People Born in the 1850s

Discover ancestors and historical figures in our database of 5,608 people with archival photographs and biographical details.

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5,608 people found

Paul Banéat

1856–1942 historian, lawyer Rennes

Paul Révoil

1856–1914 diplomat Nîmes

Paul von Jankó

1856–1919 Esperantist, Idist, engineer, inventor, musician, musicologist, pianist Tata

Paul-François Choppin

1856–1937 sculptor Auteuil

Paul-Maurice Duthoit

1856–2000 painter Lille

Paul-Napoléon Roinard

1856–1930 librettist, painter, playwright, poet, translator Neufchâtel-en-Bray

Pauline Patry

b. 1856 actor

Pedro Alexandrino Borges

1856–1942 painter São Paulo

Pedro de Albuquerque Maranhão

1856–1907 politician Natal

Per Sundahl

1856–1925 architect, general contractor Sunne parish

Petar Ivanov

1856–1931 military volunteer Veliko Tarnovo

Peter T. Fallon

b. 1856 politician

Placide Astier

1856–1918 pharmacist, politician Aubignas

Prasannamoyee Devi

1856–1939 writer

Primitivo Clavijo

1856–1895 military personnel Castellar

Pushou

1856–1911 military personnel

Péter Gerecze

1856–1914 archaeologist, art historian Dej

R. C. Lehmann

1856–1929 barrister, journalist, politician, rower Ecclesall

Rafael Andrade Navarrete

1856–1928 politician Ardales

Rafael Fernández de Castro y Castro

1856–1920 politician, writer Regla

Rafail Moshtev

1856–1931 entrepreneur Shumen

Ramón Lista

1856–1897 explorer Buenos Aires

Randai Nakamura

1856–1915 calligrapher

Rayna Knyaginya

1856–1917 midwife, revolutionary, teacher Panagyurishte

Reinhard Mannesmann

1856–1922 engineer, entrepreneur Remscheid

Renzo Colombo

1856–1885 sculptor Gallarate

Richard Garnons Williams

1856–1915 military officer, rugby union player Llowes

Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

1856–1928 judge, jurist, lawyer, philosopher, politician Edinburgh

Richard Sullivan

b. 1856 politician

Richard von Conta

1856–1941 military officer Tuchola

Robert Kosch

1856–1942 military officer Kłodzko

Robert Stanley Weir

1856–1926 judge, poet Hamilton

Roger Galichon

1856–1918 art collector, bibliophile Paris

Rudolph Friedrich Julius Wijckerheld Bisdom

1856–1943 military officer of healthcare Düsseldorf

Russell Henry Chittenden

1856–1943 biochemist, chemist, university teacher New Haven

Sam Fay

1856–1953 Hamble-le-Rice

Satō Shōsuke

1856–1939 agronomist Hanamaki

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

1856–1915 classical composer, composer, music educator, music theorist, musicologist, pianist, university teacher, writer Vladimir

Sergei Winogradsky

1856–1953 bacteriologist, biochemist, botanist, ecologist, microbiologist, professor Kyiv

Shida Rinzaburo

1856–1892 physicist Taku

Shogo Arai

1856–1906 politician Shimotsuke Province

Shouqian Tang

1856–1917 entrepreneur, politician

Shōichi Ōmori

1856–1927 politician

Sir Edward Sassoon, 2nd Baronet, of Kensington Gore

1856–1912 businessperson, politician Mumbai

Sofi Lindstedt

1856–1933 girls' school teacher, head teacher, social worker, suffragist Domkyrkoförsamlingen in Göteborg

Sofya Shcherbatova

1856–1928

St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton

1856–1942 barrister, politician London

Stanisław Leopold Daczynski

1856–1941 art educator, art historian, ceramicist, draftsperson, painter, pedagogue, public figure Nowy Wiśnicz

Stanley Boyd

1856–1916 physician, surgeon Shrewsbury

Stoyan Mihaylovski

1856–1927 poet, politician, writer Elena