1750s births

Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington. He also founded America's first political party, the Federalist Party, in 1791.

first African-American poet (1753–1784)

thumb|Ase o fuku onna (Woman Wiping Sweat), Ukiyo-e, 1798 thumb|Takashima Ohisa using two mirrors to observe her coiffure was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

indigenous Aymara leader of a major insurrection in colonial-era Upper Peru

Egyptian noble (1750–1801)

King of Tahiti

Bolivian revolutionary

Czech classical era composer and double bass player (1746-1792)

English surgeon and botanical collector (1756-1832)

The nominal ruler of Zandi dynasty (1779)

British abolitionist and activist (1757–1791)

English botanical illustrator (17xx–18xx)

British socialite, courtesan and memoirist; (1754-1823)

Russian composer (1757-1831)

English actress

Seneca chief (1750-1830)

French highwayman

Ethiopian emperor

Prince of Moldavia and Wallachia

John Abeel III (–February 18, 1836) known as '''Gaiänt'wakê' (Gyantwachia – "the planter") or 'Kaiiontwa'kon' (Kaintwakon'' – "By What One Plants") in the Seneca language and thus generally known as Cornplanter, was a Seneca chief and diplomat. As a war chief, Cornplanter fought in the American Revolutionary War on the side of the British. After the war Cornplanter led negotiations with the United States and was a signatory of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784), the Treaty of Canandaigua (1794), and other treaties. He helped ensure Seneca neutrality during the Northwest Indian War.

Welsh physician, physicist, statistician and actuary

novelist

American politician (1750-1818)

Swedish soldier

Italian engraver

Spanish composer and priest (1755-1831)

Haitian revolutionary

English physician and botanist (1755-1831)

18th century French classical scholar

British-Russian explorer

English cartographer and engraver (1755–1835)

Portuguese explorer

Rai'iatean explorer

American politician (1751-1821)

British mathematician and astronomer

Spanish military personnel (1750-1812)

American Senator (1752-1823)

Serbian diplomat

British geographer

Polish politician (1759–1816)

Spanish missionary

Italian opera singer (1755–1806)

painter and printmaker (1759-1835)

American politician (1761-1800)

coiffeur, theatre entrepreneur

American farmer and senator from Newberry, South Carolina (1750-1802)

African American enslaved person and sideshow performer

Pemulwuy (/pɛməlwɔɪ/ PEM-əl-woy; 1750 – 2 June 1802) was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug Nation, an Aboriginal Australian people from New South Wales. One of the most famous Aboriginal resistance fighters in the colonial era, he is noted for his resistance to British colonisation which began with the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788.

African king who ruled from current Nongoma

George Washington's slave (1750-1828)

British Army general (1759-1824)

Danish engraver (1751–1817)

American legislator (1755-1813)

British navigator, explorer and fur trader

British physician and botanist (1750-1811)

United States general (1754-1835)

French mathematician, philosopher and economist

Welsh novelist writing in English

Irish soldier and Indian king

French engraver (1753–1833)