| Mrs. | Apfel | The Morgenstern's housemaid. |
| Major | Balint | Andras's new commander. |
| Major | Barna | The company commander. |
| Lucky | Bela | Andras's father. Aka: Bela Levi, Apa. |
| President | Benes | The Czech President. |
| Bertolt | Brecht | A playwright. |
| Magdolna | Bruner | One of Mr. Kleins's acquaitances. |
| Rosy | Buttocks | The male baboon. |
| Le | Corbusier | A famous Swish-French architect. |
| Madame | Courbet | The wardrobe mistress. |
| Count | Csaky | The Hungarian foreign minister. |
| Lajos | Csatay | The new minister of defense. |
| Feketehalmy | Czeydner | The general who ordered the execution of thousands of jews. |
| Premier | Daladier | The leader of France. |
| Alexandra | Danilova | One of the great dancers. |
| Ilana | Di Sabato | The girl Ben Yakov falls in love with. |
| Mr. | Dupuis | The president's secretary. |
| Frigyes | Eppler | Andras's fomer editor. |
| Captain | Erdo | An old guard liberal. |
| Raymond | Fischer | A famous architect. |
| Vincent | Forestier | Andras's boss. |
| Pierre | Fresnay | A French film star. |
| Rozsa | Geller | The girl Tibor falls in love with. |
| Marcelle | Gerard | The actress who took over Claudine's part. |
| Erno | Gero | A Hungarian communist party leader. |
| Laszlo | Goldfarb | Andras's colleague. |
| Sandor | Goldstein | Klara's dancing partner. |
| Dora | Gordin | The Latvian-born sculptor. |
| Elza | Hasz | The wife of a bank director. Jozsef's mother. |
| Gyorgy | Hasz | Jozsef's father. Claire's brother. |
| Jozsef | Hasz | Elza;s son. |
| Mendel | Horovitz | Andras's former schoolmate. A member of the
Hungarian olympic team. |
| Miklos | Horthy | The Regent of Hungary. |
| Baruch | Imber | The company doctor. |
| Ara | Jerezian | An Armenian doctor. |
| Uncle | Job | The managing editor. |
| Baroness | Kacynska | A 16th century aristocrat. |
| Janika | Kalozi | The veteran potante commander. |
| Janos | Kalozi | The major. |
| Eva | Kereny | The girl Andras kissed. |
| Miklos | Klein | Tibor's acquaintance. Former emigration officer. |
| Gitta | Kohn | Zindel's wife. |
| Gyula | Kohn | Matyas's friend. Deceased. |
| Zindel | Kohn | The man that Lucky Bela met. |
| Orsola | Korcsolya | The baker's daughter. |
| Markus | Kovacs | The clerk at the Visa office. |
| Georges | Lemain | Andras's boss. An architect. |
| Fernand | Lemarque | One of Andras's classmates. |
| Suzanne | Lenglen | The deceased French champion. |
| Adam | Levi | Ilana and Tibor's son. |
| Andraska | Levi | Tibor's brother. Protagonist. Aka: Andraska, Zsidocska, Parisi. |
| Flora | Levi | Andras's mother. Bela's wife. Aka: Anya. |
| Matyas | Levi | Tibor and Andras's brother. |
| Tibor | Levi | Andras's brother. Protagonist. |
| Tomas | Levi | Andras's and Claire's son. |
| Willi | Mandl | The boy who plays piano. |
| Jokai | Mor | A famous novelist who escaped the Austrians. |
| Elisabet | Morgernstern | The ballet instructor's daughter. |
| Imre | Nagy | The Prime Minister. |
| Vilmos | Nagy | One of the generals. |
| Olga | Nevitskaya | A famed ballet teacher. |
| Janos | Novak | Edith and Zoltan's son. |
| Zoltan | Novak | The man that Andras met. The theatre owner. |
| Jesse | Owens | An olympic gold medalist. |
| Moric | Papp | The vaci utca dealer. |
| General | Paulus | The German sixth army commander. |
| President | Pemjean | The current president. |
| Auguste | Perret | One of the architect professors. Aka: Le Colonel. |
| George-Henri | Pingusson | A famous architect. |
| Eli | Polaner | Andras's jewish classmate. |
| Viktor Vasilievich | Romankov | A famous dance instructor. Claire's dance teacher. |
| Olga | Spessivtzea | One of the great dancers. |
| Mallet | Stevens | The school architect. |
| Ferenc | Szalasi | The arrow cross leader. |
| Ferenc | Szombathelyi | The chief of the general staff. |
| Dome | Sztojay | A prime minister. |
| Professor | Tibor | One of the professors. |
| Zsuzsa | Toronyi | The Hungarian Diva. |
| Emile | Trelat | The school founder. |
| Gaston | Tretlat | Emile's son. The school director. |
| Berta | Turk | A pianist. |
| Madame | V | The proprietress of the boarding house. |
| Pierre | Vago | One of the architect professors. Andras's tutor. |
| Karoly | Varsadi | The commander Szentendre. |
| Claudine | Villareal-Bloch | The mother of the title. The leading actress. |
| Ernst Eduard | Vom Rath | A German diplomat. |
| Joachim | Von Ribbentrop | A German politician. |
| Von | Weich | The general field marshal. |
| Ben | Yakov | Andras's Jewish classmate. |
| Miklos | Ybl | A Hungarian who won an international competition opera house design. |
| Bandi | | One of the servicemen. |
| Claudel | | The assistant stage manager. |
| Coco | | The sexy woman character that Andras illustrates. |
| D'Aubigne | | The stage manager. |
| Di Samuele | | The rabbi in charge in Tibor and Ilana's wedding. |
| Dobek | | A Yugoslav doctor. |
| Edith | | Novak's wife. |
| Edouard | | One of Klara's lovers. |
| Farago | | Varsadi's adjutant. |
| Gaspar | | The man who raped Klara. |
| Grimasz | | Major Kalozi's first lieutenant. |
| Grynszpan | | The man who assassinated Ernt Vom Rath. |
| Hitler | | The leader of the Nazis. |
| Horvath | | A lieutenant. |
| Ingrid | | Jozsef's caretaker. |
| Jozska | | One of the servicemen. |
| Kallay | | The prime minister. |
| Kati | | Mrs. Hasz's maid. |
| Keresztes | | The respected surgeon. |
| Kicsi | | Flora's little goat. |
| Kozma | | Andras's new commander. |
| Krisztina | | One of the nurses. |
| Lajos | | Gaspar's colleague. |
| Lucia | | The girl that Ben Yakov dated. |
| Lukas | | A former plumber's assistant. One of the guards. |
| Marcel | | A young dancer. One of Klara's lovers. |
| Marie-Laure | | The tallest architect student. |
| Marika | | Andras's new maid. |
| Marthe | | Elisabet's friend. |
| Marton | | The general. Andras's commander. |
| Masha | | Nevitskaya's maid. |
| Medard | | The fifth year studio monitor. |
| Mussolini | | The prime minister of Italy. |
| Noni | | Flora's little goat. |
| Orban | | The record-master. |
| Pely | | The custodian. |
| Rosen | | Andras's Jewish classmate. |
| Rudolf | | Bela's father. |
| Rudolf | | Bela's acquaintance. |
| Sanyi | | One of the servicemen. |
| Serafina | | A seamstress. Matyas's lover. |
| Shalhevet | | Rosen's new copine. |
| Simon | | The Hasz's assistant. |
| Sophie | | One of Claire's ballet students. |
| Szaboc | | A barge captain. |
| Tosca | | The opera diva. |
| V. Bourgeois | | One of the architect professors. |
| Zilber | | The electrician. |
| Zsofia | | Jozsef's girlfriend. |
