HERMANN GESSLER, Governor of Schwytz and Uri.
WERNER, Baron of Attinghausen, free noble of Switzerland.
ULRICH VON RUDENZ, his Nephew.

WERNER STAUFFACHER,          |
CONRAD HUNN,                         |
HANS AUF DER MAUER,            |
JORG IM HOFE,                         | People of Schwytz.
ULRICH DER SCHMIDT,             |
JOST VON WEILER,                    |
ITEL REDING,                             |

WALTER FURST,                           |
WILHELM TELL,                             |
ROSSELMANN, the Priest,            |
PETERMANN, Sacristan,               | People of Uri.
KUONI, Herdsman,                         |
WERNI, Huntsman,                         |
RUODI, Fisherman,                         |

ARNOLD OF MELCHTHAL,                |
CONRAD BAUMGARTEN,                  |
MEYER VON SARNEN,                      |
STRUTH VON WINKELRIED,             | People of Unterwald.
KLAUS VON DER FLUE,                     |
BURKHART AM BUHEL,                      |
ARNOLD VON SEWA,                       |
PFEIFFER OF LUCERNE.
KUNZ OF GERSAU.
JENNI, Fisherman's Son.
SEPPI, Herdsman's Son.
GERTRUDE, Stauffacher's Wife.
HEDWIG, Wife of Tell, daughter of Furst.
BERTHA OF BRUNECK, a rich heiress.

ARMGART,                     |
MECHTHILD,                   | Peasant women.
ELSBETH,                       |
HILDEGARD,                   |

WALTER,                         | Tell's sons.
WILHELM,                        |

FRIESSHARDT,                   | Soldiers.
LEUTHOLD,                         |

RUDOLPH DER HARRAS, Gessler's master of the horse.
JOHANNES PARRICIDA, Duke of Suabia.
STUSSI, Overseer.
THE MAYOR OF URI.
A COURIER.
MASTER STONEMASON, COMPANIONS, AND WORKMEN.
TASKMASTER.
A CRIER.
MONKS OF THE ORDER OF CHARITY.
HORSEMEN OF GESSLER AND LANDENBERG.
MANY PEASANTS; MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE WALDSTETTEN.