# The Return of Tarzan — Character guide

> Key figures in The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Tarzan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/tarzan.md): Tarzan moves through Parisian society as Monsieur Tarzan, a man whose instincts belong to the jungle even as his heart clings to Jane Porter, now promised to another. He craves companionship and the warmth of human speec
- [Nikolas Rokoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/nikolas_rokoff.md): Rokoff moves through first-class decks and Parisian salons with the polish of a man who knows how to use other people's secrets. When Tarzan wrenches him from a veiled woman's wrist and hurls his revolver into the Atlant
- [Jane Porter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/jane_porter.md): Jane has convinced herself that marrying Lord Greystoke is the only honorable course, and nothing short of death or Greystoke himself will change her mind. She speaks of the ape-man who saved her with a wonder she cannot
- [William Cecil Clayton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/william_cecil_clayton.md): Clayton is a decent man and a friend to D'Arnot, which makes him a far more painful rival than a villain would be. He possesses by law and accident what Tarzan possesses by blood, and he has no idea the ape-man exists as
- [Monsieur Thuran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/monsieur_thuran.md): Thuran is all affability and easy conversation, the sort of man Miss Strong finds delightful and Tarzan finds unremarkable. When Mr. Caldwell vanishes from the Lady Alice, Thuran is the first to offer reasonable explanat
- [Countess Olga de Coude](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/countess_olga_de_coude.md): Olga de Coude owes Tarzan her husband's life and her own safety, and she knows Rokoff well enough to fear what he will do next. When she invites Tarzan to tea to warn him, she does not know that a bearded caller has alre
- [Hazel Strong](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/hazel_strong.md): Jane Porter's sharp-eyed American friend, whose loyalty and quick judgment make her both a steadying presence and an unexpected complication aboard ship.
- [Lieutenant Gernois](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/lieutenant_gernois.md): A French officer who duels with Tarzan over a misunderstanding.
- [Lieutenant D'Arnot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/darnot.md): The French naval officer who taught Tarzan to speak, think, and move through civilization — and now watches helplessly as his friend suffers its cruelties.
- [Lord Tennington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/lord_tennington.md): A genial English lord whose bottomless good humor and irrepressible schemes of romance turn a grim island exile into something almost like a house party.
- [Alexis Paulvitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/alexis_paulvitch.md): Rokoff's soft-spoken accomplice, a Russian schemer who works the telephone and the servants' entrance while his master takes the credit.
- [Count Raoul de Coude](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/count_raoul_de_coude.md): Olga's husband, a French count who challenges Tarzan to a duel.
- [Kadour ben Saden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/kadour_ben_saden.md): A noble Arab sheik who befriends Tarzan in the desert.
- [Abdul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/abdul.md): An Arab servant or guide loyal to Kadour ben Saden.
- [Mr. Caldwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/mr_caldwell.md): An American traveler who befriends Tarzan on the ship.
- [Professor Archimedes Q. Porter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/professor_porter.md): Jane's eccentric father, an absent-minded archaeologist.
- [Busuli](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/busuli.md): A Waziri warrior loyal to Tarzan in the African jungle.
- [Spider](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/spider.md): A sailor among the castaways on the island.
- [Captain Gerard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/captain_gerard.md): A French captain involved in the desert campaign.
- [Wilson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_return_of_tarzan_se/characters/wilson.md): A sailor among the castaways on the island.

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