List of characters in Don Quixote

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The following is a list of characters in the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

[edit] The two main characters

• Don Quixote, the deluded Spanish gentleman of La Mancha Alonso Quijana (or Quesada, or Quijada), who believes himself and acts as a knight-errant as described in various medieval books of chivalry, riding his horse Rocinante.
• Sancho Panza (or Zancas), his illiterate peasant squire, who rides an ass, Rucio, and knows hundreds of proverbs.

[edit] Others

• Ambrosio, a shepherd, friend of the deceased Crisóstomo
• Antonia, Alonso's niece, a woman under twenty; she urges both the curate and the barber to burn all of Alonso's books
• Antonio, a goatherd, who plays a song for Don Quixote on the rebec (in Book I, Chapter 11)
• Cardenio
• Cide Hamete Benengeli ("Sidi Hamid Eggplant"), fictional Arabic author of the adventures of Don Quixote.
• Dulcinea of El Toboso, the woman Don Quixote fancies his lady love; her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo
• Dorotea, a grieving, beautiful woman, was married to Don Fernando before he left for Luscinda, pretented to be Princess Micomicona to get Don Quixote to leave the mountains
• Ginés de Pasamonte a.k.a. Ginesillo de Parapilla, criminal freed by Don Quixote
• Crisóstomo, a shepherd who dies of a broken heart after his declaration of love is spurned by Marcela
• Maritornes, an ugly, but kind-hearted prostitute at an inn in which Don Quixote and Sancho spend the night. She is unwittingly involved in a brawl in the middle of the night when Don Quixote mistakes her for the innkeeper's daughter, whom he believes is in love with him.
• Marcela, a wealthy orphan girl who dresses as a sheperdess and lives in the woods to commune with nature, and whose beauty attracts dozens of spurned suitors
• María Félix, fervent Christian maid, daughter of Ricote, rescued from Berbery.
• Montesinos, errant knight.
• Nicholas, the barber, Don Quixote's friend
• Pero Perez, the curate, who, along with Antonia, orders nearly all of Don Quixote's books burnt in hopes of curing him of his delusions (I:6)
• Ricote, a Morisco friend of Sancho, banned from Spain, but returned as a German pilgrim.
• Roque Guinart, a fictional version of the Catalan bandit Perot Rocaguinarda.
• Teresa (also named Joana) Panza and Sanchica, wife and daughter of Sancho
• Bachelor Sansón Carrasco, Don Quixote's friend who jousts with him disguised as a rival knight, in an effort to get him to return home.
• Don Sancho de Azpeitia, a Biscayan squire who cuts part of Don Quixote's ear off in a swordfight (I:9)
• Vivaldo, a shepherd who saves Grisóstomo's poems of unrequited love from the fire

[edit] Unnamed but important characters

• The Duke and The Duchess, a couple of Aragonese aristocrats who invite Don Quixote and Sancho to their castle, where they "amuse" themselves by playing all sorts of humiliating pranks on them.
• Don Quixote's housekeeper, who carries out the book-burning with alacrity and relish.
• The innkeeper who puts Don Quixote up for the night and agrees to dub him a "knight," partly in jest and partly to get Don Quixote out of his inn quicker (I:3)