| A | B |
|---|
| Jarvis Lorry | an agent of Tellson's bank |
| Lucie Manette | daughter of Dr. Manette, French-born but raised in England |
| Dr. Alexandre Manette | French doctor, referred to as the doctor of Beauvais; prisoner in the Bastille |
| Miss Pross | Lucie's nurse and maid |
| Ernest Defarge | proprieter of wine shop in the Fauborg St. Antoine, Paris |
| Therese Defarge | Wife of wine shop proprieter |
| Jacques (numbered) | revolutionaries |
| Jerry Cruncher | porter at Tellson's Bank, Lorry's errand-man |
| Mrs. Cruncher | Pious wife of the porter at Terry's Bank |
| Young Jerry | the Cruncher's son |
| Charles Darnay | A French exile living in England |
| Sydney Carton | an attorney in London |
| C.J. Stryver | Carton's employer |
| Roger Sly | a police spy in England, shorter last name than other |
| John Barsad | a police spy in England |
| Monseigneur | one of the great lords of the court |
| Marquis St. Evremonde | an evil aristrocrat, Darnay's uncle |
| Gabelle | the steward and tax collector of the St. Evremonde estate |
| Gaspard | poor man whose child is killed |
| Road mender | a man who serves and as an example |
| Lucie Darnay (little Lucie) | child of Lucie and Charles Darnay |
| The Vengeance | a murderous revolutionary |
