Characters
- Primary characters
- William of Baskerville—main protagonist, a Franciscan friar
- Adso of Melk—narrator, Benedictine novice accompanying William
- At the monastery
- Abo of Fossanova—the abbot of the Benedictine monastery, the sixth to die
- Severinus of Sankt Wendel—herbalist who helps William, the fourth to die
- Malachi of Hildesheim—librarian, the fifth to die
- Berengar of Arundel—assistant librarian, in love with Adelmo, the third to die
- Adelmo of Otranto—illuminator, novice, the first to die
- Venantius of Salvemec—translator of manuscripts, the second to die
- Benno of Uppsala—student of rhetoric
- Alinardo of Grottaferrata—eldest monk
- Jorge of Burgos—elderly blind monk, former librarian, the seventh to die
- Remigio of Varagine—cellarer
- Salvatore of Montferrat—monk, associate of Remigio
- Nicholas of Morimondo—glazier
- Aymaro of Alessandria—gossipy, sneering monk
- Pacificus of Tivoli
- Peter of Sant’Albano
- Waldo of Hereford
- Magnus of Iona
- Patrick of Clonmacnois
- Rabano of Toledo
- Outsiders
- Ubertino of Casale—Franciscan friar in exile, friend of William
- Michael of Cesena—leader of Spiritual Franciscans
- Bernardo Gui—Inquisitor
- Bertrand del Poggetto—Cardinal and leader of the Papal legation
- Peasant girl from the village below the monastery
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