Characters in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Lisbeth Salander

A brilliant, fiercely independent young hacker with a photographic memory and a traumatic past.

Also in The Girl Who Played with Fire, Luftslottet som sprängdes, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, Hon som måste dö

Mikael Blomkvist

A dogged financial journalist hired to solve an old family disappearance.

Also in The Girl Who Played with Fire, Luftslottet som sprängdes, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, Hon som måste dö

Nils Bjurman

The lawyer appointed as Salander's legal guardian, who controls her access to her own money.

Hans-Erik Wennerström

The corrupt financier whose libel victory over Blomkvist opens the novel.

Henrik Vanger

The aging industrialist who hires Blomkvist to find his lost grand-niece.

Erika Berger

Editor-in-chief of Millennium magazine and Blomkvist's longtime colleague and lover.

Also in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Dragan Armansky

Salander's employer at Milton Security, one of the few people who looks out for her.

Also in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Cecilia Vanger

Holger Palmgren

Also in The Girl Who Played with Fire

Anita Vanger

Birger Vanger

Dirch Frode

Christer Malm

Gustaf Morell

Isabella Vanger

Gottfried Vanger

Jan Köbin