Who is Who in Don Quixote

Don Quixote

A country gentleman of La Mancha, close to fifty, who read so many books of chivalry that he resolved to become a knight errant and named himself Don Quixote of La Mancha

Sancho Panza

Don Quixote's neighbor, a poor farmer, good-hearted but short of wit. Promised an island to govern, he leaves his wife and children behind to become his squire

Relations husband of Teresa Panza

Dulcinea

Dulcinea of El Toboso, the lady Don Quixote serves as mistress of his heart. It is the name he gave Aldonza Lorenzo, a farm girl from a nearby village whom he once loved

Rocinante

Don Quixote's bony horse. After four days of thought it was given this name, meaning once a sorry nag and now the foremost of all horses

Cide Hamete Benengeli

The Arab historian said to have written the story of Don Quixote in Arabic. The second author bought his manuscript in a Toledo market and had a Morisco translate it

Cardenio

A young man of a noble Andalusian family. Hiding in the Sierra Morena, he asks politely for food when his mind is clear and falls on the shepherds when his fits come on

Dorotea

The only daughter of a rich Andalusian farmer. Hiding in the Sierra Morena in a farm boy's clothes, she plays Princess Micomicona in the style she learned from books of chivalry

Juan Palomeque

Keeper of the inn where Don Quixote stayed twice. He believes books of chivalry printed with the realm's license are true, but says he is not mad enough to become a knight errant himself

Ricote

A Morisco neighbor who kept a shop in Sancho's village. He turns up before Sancho dressed as a foreign pilgrim

Don Diego de Miranda

A country gentleman of La Mancha in a green coat. He lives in comfort without luxury, does not pry into others' faults, and does good without making a show of it

The Humanist Cousin

Cousin of the skilled fencing student who went to Camacho's wedding. He loves books of chivalry and writes books digging up "firsts" nobody asked about

The Innkeeper Who Knighted Him

The fat keeper of a roadside inn in La Mancha. Seeing that his guest is not in his right mind, he plays the lord of the castle and dubs him a knight

Marcela

Daughter of the rich farmer Guillermo. Holding that being loved does not oblige anyone to love in return, she lives alone and free in the hills, dressed as a shepherdess

Luscinda

The Andalusian girl Cardenio has loved since childhood. Dressed in white, she enters the inn without a word in the company of masked riders

Roque Guinart

A bandit chief living on the run in the woods of Catalonia. He treats the captured Don Quixote kindly and shares out the loot among his men to the last coin

Pero Pérez the Curate

The priest of Don Quixote's village, a learned man with a degree from Sigüenza, who often argues with him over which knight was the greatest

Nicolás the Barber

The barber of Don Quixote's village, who joins the arguments about knights to insist that none can match the Knight of the Sun

Teresa Panza

Sancho Panza's wife. At the end of the first part she is called Juana, and she asks her returning husband about the donkey first

Relations wife of Sancho Panza

The Housekeeper

The woman past forty who keeps house for Don Quixote

Antonia the Niece

Don Quixote's niece, not yet twenty, who lives in his house

Andrés

A hired boy of about fifteen who minded Juan Haldudo's sheep. Owed nine months' wages, he was tied to an oak in the woods and being whipped when Don Quixote came upon him

Pedro Alonso

A farmer from Don Quixote's village. Finding him beaten in the road, he recognizes him, carries him home on his donkey and calls him by his old name, Quijana

The Canon of Toledo

A canon of the cathedral of Toledo. He has started nearly every book of chivalry, yet thinks them senseless and harmful

The Duke's Churchman

A grave churchman who governs the duke's household. He thinks books of chivalry are nonsense and tells Don Quixote to go home

The Duke

A duke who read Don Quixote's story in a book before meeting him. He welcomes him into his castle and treats him as a knight-errant by the rules of the books of chivalry

Relations husband of The Duchess

The Duchess

The duke's wife, who met Don Quixote's party while out hawking. She delights in Sancho's talk and keeps him always at her side

Relations wife of The Duke

Sansón Carrasco

Bartolomé Carrasco's son, a young man of twenty-four just back from Salamanca with a bachelor's degree. Fond of pranks and jokes, he tells Don Quixote that his story has come out as a book

The Duke's Steward

The steward who runs the duke's household. A man of merry, bold wit

Ginés de Pasamonte

A convict being taken to the galleys for ten years. Chained more heavily than anyone else, he said he would finish in the galleys the life story he had written with his own hand

Don Fernando

The younger son of an Andalusian grandee. He was Cardenio's friend, and the young nobleman who once promised to marry Dorotea

Pedro Recio

The doctor who stands by the governor's table on the island of Barataria. In the name of health, he has the dishes cleared away one by one

Maritornes

The maid at the inn, from Asturias. She loves tales of lovers, and at night she and the innkeeper's daughter play a trick on the knight guarding the castle

Tomé Cecial

Sancho's neighbor and compadre, bound to him through a child's christening. A cheerful man who loves a joke

Antonio Moreno

A rich and sensible gentleman of Barcelona, fond of decent, friendly amusement. On receiving Roque Guinart's letter, he takes Don Quixote into his house

Juan Haldudo

A rich farmer of Quintanar. Caught whipping his hand Andrés over lost sheep, he swears by the orders of chivalry, at the point of Don Quixote's lance, to pay the boy his wages