| Description | Character/Place |
| The wife of the narrator who is french and converted to Judaism to make the narrators father happy | |
| The author and narrator of Maus who works on his relationship with his father throughout the book | |
| The narrators father's nephew who hides with the Spiegelman's until he gives up and goes to Auschwitz which he survives | |
| The town in Poland where the narrator's father moves to be with his fiancee | |
| The man who helps the narrator's father after the war and helps him find the Americans | |
| The area of New York where the narrator's father lives | |
| The father of the narrators mother who is a wealthy manufacturer before the holocaust and dies in Auschwitz | |
| The narrators fathers second wife who does not get along with her husband and leaves him halfway through the book | |
| The lady who allows the Spiegelmans' to hide in her barn | |
| A cousin of the narrator's father who becomes tired of waiting, bribes the guards, and runs, but they shoot him | |