Victorian writers

German-born philosopher (1818-1883)

English naturalist and biologist (1809-1882)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)

British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)

English mathematician, philosopher and logician (1815–1864)

British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933)

English occultist (1875–1947)

English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)

British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)

British mathematician and logician (1806–1871)

British novelist

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.

British physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939)

British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927)

English writer and publisher (1873-1939)

British politician (1810-1895)

English philosopher (1838–1900)

English writer (1872-1956)

British politician (1817–1894)

British occultist mystic, poet and writer (1857–1942)

English Assyriologist (1840–1876)

British food writer and poet (1799–1859)

English actress and writer (1809–1893)

British activist, botanist and astronomist (1827-1890)

British academic (1857–1934)

British Protestant missionary in China

Scottish publisher and writer (1802–1871)

anatomist/zoologist (1793-1874)

British astronomer (1817-1900)

British poet, literary critic and cultural historian (1840–1893)

Pre-Raphaelite writer and critic (1829-1919)

British orientalist and historian (1864–1930)

British archaeologist (1862-1927)

British writer (1866–1921)

Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar (1851-1939)

English suffragist

Scottish medical doctor, schoolteacher and writer

British archaeologist (1821-1858)

Canadian writer (1803–1885)

Anglo-Australian writer, illustrator and botanical collector (1834-1872)

noblewoman; British writer (1855–1905)

artist (1843-1894)

British art historian (1809-1893)

English author (1827–1876)

Scottish journalist and rationalist (1856–1933)

British suffragette, writer and feminist

British photographer and archaeologist (1825–1908)

English-born Australian writer (1844-1926)

British artist and suffragette (1864-1942)

English children's writer (1868-1947)

British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet (1835-1906)

British Egyptologist and antiquary (1813–1885)

British writer (1809–1898)

English author (1868–1942)

British egyptologist (1869–1949)

German diarist, writer and friend of Queen Victoria (1839-1929)

British traveller and writer (1839–1887)

British-Austrian writer