| Clementh | 12th | The pope. |
| Ibn | Al-Arabi | The Muslim governor of Barcelona. |
| Benedict | Arnold | A revolutionary officer. |
| Francois Marie | Arouet | A French poet and playwright. Aka: Voltaire. |
| Wilhelm | Bach | Bach's son. |
| Abdel-Salaam | Belaid | The minister of industry and energy. |
| William | Blake | The poet who published the French revolution. |
| James | Boswell | A biographer. |
| Carlos | Bonaparte | Napoleon's father. |
| Lucciano | Bonaparte | Napoleon's brother. |
| Maria-Anna | Bonaparte | Napoleon's sister. Aka: Elisa. |
| Napoleone | Bonaparte | The French soldier that Mireile met. |
| Giovanni | Casanova | A lawyer. |
| King | Charlemagne | The King. |
| Andre | Chenier | The poet. |
| Sister | Claude | Sister Alexandrine's personal secretary. |
| Jacques-Louis | David | A painter. Mireile and Valentine's uncle. |
| Marie-Charlotte | De Corday | A French journalist. |
| Duchesse | De Fitz-James | One of David's mistresses. |
| Alexandrine | De Forbin | The mother superior. |
| Vitcomtesse | De Laval | One of David's mistresses. |
| Duchesse | De Luynes | One of David's mistresses. |
| Madame | De Maintenon | Consort of Louis XIV. |
| Count | De Remy | Valentine's grandfather. |
| Helene | De Rique | The Abbess of Montglane. Sophia's oldest friend. |
| Germaine | De Stael | The Grand Dame of Paris. |
| Chretien | De Troyes | A French poet. |
| Princes | De Vaudemont | One of David's mistresses. |
| Lauze | Deperret | A deputy. |
| Camille | Desmoulins | The Enfant Célèbre of Paris. |
| Pasquale | Di Paoli | Napoleon's leader. |
| Angela Maria | Di Pietra-Santa | Elisa's grandmother. |
| Con | Edison | One of Velis's clients. |
| Prince | Edward | Henry III's son. |
| Czarina | Elizabeth Petrovna | Daughter of Peter The Great. |
| R.N | Elliott | A theorist. |
| Carl Phillipp | Emanuel Bach | Wilhelm's brother. Bach's son. |
| Leonhard | Euler | The great mathematician. |
| Simonne | Evrard | Marat's natural wife. |
| Franz | Fesch | Letizia's stepfather. |
| Leonardo | Fibonacci | An Italian mathematician. |
| Bobby | Fischer | A chess grandmaster. |
| Antony | Fiske | A big chess player. |
| Benjamin | Franklin | The founding father of the United States. |
| Calouste | Gul-Benkian | One of Velis's workmates. |
| Anna | Ivanovna | Ivan's daughter. |
| Abraham | Janssen | Philip Stamna. One of the best chess players. |
| Emile | Kamel-Kader | The petroleum minister. |
| Muammar | Khaddafi | The colonel. |
| Therese | Levasseur | Rousseau's mistress. |
| Carolus | Magnus | The architect of the building. |
| Jean Paul | Marat | The physician. |
| Charles-Jean | Marie-Barbaroux | A French politician of the revolutionary period. |
| Llewellyn | Markham | Blanche's brother. |
| Mokhfi | Mokhtar | The owner of the missing chess pieces. |
| Paul | Murphy | The first U.S. chess champion. |
| Jacques | Necker | Germaine's father. A Swiss finance minister. |
| Suzanne | Necker | Germaine's mother. |
| John | Newland | The English chemist. |
| Ladislaus | Nim | Velis's friend. A chess master. |
| Duke | Of Burgundy | The King's friend. |
| Anna | Of Mecklenburg | The former ruler. |
| Bill | Of Seizure | The bishop of Autun. |
| Dr. | Osgood | A tournament physician. |
| Jean Phillippe | Petard | The firm's senior partner. |
| Mr. | Petard | Velis's manager. |
| Grand Duke | Peter | Czarina's nephew. |
| Andre | Philidor | The finest chess player in Europe. A composer. |
| Count | Potemkin | The Count of Russia. |
| Louis | Quinze | The King of France. |
| Blanche | Rad | Harry's wife. |
| Harry | Rad | Velis's former client and a close friend. |
| Lily | Rad | Harry and Blanche's daughter. A chess grandmaster. |
| Letizia | Ramolino | Napoleon's mother. |
| Prince | Regent | The Prince of Prussia. |
| Minnie | Renselaas | Nim's acquaintance. |
| Maximilien | Robespierre | The revolutionary leader. |
| Jean-Jacques | Rousseau | The great philosopher. |
| Alexander | Solarin | A chess master. Aka: Alexie. |
| Eric | Stael Von Hol-Stein | Germaine's husband. A baron. |
| Helie | Talleyrand | Charles's father. |
| Charles Maurice | Talleyrand-Perigold | David's friend. The bishop of Autun. |
| Charles | The Bald | Grandson of Charlemagne. |
| Garin | The Frank | The best chess player in King Charlemagne's kingdom. |
| Catherine | The Great | The Empress of Russia. Aka: Sophia Anhalt-Zerbst. |
| Peter | The Great | Sophia's 1st husband. |
| Taillefer | The Ironcutter | The Hero of the Battle of Hastings. |
| Jock | Upham | The firm's senior partner. |
| Catherine | Velis | A computer expert. Protagonist. |
| King Frederick | William | The King of Russia. |
| William | Woodsworth | A poet. Robespierre's companion. |
| Louis | XVI | The King of France. |
| Minister | Yamini | The Saudi minister. |
| Plato | Zubov | Sophia's lover. |
| Valerian | Zubov | Plator's brother. |
| Albertine | | Marat's sister. |
| Al-Kalim | | The man who talks to spirits. |
| Bach | | The Kapellmeister. |
| Belaid | | The minister. |
| Brodski | | Solarin's guard. |
| Carioca | | Lily's pet. |
| Carlos | | Velis's caretaker. |
| Charlot | | Mireille's son. |
| Courtiade | | Talleyrand's valet. |
| Daia | | Goddess of Wells. |
| Danton | | The Lion of the assembly. |
| Diderot | | A philosopher. |
| Doge | | Doge of Venice. |
| Elissa | | The sister of King Tyre. |
| El-Marad | | The carpet trader. Kamel Kader's friend. |
| Euler | | An astronomer and mathematician. |
| Genet | | The ambassador. |
| Gogol | | The arbiter. |
| Grimm | | A philosopher. |
| Gustavus | | The King of Sweden. |
| Lisle | | Catherine's colleague. |
| M.David | | Valentine's godfather. The heart of the chess-board. |
| Maria-Carolina | | Napoleon's sister. |
| Michel | | Mokthar's child. |
| Mimsy | | The fortune teller. |
| Mirabeau | | The great statesman. |
| Mireile | | A young nun novice. Protagonist. |
| Mordecai | | A chess master. Velis's friend. |
| Paul | | Sophia's son. |
| Pitt | | The prime minister. |
| Renselaas | | Minnie's husband. The Dutch consul. |
| Richelieu | | The cardinal. |
| Saul | | Harry's driver. |
| Shahin | | Mireille's guide. |
| Sharrif | | Velis's acquaintance. |
| Valentine | | Mireile's cousin. |
| Valerie | | Harry's maid. |
| Valerie | | Mokthar's child. |
| Wahad | | The tour guide. |
| Yamini | | The King's minister. |
