- Lear – King of Britain
- Goneril – Lear's eldest daughter
- Regan – Lear's middle daughter
- Cordelia – Lear's youngest daughter
- The Fool – attendant on Lear
- Duke of Albany – Goneril's husband
- Duke of Cornwall – Regan's husband
- King of France – suitor and later husband to Cordelia
- Duke of Burgundy – suitor to Cordelia
- Earl of Gloucester – loyal to Lear
- Edgar – Gloucester's first-born son
- Edmund – Gloucester's illegitimate son
- Earl of Kent – loyal to Lear
- Oswald – Goneril's steward
- Doctor – attends on Cordelia
- Curan – Gloucester's servant
- Old Man – tenant of Gloucester
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