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1. Principal Conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot
   The thirteen men whom history regards as the main Gunpowder Plot conspirators
   • Robert Catesby
     
   • John (Jack) Wright
     
   • Thomas Wintour
     
   • Guy Fawkes
     
   • Thomas Percy
     
   • Robert Keyes
     
   • Thomas Bates
     
   • Christopher (Kit) Wright
     
   • Robert Wintour
     
   • John Grant
     
   • Ambrose Rookwood
     
   • Francis Tresham
     
   • Sir Everard Digby
     

2. Principal Government Players
   Members of the Government who feature prominently in the lead-up to the Gunpowder Plot
   and in the events of the plot itself
   
   • Robert Cecil
     
   • William Parker, Lord Monteagle
     

3. Jesuits and Other Catholic Clergy
   Members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and other Catholic clergy who had their names linked, justly or unjustly, with the Gunpowder Plot
   • Henry Garnet
     
   • John Gerard
     
   • Nicholas Owen
     

4. Second-tier Involvees (Plotter/Recusant Side)
   Family members and associates of the principal conspirators who also played a role in the
   events of the Plot, unwittingly in some cases
   
   • Thomas Habington
     
   • Humphrey Littleton
     
   • Stephen Littleton
     
   • William Stanley
     
   • John Wintour
     

5. Second-tier Involvees (Government Side)
   
   • Sir Henry Bromley
     

6. Influential Historical Figures
   People who lived before the events of the Gunpowder Plot took place, but who can be said to have played a major role in shaping the society and attitudes in which the plot was conceived and carried out.
   • Anthony Babington