Main characters
- Eliza
- Bob Shaftoe
- Jack Shaftoe
- Daniel Waterhouse
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Other characters
- Dappa, galley slave, Nigerian, sailor aboard Minerva
- Enoch Root
- Moseh de la Cruz, galley slave, Spanish Jew
- Vrej Esphahnian, galley slave, Armenian
- Mr. Foot, English galley slave, ex-privateer, ex-publican, ex-slave merchant
- Édouard de Gex, Jesuit fanatic
- Gabriel Goto, galley slave, Jesuit priest from Japan
- Jeronimo, galley slave, a high-born Spaniard with Tourette syndrome
- Lothar von Hacklheber, German banker obsessed with alchemy
- Nyazi, galley slave, camel-trader of the Upper Nile
- Otto van Hoek, galley slave, pirate-hating Dutch captain of the Minerva
- Yevgeny the Raskolnik, galley slave, Russian whaler
- Bonaventure Rossignol, French cryptologist
- Danny Shaftoe, son of Jack Shaftoe
- Jimmy Shaftoe, son of Jack Shaftoe
- Nasr al-Ghurab, rais (commander) of the galleot
- Queen Kottakkal, sovereign of the Malabar pirates.
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