussy | French composer. |
| Sergei |
Diaghilev | Russian art critic, patron, and ballet impresario. |
| Dorothy |
Draper | American interior designer. |
| Amelia |
Edwards | Novelist and journalist. |
| Mr. |
Fantoni | Met's chief security officer. |
| Darius |
Farid | Mona's father. |
| Adolf |
Hitler | Dictator of Germany. |
| Nora |
Hollingworth | Apartment owner. |
| Winslow |
Homer | American painter and illustrator. |
| Anjelica |
Huston | American actress and director. |
| Lauren |
Hutton | American model and actress. |
| Saukemet |
II | Stepson of Hathorkare. |
| Mick |
Jagger | English musician, lead singer of The Rolling Stones. |
| Mrs. |
Jankowski | Doctor in Egypt, 1937. |
| Mr. |
Jankowski | Mrs. Jankowski's husband. |
| Ann Michele |
Jenkins | Assistant to a fashion editor; goes by "Annie." |
| Jackie |
Kennedy Onassis | Former First Lady of the United States. Aka: Jackie O. |
| Dymphna |
Kerrigan | Model. |
| Tutankhamun |
King | 13th Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt. |
| Kenneth Jay |
Lane | American jewelry designer. |
| Mr. |
Lavigne | Director of the Metropolitan Museum. |
| Jacob |
Lawrence | American painter. |
| Jules Bastien |
Lepage | French painter. |
| Henri |
Matisse | French artist. |
| Wendy |
Melcalf | Merchandise planner in the Met Store. |
| Marta |
Meyer | Curator for the Costume Institute. |
| Mary Ann |
Miller | Fashion photographer. |
| Marilyn |
Monroe | American actress and model. |
| Nephi |
Nasr | Heba's assistant. |
| Vaslav |
Nijinsky | Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. |
| John |
Percival | Celebrated officer in the U.S. Navy. |
| Pablo |
Picasso | Spanish painter. |
| Leon |
Pitcairn | Archaeology doctoral candidate from England. |
| Sergei |
Prokofiev | Russian composer and pianist. |
| Jenny |
Pyle | Artist. |
| Lee |
Radziwill | American socialite. |
| Maurice |
Ravel | French composer. |
| Auguste |
Rodin | French sculptor. |
| Diana |
Ross | American singer and actress. |
| Steve |
Rubell | American entrepreneur; co-founder of Studio 54. |
| Karim |
Salah | Mona's husband. |
| Jonathan |
Scarborough | Museum curator. |
| Mark |
Schrader | Charlotte's romantic partner in 1978. |
| Sam |
Shepard | American playwright and actor. |
| Henry |
Smith | One of the archaeologists. |
| Diana |
Vreeland | Former editor of Vogue; consultant at the Met. |
| George |
Washington | 1st President of the United States. |
| Charles |
White | American football running back. |
| Mr. |
Williams | Annie's geography teacher. |
| Tenny |
Woods | Art recovery expert. |
| Grayson |
Zimmerman | Curator from the Metropolitan Museum in the 1930s. |
| Andre |
| Mrs. Vreeland's former helper. |
| Babu |
| Shop owner. |
| Bedouin |
| Tribal leader in Egypt. |
| Beverly |
| Mark's ex-wife. |
| Billy |
| Security guard at the Met. |
| Brad |
| Joyce's love interest. |
| Brian |
| Civil engineer. |
| Carl |
| Billy's acquaintance. |
| Cher |
| American singer and actress. |
| Denise |
| Member of Charlotte's team at the Met. |
| Everett |
| Former Yale quarterback and current Wall Street banker. |
| Fatima |
| Hotel clerk. |
| Frederick |
| Charlotte's boss at the Met. |
| Hathorkare |
| Ancient Egyptian female pharaoh. |
| Heba |
| Store owner; Mona's mother. |
| Helen |
| Charlotte's friend. |
| Igor |
| Russian composer and conductor (likely Igor Stravinsky). |
| Jabari |
| Mehedi's grandson. |
| Joseph |
| A budding sculptor. |
| Joyce |
| Annie's mother. |
| Layle |
| Henry and Charlotte's daughter. |
| Lori |
| Mark's daughter. |
| Marco |
| Billy's uncle. |
| Mehedi |
| Charlotte's acquaintance in Egypt. |
| Michelangelo |
| Italian sculptor and painter. |
| Mona |
| Volunteer worker at the museum. |
| Nancy |
| Frederick's assistant. |
| Osiris |
| Ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife, fertility, and the dead. |
| Pharaoh |
| A ruler in ancient Egypt. |
| Priscilla |
| Volunteer worker at the museum. |
| Scheherazade |
| Legendary Persian queen and storyteller. |
| Sekhmet |
| Major goddess in ancient Egyptian mythology. |
| Steve |
| Member of Charlotte's team at the Met. |
| Wanda |
| Docent trainee at the museum. |
