- King Richard II
- John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, uncle to the king
- Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, uncle to the king
- Henry Bolingbroke (sometimes spelt Bullingbrook), Duke of Hereford, son of John of Gaunt, afterwards King Henry IV
- The Duke of Aumerle, (Edward, Duke of Albermarle, later Duke of York), son to the Duke of York
- Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk
- Duke of Surrey (Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey)
- Earl of Salisbury (John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury)
- Lord Berkeley (Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley)
- Bushy (Sir John Bussy}, Bagot (Sir William Bagot[1]), Green (Sir Henry Green[2]), all favourites to King Richard
- Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland
- Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, his son
- Lord Ross (William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros)
| - Lord Willoughby (William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby)
- Lord Fitzwalter (Walter Fitzwalter, 5th Baron Fitzwalter)
- Bishop of Carlisle (Thomas Merke)
- Abbot of Westminster (William de Colchester)
- Lord Marshal (post held in 1399 by Duke of Surrey, though this is not recognised in the play)
- Sir Stephen Scroop
- Sir Piers Exton
- Welsh captain
- Queen to Richard (an unnamed composite of Anne of Bohemia, died 1394, and Isabella of Valois, who was born in 1389 and so still a child at the time of Richard's death)
- Duchess of York (an unnamed composite of Infanta Isabella of Castile, died 1392, the mother of Aumerle, and Joan Holland, who bore no children)
- Duchess of Gloucester (Eleanor de Bohun, widow of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, who was uncle to the king)
- attendants, lords, soldiers, messengers, etc.
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