| Alfred | Alvarez | An English poet, novelist, essayist and critic. |
| Aldrich | Ames | A former CIA officer turned KGB double agent. |
| James Jesus | Angleton | The chief of CIA Counterintelligence. |
| Barak | Ariel | A lecturer in the Police Executive Program. |
| Carl Fredrik | Arndt | Jonsson's friend. |
| Florentino | Aspillaga | A Cuban intelligence officer. |
| Robert | Baer | An American author and a former CIA case officer. |
| Chiraag | Bains | One of the leaders of the DOJ team. |
| Lisa F. | Barrett | A distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University. |
| John | Bateson | Exec. director of a nationally certified suicide prevention center. |
| Ralph L. | Beals | An anthropologist at the University of California. |
| Mary | Beard | An English scholar of Ancient Roman
civilization. |
| Gary | Becker | Jillian's husband. |
| Jillian | Becker | Sylvia's friend. |
| Osama | bin Laden | The founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda. |
| Sandra | Bland | An African American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell. |
| Larissa | Boyce | Former gymnast who also accused Larry Nassar. |
| Benjamin | Bree | A computer software engineer. |
| Paul G. | Broder | Vice President, Director at Renaissance Technologies Corp. |
| Lee | Brown | The chief of the New York City Police Department. |
| Reginald J. | Brown | United States Assistant Secretary of the Army. Aka: Reg. |
| George W. | Bush | 43rd U.S. President. |
| Scott W. | Carmichael | DIA's counterintelligence officer. |
| Ashton Katherine | Carrick | A college senior student at the University of North Carolina. |
| Eugene | Carroll | A rear admiral in the United States Navy. |
| Jimmy | Carter | 39th U.S. President. |
| Fidel | Castro | Former Prime Minister of Cuba. |
| Neville | Chamberlain | Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| Alycia | Chambers | A Clinical Psychologist in State College. |
| Winston | Churchill | Former Prime Minister of the U.K. Chamberlain's successor. |
| Ronald | Clarke | A criminologist. |
| Bill | Clinton | 42nd U.S. President. |
| Duff | Cooper | Former Minister of Information. |
| Bob | Costas | NBC sports anchor. |
| Wendell | Courtney | The Penn State lawyer. |
| Carlos | Crivelli | A psychologist. |
| Tim | Curley | The athletic director at Penn State University. |
| Édouard | Daladier | Prime Minister of France at the outbreak of World War II. |
| Charles | Darwin | English naturalist, geologist and biologist. |
| Rosales | del Toro | A former Cuban Minister of Agriculture. |
| Rachael | Denhollander | Former gymnast and the first woman to publicly accuse Nassar. |
| Thomas | Dibblee,Jr. | An American geologist. Aka: Tom |
| Charles | Dickens | An English writer and social critic. |
| Joe | Dimow | A retired toolmaker. |
| Laura | Ditka | Deputy Attorney General for the State of Pennsylvania. |
| Emily | Doe | A woman under the protection of sexual-assault law. |
| Jonathan | Dranov | An internal medicine specialist, with a focus in nephrology. |
| Anthony | Eden | Former Foreign Secretary. |
| Robert B. | Edgerton | A Professor of Psychiatry, UC Los Angeles. |
| Paul | Ekman | American psychologist at the University of California. |
| | el Alpinista | A CIA agent. Aka: Mountain Climber. |
| Brian | Encinia | A state trooper. |
| Jonelle | Eshbach | A prosecuting attorney. |
| Curtis | Everhart | A private investigator. |
| Chris | Farley | An American actor and comedian. |
| Rita | Ficarra | A cop. |
| Aaron | Fisher | Sandusky's acquaintance. |
| John | Follain | One who writes on Italian politics and European affairs. |
| Kim | Fromme | The Director of the Studies on Alcohol, Health, and Risky. |
| Jennifer | Fugate | A psychologist. |
| Robert T. | Gallagher | New York City Police officer. |
| Mahatma | Gandhi | An Indian lawyer. |
| Maria | Gendron | Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University. |
| Peter | Gill | A Theatre director. |
| Mike | Gillum | A child psychologist. |
| Edgardo | Giobbi | A police officer. |
| Joseph | Goebbels | German Nazi politician and Reich Minister. |
| Trinea | Gonczar | A gymnast who was treated by Nassar. |
| Donald W. | Goodwin | A psychiatrist and an alcohol researcher. |
| Hermann | Göring | One of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party. |
| Leon | Greenberg | An Employment Attorney in Las Vegas. |
| Esther | Greenwood | The protagonist in Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar. |
| Rudy | Guede | Drug dealer who was suspect in the Meredith Kercher murder. |
| Abu | Hafs | Egyptian national, a member of the Islamic Jihad aka:al-Masri. |
| | Halifax | Chamberlain's foreign
secretary. |
| David | Harris | A legal scholar. |
| Dwight B. | Heath | A Research Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. |
| Ernest | Hemingway | An American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, |
| Nevile | Henderson | Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Nazi Germany. |
| Adolf | Hitler | A German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. |
| Brett Swisher | Houtz | Sandusky's acquaintance. |
| Ted | Hughes | Sylvia Plath's husband. |
| Sergio | Jarillo | An anthropologist. |
| Bruce | Jessen | Mitchell's colleague. |
| Peter | Jonsson | One of a Swedish graduate students. |
| Robert | Josephs | American Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas. |
| Franz | Kafka | A German-speaking Jewish novelist. |
| George L. | Kelling | American criminologist. |
| John F. | Kennedy | 35th U.S. President. |
| Meredith | Kercher | A British student who was murdered at the age of 21. |
| William Lyon | King | Former Prime Minister of Canada. |
| Kathie | Klages | Former Michigan State University women's gymnastic coach. |
| Amanda Marie | Knox | American woman who spent almost four years in an Italian prison. |
| Peter | Lamore | SEC investigator. |
| Brian | Latell | Rans the CIA's Latin American office. |
| Henry | Laufer | American mathematician, investor and philanthropist. |
| Timothy R. | Levine | An American communication professor. Aka: Tim. |
| Craig | MacAndrew | A Licensed Professional Counselor, Kansas City. |
| Tara | MacDonald | Associate Professor of Graduate Studies, Dept.of Psychology |
| Bernard | Madoff | American market maker and financier. Aka: Bernie. |
| Harry | Markopolos | A forensic accounting and financial fraud investigator. |
| Mac | Marshall | A professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa. |
| Jim | McDonough | Williams' acquaintance. Aka: Mr. Wallace. |
| Michael Jacob | McQueary | Former football asst. coach for the Pennsylvania State University. |
| Diane | Middlebrook | American biographer. |
| Giuliano | Mignini | An Italian magistrate. |
| Stanley | Milgram | American social psychologist. |
| James | Mitchell | A psychologist by training. |
| Diana | Mitford | British political leader. |
| Khalid Sheikh | Mohammed | A Pakistani terrorist. Aka: KSM. |
| Ana Belén | Montes | Former senior analyst at the DIA in the US and convicted as a spy. |
| Tito | Montes | Became FBI officers. Ana Montes' younger brother. |
| Charles | Morgan | A psychiatrist. |
| Sendhil | Mullainathan | An American professor of Computation and Behavioral Science. |
| Edvard | Munch | A Norwegian painter. |
| Benito | Mussolini | Former Prime Minister of Italy. |
| Allan | Myers | Sandusky's acquaintance. |
| Larry | Nassar | USA Gymnastics national team doctor and osteopathic physician. |
| Michael | Ocrant | The Director of Conference Programming. |
| Shane | O'Mara | A Professor of Experimental Brain Research at Trinity College. |
| Hee Sun | Park | One of Levine's graduate students. |
| Joe | Paterno | The head coach of the Penn State University football team. |
| Daniel | Pearl | An American journalist for The Wall Street Journal. |
| Nadine | Pellegrini | Assistant United States Attorney. |
| Gina | Perry | A psychologist and writer. |
| Nick | Pisa | A British journalist. |
| Sylvia | Plath | An American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. |
| Joe | Posnanski | An American sports journalist. |
| Emily | Pronin | A psychologist. |
| JonBenét | Ramsey | An American child beauty queen who was killed at the age of 6. |
| John | Raykovitz | A Clinical Psychologist in State College. |
| Rainer | Reisenzein | A Professor for General psychology, University of Greifswald. |
| Charles | Remsberg | The author of The Tactical Edge. |
| Cleve | Renfro | A state investigator. |
| Joachim von | Ribbentrop | A Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany. |
| Bruce | Riedel | A senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. |
| Franklin D. | Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President. |
| Juan Pablo | Roque | A former major in the Cuban air force. |
| Louis | Sanchez. | One of the investigators on Sandra Bland's case. |
| Jerry | Sandusky | American football coach. |
| Lila Diane | Sawyer | An American television broadcast journalist. |
| Gary | Schultz | The senior administrator at Penn State University. |
| Achim | Schützwohl | A German psychologist. |
| John | Seasock | A counselor. |
| Richard | Seiden | A psychologist. |
| Anne | Sexton | An American poet. |
| William | Shakespeare | An English playwright, poet, and actor. |
| James | Shaw | A graduate student in criminology. |
| Lou | Shaw | A screenwriter. |
| Larry | Sherman | A young criminologist. |
| Lawrence W. | Sherman | American criminologist. |
| Nathaniel | Simon | American businessman and philanthropist aka: Nat. |
| O. J. | Simpson | American football running back. |
| Robert | Sollazzo | Lamore's boss. |
| Raffaele | Solleciti | Amanda Knox's boyfriend. |
| Graham | Spanier | The President of the Penn State University. |
| Stephan | Spencer | A three-time author under the O'Reilly Media. |
| Eliot | Spitzer | American politician and the 54th Governor of New York. |
| Gene | Sprague | Committed suicide -
jumped from SF Golden Gate Bridge. |
| Joseph | Stalin | Former Premier of the Soviet Union. |
| George | Starbuck | American poet. |
| Claude | Steele | An African-American social psychologist. |
| Ellaine | Steinbacher | Brett's girlfriend. |
| John | Sullivan | An English television scriptwriter responsible for British sitcoms. |
| George John | Tenet | A former Director of Central Intelligence. |
| Dzhokhar A. | Tsarnaev | A Kyrgyz-American terrorist of Chechen descent. |
| Brock | Turner | A student of Stanford who was convicted of three felonies. |
| Jean-Claude | Van Damme | A Belgian actor and retired martial artist. |
| Patrick Dale | Walker | A Texan who was arrested for attempting to murder his girlfriend. |
| David | Weisburd | An American-Israeli criminologist. |
| Aaron | White | Worked at the National Institutes of Health. |
| Michael | White | A man who was shot dead by a police officer. |
| John | Williams | American composer. |
| Darren | Wilson | A police officer. |
| O. W. | Wilson | American police officer. |
| Pete | Wilson | Elected Governor of California. |
| Marcus | Wolf | A German spy chief. |
| William Butler | Yeats | An Irish poet. |
| Emily J. | Yoffe | An American journalist and contributing writer for The Atlantic. |
| John | Ziegler | A documentary film writer/director, and journalist. |
| Abu | Zubaydah | An alleged Al Qaeda operative captured in Pakistan. |
| Anna | | Dwight Heath's wife. |
| Cal | | Esther's acquaintance. |
| Cicero | | Roman statesman. |
| Colleen | | One of Emily Doe's friends. |
| Dottie | | Sandusky's wife. |
| E.J. | | Sandusky's son. |
| Hilda | | One of Chamberlain's sisters. |
| Hippocrates | | A Greek physician. |
| Ida | | One of Chamberlain's sisters. |
| John Paul II | | Former head of the Catholic Church. |
| Julia | | One of Emily Doe's friends. |
| Lucas | | One of the scholars who studied human deception. |
| Martha | | Aspillaga's girlfriend. |
| Nathalie | | One of Meredith Kercher's friends. |
| Philip | | One of the scholars who studied human deception. |
| Rachel | | An instructor. |
| Sally | | Levine's acquaintance. |
| Solomon | | The judge. |
| Sophie | | One of Meredith Kercher's friends. |
| Trea | | One of Emily Doe's friends. |
