| 1 | Laurent | Lepage | The boy that was killed. |
| | Harvest | | A mongrel dog. |
| 2 | Isabelle | Lacoste | The chief inspector. |
| | Armand | Gamache | A retired superintendent at the Sureté. |
| | Reine-Marie | | Armand Gamache's wife. |
| | Annie | | Reine-Marie's daughter. |
| | Jean-Guy | Beauvoir | Annie's husband. |
| | Clement | Beliveau | An old grocer. |
| | Myrna | | A bookstore owner. |
| | Olivier | | A bistro owner. |
| | Therese | Brunel | The chief superintendent. |
| | Gabri | | Olivier's partner. |
| | Antoinette | Lemaitre | The artistic director of the Knolton Playhouse. |
| | Brian | Fitzpartick | Antoinette's partner. |
| | Clara | Morrow | A painter. |
| | Peter | | Clara's husband. |
| | Pablo | Picasso | A Spanish painter. |
| | Ruth | Zardo | Gabri's neighbor. |
| | Alan | Lepage | Laurent's father. Aka: Al. |
| | Evelyn | | Laurent's mother. Aka: Evie. |
| | David | Beckham | An English former professional footballer. |
| | Mark | Wahlberg | An American actor. |
| | John | Fleming | American literary critic. |
| | Michele | Tremblay | A French-Canadian novelist and playwright. |
| | Tennessee | Williams | An American playwright. |
| | George | Clooney | An American actor. |
| | Neil | Young | An American-Canadian singer-songwriter. |
| 3 | Henri | | Gamache's German shepherd. |
| | Rosa | | Ruth's duck. |
| | Daniel | | Armand's son. |
| | Leonard | Cohen | Canadian singer-songwriter. |
| | Wayne | Gretzky | Ice hockey player. |
| 4 | Annie | Frank | A German-Dutch diarist. |
| | Jeffrey | Dahmer | American serial killer. |
| | Richard | Wagner | A German composer. |
| 5 | Diogenes | | A Greek philosopher. |
| | Guillaume | Couture | Antoinette's uncle. |
| | Clouseau | | A French policeman who is always making stupid mistakes. |
| 8 | Theodore | Seuss | An American children's author. Aka: Ted. |
| | Agent | Favreau | A
Sureté agent. |
| | Agent | Brassard | Agent Favreau's colleague. |
| | Pete | Seeger | An American folk singer. |
| 9 | Sarah | | A bake shop owner. |
| 10 | General | Langelier | Commander at CFB Valcatier. |
| | Michael | Rosenblatt | A physicist. |
| 12 | Gerald | Bull | A Canadian engineer. |
| | Percy Bysshe | Shelley | An English romantic poet. |
| | Boris | Yeltsin | Former Russian President. |
| | Mikhail | Gorbachev | Former President of the Soviet Union. |
| | Saddam | Hussein | Served as the fifth President of Iraq. |
| 13 | Mary | Fraser | Worked at Canadian Security Intelligent Service. |
| | Sean | Delorme | Mary Fraser's colleague. |
| 15 | Katharine | Hepburn | An American actress. |
| | Spencer | Tracy | An American actor. |
| | Don | McLean | An American singer-songwriter. |
| 18 | Lester B. | Pearson | Former Prime Minister of Canada. |
| 19 | Gilles | Sandon | One who worked in the woods. |
| | Billy | Williams | One who worked in the woods. |
| | King Arthur | | A legendary British leader. |
| 22 | Jimmy | Carter | 39th U.S. President. |
| 23 | Sharon | Harris | The coroner. |
| | Madame | Proulx | Antoinette's neighbor. |
| 24 | Madame | Arsenault | A third grade teacher. |
| | Mary | Poppins | An angelic nanny. |
| | Yvette | Nichol | Gamache's former colleague in the
Sureté. |
| 25 | Adam | Cohen | A young investigator. |
| 28 | William | Shakespeare | An English playwright. |
| 29 | Florence | | Armand's granddaughter. |
| | Zora | | Florence's sister. |
| 30 | Frederick | Lawson | Real name of Al Lepage. |
| 32 | Gaston | Devereau | Mary Fraser's acquaintance. |
| 33 | Anglo | | Guillaume Couture's acquaintance. |
| | Jane | Neal | Ruth's closest friend. |
| 35 | Gandalf | | A protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel. |
| 38 | Ned | | Jean-Guy's uncle. |
| 40 | Joseph | McCarthy | Former American senator. |
