Jonathan Harker: A solicitor sent to do business with Count Dracula; Mina's fiancé and prisoner in Dracula's castle.
Count Dracula: A Transylvanian noble who has purchased a house in London.
Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker (née Murray): A schoolteacher and Jonathan Harker's fiancée.
Lucy Westenra: A 19-year-old aristocrat; Mina's best friend; Arthur's fiancée and Dracula's first victim.
Arthur Holmwood: Lucy's suitor and later fiancé.
John Seward: A doctor; one of Lucy's suitors and a former student of Van Helsing.
Abraham Van Helsing: A Dutch doctor, lawyer and professor; John Seward's teacher.
Quincey Morris: An American cowboy and explorer; and one of Lucy's suitors.
Renfield: A patient at Seward's insane asylum who has come under the influence of Dracula.