He is Ibarra’s mysterious friend and ally
Noli Me Tangere Characters
Juan Crisostomo Ibarra y Magsalin
o He is the protagonist of the story and son of a
Filipino businessman, Don Rafael Ibarra.
o He returned home in San Diego to search the
body of his father after he studied in Europe for
seven years.
o He is Maria Clara’s fiancée
Maria Clara de los Santos y Alba
o She is commonly referred as Maria Clara
o She is an illegitimate daughter of Father Damaso,
former parish curate of San Diego, and Doña Pia
Alba, wife of Capitan Tiago
o She is Ibarra’s fiancée
o She was raised by Tia Isabel, Capitan Tiago’s
cousin
Don Santiago de los Santos
o Known by his nickname Tiago, he is a Filipino
businessman and the cabeza de barangay or head
of barangay of the town of San Diego
o He is the known father of Maria Clara
o He is the richest man in the region of Binondo
and possessed many real properties
Dona Pia Alba
o She is the wife of Capitan Tiago and Maria
Clara’s mother
o She died giving birth to Maria
o In reality, She was raped by Padre Damaso, so she
could bear a child.
Padre Damaso Verdolagas
o He is Franciscan friar and the former parish curate
of San Diego
o He is the real father of Maria Clara, and an enemy
of Crisostomo’s father, Rafael Ibarra
o He is known as a notorious character who speaks
with harsh words and as a cruel priest
Elias
o
o He made his first appearance as a pilot during a
picnic of Ibarra and Maria Clara and their friends
o He wants to revolutionize the country and it to be
freed from Spanish oppression
Salome
o He is Elias’s sweetheart
o She lives in a little house by the lake
o Elias would like to marry her, but he tells her that
it would do her or their children no good to be
related to a fugitive like himself
Don Anastacio
o Also known by his Filipinized name as Pilisopo
Tasyo
o He seeks for reforms from the government and
expresses them in paper written in a cryptographic
alphabet
o Educated inhabitants of San Diego labeled him as
Filisofo Tacio while others called him as Tacio el
Loco or Insane Tacio due to his exceptional talent
for reasoning
Don Tiburcio de Espadaña
o He is a Spanish Quack Doctor who is limp and
submissive to his wife, Doña Victorina
o He is an official of the customs bureau and a fake
doctor
Dona Victorina Espadaña
o She is known as Doña Victorina the wife of Don
Tiburcio
o She is an ambitious Filipina who sees herself as a
Spanish and mimics Spanish ladies by putting on
heavy makeup
Narcisa
o Narcisa or Sisa, is the deranged mother of Basilio
and Crispin
o Described as beautiful and young
o She loves her children very much but could not
protect them from the beating of her husband
Pedro
Pedro
o He is known as the abusive husband of Sisa who
loves cockfighting
Crispin
o He is Sisa’s 7-year-old son and an altar boy of San
Diego
o He was unjustly accused of stealing money from
the church
o He was killed due to the heavy beatings of Father
Salvi and the head sacristan
Basillio
o He is Sisa’s 10-year-old son and an acolyte tasked
to ring the church bells for the Angelus
o He faced the dread of losing his younger brother
and the descent of his mother to insanity
Padre Bernando Salvi
o He is the Franciscan curate of San Diego
o He secretly harbors lust for Maria Clara and was
described as to be very thin and sickly
El Alferez or Alperes
o He is chief of the Guardia Civil
o He is the mortal enemy of the priests for power in
San Diego and husband of Doña Consolacion.
Doña Consolacíon
o She is the wife of the Alférez
o She was a former laundrywoman who passes
herself as a Peninsular
o She is best remembered for her abusive treatment
of Sisa.
Teniente Guevara
o He is a close friend of Don Rafael Ibarra and
reveals to Crisóstomo how Don Rafael Ibarra's
death came about.
Other Characters
• Alfonso Linares – A distant nephew of Tiburcio de
Espanada, that would be fiancé of María Clara.
Although he presented himself as a practitioner of law,
it was later revealed that he, just like Don Tiburcio, is
a fraud. He later died due to given medications of Don
Tiburcio
• Gobernador Heneral – Unnamed person in the novel,
he is the most powerful official in the Philippines. He
has great disdain for the friars and corrupt officials,
and sympathizes with Ibarra
• Padre Manuel Martín - he is the linguist curate of a
nearby town who delivers the sermon during San
Diego's fiesta
• Don Rafael Ibarra - father of Crisóstomo Ibarra.
Though he is the richest man in San Diego, he is also
the most virtuous and generous.
• Don Pedro Eibarramendia - the great-grandfather of
Crisóstomo Ibarra who came from the Basque area of
Spain. He started the misfortunes of Elias' family. His
descendants abbreviated their surname to Ibarra. He
died of unknown reasons, but was seen as a decaying
corpse on a Balite Tree
• Don Saturnino Ibarra - the son of Don Pedro, father
of Don Rafael and grandfather of Crisóstomo Ibarra.
He was the one who developed the town of San Diego.
He was described as a cruel man but was very clever.
• Sinang - Maria Clara's friend. Because Crisóstomo
Ibarra offered half of the school he was building to
Sinang, he gained Capitan Basilio's support.
• Capitán Basilio - Sinang's father, leader of the
conservatives.
• Iday, Andeng and Victoria - Maria Clara's other
friends
• Bruno and Tarsilo – a pair of brothers whose father
was killed by the Spaniards.