19th century

:Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical)

Significant people

• Báb, Persian prophet and founder of Bábísm
• Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader and founder of Bahá'í Faith
• Charles Baudelaire, poet
• Henri Becquerel, physicist
• Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
• Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor
• Napoleon Bonaparte, French general, first consul and emperor
• Johannes Brahms, composer
• Frédéric Chopin, composer
• Kate Chopin, author
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, thinker
• Charles Darwin, biologist
• Charles Dickens, author
• Emily Dickinson, poet
• Benjamin Disraeli, novelist and politician
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, novelist, philosopher/theologian
• Antonin Dvorak, composer
• Thomas Alva Edison, inventor
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer
• Michael Faraday, scientist
• Gottlob Frege, mathematician, logician and philosopher
• Antonio de La Gandara, artist
• Guiseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy and Piedmontese soldier
• Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, physicist, astronomer
• Gilbert and Sullivan, playwright, composer
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author, thinker
• Vincent van Gogh, painter
• William Gilbert Grace, English cricketer
• Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. general and president
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher
• Hong Xiuquan, revolutionary, self-proclaimed Son of God
• Victor Hugo, poet, politician/theologian, and author
• Andrew Jackson, U.S. general and president
• Thomas Jefferson, American statesman, philosopher, and president
• Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher
• Libertadores, Latin American liberators
• Robert E. Lee, Confederate general
• Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president; led the nation during the Civil War
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow, writer and explorer
• Karl Marx, political philosopher and economist
• James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist
• Gregor Mendel, biologist
• Florence Nightingale, nursing pioneer
• John Stuart Mill, philosopher
• William Morris, social reformer
• Mutsuhito, Japanese emperor
• Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
• Nikolai of Japan, religious leader who introduced Eastern Orthodoxy into Japan.
• Louis Pasteur, biologist
• Edgar Allan Poe, poet, short-story writer
• Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Hindu mystic
• Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher
• Joseph Smith, Jr., religious leader, founder of Mormonism
• Dr. John Snow, the founder of epidemiology
• F R Spofforth, Australian cricketer
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
• Nikola Tesla, inventor
• Leo Tolstoy, novelist, philosopher/theologian, social reformer
• Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), author
• Giuseppe Verdi, composer
• Jules Verne, writer
• Queen Victoria, British monarch
• Richard Wagner, composer
• Walt Whitman, poet
• Oscar Wilde, poet, writer, playwright
• Brigham Young, Mormon religious leader