Noli Me Tangere is a novel written by a Filipino national hero Jose Rizal who first published it in 1887 in Germany. The novel criticized the Filipino society under Spanish colonial rule, and exposed corruption among its spanish government. This led to him being persecuted and finally executed at the age of 35, but the book lived on to ultimately form the Filipino national identity, and is now a part of the mandatory Filipino curriculum. This is a list of characters that appear in the novel.