1 | Edward I | | King of England. |
| William Ewart | Gladstone | Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| Henry | Tarrant | A young police constable. |
| Henry | Burton | One of the policemen. |
| William | Ward | One of the policemen. |
| Charles | Dickens | An English writer and social critic. |
| George | Merrett | A stoker at the Red Lion Brewery. |
| Eliza | | George Merrett's wife. |
| Clare | | George and Eliza's daughter. |
| Gustavo | Dore | An illustrator. |
| Frederick | | George and Eliza's son. aka: Freddy. |
| William | Minor | A former army surgeon. |
| John | Ruskin | The leading English art critic of the Victorian era. |
| Mrs. | Fisher | William Minor's landlady. |
| | Williamson | A Scotland Yard detective. |
| William | Dennis | Employed at London Bethlehem Hospital for the Insane. |
| George | Minor | William Minor's stepbrother. |
| Robert | Peel | Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| John | Dryden | An English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright. |
| Henry | Fowler | An English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator. |
| G. Bernard | Shaw | An Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. |
| Dorothy L. | Sayers | An English crime writer and poet. |
| James | Murray | A Scottish lexicographer and philologist. |
| Elizabeth | | James Murray's granddaughter. |
| Mary | | James Murray's mother. |
| Napoleon | Bonaparte | A French statesman and military leader. |
| Theodore | d' Aubigné | A French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. |
| Maggie | Scott | A music teacher. James Murray's wife. |
| Anna | | James and Maggie Murray's daughter. |
| Alexander Melville | Bell | A teacher and researcher. Alexander Graham Bell's father. |
| Alexander Graham | Bell | A man who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. |
| Ada | Ruthven | James Murray's second wife. |
| Alexander | von Humboldt | A German polymath, geographer, naturalist, and explorer. |
| Charlotte | Brontë | An English novelist and poet. |
| Alexander | Ellis | A Trinity College, Cambridge mathematician. |
| Henry | Sweet | A phonetician. |
| Rex | Harrison | An English actor of stage and screen. |
| Frederick | Furnivall | The secretary of the Philological Society. |
| Alfred | Tennyson | 1st Baron Tennyson was a British poet. |
| Charles | Kingsley | A University professor. |
| William | Morris | A British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator and activist. |
| Frederick | Delius | A Yorkshire-born composer. |
| Kenneth | Grahame | A British writer. |
| Henry | Liddell | Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. |
| Alice | | Henry Liddell's daughter. |
| Charles L. | Dodgson | An English writer. Pen name is Lewis Carroll. |
| Max | Miller | An English comedian. |
| William | Stubbs | An English historian and Anglican bishop. |
| Edwin H. | Palmer | A theologian, scholar, teacher, and pastor. |
| James | Sewell | The warden of a New College. |
| Richard | Burton | A Welsh actor. |
| Robert | Scott | A Royal Navy officer and explorer. |
| Horace | Walpole | An English writer, art historian, man of letters. |
| Thomas | | James Murray's father. |
| Eastman Strong | Minor | William Minor's father. |
| Lucy Bailey | Minor | William Minor's mother. |
| Thomas | Minor | An early colonial New England diarist. |
| Grace | Palmer | Thomas Minor's wife. |
| Judith M. | Taylor | Eastman Minor 2nd wife. |
| Lucy | Minor 2 | William Minor's sister. |
| Thomas T. | Minor | Eastman and Judith Taylor Minor's son. |
| G. Morris | Haller | William Minor's friend. |
| Alfred 1 | | William Minor's uncle. |
| Abraham | Lincoln | 16th U.S. President. |
| Dr. | Abbott | Employed at an Army divisonal hospital in Alexandria. |
| Ulysses S. | Grant | 18th U.S. President. |
| Jefferson | Davis | Former President of the Confederate States. |
| Robert E. | Lee | American-Confederate general. |
| Martin | Kuster | One of William Minor's patient. |
| James | Dana | An American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. |
| Charles | Nichols | The superintendent of the government hospital for the insane. |
| Ezra | Pound | An expatriate American poet and critic. |
| John | Hinckley | American criminal who attempted to assassinate Pres. Reagan. |
| Ronald | Reagan | 40th U.S. President. |
| Alfred 2 | | William Minor's brother. |
| Richard | Trench | Anglican archbishop and poet. |
| Guy | Fawkes | A member of a group of provincial English Catholics. |
| William | Shakespeare | An English playwright, poet, and actor. |
| Martin | Frobisher | An English seaman and privateer. |
| Francis | Drake | An English naval officer. |
| Walter | Raleigh | An English writer, poet, soldier, politician, spy and explorer. |
| Francis | Bacon | An English philosopher and statesman. |
| Edmund | Spenser | An English poet. |
| Christopher | Marlowe | An English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. |
| Thomas | Nashe | An Elizabethan playwright, poet, and a significant pamphleteer. |
| John | Donne | An English poet, scholar, and soldier. |
| Ben | Jonson | An English playwright and poet. |
| Izaak | Walton | An English writer. |
| Thomas | Cooper | An American economist. |
| Thomas | Wilson | An American actor, writer, artist, musician and podcaster. |
| Mrs. | Cooper | Thomas Cooper's wife. |
| Thomas | Elyot | An English diplomat and scholar. |
| John | Withals | English lexicographer. |
| John | Webster | An English Jacobean dramatist. |
| Robert | Cawdrey | An English clergyman. |
| Henry | Cockeram | An English lexicographer. |
| Thomas | Blount | Former U.S. Representative. |
| Cardinal | Richelieu | Former Chief minister of France. |
| Nathan | Bailey | An English philologist and lexicographer. |
| Tobias | Smollett | A Scottish poet and author. |
| Samuel | Johnson | An English writer. |
| Joseph | Addison | An English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. |
| Alexander | Pope | One of the greatest English poet. |
| Daniel | Defoe | An English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. |
| Jonathan | Swift | An Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet. |
| Philip Dorme | Stanhope | A British statesman, diplomat, man of letters as Lord Chesterfield. |
| Voltaire | | A French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. |
| Philip | | Lord Chesterfield's son. |
| Philip | Sidney | An English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier. |
| Geoffrey | Chaucer | An English poet and author. |
| Thomas B. | Macaulay | Former British Secretary at War. |
| Robert | Burchfield | A lexicographer, scholar, and writer. |
| Herbert | Coleridge | The first editor of Oxford English Dictionary. |
| John | Milton | An English poet. |
| Henry Austin | Bruce | 1st Baron Aberdare, was a British Liberal Party politician. |
| William | Orange | King of England. |
| Joshua | Jebb | A Royal Engineer and British Surveyor-General of convict prisons. |
| William | Caxton | The first person to introduce a printing press into England. |
| Edmund | Burke | An Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher. |
| Hazlett | | A musical artist. |
| Jacques | du Boscq | The author of The
Accomplish'd Woman. |
| Franciscus | Junius | An art historian. |
| Thomas | Herbert | 1st Baronet, was an English
traveler and historian. |
| Fernão | de Castanheda | A Portuguese historian. |
| Andrew | Ure | A Scottish physician, founder of the Andersonian Institution. |
| Joshua | Reynolds | An English painter. |
| Gervase | Markham | An English poet and writer. |
| Uriah | Heep | An English rock band. |
| Queen Victoria | | Former Queen of the United Kingdom. |
| Frederick T. | Elworthy | An English philologist and antiquary. |
| Rev. B.W. | Smith | A musical artist. |
| Henry Hucks | Gibbs | 1st Baron Aldenham, was a British banker and businessman. |
| Russell | Martineau | An Hebraist and librarian. |
| Fitzedward | Hall | An American Orientalist, and philologist. |
| Theodor | Goldstiicker | A professor of Sanskrit at University College London. |
| Francis | Bacon | Served as Attorney General and the Lord Chancellor of England. |
| George | Curzon | Former Viceroy of India. |
| Hayden | Church | A journalist. |
| Henry | Bradley | The editor-in-chief of now known as the Oxford English Dictionary. |
| K.M.Elisabeth | Murray | An English biographer and educationist. |
| Jonathon | Green | An English lexicographer of slang and writer. |
| Elizabeth | Knowles | An experienced lexicographer and quotation dictionary compiler. |
| Francis | Browne | A distinguished Irish Jesuit and a prolific photographer. |
| Justin | Winsor | An American writer, librarian, and historian. |
| Dr. | Nicholson | Dr. Minor's friend. |
| Doctor | Brayn | A martinet. He replaced the position of Dr. Nicholson. |
| Richard | Dadd | An English painter of the Victorian era. |
| Coleman | Hughes | An American writer. |
| Dr. | Baker | One of the doctors who assisted Dr. Minor. |
| Dr. | Noott | One of the doctors who assisted Dr. Minor. |
| | Hartfield | A hospital attendant. |
| Thomas | Huxley | An English biologist and anthropologist. |
| George V | | Former King of the United Kingdom. |
| Herbert Henry | Asquith | Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| Winston | Churchill | Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| Boer | | A former prisoner of wars. |
| Dr. | Davidian | A psychiatrist. |
| Philippe | Pinel | A French physician. |
| Emil | Kraepelin | A German psychiatrist. |
| Edward | Minor | William Minor's nephew. |
| Dr. | Duval | A doctor who approved for Dr. Minor's released from the hospital. |
| Henry Louis | Mencken | American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar. |
| Henry W. | Longfellow | An American poet and educator. |
| George Jr. | | Eliza and George Merrett's son. |