Minor Characters
- Ali Abbasi - Iranian helicopter pilot of General Valik. He died when the helicopter was destroyed attempting to cross the Iraqi border.
- General Hassan Aryani - Imperial Iranian Air Force, killed in a hang-gliding accident in 1975; based on HE General Muhammad Amir Khatami, CVO (1920–1975), Chief of Staff of the Imperial Iranian Air Force who served as Chief Pilot to the Shah and was married to one of his sisters, HIH Fatimeh Pahlavi (1928–1987)
- Jared Bakravan - father of Sharazad. He was killed in prison in Tehran.
- Sheik Bayazid - tribal leader, kidnapper of Erikki Yokkonen. He was killed by Yokkonen while attempting to escape from Tabriz.
- General Beni-Hassan - national IranOil liaison
- Sayada Bertolin - mistress of Jean-Luc Sessonne, secret Palestine Liberation Organization agent. She ended up being blackmailed by members of Fazir's Group Four agents.
- Major Changiz - Shah-loyalist military officer based at Kowiss, second-in-command to Colonel Peshadi
- Elizabeth "Liz" Chen - Scotland-based secretary to Andrew Gavallan
- Paul "Profitable" Choy - the richest and most powerful Chinese businessman in Hong Kong, adversary to Andrew Gavallan, ally to Linbar Struan and witness to the death of David MacStruan. He was likely the mastermind of Linbar's sinister plots.
- Georges de Plessey - French chief EPF official
- Marc Dubois - French helicopter pilot based at Bandar Delam
- Ian Dunross - retired tai-pan of Struan's, protagonist and behind-the-scenes supporter of Gavallan, major character of Noble House
- Ahmed Dursak - Turcoman advisor to Abdollah Khan and later to Hakim Khan. He died due to injuries he received during the Bayazid assault.
- Pietro Fiere - Italian second in command at Rig Bellissima in the Zagros
- Maureen Gavallan - wife of Andrew Gavallan
- Paula Giancani - Alitalia stewardess
- Sergeant Gueng - Gurkha sent to destroy abandoned CIA listening posts. He died in Tabriz.
- Mario Guineppa - manager at Rig Bellissima in the Zagros. He died of a heart attack.
- Henley - MI6 liaison based at Tabriz
- John Hogg - senior S-G fixed wing pilot
- Major Abdul Ikail - Turkish police officer
- Hideyoshi Ishida - Iran-Toda engineer
- Jahan - radio operator at Bandar Delam
- Fowler Joines - helicopter mechanic based at Kowiss
- "Effer" Jordon - Australian helicopter mechanic based at Zagros Three
- Ignatius "Pop" Kelly - helicopter pilot based at Kowiss
- Yusuf Kyabi - IranOil senior area manager based at Ahwaz. He was killed by revolutionaries.
- Colonel General Petr Oleg Mzytryk - alias Gregor Suslev, KGB Colonel General who appeared in earlier Noble House. After killing Robert Armstrong and Hashemi Fazir, he was himself killed by Iranian revolutionaries in Tabriz.
- Nasiri - Zagros base manager
- Willi Neuchtrichter - German helicopter pilot based at Lengeh
- Numir - new site director at Bandar Delam
- Doctor Nutt - S-G company doctor based at Kowiss
- Abrim Pahmudi - newly-appointed SAVAMA head.
- Emir Paknouri - first husband of Sharazad, goldsmith
- Ali Pash - radio operator at Lengeh
- Pavoud - Iranian chief clerk based at Kowiss
- Colonel Peshadi - Shah-loyalist military commander of Kowiss Air Base, Hero of Dhofar and uncle of Sharazad, possibly based on Nader Jahanbani. He was shot in Tehran.
- Sergeant Qeshemi - police officer at Lengeh
- "Rod" Rodrigues - American helicopter mechanic based at Zagros Three
- Vien Rosemont - CIA officer. He died in an ambush in NW Iran.
- Mimmo Sera - Italian company man based at Rig Rosa in the Zagros
- Sir Percy Smedley-Taylor - director of Struan's Holdings, MP, appeared in earlier King Rat. Was revealed to be a Soviet agent after Igor Mzytryk was interrogated.
- Linbar Struan - Twelfth tai-pan of Struan's, who assumed that office in 1975 following the ostensibly accidental death of his predecessor David MacStruan. Prior to this, in Noble House, he was a member of Struan's inner court and an aspirant to the office of tai-pan.
- Sergeant Tenzing - Gurkha sent to destroy abandoned CIA listening posts. He died in an ambush in NW Iran.
- Hiro Toda - tai-pan of Iran-Toda Shipping joint partnership, appeared in earlier Noble House
- Massil Tugul - Palestinian air traffic control tower operator based at Kowiss
- Jon Tyrer - American helicopter pilot, second-in-command based at Bandar Delam
- Ed Vossi - helicopter pilot based at Lengeh
- Watanabe - chief engineer of Iran-Toda Shipping joint partnership
- Suliman al Wiali - Syrian assassin and head Group Four intelligence agent
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