- John Walker
John Walker (born 31 May 1874-died 1940) was a Scottish international footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, helping them to a Football League Championship.
- John Burns
John Elliot Burns was a prominent English trade unionist, anti-racist, socialist and politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly associated with London politics. A Scottish engineer's son, Burns was born in Lambeth and followed his father into the engineering industry. There a fellow worker introduced him to radical writers including John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin. After joining the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1879, …
- Peter Kropotkin
Prince Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin (December 9, 1842-February 8, 1921) was one of Russia's foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of anarchist communism: the model of society he advocated for most of his life was that of a communalist society free from central government. Because of his title of prince and his prominence as an anarchist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was known by some as "the Anarchist Prince".
- Louis Menand
Louis Menand , Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is a contributing editor of The New York Review of Books. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club (forthcoming, 2001) and coeditor of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 7 (2000).
- William O'Brien
William O'Brien (2 October 1852-25 February 1928) was an Irish nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author. He was particularly associated with the campaigns for land reform in Ireland during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as his conciliatory approach to attaining Home Rule.
- Bill Perkins
William 'Bill' Perkins (Born Wellingborough, 26th January 1876, died Rushden, circa 1940) played for Liverpool Football Club in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- George Allan
George Allan (born 23 August 1875, died 9 October 1899) was a Scottish international footballer who played for Liverpool in the late 19th century.
- Tom Robertson
Tom Robertson (Born 1873, died circa 1939) was a Scottish international footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, helping them to a Football League Championship.
- Jack Cox
John Thomas "Jack" Cox was an English international footballer who played for Liverpool in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, helping them to two Football League Championships
- Jimmy Ross
Jimmy Ross (born 28 March 1866, died 12 June 1902) was a footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late 19th century.
- Flora Thompson
Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 - 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, "Lark Rise to Candleford". She was born in Juniper Hill in north-east Oxfordshire, the eldest of six children of Albert and Emma Timms, a stonemason and nursemaid respectively. Her favourite brother, Edwin, was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
- Andrew Hannah
Andrew Hannah (born September 17 1864, died June 17, 1940) was a Scottish international footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late 19th century.
- Leo Marx
Leo Marx (b. 1919) is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an author known for his works in the field of American studies. Marx's work in American studies examines the relationship between technology and culture in 19th and 20th century America.
- William Sims
William Sowden Sims (October 15, 1858 - September 25, 1936) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who sought during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to modernize the Navy. During World War I he commanded all United States naval forces operating in Europe. He also served twice as President of the Naval War College. Sims was born to American parents living in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1880, …
- Asser
Asser (d. 908/909) was a Welsh monk from St. David's, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. In about 885 he was asked by Alfred the Great to leave St. David's and join the circle of learned men which Alfred was recruiting for his court. After spending a year at Caerwent due to an illness, he accepted. In 893 Asser wrote a biography of Alfred, "Life of King Alfred". The manuscript survived to modern times in only one copy, …
- Alex Raisbeck
Alexander "Alex" Galloway Raisbeck (born 26 December 1878; died 12 March 1949) was a Scottish international footballer who played for Liverpool in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, leading them to two Football League Championships.
- Billy Dunlop
William 'Billy' Dunlop (Born 14th July 1871, died 1945) was a Scottish international footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, earning 2 Football League Championships medals.
- William Goldie
William 'Bill' Goldie (Born 22nd January 1878, died circa 1924) was a footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, helping them to a Football League Championship.
- Hugh McQueen
Hugh McQueen (born 1st October 1867, died 8th April 1944) played as a Winger for Liverpool Football Club in the late 19th century.
- Joe McQue
Joe McQue (February 1870 - 1934), was a Scottish footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late 19th century.
- Archie Goldie
Archie Goldie (January 5 1874 - April 7 1953) was a footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late 19th century.
- Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach (b. October 21, 1973 in Chelyabinsk, Russia) is one of the most widely performed composers of the new generation. She was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. Auerbach continues the tradition of virtuoso pianist-composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. She is the youngest composer on the roster of the prestigious international music publishing company Hans Sikorski well-known as a home to Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke, …
- Leo Stein
Leo Stein (born Leo Rosenstein in Lemberg, Poland on 25 March 1861) was a playwright and lyricist of operettas in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th Centuries including work on a number of Broadway productions.
- James Mawdsley
James Rupert Russell Mawdsley is a Roman Catholic human rights campaigner who spent over a year in a prison in Myanmar during 2000 and 2001 (part of a twenty year jail sentence), after taking part in pro-democracy protests in Rangoon. He holds dual (UK and Australian) citizenship. His imprisonment was held to be arbitrary by the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in 2001.
- Thomas Bradshaw
Born Henry Thomas Bradshaw on 24 August 1873, died 25 December 1899. 'Tom' Bradshaw was an English international footballer who played in the outside-left and centre-forward positions for Liverpool F.C., Northwich Victoria, Tottenham Hotspur and Thames Ironworks during the late 19th century.
- Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born in 1962 in Warsaw, Poland) is an American historian specializing in East Central European history of the 19th and 20th century. He earned B.A. degree from the San Francisco State University in 1988, MPhil from Columbia University, and Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University in 2001. His Ph.D. thesis was titled: "Accommodation and Resistance: A Polish County Krasnik during the Second World War and its Aftermath, 1939-1947".
- Hsu Yun
Venerable Master Hsu Yun (Traditional Chinese: 虛雲大師, Simplified Chinese: 虚云大师, Pinyin: Xū Yún Dà Shī, "empty cloud") (1840-1959) was a renowned Ch'an master and one of the most influential Buddhist teachers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Although many aspects of his life (particularly his great longevity) are disputed by historians and Zen scholars, this article attempts to give an accurate biography, …
- William Whiteley
William Whiteley, (September 29, 1831 - January 24, 1907) was a British entrepreneur of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the founder of Whiteleys department store.
- John Wolfe-Barry
Sir John Wolfe-Barry was an English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century. His most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London.
- Isabelo de los Reyes
Isabelo de los Reyes (July 7, 1864-October 10, 1938) was a prominent Filipino politician and labor activist in the 19th and 20th century. Born to Elias de los Reyes and the poetess Leona Florentino in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, he attended schools in Vigan and Manila. He followed his mother's footsteps by initially turning to writing as a career and became a journalist, editor, and publisher in Manila.
- John Skorupski
John Skorupski (born 19 September 1946) is a philosopher whose main interests are epistemology, ethics and moral philosophy, political philosophy, and the history of 19th and 20th century philosophy. He is best known for his work on John Stuart Mill.
- Lyle Williams
Lyle Williams (born August 23 1942) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Philippi, West Virginia, Williams attended the public schools of North Bloomfield, Ohio. He served in the United States Army Reserve from 1960 to 1968, and then worked as a barber. He was a member of the Bloomfield local school board from 1970 to 1972, and then Trumbull County Commissioner from 1972 to 1976.
- Tom L. Johnson
Tom Loftin Johnson was an American politician of the Democratic Party from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He headed relief efforts after the Johnstown, Pennsylvania floods of 1889, was a U.S. Representative from 1891–1895 and the 35th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio between 1901 and 1909. In 1903, he was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio. Johnson's brother, Albert, was the financial backer and organizer of the Players League, …
- Naomi Yang
Naomi Yang is one half of the duo Damon and Naomi and one of the founding members of the seminal band Galaxie 500. With Damon Krukowski, the other half of Damon and Naomi, she is the founder of Exact Change press, which publishes books of experimental literature with an emphasis on Surrealism, Dada, Pataphysics, and other 19th and 20th century avant-garde art movements.
- Joseph Hirshhorn
Joseph Herman Hirshhorn (1899 - 1981) was an entrepreneur, financier and art collector. Born in Latvia, the twelfth of thirteen children, Hirshhorn emigrated to the United States with his widowed mother at the age of six. Hirshhorn went to work as an office boy on Wall Street at age 14. Three years latter, in 1916, he became a stockbroker and earned $168,000 that year. A shrewd investor, he sold off his Wall Street investments two months before the collapse of 1929, …
- John D. Spreckels
John Diedrich Spreckels (August 16, 1853-June 7, 1926), the son of American industrialist Claus Spreckels, founded a transportation and real estate empire in San Diego, California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The oldest of eleven children (only four of whom survived to adulthood), Spreckels was born in Charleston, South Carolina, though the family soon moved to New York and then went on to San Francisco, California, where he was raised.
- Jack Worrall
John "Jack" Worrall (born 21 June 1861 at Chinaman's Flat near Maryborough, died 17 November 1937 at Fairfield, Melbourne) was an Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy in the VFA and a test cricketer, a coach of both sports and a sporting journalist. A small, nuggety man with broad shoulders, pink complexion and intense brown eyes, Worrall was one of Australia's great all-round sports people of the nineteenth century, …
- Konrad Wallenrod
Konrad Wallenrod is an 1828 narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz, set in 14th-century Lithuania. Mickiewicz wrote this at the time of the Polish uprisings against the Russian rulers. The patriotic poem tells the story of Konrad Wallenrod, a Prussian, who sought refuge in Lithuania, where he was reared among the people's mortal enemies, the Order of Teutonic Knights, who becomes the order's Grand Master and deliberately leads the Knights to military disaster.
- George Cabot Lodge
George Cabot Lodge (1873-1909), nicknamed 'Bay', was an American poet of the late 19th and early-20th century. Born in Boston and named after his great-great-grandfather, the American politician George Cabot, he was the son of famed U.S. senator Henry Cabot Lodge and the father of U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.. He began studies at Harvard, and continued them in France and Berlin into his mid-twenties.
- Ömer Seyfettin
Ömer Seyfettin, also Omer Seyfeddin, (born 1884, Gönen-Kamacioglu Village, Balıkesir/Oya - died March 6, 1920, Istanbul) was a Turkish nationalist writer from late 19th to early 20th century, considered to be one of the greatest modern Turkish authors. His work is much praised for simplifying the Turkish language from the Persian and Arabic words and phrases that were common at the time. Omer Seyfettin was born 1884 in Gönen.