| Michaelangelo | Antonioni | Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and author. |
| Miss | Arkwright | A customer in the department store. |
| Jane | Austen | An English novelist. |
| Miss | Baguley | A patient. |
| Bill | Bailey | An inspector. |
| Maureen | Bart | One of a student nurses. |
| Shirley | Bart | One of a student nurses. Maureen's twin sister. |
| Muriel | Beale | Inspector of the Nurse Training Schools. |
| Jennifer | Blain | One of the students. |
| Mrs. | Briggs | Mr. Courtney-Briggs' wife. |
| Peter Albert | Briggs | Mr. Courtney-Briggs' brother. |
| Stephen | Briggs | The senior consultant surgeon. |
| Ernest | Brumfett | An English sergeant. |
| Ethel | Brumfett | The Sister in charge of the private ward. Aka: Brum. |
| Miss | Buckfield | Miss Rolfe's secretary. |
| Miss | Bunyon | The head radiographer. |
| Ivy | Burnett | An English novelist. |
| Angela | Burrows | Principal Tutor at a London teaching hospital. |
| G. K. | Chesterton | An English writer, philosopher. |
| Marcus | Cohen | The Chairman of the Hospital Management Committee. |
| Albert | Colgate | The porter on night duty in the main lodge. |
| Martha | Collins | The housekeeper. |
| Mrs. | Cox | A ward Sister. |
| Christine | Dakers | One of a student nurses. |
| Mrs. | Dakers | Nurse Dakers' mother. |
| Adam | Dalgliesh | The Chief Superintendent. |
| Louise | Dettinger | Martin Dettinger's mother. |
| Martin | Dettinger | One of the patients. |
| John | Donne | An English poet and cleric in the Church. |
| Arnold | Dowson | Josephine Fallon's lover. |
| Cary | Elwes | An English actor and writer. |
| Josephine | Fallon | One of a student nurses. Aka: Jo. |
| Mavis | Gearing | A clinical instructor. |
| Madeleine | Goodale | One of a student nurses. |
| Nancy | Gorring | A maidservants. |
| Daniel | Greene | An author. |
| Constable | Greeson | A detective. |
| Irmgard | Groble | Untrained female nurse. |
| Raymond | Grout | The Group Secretary. |
| Ernst | Gumbmann | A young pharmacist. |
| Diane | Harper | One of a student nurses. |
| Roland | Harper | Diane Harper's father. |
| David | Hartley | The author of Observations on Man. |
| Edward | Health | The name used by Matterson. |
| Robert | Hills | An English painter and etcher. |
| Adolf | Hitler | German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. |
| Miles | Honeyman | A forensic pathologist. |
| Paul | Hudson | The hospital's secretary. |
| Alderman | Kealey | The Vice-Chairman of the Hospital Management Committee. |
| Max | Klein | The head doctor. |
| Sister | Manning | Miss Rolfe's first assistant. |
| Tom | Mannix | The paediatric registrar. |
| Charles | Masterson | A detective. |
| Robert | Maycroft | A Group Captain. Aka: Bob. |
| Mr. | Molravey | The ophthalmic surgeon. |
| Miss | Montrose | Muriel Beale's acquaintance. |
| Leonard | Morris | The chief pharmacist of the hospital. Aka: Len. |
| Mrs. | Morris | Mr. Len Morris' wife. |
| Mrs. | Muncie | A helper. |
| Mrs. | Nethem | The head medical social worker. |
| Florence | Nightingale | An English statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. |
| Mrs. | Nightingale | Thomas' wife. |
| Thomas | Nightingale | A local string and rope manufacturer. |
| Julia | Pardoe | One of a student nurses. |
| Heather | Pearce | One of a student nurses. |
| Tom | Powell | The chairman of the Powell industries. |
| Hilda | Rolfe | The Principal Tutor. |
| Mr. | Scunthrope | A wine store owner. |
| William | Shakespeare | English poet. |
| Morag | Smith | A maid. |
| Dr. | Snelling | A general physician. |
| Mrs. | Stokes | A patient. |
| Adolf | Straub | The chief male nurse. |
| Mr. | Surtees | Henry Urquhart's clerk. |
| Mary | Taylor | Matron of a major teaching hospital. |
| Sergeant | Taylor | Mary Taylor's husband. |
| Henry | Urquhart | Josephine Fallon's solicitor. |
| | Waddingham | A nurse. |
| Evelyn | Waugh | An English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books. |
| John | Wesley | An English cleric, theologian and evangelist. |
| Nurse | Wilkins | A student nurse. |
| Miss | Wright | The senior secretary. |
| Colette | | A French writer. |
| Edie | | Heather's aunt. |
| Fenning | | A photographer. |
| Fleming | | The outpatient pharmacist. |
| Macbeth | | A brave Scottish general. |
| Nigel | | Mr. Courtney-Briggs's nephew. |
| Rhode | | One of the nurses. |
| Sheila | | Bob's wife. |
| Sylvia | | Masterson's girlfriend. |
| Tony | | Mrs. Dettinger's husband. |
| Willig | | One of the nurses. |
