Jack Kerouac — Jack Duluoz
Neal Cassady — Cody Pomeray
Carolyn Cassady — Evelyn
Lawrence Ferlinghetti — Lorenzo Monsanto
Allen Ginsberg — Irwin Garden
Lenore Kandel — Româna Swartz
Robert LaVigne — Robert Browning
Michael McClure — Pat McLear
Jackie Gibson Mercer — Willamine "Billie" Dabney
Albert Saijo — George Baso
Gary Snyder — Jarry Wagner
Alan Watts — Arthur Wayne
Lew Welch — Dave Wain
Philip Whalen — Ben Fagan
Victor Wong — Arthur Ma