Characters
- Kimball "Kim" O'Hara – is an orphan son of an Irish soldier, the protagonist; "A poor white, the poorest of the poor"
- Teshoo Lama – a Tibetan Lama, the former abbot of the Such-zen monastery in the western Himalayas, on a spiritual journey
- Mahbub Ali – a famous Pashtun horse trader and spy for the British
- Colonel Creighton – British Army officer, ethnologist and spy
- Lurgan Sahib – a Simla gem trader and master spy
- Hurree Chunder Mookherjee (Hurree Babu, also the Babu) – a Bengali intelligence operative working for the British; Kim's direct superior
- the Kulu woman (the Sahiba)
- the Woman of Shamlegh (Lispeth) who helps Kim and the Lama to evade the Russian spies and return to the plains
- the old soldier – a native officer who had been loyal to the British during the Mutiny
- Reverend Arthur Bennett – the Church of England chaplain of the Mavericks, the Irish regiment to which Kim's father belonged
- Father Victor – the Roman Catholic chaplain of the Mavericks
- a Lucknow prostitute whom Kim pays to help disguise him
- a Kamboh farmer whose sick child Kim helps to cure
- Huneefa – a sorceress who performs a devil invocation ritual to protect Kim
- E.23 – a spy for the British whom Kim helps avoid capture
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“Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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