Characters

Edmond Dantès and his aliases

• Edmond Dantès (born 1796): A sailor with good prospects, fiancée to Mercédès. After his transformation into the Count of Monte Cristo, he reveals his true name to his enemies as each revenge is completed,
• Number 34: Dantès is called Number 34 during his imprisonment.
• English Chief Clerk of the Thomson and French banking firm
• Lord Wilmore: English persona in which Dantès performs random acts of generosity.
• Sinbad the Sailor: The persona that Dantes assumes when he saves the Morrel family.
• Abbé Busoni: The persona of religious authority.
• Monsieur Zaccone: Dantès, in the guise of both Abbé Busoni and Lord Wilmore, tells an investigator this is the Count of Monte Cristo's true name.


Dantès' allies

• Abbé Faria: Italian priest and sage.
• Giovanni Bertuccio: The Count of Monte Cristo's steward and very loyal servant.
• Luigi Vampa: celebrated Italian bandit and fugitive.
• Peppino: Formerly a shepherd, he later a bandit and full member of Vampa's gang.
• Haydée (also transliterated as Haidée): The daughter of Ali Pasha of Yannina.
• Ali: Monte Cristo's mute Nubian slave.
• Baptistin: Monte Cristo's valet-de-chambre.
Morcerf family
• Mercédès Mondego: (née: Herrera) Dantes' fiancée at the beginning of the story.
• Fernand Mondego: Count de Morcerf, Dantes' rival and suitor for Mercédès.
• Albert de Morcerf: Son of Mercédès and the Count de Morcerf, friend of Monte Cristo.


Danglars family

• Baron Danglars: Owner of the cargo of the ship where Dantès serves as first mate.
• Madame Hermine Danglars: (Formerly Baroness Hermine de Nargonne née de Servieux). She had an affair with Gérard de Villefort, and has a illegitimate son Benedetto.
• Eugénie Danglars: Daughter of Baron Danglars.

Villefort family

• Gérard de Villefort: Royal prosecutor who imprisons Dantès.
• Renée de Villefort, née de Saint-Méran: Gérard de Villefort's first wife, mother of Valentine.
• Le Marquis de Saint-Méran and La Marquise de Saint-Méran: Renée's parents.
• Valentine de Villefort: The daughter of Gérard de Villefort and his first wife, Renée.
• Monsieur Noirtier de Villefort: The father of Gérard de Villefort and grandfather of Valentine, Édouard (and, without knowing it, Benedetto).
• Héloïse de Villefort: The murderous second wife of Villefort.
• Édouard de Villefort. The only legitimate son of Villefort.
• Benedetto: The illegitimate son of de Villefort and Hermine de Nargonne (Baroness Hermine Danglars), raised by Bertuccio (later Monte Cristo's steward) and his sister-in-law, Assunta, Rogliano. Becomes "Andrea Cavalcanti" in Paris.

Morrel family

• Pierre Morrel: Dantès's patron and owner of Morrel & Son.
• Maximilien Morrel: Son of Pierre Morrel, a captain and a good friend of Dantes.
• Julie Herbault: Daughter of Pierre Morrel. Wife of Emmanuel Herbault.
• Emmanuel Herbault: Julie Herbault's husband

Other characters

• Gaspard Caderousse: Originally a tailor, a neighbour and friend of Dantès.
• Louis Dantès: Edmond Dante's father.
• Baron Franz d'Épinay: A friend of Albert de Morcerf, first fiancé of Valentine de Villefort.
• Lucien Debray: Secretary to the Minister of the Interior. A friend of Albert de Morcerf, and a lover of Madame Danglars.
• Beauchamp: Journalist and friend of Albert de Morcerf
• Raoul, Baron de Château-Renaud: Member of a noble family and friend of Albert de Morcerf.
• Louise d'Armilly: Eugénie Danglars' music instructor, her closest friend.
• Monsieur de Boville: originally an inspector of prisons, later a detective in the Paris force.
• Barrois: Old, trusted servant of Monsieur de Noirtier.
• Monsieur d'Avrigny: Family doctor treating the Villefort family.
• Major (also Marquis) Bartolomeo Cavalcanti: Old man who plays the role of Prince Andrea Cavalcanti's father.