Lolita Characters

Humbert Humbert’s stern aunt, who may have had an affair with his father. Sybil helps to raise Humbert at the Hotel Mirana.

A Parisian prostitute. Humbert Humbert purchases her services because although she is a sexually mature young woman, she strikes him as a former nymphet.

A Russian taxi driver in Paris. Maximovich outrages Humbert by stealing his wife, then peeing in his toilet—which he leaves unflushed and with a cigarette floating in the bowl. Maximovich and Valeria die as test subjects in a humiliating experiment in California.

The father of the family with whom Humbert Humbert is supposed to live in Ramsdale. After his house burns down, he sends Humbert to the Haze’s place.

The old woman who lives across the street from the Hazes in Ramsdale.

Miss Opposite’s black driver and gardener. Leslie calls Humbert Humbert to tell him Charlotte has been run over. John Farlow claims to have seen Leslie bathing in the nude at dawn, and Charlotte suspects he’s having an affair with Louise.

The Haze’s black maid. Louise delivers Charlotte’s rambling love letter to Humbert Humbert.

The Ramsdale dentist, and Clare Quilty’s uncle.

A Ramsdale lawyer. Just before he drives off to kill Quilty, Humbert Humbert goes to Windmuller’s office to transfer Charlotte’s property to Lolita.

The man who runs over Charlotte Haze. Frederick brings a chart to Humbert Humbert to prove his innocence, and then offers to pay the funeral expenses. He is shocked when Humbert Humbert accepts the offer.

Jean’s husband and a friend of the Hazes. John is put in charge of the Haze estate after the death of Charlotte. After the death of Jean, he remarries and moves to South America, and turns over control of the estate to Jack Windmuller.

The director of Camp Q, where Lolita spends the summer of 1947.

Shirley’s son, one of the only two boys at Camp Q. Charlie has sex in secret with the girls at the camp, including Lolita. He is the first person with whom she has a sexual experience.

Lolita’s friend at Camp Q. While she and Charlie Holmes have sex, Lolita stands guard, and then joins in.

Humbert Humbert’s Swiss Uncle. Though he doesn’t appear in the novel, Humbert Humbert is reminded of him by the man pursuing his car—which later turns out to have been Clare Quilty.

Clare Quilty’s female co-writer. Vivian Darkbloom is an anagram for Vladimir Nabokov.

Humbert Humbert’s lawyer during his imprisonment. He does not appear directly in the novel, but Humbert Humbert’s instructions for when and how to publish Lolita are addressed to him.

A prominent psychologist. John Ray is the fictional author of Lolita’s foreword.

Charlotte Haze’s deceased husband, and Lolita’s father.

A student in Lolita’s class in Ramsdale. Although she never appears in the novel, Humbert Humbert uses her name to personify the workings of fate and destiny in his life.

The headmistress of the Beardsley school for girls. Pratt believes in modern, practical education for girls—preparing them to be good wives and mothers—and is concerned about how Humbert does not allow Lolita to date or socialize in school.

A friend of Humbert Humbert’s who teaches French at Beardsley College. Godin secures Humbert his job. Though the two play chess two or three times a week, Humbert hates Godin. Humbert suspects Godin of being a pedophile, because he is always surrounded by neighborhood boys.

An alcoholic young woman from Grainball City. Humbert Humbert spends two years living and traveling with her after Lolita disappears, though he never loves her and, in fact, is a little embarrassed by her.

Lolita’s best friend and confidante in the town of Beardsley. Mona is smart, sexually experienced, and helps Lolita to lie to Humbert Humbert. She may or may not have helped in arranging Lolita’s escape with Quilty.

A Basque nurse at the hospital in Elphinstone. Mary dislikes Humbert intensely, and may help Lolita to escape with Quilty.

Lolita’s husband, a mining engineer with hearing problems who receives a very good job offer in Grey Star, Alaska. He knows nothing of Lolita’s past.

A woman who lived in Ramsdale and whose daughter went to the same camp as Lolita. Humbert Humbert runs into her near the end of the book.

Lolita's drama teacher at Beardsley.

One of Lolita's friends at Beardsley, whom Humbert Humbert considers to also be a nymphet.

A nurse at the hospital where Lolita stays when she gets "sick" as part of her plot to run off with Clare Quilty. Humbert Humbert is paranoid that Mary Lore doesn't like him.