Characters:
1. Jacqueline De Bellefort
2. Linnet Ridgeway Doyle
3. Simon Doyle
4. Hercule Poirot
5. Tim Allerton
6. Mrs. Allerton
7. Mrs. Salome Otterbourne
8. Rosalie Otterbourne
9. Ms. Van Schuyler
10. Cornelia Robson
11. Miss/Nurse Bowers
12. Dr. Bessner
13. Mr. Andrew Pennington
14. Mr. Ferguson
15. Mr. Jim Fanthorp
16. Signor Guido Richetti
17. Colonel Race
18. Louise Bourget
19. Fleetwood
20. Joanna Southwood
21. Lord Charles Windlesham
2. Linnet Ridgeway Doyle
3. Simon Doyle
4. Hercule Poirot
5. Tim Allerton
6. Mrs. Allerton
7. Mrs. Salome Otterbourne
8. Rosalie Otterbourne
9. Ms. Van Schuyler
10. Cornelia Robson
11. Miss/Nurse Bowers
12. Dr. Bessner
13. Mr. Andrew Pennington
14. Mr. Ferguson
15. Mr. Jim Fanthorp
16. Signor Guido Richetti
17. Colonel Race
18. Louise Bourget
19. Fleetwood
20. Joanna Southwood
21. Lord Charles Windlesham
Linnet Ridgeway Doyle
Linnet is very rich and pretty and lots of people are very jealous of her. She is envied by many people and lots of them say things like " I wish I could tear the clothes off her back and stomp on her lovely, arrogant, self-confident face. " She stole Simon Doyle from Jackie and is married to him.
Jackie
Jackie is very energetic and excited to get married. She wants to get married to Simon Doyle and she said she'll die if she can't marry him. She's also desprate for Linnet to give Simon a job. She was engaged to Simon Doyle until Linnet stole him from her.
Simon Doyle
Simon Doyle was engaged to Jackie until Linnet got married to Simon and stole Simon from Jackie. He is Linet wife and they are going on their honeymoon.
Hercule Poirot
Hercule is a detective who happens to be on vacation. He is on the boat when Linnet is murdered and he has to solve the mystery. He is a very famous detective who is very proper and also speaks french.
Tim Allerton
Tim Allerton was discovered to be a jewel thief at the end of the book working with his cousin, Joanna. Tim stole the pearls from Linnet's cabin that night and substituted to fake string for them. Rosalie admits that she saw Tim enter Linnet's cabin that night but she has come to love Tim and they get married.
Mrs. Allerton
Mrs. Allerton is an American socialite. She is Tim's mother who was also on the cruise on the nile. She was very delighted when Tim decided to get married.
Mrs. Salome Otterbourne
Mrs. Salome Otterbourne is the writer of many romantic novels. She thinks she is known by many people and she thinks she's popular but really she's known by nobody. She was murdered later in the book by Mr. Pennington's gun.
Rosalie Otterbourne
Rosalie Otterbourne is Mrs. Salome Otterbourne's daughter. She has been covering up for her mother's drinking and was caught throwing something off the ship around the time Linnet was murdered. She was a suspect but she was only throwing bottle's of the ship. She is getting married to Tim Allerton.
Ms. Van Schuyler
Ms. Van Schuyler is a very wealthy elderly American snob. She is elderly so she has Ms. Bowers as her nurse to help her. Ms. Bowers brought in a string of pearls after the pearls were stolen saying that she found where Ms. Van Schuyler was hiding them but it turns out that those pearls were a red-herring.
Cornelia Robson
Cornelia Robson is Ms. Van Schuyler's niece. She is also on the cruise on the nile with Ms. Van Schuyler and many others. She has been harrassed by Mr. Ferguson the whole trip for wondering why she won't marry him. At the end of the book Dr.Bessner proposed to her and she accepted.
Miss/Nurse. Bowers
Nurse Bowers is Ms. Van Schuyler's nurse. Nurse Bowers brought in a string of pearls after the pearls were stolen saying that she found where Ms. Van Schuyler was hiding them but it turns out that those pearls were a red-herring.
Dr. Bessner
Dr. Bessner is an Austrian doctor. He took care of Simon when he got shot. When the maid was stabbed one of his knives were gone. He proposed to Cornelia Robson and she accepted.
Mr. Andrew Pennington
Mr. Andrew Pennington is another person attending the trip and
Mr. Ferguson
Mr. Ferguson is another person attending the trip on the Nile. He has harassed Cornelia Robson for her to marry him but she rejects him every time. In the end Cornelia ends up marrying Dr. Bessner instead of Mr. Ferguson
Mr. Jim Fanthorp
Mr.Fanthorp is a shy Englishman who is also on the cruise. Mr.Fanthorp is revealed to be a young attorney with Linnet's solicitors, who sent him to Egypt to spy on Pennington, suspicious of his intentions.
Signor Guido Richetti
Richetti is another passenger on the cruise. Richetti is exposed as the foreign agent and criminal Race is after, after Race hears the telegram Richetti received, using a code that Race recognized.
Colonel Race
Colonel Race is a friend of Poirot's and fellow detective. He is helping Poirot solve the murder mystery.
Louise Bourget
Louise Bourget is Linnet's maid. She saw Simon go in to Linnet's cabin. She blackmailed Jackie and Simon for money if she didn't tell anyone. When she was counting her money Jackie stabbed her with Dr.Bessner's knife.
Fleetwood
Fleetwood is Linnet's former maid's ex-fiancee. Linnet's former maid wanted to marry him but he already was married and had kids.
Joanna Southwood
Joanna is one of Linnet's friends. She tells Linnet you must have lots of enemy's and she is correct. Later in chapter 1 she was being very rude to Linnet and saying nasty things. She is a jewel thief working with Tim Allerton.
Lord Charles Windlesham
Windlesham was a character introduced early in the book supposedly going to be married to Linnet Ridgeway until she married Simon Doyle.