| Pro | | | The Typists |
| | John | Wayne | American actor. |
| | Betty | | One of the typists. |
| | Virginia | | One of the typists. |
| | Agnes | | One of the typists. |
| | Peg | | One of the typists. |
| | Linda | Murphy | One of the typists. |
| | Walter | Anderson | Agency administrator. |
| | Holly | Falcon | One of the typists. |
| | | | East: 1949-1950 |
| 1 | | | The Muse |
| | Ira | | Olga's daughter. |
| | Mitya | | Olga's son. |
| | Boris | Pasternak | Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. Aka: Borya. |
| | Olga | Ivinskaya | Russian poet, writer, friend and lover of Boris Pasternak. |
| | Joseph | Stalin | General secretary of the
USSR Communist Party. |
| | Anatoli | Semionov | Olga's interrogator. |
| | Yuri | Zhivago | Main character from Boris's novel Doctor Zhivago. |
| | Konstantin | Simonov | Soviet author and a war poet. |
| | Lara | | One of the characters from Boris's novel Doctor Zhivago. |
| | Zinaida | | Boris' wife. Aka: Zina. |
| | Konstantin | Fedin | Russian novelist and literary functionary. |
| | Korney | Chukovsky | Popular
Russian children's poet. |
| | Isaac | Babel | Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. |
| | Sergei | Nikiforov | Ira's former English teacher. |
| | | | West: Fall 1956 |
| 2 | | | The Applicant |
| | Miska | | A cat. |
| | Sidney | | Irina's ex-boyfriend. |
| | Lonnie | Reynolds | Personnel manager. |
| | Allen | Dulles | A spy chief. |
| | Bianka | | Best Russian seamstress. |
| | Irina | Drozdova | One of the applicants. |
| | James | Michener | American author. |
| | Grace | Kelly | American film actress. |
| | Becky | | One of the applicants. |
| | Mikhail | Drozdov | Irina's father. |
| 3 | | | The Typists |
| | Marcos | | Old Greek man. Aka: Ralph. |
| | Athena | | Marcos' wife. |
| | Gail | Carter | Norma Kelly's acquaintance. |
| | Norma | Kelly | One of the typists. |
| | Judy | Hedricks | One of the typists. |
| | Linda | | One of the typists. |
| | Harry | Truman | 33rd president of the United States. |
| | Nat King | Cole | American singer and jazz pianist. |
| | Kathy | Potter | One of the typists. |
| | Sarah | | Kathy's older sister. |
| | Tabitha | Jenkins | Former typist. |
| | Katharine | Hepburn | An American actress. |
| | John | Maury | The SR's chief. Aka: J.M. |
| | Frank | Wisner | Served in the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. |
| | Nelson | Rockefeller | Former Vice President of the United States. |
| | Adlai | Stevenson II | Former Governor of Illinois. |
| | John F. | Kennedy | 35th U.S. President. |
| | Teddy | Helms | One of the employees at the agency. |
| | Henry | Rennets | Teddy's closest friend. |
| 4 | | | The Swallow |
| | Sally | Forrester | Anderson's acquaintance. |
| | Prudy | | Anderson's wife. |
| | Beverly | | Sally's friend. Aka: Bev. |
| | Marilyn | Monroe | American actress, model, and singer. |
| | Jayne | Mansfield | American film, theater, and television actress. |
| | Jim | Roberts | Canadian ice hockey defense man and forward. |
| | Julia | | One of Sally's friends. |
| | Jane | | One of Sally's friends. |
| | Anna | | One of Sally's friends. |
| | Perry | Como | American singer. |
| | William | Donovan | American soldier, lawyer, and diplomat. Aka: Wild Bill. |
| | | | East: 1950-1955 |
| 5 | | | The Rehabilitated Woman |
| | | Buinaya | Barrack brigade leader. |
| | Lena | | Olga's acquaintance. |
| | Yuri | Levitan | The primary Soviet radio announcer. |
| | Vladimir | Lenin | Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. |
| 6 | | | The Cloud Dweller |
| | Tobik | | Boris's dog. |
| | Titsian | Tabidze | Georgian poet. |
| | Nina | | Titsian's wife. |
| | Besiki | | Georgian poet. Titsian's favorite poet. |
| | Osip | Mandelstam | Russian and Soviet poet and essayist. |
| | Paolo | | Boris's acquaintance. |
| | Marina | Tsvetaeva | Russian and Soviet poet. |
| | Alexander | Pushkin | Russian poet, playwright, and novelist. |
| 7 | | | The Emissary |
| | Erik | | Mitya's pet frog. |
| | | | West: February-Fall 1957 |
| 8 | | | The Carrier |
| | Nancy | | Irina's name during night time. |
| | Gregory | | Bartender. |
| | Julian | | Teddy's older brother. |
| | Abraham | Lincoln | 16th U.S. President. |
| | Thomas | Jefferson | 3rd U.S. President. |
| | Nikolai | Gogol | Russian dramatist. |
| | Leo | Tolstoy | Russian writer. |
| | Fyodor | Dostoyevsky | Russian novelist. |
| | Walter Irving | Scott | American musician. |
| | Dai | Vernon | Canadian magician. |
| | Fred | Astaire | American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer. |
| 9 | | | The Typists |
| | Laika | | The dog inside Sputnik II. |
| | Dwight | Eisenhower | American army general and statesman. |
| | Vladimir | Nabokov | Russian and American novelist, poet. |
| | | | East: 1955-1956 |
| 10 | | | The Agent |
| | Sergio | D'Angelo | A literary agent. |
| | Stefano | | Dragon paper-mache creature. |
| | Giulietta | | Sergio's wife. |
| | Anton | Vladlen | Sergio's co-worker. |
| | Giangiacomo | Feltrinelli | Italian publisher. |
| | Francesca | | Sergio's daughter. |
| | Jawaharlal | Nehru | Former Prime Minister of India. |
| | Nikita | Khrushchev | Former Premier of the Soviet Union. |
| | Josephine | Baker | American-born French entertainer. |
| 11 | | | The Emissary |
| | Dmitri | Policarpov | Central Committee's Culture Department's head. |
| | | | West: Fall 1957 - August 1958 |
| 12 | | | The Carrier |
| | David | | Linda's boyfriend. |
| | Rita | Hayworth | American actress and dancer. |
| | Carroll | Baker | Retired American actress. |
| | Harold | Garfinchel | American sociologist,
ethno methodologist. |
| | Miss | Halpern | Irina's mother's customer. |
| | Richard Alan | Clarke | National Coordinator for Security, and Counter-terrorism. |
| | George | Washington | 1st U.S. President. |
| | Soren | Kierkegaard | Danish philosopher. |
| | Jean | Lafitte | French pirate and privateer in the Gulf of Mexico. |
| | Leonard | | Sally's acquaintance. |
| | Annie | Oakley | American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. |
| | Lucille | Ball | American actress, comedienne, model. |
| 13 | | | The Swallow |
| | Jane | | Navy corps nurse. |
| | Pietro Antonio | Zveteremich | Italian literary critic. |
| | Leonardo | da Vinci | Italian polymath. |
| 14 | | | The Company Man |
| | Kit | | Mr. Feltrinelli's friend. |
| | Harrison | Frederick | Teddy's name given by Kit. Aka: Harry |
| | Theodore | Helms III | Real name of Teddy. |
| | Anton | Chekhov | Russian playwright and short-story writer. |
| | Mikhail | Bulgakov | Russian writer. |
| | Jack | Kerouac | American novelist. |
| | Professor | Humphries | One of Frank Wisner's old buddies. |
| | Noël | Coward | English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer. |
| | Herbert George | Wells | English writer. |
| | Clive Staples | Lewis | British writer and lay theologian. |
| | John Ronald | Tolkien | English writer, poet, philologist, and academic. |
| | Chaucer | | Teddy's friend. |
| | Charles | Dickens | English writer and social critic. |
| | Violet | | Chaucer's clerk. |
| | Francis Scott | Fitzgerald | American writer. |
| | Alexander | Fleming | Scottish
biologist, physician and microbiologist. |
| | David | Garrick | English actor. |
| 15 | | | The Swallow |
| | Guy | Lombardo | American-Canadian musician. |
| | | Meyer | One of Frank Wisner's friend. |
| | Eartha | Kitt | American singer. |
| 16 | | | The Carrier |
| | Thomas | Eliot | Poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. |
| 17 | | | The Typists |
| | Sam | Cooke | American singer-songwriter. |
| | Pablo | Picasso | Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker
and ceramicist. |
| 18 | | | The Carrier |
| | Vera-Ellen | | American dancer and actress. |
| | Doctor | Murphy | Eye doctor. |
| | Mrs. | Halpern | Irina's mother's friend. |
| | | | West: August - September 1958 |
| 20 | | | The Typists |
| | Felix | Morrow | American communist political activist and newspaper editor. |
| | Shirley | Horn | American jazz pianist. |
| | Helen | O'Brien | Anderson's secretary. |
| | Doc | Turner | Cafeteria chef. |
| 21 | | | The Nun |
| | Joan | Crawford | American film and television actress. |
| | Humphrey | Bogart | American film and stage actor. |
| | Doris | Day | American actress and singer. |
| | Frank | Sinatra | American singer, actor and producer. |
| | Elwyn Brooks | White | American writer. |
| | Joseph | Mitchell | American writer. |
| | Father | Pierre | Father David's assistant. |
| | Sister Alyona | | Irina's new name. |
| | Father David | | The agent in-charge of the mission. |
| | Ivanna | | Father David's acquaintance. |
| | Chet | Huntley | American television newscaster. |
| | Frank Lloyd | Wright | American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator. |
| | Auguste | Rodin | French sculptor. |
| | Yaketerina | | One of Father David's visitors. |
| | Eduard | | One of Father David's visitors. |
| | Galina | Ulanova | Russian ballet dancer. |
| | Madonna | | American singer-songwriter. |
| | | | East: September - October 1958 |
| 22 | | | The Prizewinner |
| | Boris | Pilnyak | Russian writer. |
| | Nina | Tabidze | Zinaida's friend. |
| | | | West: October - December 1958 |
| 23 | | | The Informant |
| | Lenore | Miller | Sally Forrester's new name. |
| | Chet | Baker | American jazz trumpeter. |
| | Rene | Viviani | French politician. |
| | | | East: October - December 1958 |
| 24 | | | The Emissary |
| | Katya | | Fedin's daughter. |
| | | | West: December 1958 |
| 25 | | | The Defector |
| | Sacha | Distel | French singer, guitarist, and actor. |
| | Gustave | Flaubert | French novelist. |
| | | | East: January 1959 |
| 26 | | | The Postmistress |
| | Vladimir | Semichastny | Former chairman of the KGB |
| | Albert | Camus | French Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist. |
| | John | Steinbeck | American author. |
| | Grigori | Khesin | Headed the "author's rights" section of the writers' union. |
| | Isidor | Gringolts | Olga's acquaintance. |
| | | | West: Summer 1959 |
| 27 | | | The Student |
| | Werner | Voigt | German football coach and former player. |
| | | | East: 1960-1961 |
| 28 | | | The Almost Widow |
| | Sviatoslav | Richter | Soviet pianist. |
| | Larissa | Feodorovna | The wife of Owen Frederick Morton Tudor. |
| | OwenFrederick | Tudor | British Army officer. |
| Epi | | | The Typists |
| | Julie Frances | Christie | British actress. |
