1 | Carolyn | Brock | President's Chief of Staff. Aka: Carrie. |
| Lester | Rhodes | Speaker of the House. |
| Danny | Akers | President's oldest friend. White House counsel. |
| Jenny | Brickman | Deputy Chief of Staff and President's senior political advisor. |
| Michael | Dukakis | Democrat who ran for President and lost in 1988 (real). |
| Suliman | Cindoruk | Sons of Jihad (SOJ) leader. |
2 | Mike | Kearns | Chairman, House Judiciary Committee. Rhodes protégé. |
| General | Burke | At Centcom. (U.S. Central Command) |
| Nathan | Cromartie | CIA operative. Died in Algeria. |
| Clara | Cromartie | Nathan's mother. |
3 | Bach | | Assassin. A female. |
4 | Rachael | Duncan | President's wife. |
| Katherine | Brandt | Vice President. Aka: Kathy. |
| JoAnn | | President's Secretary. |
| | Jacoby | A Senator. |
| Lawrence | Gordon | A Senator. |
| Jonathan L. | Duncan | President. |
5 | Deborah | Lane | President's ITP disease doctor. |
| | | ITP - a disease that can lead to excessive bruising and bleeding. |
6 | Elmurod | | Works for Cindoruk. |
| Mahmad | | Works for Cindoruk. |
| | | Gang of Eight - bipartisan group of 8 US senators. |
8 | Alex | Trimble | Head of the Secret Service. |
9 | Isabella | Mercado | Bach's fake passport name. |
10 | Brendon | Mohan | National Security Advisor. |
| Erica | Beatty | CIA Director. |
| Dmitry | Chernokev | President of Russia. |
| Saad ibn | Saud | King of Saudi Arabia. |
11 | Rodrigo | Sanchez | Admiral and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Aka: Rod. |
| Dominick | Dayton | Secretary of Defense. |
| Sam | Haber | Secretary of Homeland Security. |
| Abu- | Dheeq | Shabaab's head of military operations. |
| Al- | Fadhl | AQAP's military commander. |
| | | AQAP - Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. |
| | Burke | General and head of US Central Command. |
14 | Lily | Duncan | President Duncan's child. |
16 | Professor | Waite | Professor at University of North Carolins (UNC) Law School. |
17 | Charles | Kane | Fake name used by President Duncan. |
| Amanda | Braidwood | Rachael Duncan's roomate at Harvard. A disguise expert. Aka: Mandy. |
19 | Christopher | Knight | Homeless veteran. |
20 | Nina | | Former member of SOJ. Augie's partner. |
23 | Augie | | Former member of SOJ. Nina's partner. |
31 | Ranko | | Taught Bach how to shoot. |
32 | | Davis | Secret Service Agent. |
| | Ontiveros | Secret Service Agent. |
| | Jacobson | Secret Service Agent. |
35 | Elizabeth | Greenfield | Acting FBI Director. |
37 | Greg | Morton | Carolyn Brock's husband. Aka: Morty. |
| James | Morton | Brock's child. |
| Jennifer | Morton | Brock's child. |
39 | Augustas | Kaoslenko | Augie's full name. |
| David | Guralnick | Israel's Director of National Institute for Intelligence (Mossad). |
43 | Peter | Evian | Vice President's Chief of Staff. |
49 | Devin | Wittmer | Co-chair, Imminent Threat Response Team. |
| Casey | Alvarez | Co-chair, Imminent Threat Response Team. |
51 | Noya | Baram | Israel Prime Minister. |
| Victor | Chernokev | Russian President's father. |
52 | Juergen | Richter | German Chancellor. |
56 | Dieter | Kohl | Head, Germany International Intelligence (BND). |
| Nina | Shinkuba | Nina's full name. |
| | | Exfiltrate - to withdraw (troops or spies) from a dangerous position. |
62 | Ivan | Volkov | Prime Minister of Russia. |
64 | Geoffrey | | Father of Bach's child. |
65 | Tony | Winters | Meet the Press host. |
80 | Hagan | | Works for Cindoruk. |
| Levi | | Works for Cindoruk. |
81 | Christof | | German Special Forces team leader. |
98 | Lojzik | | Van driver. |
| Hamid | | Leader of boat group. |
122 | Randy | | Bach interrogator. |
| Catharina D. | Ninkovic | Bach's real name. |
| Wilhelm F. | Herzog | Bach's brother. |
125 | Andrei | Ivanenko | Russian Ambassador to the US. |