List of Important Characters in The Idiot.

1. Prince Myshkin/ Prince Leo Nikolayevich Myshkin/ the idot: the hero of the novel.

2. Parfyon Rogozhin: the antagonist and Prince Myshkin's friend.

3. Nastasya Fillipnova: the woman they both love.

4. Aglaya Ivanova Yepanchina: Yepanchin's youngest daughter who loves the prince.

5. General Yepahchin: Aglaya's father.

6. Mrs. Yepanchin

7. Alexandra and Adelaida: Yepanchins' two other daughters. Aglaya's first and second sisters respectively.

8. Afanasy Ivanovich Totsky: Nastasya's foster father and her seducer.

9. Lukyan Timofeevich Lebedev: a civil servant, Prince Myshkin's friend.

10. Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivogin/ Ganya: Nastasya's suitor.

11. Kolya Ivolgin: Ganya's brother.

12. Yevgeny Pavlovich Radomsky: Aglaya's suitor.

13. General Ardalion Aleksandrovich Ivolgin: Ganya, Kolya and Varya's father.

14. Varya Ivolgina

List of Minor Characters.

1. Nikolay Andreevich Pavlishchev: Prince Myshkin's protege.

2. Ippolit Terentiev: General Ivolgin's mistress's son.

3. Prince Sh.: Adelaida's suitor.

4. Ivan Petrovich Ptitsyn: Varya's suitor.

5. Princess Belokons kaya: Family friend of the Yepanchins and Aglaya's godmother.

6. Draya Alexevna: Nastasya's friend.

7. Vera Lukyanova Lebedeva: Lebedev's daughter.

8. Keller: Prince Myshkin's friend and well wisher who was a member of Rogozhin's gang.

9. Antip Burdovsky: Prosecutes Prince for money and later becomes a friend.

10. Marie/ Mari: The poor village girl in Switzerland whom the Prince loves compassionately, in a brotherly way.