1850s births

Bulgarian revolutionary (1850–1872)

American novelist

German musician (1852–1922)

Australian journalist, literary critic and social reformer

British educationist and suffragist

Irish-American serial killer

Engineer, founder and second President of the Women's Engineering Society

Bulgarian doctor

Polish violinist and pianist

Bulgarian revolutionary

Newfoundland politician

Credited with making the discovery that led to the Klondike Gold Rush (1862–1920)

Mistress of King Edward VII

arapaho woman

Finance and Foreign minister of Greece (1856-1923)

Muhammad bin Khalfan bin Khamis al-Barwani () (born c. 1850, died 1919), commonly known as Rumaliza, was an Omani Swahili trader of slaves and ivory, active in Central and East Africa in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He was a member of the Arabian Barwani tribe. With the help of Tippu Tip, he became the Sultan of Ujiji. At one time, he dominated the trade of Tanganyika, before being defeated by Belgian forces under Baron Francis Dhanis in January 1894.

warrior and chief of the Modoc tribe

guerilla leader

Greek general (1854–1942)

Northern Cheyenne warrior (1858–1940)

Italian composer (1851–1934)

African-American suffragist

Greek poet

scientific photographer for the National Museum of Natural History (1858–1917)

French painter (1854–1903)

drag queen

Greek painter (1854-1902)

actor

Brazilian painter (1859-1912)

Australian explorer

American folklorist (1852–1938)

Crow scout (1858–1929)

New Zealand writer

American singer

American art collector (1850-1924)

African-American memoirist

American actress (1859-1898)

circus sideshow performer with the Barnum and Bailey Circus (1842-1926)

United States bookplate engraver (1851-1906)

British writer

American outlaw

Crow Scout with Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn

Emir of Jabal Shammar

crown Prince of Tonga

American newspaper founder

Italian singer

Scottish footballer, born 1857

chief

British social reformer (c. 1850–1933)

Belgian painter

French painter

Irish-born Buddhist monk in Burma

raja of Larantuka

American sculptor (1859-1955)

German-born Russian photographer

mbang (king) of the Chadian Bagirmi kingdom

Greek politician (1850–1900)

American inventor

1851-1922 American cowboy and archaeologist

rebel leader active in Ottoman Macedonia