Noli Me Tangere Characters - List Of Main and Minor Characters Of The Novel

Here’s a list of Noli Me Tangere characters, a novel written by Jose Rizal.

NOLI ME TANGERE CHARACTERS – National hero Jose Rizal wrote the Noli Me Tangere novel and these are the characters.

Touch Me Not or Noli Me Tangere in Latin is the title of the 1887 novel written by Philippine National hero Jose Rizal. It reflects the political history of the country. It narrates the corrupt and unpleasant doings of the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars.

Here’s a list of characters:

MAIN CHARACTERS:

Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra y Magsalin (Ibarra)
Maria Clara’s boyfriend, a young man from a wealthy family
María Clara
She is engaged to be married to Ibarra, her godfather is Father Damaso
Father Dámaso
The arrogant Spanish friar
Elías
He resents both the Spanish colonial government and the Catholic Church
Father Salví
A cunning Spanish priest
Captain Tiago (Don Santiago de los Santos)
Maria Clara’s father
The Ensign
The head of the Civil Guard of the township of San Diego
Old Tasio (Don Anastasio)
The old crazy man in the story
Don Rafael Ibarra
Ibarra’s father
Crispín
A young boy who studies to become a caretaker of the church
Basilio
Crispin’s brother
Doctor Tiburcio de Espadaña
A fraud and a hustler
La Doctora Victorina de los Reyes de Espadaña
Wife of Doctor Tiburcio and a social climber
Doña Consolación
She is married to the ensign
Señor Guevara
The elderly lieutenant of the Civil Guard
The Captain General
The highest government official in the Philippines
Linares
He is Doctor de Espadaña’s nephew from Spain
Don Filipo (Filipo Lino)
The deputy mayor of San Diego
The Mayor
The mayor of San Diego
The Yellow Man
A man hired to kill Ibarra
Társilo
His father died at the hands of the Civil Guard