| Fred | Astaire | American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer. |
| Marcel | Benoit | An art dealer. |
| Humphrey | Bogart | American film actor. |
| Walter | Caldwell | One of the pilots. |
| Jay | Cash | British bomber. |
| Winston | Churchill | Former British Prime Minister. |
| Thomas | Clarke | A RAF pilot. |
| Madame | Colin | Ruby's acquaintance. |
| Harry | Cormack | A pilot. Thomas' friend. |
| Charlotte | Dacher | Ruby's friend. |
| Reuven | Dacher | Charlotte's father. |
| Sarah | Dacher | Charlotte's mother. |
| Charles | de Gaulle | Former president of France. |
| Helen | de Portes | A Countess of France. |
| Lawrence B. | Fisher | A Spitfires pilot. |
| F.Scott | Fritzgerald | American fiction writer. |
| Zelda | Fritzgerald | American novelist. |
| Cary | Grant | American actor. |
| Captain | Hamilton | An officer-in-charge. |
| Herr | Hartmann | The interviewer. |
| Ernest | Hemingway | American journalist. |
| Ruby | Henderson | Marcel Benoit's wife. |
| | Hitler | Leader of the Nazi Party. |
| Harley | Holt | A bomber pilot. |
| Fred | Horn | A squadron adjutant. |
| Leo | Huet | Ruby's acquaintance. |
| Earl | Johnson | American fighter. |
| Madame | Lefevre | A concierge. |
| Henry | Matisse | French artist. |
| John | McCrae | Canadian poet. |
| Aubert | Moreau | Marcel's old friend. |
| Stephen | Orlando | A gunner. |
| Scott | Pace | One of the pilots. |
| Jon | Payne | A RAF pilot. |
| Therese | Petit | The most beautiful girl in school. |
| Franklin | Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President. |
| Georges | Savatier | The landlord. |
| Oliver | Smith | Thomas' companion. |
| Gertrude | Stein | American novelist. |
| John | Stephens | Thomas' acquaintance. |
| Samuel | Sullivan | American pilot. |
| Jean-Marc | Thibodaux | Charlotte's classmate. |
| Tom | Trouba | A pilot from St. Louis. |
| Roscoe | Vincent | A man who made pilot's schedule. |
| Jonathan | Wilkes | Thomas' flight sergeant. |
| Norman | Wimbley | One of the pilots. |
| Abbott | | One of Thomas' friends. |
| Alesander | | One of the men who helped the pilot. |
| Angelique | | One of the inmates. |
| Catherine | | Joseph's girlfriend. |
| Cecilia | | Harry's aunt. |
| Christopher | | An American pilot. |
| Claude | | A farmer. |
| Denise | | An inmate. |
| Dexter | | A British pilot. |
| Elizabeth | | Terrence's fiancé. |
| Ernest | | A pilot from Spring Gully, South Carolina. |
| Eva | | Fritz's wife. |
| Fleur | | Ruby's code name. |
| Florentino | | One of the men who helped the pilot. |
| Fritz | | A farmer. |
| Gisela | | Herr Hartmann's daughter. |
| Helene | | Charlotte's code name. |
| Henriette | | Claude's wife. |
| Howie | | A pilot from Topeka. |
| Jacqueline | | One of the inmates. |
| Jacques | | A farmer. |
| Jarvis | | One of Thomas' friends. |
| Jean-Louis | | One of Aubert's acquaintances. |
| Joseph | | A pilot from Brockton, Massachusetts. |
| Kenneth | | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| Laure | | One of Aubert's acquaintances. |
| Lewis | | A pilot. |
| Lucien | | Charlotte's acquaintance. |
| Marcus | | A pilot from Arlington, Texas. |
| Marie | | Thomas' acquaintance. |
| Maxwell | | The flight instructor. |
| Michael | | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| Michel | | Monsieur Dacher's sibling. |
| Micheline | | Charlotte's friend. |
| Nadia 1 | | Ruby Henderson's daughter. |
| Nadia 2 | | Ruby's friend. |
| Newton | | One of the pilots. |
| Philippe | | Aubert's code name. |
| Poloko | | One of the pilots from South Africa. |
| Raymond | | A pilot from Worthington, Ohio |
| Reeves | | One of Thomas' friends. |
| Refilwe | | One of the pilots from South Africa. |
| Reid | | Thomas' acquaintance. |
| Terrence | | A pilot from Liverpool. |
| Travis | | A pilot from New Zealand. |
| Wellesley | | One of the pilots. |
