Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes SaavedraDon Quijote de la Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

Characters in Don Quixote

5 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

Don Quixote
An elderly gentleman who, maddened by chivalric romances, reinvents himself as a knight-errant.

Supporting characters

Sancho Panza
Quixote's practical, proverb-quoting peasant squire.
Don Diego de Miranda
Dulcinea del Toboso
The idealized peasant woman Quixote imagines as his noble lady.
Don Quijote de la Mancha