Pi Patel
The protagonist of the story is Piscine Molitor Patel, otherwise known as Pi Patel, a young Indian boy who grew up in Pondicherry, a small village in India. His father was a zookeeper and mother a housewife. He Had one sibling, his brother Ravi. He is named after a pool in France. He is a devout Christian, Muslim and Hindu. He is not very athletic but is a very bright student.
Ravi Patel
Ravi Patel is Pi's older brother. He is the opposite of Pi, athletic but not smart. Also, he is not very religious and often taunts Pi for his strange religious regime. He dies when the Tsimtsum sinks on there voyage to Canada.
Santosh Patel
Pi's father and the owner of the Pondicherry zoo. He also is not religious and due to a political struggle in India decides to move his entire family to Canada. He also dies on the voyage.
Gita Patel
Pi's mother who is always trying to make Pi read. She is sad to leave her country and also dies on the voyage to Canada. She does not however die on the boat but makes it on to the lifeboat and dies protecting Pi. In Pi's animal version of his survival story she is represented by the orangutan.
Francis Adirubasamy
A longtime friend of the Patel family. He picked Pi's name and taught him to swim.
Satish Kumar
Pi's teacher, he suffered from polio in the past and is an atheist. Despite Pi being extremely religious he gets along with his atheistic teacher.
Father Martin
A Catholic priest Pi meets on an vacation. He is the man who introduces Pi to Christianity and converts him.
Satish Kumar
A Muslim bread maker who Pi see praying one day. Upon seeing him pray Pi starts talking to him and eventually embraces Islam as a result of Satish Kumar's Guidance.
*** though they share a name he is not the same man as Pi's teacher.
*** though they share a name he is not the same man as Pi's teacher.
Hindu Pandit
The last of the three religious leaders in Pi's life. Pi was born a Hindu and the Pandit is who guides Pi is the ways of a Hindu.
Richard Parker
In Pi's fantastical narrative he represents Pi himself and his will to survive. He kills the Hyena and is eventually tamed by Pi. In reality he is never truly present on the boat. Pi claims that he owes his survival to Richard Parker.
Hyena/cook
In the animal story the Hyena kills the oranguntan and the horse. He is presenting the cook from real life who kill Pi's mother and the sailor with the broken leg.
Orange juice
Represents Pi's mother on the boat. Orange juice dies fighting the Hyena after he kills the sailor. in the human story Pi's mother dies protecting Pi from the Cook after he kills the Zebra.
Zebra/sailor
Breaks his leg jumping onto the life boat. He represents a sailor who suffered the same injury. In the animal story he is killed and eaten by the Hyena and in the human story he is killed and eating by the cook.
Tomohiro Okamoto
Works for the company that owns the Tsimtsum. He comes with his partner Atsuro Chiba to interview Pi about the events that led to the sinking of the Tsimtsum.
Atsuro Chiba
Assistant of Tomohiro Okamoto. He makes alot of mistakes during the interview and causes Tomohiro to get annoyed at his inexperience.