Rizal's Noli and El Fili Characters

Noli Me Tangere

  • Touch Me Not

Crisostomo Ibarra

  • Son of the deceased Don Rafael

  • Changed his surname from Elbarramendia to Ibarra

  • Love interest of Maria Clara

Elias

  • Mysterious friend of Ibarra

  • Master boater or pilot

Maria Clara

  • Ibarra’s sweetheart

  • An illegitimate child of Padre Damaso and Pia Alba

  • Portrayed as a submissive, obedient, and meek

Father Damaso

  • Franciscan friar and Maria Clara’s biological father

Don Filipo

  • A filibuster and a close relative of Ibarra

Linares

  • A would-be fiance of Maria Clara

  • Distant nephew of Don Tiburcio

Captain General

  • Most powerful official in the Philippines

  • A hater of secular priests and corrupt officials

Captain Pablo

  • The leader of the rebels whose family was destroyed because of the Spaniards

Tarcilo and Bruno brothers

  • Their father was killed by the Spaniards

Sisa

  • Portrayed as an abused Filipina mother

  • Went insane after losing her sons

  • Mother of Crispin and Basilio

Basilio

  • Elder son of Sisa

  • An aspiring doctor

Crispin

  • Younger son of Sisa who died from the punishment from the soldiers for the false accusation of stealing an amount of money.

Padre Sibyla

  • A Filipino friar

  • Describe as short and has fair skin

  • The vice-rector of the UST

Kapitan Tiago

  • The foster father of Maria Clara

Padre Salvi

  • A secret admirer of Maria Clara

Pilosopo Tasyo

  • Known as Don Anastasio

  • Portrayed as a pessimist, cynic, and mad by his neighbors

  • Possible representation of Rizal’s brother Paciano

The Alferez

  • The chief of the Guardia Civil

  • Mortal enemy of the priests

Don Tiburcio

  • A limp and submissive to his wife

  • A quack doctor

Dona Victorina

  • The wife of Don Tiburcio who passes herself off as a Peninsular

Dona Consolacion

  • Wife of the Alferez

  • Remembered for her abusive treatment of Sisa

Pedro

  • The abusive husband of Sisa

  • Loves cockfighting

Old Tasio

  • An older man who Ibarra seeks advice

El Filibusterismo

  • Reign of Greed

Simoun

  • Reincarnation of Ibarra as a wealthy jeweler

  • Bent on starting a revolution

Isagani

  • Portrayed as emotional and reactive

  • Dumped by Paulita Gomez for fellow student Juanito Pelaez

Kabesang Tales

  • Telesforo Juan de Dios

  • A former cabeza de barangay

  • Resurfaced as the feared Luson bandit Matanglawin

Don Custodio

  • A famous journalist

  • Married a rich woman in order to be a member of Manila’s high society

Paulita Gomez

  • Girlfriend of Isagani

  • The daughter of the quack doctor, Tiburcio

  • Dumped Isagani believing she will have no future if she marries him

Father Florentino

  • Isagani’s godfather

  • a secular priest that was engaged tp be married but chose the priesthood

Huli

  • Juliana de Dios

  • The girlfriend of Basilio

  • The youngest daughter of Kabesang Tales

Ben Zayb

  • Abraham Ibanez

  • A journalist who thinks he is the only one thinking in the Philippines

Placido Penitente

  • A student of the UST who is always miserable and therefore controlled his temper

Quiroga

  • A Chinese businessman

  • Dreamt of being a consul of a Consulate of China

  • He hid Simeon’s weapons inside his house

Old Man Selo

  • Father of Kabesang Tales

  • He raised the sick and young Basilio after her mother Sisa died

Father Fernandez

  • A priest-friend of Isagani

  • He promised to Isagani that he and other priest will give in to the students’ demands

Attorney Pasta

  • One of the great lawyers of Mid-Hispanic Manila