| 1 | | | The Villa |
| | N. C. | Wyeth | American artist and illustrator. |
| | Herodotus | | Ancient Greek historian. |
| | Alexander III | | King of the Greek Kingdom, known as Alexander the Great. |
| 2 | | | In Near Ruins |
| | David | Caravaggio | Hana's father's friend. |
| | Hana | | A nurse. |
| | Giuseppe | Zanotti | Italian luxury footwear and fashion designer. |
| | Frank | Sinatra | American singer. |
| | Anna | | Mistress of an officer. |
| | Gianetta | | Caravaggio's wife. |
| | Ranuccio | Tommasoni | Caravaggio's
acquaintance. |
| | Agnolo | Ambrogini | Italian classical scholar and poet. Aka: Poliziano. |
| | Lorenzo | | Poliziano's friend. |
| | Girolamo | Savonarola | Italian Dominican friar. |
| | Homer | | The legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. |
| | Simonetta | Vespucci | Italian noblewoman from Genoa. |
| | Sandro | Botticelli | Italian painter. |
| | Leonardo | | Italian polymath of the Renaissance. |
| | Pico della | Mirandola | Italian philosopher. Poliziano's friend. |
| | Michaelangelo | |
Italian sculptor. |
| | Marcus Tullius | Cicero | Roman statesman, lawyer. |
| | Paolo | Toscanelli | Italian astrologer, mathematician, and cosmographer. |
| | Plato | | Athenian philosopher. |
| 3 | | | Sometime a Fire |
| | Albert | Kesselring | German military commander. |
| | Pierro della | Francesca | Italian painter. |
| | Hercules | | Roman hero and god. |
| | Solomon | | King of Israel. |
| | | Hardy | Military sergeant. |
| | Glenn | Miller | American trombonist. |
| | Sergeant | Shand | A soldier. |
| | Noah | | Biblical figure |
| | Abraham | | One of the prophets. |
| | Isaiah | | One of the prophets. |
| | Patrick | | Hana's father. |
| | Kirpal | Singh | A young Sikh. Aka: Kip. |
| | Charles | Brandon | 1st Duke of Suffolk.
An English military leader and courtier. |
| | Franklin D. | Roosevelt | 32nd president of U.S. |
| | Tim | Buck | General secretary of the Communist Party of Canada. |
| | Clara | | Hana's stepmother. |
| | Servius | Galba | Roman emperor. |
| | Tiberius | | The second Roman emperor. |
| | Caligula | | The third Roman emperor. |
| | Claudius | | The emperor from AD 41 to 54. |
| | Nero | | The last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. |
| | Cornelius | Tacitus | Roman historian and politician. |
| | David | | King of Israel. |
| | Abishag | | A beautiful person of Shunem. |
| | Ezra | Pound | Expatriate American poet. |
| | Don | Bradman | Australian cricketer. |
| | Gertrude | Jekyll | British horticulturist, garden designer. |
| | Giotto | | Italian painter. |
| | Stephen | Crane | American poet, novelist, and short story writer. |
| | Lorenz | Hart | The lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team. |
| | Richard | Rodgers | American composer. |
| | George | Gershwin | American composer. |
| | Ira | Gershwin | American lyricist. |
| 4 | | | South Cairo 1930-1938 |
| | Claudius | Ptolemy | Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. |
| | John | Bell | The director of Desert Surveys in Egypt. |
| | Ladislaus | de Almásy | Aviator. |
| | Ralph | Bagnold | English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist and soldier. |
| | Wasfi | Bey | One of the desert explorers. |
| | Casparius | | Photographer. |
| | Dr. | Kadar | Geologist. |
| | Dr. | Bermann | Desert explorer. |
| | Kamal el Dine | Hussein | The son of Sultan Hussein. |
| | Ahmed | Hassanein | Egyptian photographer. |
| | Fenelon | Barnes | Desert explorer. |
| | Madox | | Katharine's acquaintance. |
| | Marianne | Williamson | American author, politician, and activist. |
| | Tebu | | Caravan guide. |
| | Narcissus | | Laconian hunter. |
| | Geoffrey | Clifton | British Conservative Party politician. |
| | Abd el Melik | el Zwaya | One who lived in Zuck oasis pasturing camels. |
| | Katharine | Clifton | Geoffrey Clifton's wife. |
| 6 | | | A Buried Plane |
| | Rommel | | Almasy's acquaintance. |
| | Sansom | | The man who helped catch Eppler in Cairo. |
| | Delilah | | Biblical figure. |
| | Rudolf Carl | von Slatin | Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator. Aka: Slatin Pasha. |
| | Duke | Ellington | American composer. |
| | Miss | Morden | A secretary. |
| | Fred | Harts | A chauffer. |
| 7 | | | In Situ |
| | Miss | Swift | Aviator. |
| | Oliver | Hodge | Film art director. |
| | James | Halliday | Australian wine writer and critic. |
| | Lieutenant | Blackler | Singh acquaintance. |
| 8 | | | The Holy Forest |
| | Captain | Carlyle | One who is working in a shaft with frozen oxygen. |
| 9 | | | The Cave of Swimmers |
| | Candaules | | King of the ancient Kingdom of Lydia. |
| | Gyges | | The founder of the Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings. |
| | Daskylus | | Gyges's father. |
| | Odysseus | | Legendary hero in Greek mythology. |
| | Aeneas | | Trojan hero in Greek mythology. |
| | Leo | Tolstoy | Russian writer. |
| | Django | Reinhardt | Belgian jazz guitarist. |
| | Stephane | Grappelli | French-Italian jazz violinist. |
| | Dido | | Singer-songwriter. |
| | Anubis | | The Egyptian god of mummification. |
| | Duamutef | | The four sons of Horus. |
| | Wepwawet | | Originally a war god from Upper Egypt. |
| 10 | | | August |
| | Alice | | Hana's mother. |
| | Ramananda | | 14th-century Vaishnava devotional poet saint. |
| | Guru | Nanak | The founder of Sikhism. |
| | Kabir | Das | 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint. |
| | Baba | Gujhaji | The first priest of the temple. |
| | Marie-Henri | Beyle | 19th-century French writer. Aka: Stendhal. |
| | Leopold II | | The King of the Belgians. |
| | Harry | Truman | The 33rd president of the United States. |
| | Isaiah | | The 8th-century BC Israelite prophet. |
| | Demetrius I | | Macedonian military leader. |
