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• Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra y Magsalin

  • is the protagonist in the story. Son of a Filipino businessman, Don Rafael, he studied in Europe for seven years. is also María Clara's fiancé
• In the sequel of Noli, El Filibusterismo, Ibarra returned with different character and name: he called himself as Simoun, the English mestizo
• María Clara de los Santos y Alba,

  • is Ibarra's fiancée. She was raised by Capitán Tiago, San Diego's cabeza de barangay and is the most beautiful and widely celebrated girl in San Diego.
  • In the later parts of the novel, identity was revealed as an illegitimate daughter of Father Dámaso, former parish curate of the town, and Doña Pía Alba, wife of Capitán Tiago.
• MARIA CLARA entered local covenant for nuns Beaterio de Santa Clara.
• Don Santiago de los Santos,

  • Filipino businessman and the cabeza de barangay or head of barangay of the town of San Diego.
  • He is also the known father of María Clara. In the novel, it is said that is the richest man in the region of Binondo and he possessed real properties in Pampanga and Laguna de Bay. He is also said to be a good Catholic, friend of the Spanish government and was considered as Spanish by colonialists.
  • never attended school, so he became a domestic helper of a Dominican friar who taught him Informal education. He married Pía Alba from Santa Cruz
• Dámaso Verdolagas, or Padre Dámaso

  • a Franciscan friar and the former parish curate of San

  Diego. He is best known as a notorious character that

  speaks with harsh words and has been a cruel priest

  during his stay in the town.

  • He is the real father of María Clara and an enemy of

  Crisóstomo's father, Rafael Ibarra. Later, he and María

  Clara had bitter arguments whether she would marry

  Alfonso Linares or go to a convent. At the end of the

  novel, he is again re-assigned to a distant town and is

  found dead one day.
• In popular culture, when a priest was said to be like Padre Dámaso, it means that he is a cruel but respectable individual. When one says a child is "Anak ni Padre Damaso" (child of Padre Dámaso), it

  means that the child's father's identity is unknown.
• Elías

  • Ibarra's mysterious friend and ally. made his first appearance as a pilot during a picnic of Ibarra and María Clara and her friends.
  • He wants to revolutionize the country and to be freed from Spanish oppression.
• Filosofo Tacio

  • Seeking for reforms from the government, he expresses his ideals in paper written in a cryptographic alphabet similar from hieroglyphs and Coptic figures hoping "that the future generations may be able to decipher it" and realized the abuse and oppression done by the conquerors.
  • His full name is only known as Don Anastacio.
• Filosofo Tacio (Tacio the Sage) Tacio el Loco (Insane Tacio)
• Doña Victorina de los Reyes de Espadaña,

  • is an ambitious Filipina who classifies herself as Spanish and mimics Spanish ladies by putting on heavy make-up.
  • younger days: she had lots of admirers, but she did not choose any of them because nobody was a Spaniard. Later on, she met and married Don Tiburcio de Espadaña, an official of the customs bureau who is about ten years her junior. However, their marriage is childless. Her husband assumes the title of medical doctor even though he never attended medical school; using fake documents and certificates, Tiburcio practices illegal medicine.
• Narcisa or Sisa is the deranged mother of Basilio and Crispín. Described as beautiful and young, although she loves her children very much, she cannot protect them from the beatings of her husband, Pedro
• Crispín is Sisa's 7-year-old son. An altar boy, he was

  unjustly accused of stealing money from the church.

  After failing to force Crispín to return the money he

  allegedly stole, Father Salví and the head sacristan

  killed him. It is not directly stated that he was killed, but

  the dream of Basilio suggests that Crispín died during

  his encounter with Padre Salvi and his minion.
• Basilio is Sisa's 10-year-old son. An acolyte tasked to

  ring the church bells for the Angelus, he faced the dread

  of losing his younger brother and the descent of his

  mother into insanity. At the end of the novel, Elías

  wished Basilio to bury him by burning in exchange of

  chest of gold located on his death ground. He will later

  play a major role in El Filibusterismo. Due to their tragic

  but endearing story, these characters are often

  parodied in modern Filipino popular culture.
• Padre Hernando de la Sibyla is a Dominican friar. He is

  described as short and has fair skin. He is instructed by an

  old priest in his order to watch Crisóstomo Ibarra.
• Padre Bernardo Salví is the Franciscan curate of San

  Diego, secretly harboring lust for María Clara. He is

  described to be very thin and sickly. It is also hinted that

  his last name, is the shorter form of "Salvi" meaning

  Salvation, or "Salvi" is short for "Salvaje" meaning bad

  hinting to the fact that he is willing to kill an innocent child,

  Crispin, just to get his money back, though there was not

  enough evidence that it was Crispin who has stolen his 2

  onzas.
• El Alférez or Alperes is the chief of the Guardia Civil;

  mortal enemy of the priests for power in San Diego and

  husband of Doña Consolacion.
• Doña Consolacíon is the wife of the Alférez, nicknamed as

  la musa de los guardias civiles (The muse of the Civil

  Guards) or la Alféreza, was a former laundrywoman who

  passes herself as a Peninsular; best remembered for her

  abusive treatment of Sisa.
• Don Tiburcio de Espadaña is a Spanish Quack Doctor

  who is limp and submissive to his wife, Doña Victorina.
• Teniente Guevara is a close friend of Don Rafael Ibarra. He

  reveals to Crisóstomo how Don Rafael Ibarra's death came

  about.
• Alfonso Linares is a distant nephew of Tiburcio de

  Espanada, the would-be fiancé of María Clara. Although he

  presented himself as a practitioner of law, it was later

  revealed that he, just like Don Tiburcio, is a fraud. He later

  died due to given medications of Don Tiburcio.
• Tía Isabel is Capitán Tiago's cousin, who raised Maria

  Clara.
• Governor General (Gobernador Heneral) is the Unnamed

  person in the novel, he is the most powerful official in the

  Philippines. He has great disdain for the friars and corrupt

  officials, and sympathizes with Ibarra.
• Don Filipo Lino is the vice mayor of the town of San Diego,

  leader of the liberals
• Padre Manuel Martín is the linguist curate of a nearby

  town who delivers the sermon during San Diego's fiesta.
• Don Rafael Ibarra is the father of Crisóstomo Ibarra.

  Though he is the richest man in San Diego, he is also the

  most virtuous and generous.
• Doña Pía Alba is the wife of Capitan Tiago and mother of

  María Clara, she died giving birth to her daughter. In reality,

  she was raped by Dámaso so she could bear a child. These

  characters were mentioned in the novel, appeared once,

  mentioned many times or have no major contribution to

  the storyline
• Don Pedro Y Barramendia is the great-grandfather of

  Crisóstomo Ibarra who came from the Basque area of

  Spain. He started the misfortunes of Elias' family. His

  descendants abbreviated their surname to Ibarra. He died

  of unknown reasons, but was seen as a decaying corpse on

  a Balite Tree.
• Don Saturnino Ibarra is the son of Don Pedro, father of

  Don Rafael and grandfather of Crisóstomo Ibarra. He was

  the one who developed the town of San Diego. He was

  described as a cruel man but was very clever.
• Sinang is Maria Clara's friend. Because Crisóstomo Ibarra

  offered half of the school he was building to Sinang, he

  gained Capitan Basilio's support.
• Iday, Neneng and Victoria are Maria Clara's other friends
• Capitán Basilio is Sinang's father, leader of the

  conservatives
• Pedro is the abusive husband of Sisa who loves

  cockfighting
• Tandáng Pablo is the leader of the tulisanes (bandits),

  whose family was destroyed because of the Spaniards.
• El hombre amarillo (apparently means "yellowish person",

  named as Taong Madilaw) is one of Crisostomo Ibarra's

  would-be assassins. He is not named in the novel, and only

  described as such. In the novel, he carved the cornerstone

  for Ibarra's school. Instead of killing Ibarra, he was killed by

  his cornerstone.
• Lucas is the brother of the taong madilaw. He planned a

  revolution against the government with Ibarra as the leader

  after he was turned down by Ibarra. He was said to have a

  scar on his left cheek. He would later be killed by the

  Sakristan Mayor.
• Bruno and Tarsilo are a pair of brothers whose father was

  killed by the Spaniards
• Ñor Juan (Ñol Juan) is the appointed as foreman of the

  school to be built by Ibarra
• Capitana Tika is Sinang's mother and wife of Capitan

  Basilio.
• Albino

  a former seminarian who joined the picnic with

  Ibarra and María Clara. He was later captured during the

  revolution.