- Miss Temple
- warm-hearted
superintendent at Lowood
- Mr. Brocklehurst
- stingy, mean-hearted
manager of Lowood School
- Jane's unpleasant aunt
and cousins, who treat her poorly
- The Reeds
- Edward Rochester
- Jane's lover; a dark,
passionate, brooding man
- Adele Varens
- Rochester's foreign daughter
- Mrs. Fairfax
- warmhearted housekeeper
of Thornfield
- Bertha Mason
- Rochester's wife; the
crazy woman in the attic
- St.John, Mary,
and Diana River
- Jane's cousins,
whom she meets as an adult
- John Eyre
- Jane's and the Rivers'
wealthy uncle who plans to
adopt Jane but dies
before they ever meet
- The orphaned protagonist
of the story