| Katerina | Alexeevna | A maiden lady. |
| Peter | Baklasheff | A Merchant of the Second Guild. One of the juries. |
| Ludwig van | Beethoven | A German composer and pianist. |
| Theodosia | Birukoff | A woman who attempted to poison her husband. |
| Euphemia Ivanovna | Botchkova | One of the prisoners. |
| M. | Chernoff | One of Anna Ignatievna's acquaintances. |
| Auguste | Comte | A French philosopher and pioneer of positivism. |
| Mr. | Crooks | Missy's acquaintance. |
| Youri Demitrievitch | Dantchenco | A merchant. |
| Makar | Devkin | A convict for attempted murder and robbery. |
| Fyodor | Dostoevsky | A Russian novelist. |
| Vera | Doukhova | A school-teacher in and out-of-the-way village. |
| Janeane | Garofalo | An American stand-up comedienne. |
| Vsevolod | Garshin | A Russian author of short stories. |
| Henry | George | An American political economist and journalist. |
| Peter | Gerasimovitch | A former teacher. One of the juries. |
| Edvard | Grieg | A Norwegian composer and pianist. |
| Georg W. F. | Hegel | A German philosopher and theologian. |
| Alexander | Herzen | A Russian author, philosopher, and revolutionary. |
| Anna | Ignatievna | The Vice-Governor's wife. |
| Nikolenka | Irtenieff | Nekhludoff's acquaintance. |
| Ivan Semionovitch | Ivanoff | A retired colonel. |
| Elena | Ivanovna | Nekhludoff's mother. |
| Maria | Ivanovna | Sophia's sister. |
| Sophia | Ivanovna | Katusha's godmother. |
| Vasili | Karlovitch | A steward. |
| Mary | Karlovna | A warder. |
| Simeon Petrov | Kartinkin | One of the prisoners. |
| Aleksey | Khomyakov | A Russian philosopher. |
| Carolina Albertovna | Kitaeva | A brothel-keeper. |
| Ivan Ivanovitch | Kolosoff | A former Marechal de Noblesse now a bank director. |
| Markel | Kondretief | A factory hand. |
| Prince | Korchagin | Missy's father. |
| Princess M. | Korchagin | Nekhludoff's bride to be. |
| Grigori Euphimitch | Kouleshoff | One of the officials of the court. |
| Baron | Kriegsmuth | Nekhludoff's father's comrade. |
| Anatole | Kryltzoff | An author. |
| Caesare | Lombroso | An Italian criminologist, phrenologist, physician. |
| Simon | Makhroff | One other peasants. |
| Karl | Marx | A German philosopher. |
| Katerina | Maslova | A prisoner.aka: Katusha. |
| Henry | Maudsley | A British psychiatrist. |
| Micky | Meslennikoff | Vice-governor at the prisons. |
| Ivan | Michaelovitch | Had been a minister of State. |
| Dmitri Ivanovitch | Nekhludoff | Lieutenant of the guards. |
| Friedrich | Nietzsche | A German philosopher. |
| J. M. | Nikiforoff | A Councillor of State. |
| Matthew | Nikitich | One of the members of the court. |
| Matrona | Pavlovna | An old servant of Nekhludoff's aunt. |
| Michael | Petrovitch | The president of the court. |
| Agraphena | Petrovna | Formerly lady's maid to Nekhludoff's mother. |
| Miss | Rayner | A governess of Missy's little sister. |
| Ilya | Repin | A Russian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth. |
| Emily | Rintzeva | One of a political prisoners. |
| Nathalie Ivanovna | Rogoshinsky | Nekhludoff's sister. |
| Emanuel | Schegloff | A linguist. |
| Arthur | Schopenhauer | A German philosopher. |
| Lydia | Shoustova | Vera Doukhova's friend. |
| Therapont Emilianovich | Smelkoff | A merchant. |
| Herbert | Spencer | An English philosopher and political theorist. |
| Katerina Ivanovna | Tcharsky | Nekhludoff's aunt. |
| Michael Sergeivitch | Telegin | Missy's cousin. aka:Misha. |
| Henry David | Thoreau | An American essayist, poet, and philosopher. |
| Madam | Tilyaevsky | One of Anna Ignatievna's acquaintances. |
| Pierre-Nicolas | Tourgueneff | A French sculptor and painter. |
| Clara | Vasilievna | Nekhludoff's acquaintance. |
| Mary | Vasilievna | The marechal's wife. |
| Sophia | Vasilievna | Missy's mother. |
| Baron | Vorobioff | A member of the Petition Committee. |
| Vladimir Vasilievitch | Wolff | A senator of the Appeal Department. |
| Alexander II | | Emperor of Russia. |
| Anisia | | One of the peasants. |
| Bay | | A practical lawyer. |
| Bernoff | | A soldier. |
| Bertha | | Katerina's acquaintance. |
| Bogotyreff | | An aid-de-camp to the Emperor. |
| Breve | | A public presecutor. |
| Clara | | Maslova's acquaintance. |
| Corney | | Nekhludoff's man servant. |
| Dufour | | A Frenchman who bought the estate from the former landlord. |
| Emma | | Nekhludoff's acquaintance. |
| Fanarin | | An advocate. |
| Federoff | | The chief of robbers. |
| Fedka | | Nekhludoff's new acquaintance. |
| Finashka | | Maslova's acquaintance. |
| Gourkevitch | | Doukhova's friend. |
| Grabetz | | A beautiful girl whom Novodvoroff was in love with. |
| Joan of Arc | | A French folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint. |
| Joseph | | A driver. |
| Kalmanoff | | A criminal. |
| Kamenskaya | | Mariette's friend. |
| Kamenski | | A man who died in a duel. |
| Kaminski | | A young man who had been killed by an officer. |
| Katie | | The general's granddaughter. |
| Khoroshavka | | A girl who was convicted for stealing and incandiarism. |
| Kiesewetter | | A preacher. |
| Kirimova | | Nekhludoff's mother's visitor. |
| Kolia | | A boy who was in prison with his political prisoner's mother. |
| Korableva | | A woman who killed her husband with an axe. |
| Kornilova | | Sister of Shoustova's mother. |
| Koroshavka | | One of the prisoners. |
| Leo | | Katerina Ivanovna's cousin. |
| Lineff | | A prisoner's daughter. |
| Lisenka | | Agraphena's married niece. |
| Lozinsky | | One of Kryltzoff's acquaintances. |
| Lubka | | Katerina Maslova's alias. |
| Malania | | A woman who took Katusha's baby. |
| Mariette | | Countess Katerina Ivanona's friend. |
| Martha | | One of the peasants. |
| Matrona Kharina | | Katusha's aunt. |
| Mavra | | A factory worker's wife. |
| Medinzeff | | Nekhludoff's new acquaintance. |
| Menshoff | | One of the prisoners. |
| Menshova | | Maslova's acquaintance. |
| Michael | | One of the peasants. |
| Mitin | | Shoustova's acquaintance. |
| Nabatoff | | A peasant. |
| Narodovoletz | | A revolutionist. |
| Natasha | | Nekhludoff''s sister. |
| Neveroff | | One of the criminals who took suicide. |
| Nicholas I | | Emperor of Russia. |
| Nikitin | | One of the senators. |
| Norableva | | One of the prisoners. |
| Novodvoroff | | Mary Pavlona's companion. |
| Okhotin | | An inveterate thief. |
| Panovo | | Nekhludoff's old acquaintance. |
| Paul I | | Emperor of Russia. |
| Petia | | Missy's brother. |
| Petlin | | A revolutionist. |
| Petroff | | One of Kryltzoff's acquaintances. |
| Philip | | A footman. |
| Pole | | One of Kryltzoff's acquaintances. |
| Polkan | | A dog. |
| Rogoshinsky | | Nathalie's husband. |
| Rozovsky | | One of Kryltzoff's acquaintances. |
| Sadko | | One of a hotel guests. |
| Schonbock | | Nekhludoff's friend. |
| Selenin | | A public prosecutors. |
| Sholostova | | Nekhludoff's acquaintance. |
| Skovorodnikoff | | A theoretical senator. |
| Stephen | | A Korchagin's butler. |
| Taras | | Theodosia's husband. |
| Tcherviansky | | Mariette's husband. |
| Tchouvash | | A soldier. |
| Tikhon | | A man-servant. |
| Timokhin | | A merchant. Smellkoff's companion. |
| Toporoff | | Nekhludoff's acquaintance. |
| Uncle Simon | | One of the land workers. |
| Vakouloff | | An officer. |
| Vargoushoff | | An officer. |
| Vasiuk | | The general's grandson. |
| Vaska | | One of the peasants. |
| Viglanoff | | A member of the appealing committee. |
| Voltaire | | A French writer, historian, and philosopher. |
| Zakharov | | Shoustova's cousin. |
