Pro | Henrietta | Lacks | Had cell. Aka: Loretta Pleasant, Helen Lane, Helen Larson. |
| | | HeLa cell - Henrietta's cell. |
| Donald | Defler | Rebecca's college professor. |
| David | Lacks | Henrietta's husband and cousin. Aka: Day. |
| Deborah | Lacks | Henrietta's daughter. Aka: Dale. |
| | | Deborah's Voice |
| John | Hopkins | Owner of the hospital who took Henrietta's cell. |
| Margaret | | Henrietta's cousin. |
| Sadie | | Henrietta's cousin. |
| Joe | Lacks | Henrietta's child. Aka: Crazy Joe, Zakariyya
B. Abdul Rahman. |
| Joseph | Lacks | Henrietta's fourth child. |
| Howard | Jones | Henrietta's physician. |
| | | Clover |
| Eliza P. | Lacks | Henrietta's mother. |
| Johnny | Pleasant | Henrietta's father. |
| Tommy | Lacks | Henrietta's grandfather. |
| Munchie | | A midwife. Henrietta's cousin. |
| Johnny | Coleman | David's father. |
| Cliff | Garrett | Fred's brother. |
| Fred | Garrett | Henrietta and David's cousin. |
| Mrs. | Coleman | Johnny's wife. |
| Chloe | Lacks | Henrietta's grandmother. |
| Cadillac | | Tommy's hound. |
| Dan | | Tommy's hound. |
| Charlie | Horse | Tommy's tall bay. |
| Joe | Grinnan | Henrietta and Tommy's cousin. Henrietta's lover. |
| Lawrence | Lacks | Henrietta and David's first child. |
| Lucile Elsie | Pleasant | Henrietta's sister. |
| Gladys | Lacks | Henrietta's sister. |
| | | Diagnosis and Treatment |
| Richard W. | Telinde | Joe's boss. A top cervical cancer expert. Aka: Uncle Dick. |
| George | Gey | Head tissue culture research at Hopkins, took Henrietta's cell. |
| Margaret | Gey | George Gey's wife. |
| Howard | Kelly | A surgeon who visited the Curies. |
| Marie | Curie | The woman who discovered Radium. Pierre's wife. |
| Pierre | Curie | The man who discovered Radium. Marie's wife. |
| Dr. Lawrence | Wharton Jr. | Henrietta's surgeon. |
| | | The Birth of Hela |
| Mary | Kubicek | George Gey's assistant. |
| Minnie | | Margaret's assistant. |
| Warren | Lewis | George Gey's mentor. |
| | | Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside |
| Galen | | Henrietta's cousin. |
| Ethel | | Galen's wife. |
| David | Lacks Jr. | Henrietta and David's son. Aka: Sonny. |
| Elsie | Lacks | Henrietta and David's oldest daughter. |
| Peter | | Henrietta's cousin. |
| | | Lady's On The Phone |
| Roland | Patillo | George Gey's student. Professor of gynecology at Morehouse. |
| Rebecca | Skloot | Author and Narrator. |
| Alexis | Carrel | A French surgeon at Rockefeller Institute. |
| | | A Miserable Specimen |
| Laure | Aurelian | George Gey's colleague at Hopkins. A microbiologist. |
| | | Turner Station |
| Courtney | Speed | Ceated a building devoted to Henrietta. |
| Keith | Speed | Courtney's son. |
| Mike | Speed | Courtney's son. |
| Cyrus | Speed | Courtney's son. |
| Tyrone | Speed | Courtney's son. |
| Reverend | Jackson | Rebecca's friend. |
| | | The Other Side of Tracks |
| Hector | Henry | Henrietta's first cousin. Aka: Cootie. |
| | | The Devil of Pain Itself |
| Emmett | Lacks | Henrietta's cousin. |
| | | The Storm |
| Dr. | Wilbur | A doctor who'd done the autopsy of the body of Henrietta. |
| | | The HeLa Factory |
| Jonas | Salk | A scientist who developed the world's polio vaccine. |
| | | NFIP - The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. |
| William | Scherer | George Gey's colleague from NFIP. |
| | | Tuskeger Institute - Prestigious
black university. |
| Charles | Bynum | The director of "Negro Activities". |
| | | NIH - National Institutes of Health. |
| Samuel | Reader | The owner of mircobiological associates. |
| Monroe | Vincent | Samuel's business partner. |
| Leonard | Hayflick | The world's famous cell culturist. |
| Charles | Pomerat | George Gey's long-time friend. |
| | | Helen Lane |
| Jerome | Sylverston | William's adviser. |
| Roland | Berg | A press officer at NFIP. |
| Bill | Davidson | A reporter from Collier Magazine. |
| Joseph | Kelly | The head of public relations at Hopkins. |
| | | Too Young to Remember |
| Bobbette | Cooper | Lawrence's girlfriend. |
| Alfred | Carter | Deborah's husband. Aka: Cheetah. |
| | | Spending Eternity In The Same Place |
| Mourning | | Henrietta's great, great grandmother. |
| John | S. Pleasant | A man who inherited Mourning and George. |
| George | | Mourning's husband. |
| Edmund | | Henrietta's paternal
great-grandfather. |
| Henrietta | Pleasant | The great aunt of Henrietta Lacks. |
| Albert | Lacks | Henrietta's maternal great-grandfather. |
| Winston | Lacks | Albert's brother. |
| Benjamin | Lacks | Albert's brother. |
| Roseland | | A woman who runs the Rosie's. |
| Bobcat | | A white man who runs a minimart in Clover. |
| Carlton | Lacks | The oldest white lackses in Clover. |
| Ruby | Lacks | Carlton's wife and cousin. |
| Robin | Lacks | Winston, Benjamin, and Albert's father. |
| Lilian | Lacks | Henrietta's youngest sister. |
| Gary | Lacks | Glady's son. |
| | | Illegal, Immoral and Deplorable |
| Chester | Southam | A well respected cancer researcher and chief of virology. |
| Alice | Moore | Chester's colleague. |
| Emanuel | Mandel | Director of medicine at Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital. |
| William | Hyman | A lawyer. |
| Bertil | Bjorklund | A cancer specialist who was penalized by injecting HeLa cell. |
| Louis | Lefkowitz | The New York State Attorney. |
| Henry | Beecher | A Harvard anesthesiologist. |
| | | Strangest Hybrid |
| George | Hyatt | A navy doctor working with National Cancer Institute. |
| Lewis | Coriell | A renowned cell culturist. |
| Robert | Stevenson | A scientist. The President of ATCC. |
| Wilton | Earle | The scientist who originally grew the L-Cell. |
| | | L-Cell - The original immortal mouse cell line. Cell number one. |
| Henry | Harris | A scientist who created the first human-animal hybrid cell. |
| John | Watkins | Henry's colleague. |
| | | The Most Critical Time On This Earth Now |
| Alfred | Carter Jr. | Deborah's son. |
| Ivy | | Deborah's neighbor that Joe killed. |
| June | | Crazy Joe's friend. |
| | | The HeLa Bomb |
| Stanley | Gartler | A geneticist. |
| T.C | Hsu | The chair of Garler's conference session. Geneticist. |
| | | Night Doctors |
| President | Clinton | The current U.S. President. |
| | | The Fame She So Richly Deserves |
| George | Gey Jr. | George's son. |
| Victor | McKusick | A leading geneticist. George Gey's colleague. |
| Richard | Nixon | The current U.S. President. |
| Walter | Nelson-Rees | The director of cell culture in Naval Laboratory. |
| J. | Douglas | A biologist at Brunel University. |
| | | It's Alive |
| Gardenia | | Bobbette's friend. |
| | | HEW - The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. |
| Latonya | Carter | Deborah's daughter. |
| Susan | Hsu | The director of medical genetics at American Red Cross. |
| | | Least They Can Do |
| Michael | Rogers | A young reporter from Rolling Stone. Aka: Mike. |
| | | HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. |
| | | Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen |
| David | Golde | A prominent cancer researcher at UCLA. |
| Ananda M. | Chakrabrty | A scientist working at General Electric. |
| Ted | Slavin | A man who was born a hemophiliac in 1950. |
| Baruch | Blumberg | A Nobel-Prize winning virologist. |
| Joseph | Warner | The famous judge at The People's T.V. show. |
| | | Breach of Privacy |
| James | Pullum | A mechanic. Deborah's husband. |
| | | The Secret of Immortality |
| Harrald | Zur Hausen | A german virologist who discovered human pappiloma virus. |
| Richard | Axel | A molecular biologist. |
| Jeremy | Rifkin | An author and activist. |
| Leigh | Van Valen | An evolutionary biologist at University of Chicago. |
| | | After London |
| Adam | Curtis | A BBC producer in London. |
| Barbara | Wyche | A sociologist at Morga State University. |
| Terry | Sharrer | A curator at Smithsonian National Museum of American History. |
| Robert | Erhlich Jr. | A U.S. state house of representative. |
| Ross | Jones | Hopkins's assistant. |
| Lord Keenan | K. Cofield | Deborah's relative. |
| Richard | Kidwell | One of Hopkins's attorneys. |
| Grover | Hutchins | The director of autopsy service. |
| Johnnie | Cochran | O.J. Simpson's lawyer. |
| JoAnn | Rodgers | John Hopkins's spokeperson. |
| | | A Vintage Henriettas |
| Christoph | Lengauer | A young Hopkins's cancer researcher. |
| | | Zakariyya |
| Davon | Carter | Deborah's grandson. |
| Alfred | Carter | Deborah's grandson. |
| | | HeLa Goddess of Death |
| Franklin | Salisbury Jr. | President of National Foundation for Cancer Research. |
| | | The Hospital For The Negro Insane |
| Paul | Lurz | The hospital's director of performance and improvement. |
| | | Nothing To Be Scared About |
| JaBrea | | Sonny's granddaughter. |