One of the amazing things about Boswell's journals is the sheer amount of persons that he met and described. Some are still famous, some forgotten and some have never been known to the public outside of their own narrow circles. This is an evolving catalogue of those people.
Until now, more than 90% of the persons encountered in Journal of my Jaunt, Boswell's London Journal and Boswell in Holland are included, and work is under way for the journal of his German and Swiss travels.
| First name |
Last name |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| Catherina Elisabeth Wilhelmina | van Nassau-LaLecq | Catherina Elisabeth Wilhelmina van Nassau-LaLecq |
| Arend Willem | van Reede | Arend Willem de Ginkel van Reede |
| Maria Frederica | van Reede | Maria Frederica van Reede |
| Willem Bentinck | van Rhoon | Willem Bentinck van Rhoon |
| Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll | van Serooskerken | Belle de Zuylen |
| Diederik Jacob | van Serooskerken | Diederik Jacob van Tuyll van Serooskerken |
| Diederik Jacob | van Serooskerken | Diederik Jacob van Tuyll van Serooskerken |
| Vincent Maximiliaan | van Serooskerken | Vincent Maximiliaan van Tuyll van Serooskerken |
| Maria Catharina | van Serooskerken | Maria Catharina van Tuyll van Serooskerken |
| Anna Margaretha | van Sommelsdijk | Anna Margaretha van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk |
| Veronica | van Sommelsdyck | Veronica van Aerssen van Sommelsdyck |
| Rudolf Ulrich | van Sporken | Rudolf Ulrich van Sporken - Baron Sporck |
| van Tuyll (General) | General van Tuyll | |
| Gerard | Vanneck | Gerard Vanneck - 2nd Baronet |
| James | Veitch | James Veitch - Lord Eliock |
| Dirk Hubert | Verelst | Dirk Hubert Verelst |
| Benjamin | Victor | Benjamin Victor - Poet-laureate of Ireland |
| Joseph | Victor | Abbé Joseph Victor |
| Friedrich | von Anhalt | Friedrich von Anhalt |
| Johanna Sophie | von Anhalt | Johanna Sophie von Anhalt - Countess |
| Wilhelmine | von Anhalt | Wilhelmine von Anhalt |
| Leopoldine Anna | von Anhalt | Leopoldine Anna von Anhalt |
| Henning Adam | von Bassewitz | Henning Adam von Bassewitz |
| Georg Heinrich | von Berenhorst | Georg Heinrich von Berenhorst |
| Werner | von der Schulenburg | Werner von der Schulenburg |
| Friedrich Wilhelm | von Guericke | Friedrich Wilhelm von Guericke |
| Louise | von Kameke | Louise von Kameke |
| Christoph Dietrich | von Keller | Christoph Dietrich von Keller |
| Adolf Heinrich | von Neitschütz | Adolf Heinrich von Neitschütz |
| Cuno Burchard | von Pless | Cuno Burchard von Pless |
| Josias | von Qualen | Josias von Qualen - Baron |
| Carl | von Quanten | Carl von Quanten |
| Eckhard August | von Stammer | Eckhard August von Stammer - Knight of the Teutonic Order |
| Siegmund Carl | von Thüngen | Siegmund Carl von Thüngen - Court Marshal of Saxe-Gotha |
| Friedrich Wilhelm | von Wylich | Friedrich Wilhelm von Wylich |
| John | Wake | John Wake - Privateer |
| James | Webster | James Webster |
| Alexander | Webster | Alexander Webster - Minister at Tolbooth Church |
| John | Webster | John Webster |
| Alexander | Wedderburn | Alexander Wedderburn - Lord Loughborough, Earl of Rosslyn |
| Wilhelm Kaspar | Wegely | Wilhelm Kaspar Wegely |
| Peter | Wesseling | Peter Wesseling - Professor at Utrecht |
| George | West | George West |
| John | Wilkes | John Wilkes - Essay on Woman - Wilkes and Liberty |
| Anna | Williams | Anna Williams - Dr. Johnson's Blind Companion |
| George | Winn | George Winn - Baron Winn - Lord Headley |
| Mary | Woffington | Mary Woffington |
| William | Wynyard | William Wynyard - Colonel |
| Joseph | Yorke | Sir Joseph Yorke - Lord Dover |
