- Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency". - John Ruskin
John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. - Robert Browning
Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets - Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. KBE (April 16, 1889 - December 25, 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comedy actor. Chaplin became one of the most famous performers as well as a notable director and musician in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era. He is considered to be one of the finest mimes and clowns ever caught on film and has greatly influenced performers in this field. - Ian Smith
Ian Winton Smith (born 25 November 1939) was a Liberal Party of Australia politician who represented the Division of Warrnambool in the Victorian parliament as an MLA from 1967 until 1983. He resigned to unsuccessfully contest for pre-selection for the federal Division of Wannon. He later reentered the Victorian parliament as MLA for the Division of Polwarth from 1985 to 1999 when he retired. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", and "The Masque of Anarchy". However, his major works were long visionary poems including "Alastor", "Adonais", "The Revolt of Islam", … - Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime. - Robert Lawson
Robert Arthur Lawson (1 January 1833 - 3 December 1902) was one of New Zealand's most eminent 19th century architects. He has been described as the architect who did more than any other to shape the architectural face of New Zealand's Victorian cities, especially the city of Dunedin. He is the architect of over forty churches, including his monumental Gothic First Church and New Zealand's only complete "castle", Larnach Castle, for which he is best remembered. - Tim Holding
Tim Holding (born 21 August, 1972) is an Australian politician, currently serving as the Minister for Finance in Victoria's state parliament. Prior to this, he was the state's youngest ever Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Corrections. Holding served on the City of Waverley council from 1992-1994. He also served in 126 Signals Squadron of the 1st Commando Regiment in the Army Reserves from 1991-1993. - John Sutherland
John Sutherland (born 1938) is an English lecturer, emeritus professor, newspaper columnist and author. Now Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, John Sutherland began his academic career after graduating from the University of Leicester as an assistant lecturer in Edinburgh in 1964. He specialises in Victorian fiction, 20th century literature, and the history of publishing. - Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown (April 16, 1821 - October 6, 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. While he was closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he was never actually a member. Nevertheless, he remained close to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whom he also joined William Morris's design company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., in 1861. - John Ross
CSgt John Ross, Esq. was a very successful Victorian businessman with substantial retail interests. His fortune was stolen by a lawyer on his death. - George Stephenson
George Stephenson was an English mechanical engineer who designed the famous and historically important steam locomotive named "Rocket" and is known as the "Father of Railways". The Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements. His rail gauge of 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm), sometimes called "Stephenson gauge", is the world's standard gauge. - David White
David White was a Victorian minister in the Kirner Labor Government. - Bill Shorten
William Richard Shorten (born 1967), Australian trade union official, is National Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU), one of Australia's oldest and largest unions. He is also Victorian State President of the Australian Labor Party. He is the endorsed Labor candidate for the Victorian seat of Maribyrnong at the next federal election. - Alfred Waterhouse
Alfred Waterhouse was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic revival. He is perhaps best known for his design for the Natural History Museum in London, although he also built a wide variety of other buildings throughout the country. Financially speaking, Waterhouse was probably the most successful of all Victorian architects. Though expert within Gothic and Renaissance styles, Waterhouse never limited himself to a single architectural style. - John Thomson
John Thomson was a pioneering Scottish Victorian photographer, geographer and traveller. He was one of the first photographers to travel to the Far East, documenting the people, landscapes and artifacts of eastern cultures. On returning home, his work among the street people of London cemented his reputation, and is regarded as a classic work of social documentary which laid the foundations for photo journalism. - Grace Darling
Grace Horsley Darling is an English Victorian heroine, on the strength of a celebrated maritime rescue in 1838. Grace was born in 1815 at Bamburgh in Northumberland, and spent her youth in two lighthouses of which her father was the keeper. In the early hours of 7 September 1838, Grace, looking from an upstairs window of the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, spotted the ship, "Forfarshire", … - John Swift
John Sheddon Swift (born 3 February 1852, died 28 February 1926 at Kew, Victoria) was a Victorian First-class cricketer and Test match umpire. He played three matches for Victoria as a right-hand batsman, scoring 65 runs at an average of 13.00 with a highest score of 28. He also kept wickets, taking two catches. Swift umpired 8 Test matches, and was the first Australian to regularly officiate. - John Ryan
John Ryan (born February 23, 1944) was an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1960s, who won a bronze medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The Victorian combined with Bob Windle, David Dickson and Peter Doak to win silver in the 4x100m medley relay, behind the United States and Germany, the first time this event had been contested at the Olympics. He also made the semifinals of the 100m freestyle. - Robert Gray
Robert Gray (b. 1945) is an Australian poet. Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising copywriter, reviewer and buyer for bookshops. His first book of poems, "Creekwater Journal", was published in 1973, and his most recent, "Lineations", in 1996. - Michael Taylor
Michael David Taylor (born June 9, 1955 in Chelsea, Victoria) was an Australian first class cricketer who played for the Victorian Bushrangers, the Tasmanian Tigers, and despite never playing Test cricket or One Day Internationals for Australia, also participated in the South African rebel tours. Michael Taylor made his debut in the 1977-78 season, and was a regular player in the Victorian Bushrangers line-up until the 1984-85 season, … - Candy Broad
Candy Celeste Broad (born January 4, 1956) is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since September 1999, first representing the electorate of Melbourne North Province until 2006, and then as a Member for the Northern Victoria region. After making a name for herself as the Assistant National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), Broad moved into politics, … - Tom Arnold
Tom Arnold also known as Thomas Arnold the Younger (1823 - 1900) was a British literary professor. He was the second son of the Rugby School headmaster Thomas Arnold and his elder brother was the poet Matthew Arnold. After taking a first at Oxford University, Arnold grew discontented with Victorian Britain and took up farming in New Zealand. Failing to take to this career, Arnold moved to Tasmania, … - William Robinson
William Robinson (1838 - 1935) was a practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about "wild gardens" spurred the movement that is still recognized as the "English cottage garden," an outgrowth of the British Arts and Crafts movement. He advocated planting wild flowers to look wild and reacted against the High Victorian patterned gardening, using tropical materials grown in greenhouses and planted out, … - David Hookes
David Hookes (born May 3, 1955 in Adelaide; died January 19, 2004 in Melbourne) was an Australian cricketer and Victorian cricket coach. - Joseph Bazalgette
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (28 March 1819 - 15 March 1891) was one of the great English civil engineers of the Victorian era. As the chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London, which helped relieve the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning the clean-up of the River Thames, which had reached a nadir with "The Great Stink" of 1858. - John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 - September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. - John Fowler
Sir John Fowler KCMG Bt (15 July 1817 - 10 November 1898) was a railway engineer in Victorian Britain. He helped build the first underground railway in London, the Metropolitan line in the 1860s, a shallow line built by the "cut-and-cover" method. - Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum
Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, (born c. 1946) American cross-stitch embroidery designer known especially for her Victorian angel designs. Her design business is "Told in a Garden" with her most famous designs sold under the product lines of "Butternut Road" and "Lavender and Lace." Marilyn's professional design career began as an advertising illustrator and fashion illustrator. Her first published embroidery design, inspired by her experiences living in Amish country, … - William Martin
William Martin (1829-1900) was a Victorian architect who worked in Birmingham, England, particularly in the practice Martin & Chamberlain. Born in Somerset in 1829 he joined a Birmingham architect called Thomson Plevins, and then became a partner of D. R. Hill, public works architect of early 19th century Birmingham. In 1864 J. H. Chamberlain joined the practice, succeeding Hill. - Richard Doyle
Richard "Dickie" Doyle (September 1824 - December 11, 1883) was a notable Victorian illustrator. His work frequently appeared, amongst other places, in Punch magazine; he drew the cover of the first issue, and designed the magazine's masthead, a design that was used for over a century. The son of John Doyle (known as 'H.B'), a noted political caricaturist, he had two brothers James and Charles, who were also both artists. - Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mary Mew was an English poet, whose work spans the cusp between Victorian poetry and Modernism. She was born in Bloomsbury, London, the daughter of the architect Frederick Mew, who designed Hampstead town hall. Her father died in 1898 without making adequate provision for his family; two of her siblings suffered from mental illness, and were committed to institutions, and three others died in early childhood leaving Charlotte, her mother and her sister, Anne. - Richard Dadd
Richard Dadd was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. - Gavin Brown
Gavin Brown (born September 25, 1967) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League. Brown was recruited into Collingwood from Templestowe where he would contribute to the side for longer than a decade. Brown was part of the Magpies under-19 premiership side in 1986 with team-mates Damian Monkhorst, Mick McGuane and Gavin Crosisca, who would all make their debuts with the senior side in 1987. - York Hall
The York Hall is a health and lesiure centre and Britain best known boxing venues. The venue is situated on Old Ford Road in Bethnal Green, London, England. The hall stages boxing fights as well as prioviding a gymnasium and swimming pool. The hall is owned by Tower Hamlets Council and in 2004 the Hall was threatened with closure. - William Campbell
William Campbell (17 July 1810 - 20 August 1896), was one of Australia's richest pastoralists, one of the first people to discover gold in Australia, and a conservative Victorian policitian. Campbell was born in 1810 in Aberfoyle, Scotland. From 1834, Campbell managed a substantial collection of sheep farms in Inverness-shire and Argyll in the west of Scotland. Campbell migrated to Australia, arriving in Sydney, New South Wales in December 1838. - John Tyndall
John Tyndall (August 2, 1820 - December 4, 1893) was an Irish natural philosopher. With Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley his name is inseparably connected with the battle which began in the middle of the 19th century for making the new standpoint of modern science part of the accepted philosophy in general life. For many years, indeed, he came to represent to ordinary Englishmen the typical or ideal professor of physics. - John Button
John Norman Button (born 30 June 1933), Australian politician, was a senior minister in the Hawke Labor government. Button was born in Ballarat, and was educated at the Geelong College and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in arts and law. He became a prominent barrister and solicitor in Melbourne, and was active in the Australian Labor Party from the late 1950s. In the 1960s he joined a group of other middle-class Labor activists, such as John Cain, … - Liza Picard
Liza Picard is an English historian specialising in the history of London. After reading law at the London School of Economics she was called to the bar by Gray's Inn when she was 21. She did not practice as a barrister, although she did write a book called "Questions and Answers on Private International Law" for which she was paid £25. She worked for the office of the Solicitor of Inland Revenue until her retirement in 1987.
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