victorian people

Sigmund Freud

Founder of psychoanalysis

Alexander Dumas

Three Musketeers

Herbert Spencer

Survival of the fittest

Emile Zola

Accused military, and government of corruption

William Lovett

Chartist movement leader

Millicent Fawcett

Front of women’s suffrage movement

Lord Shaftesbury

Poor man’s earl, campaign for better working conditions

Florence Nightingale

Served injured soldiers in hospital, upper class, English nurse

Charles lyell

Uniformitarianism, earth is older than humans

Alfred Russell Wallace

Wrote Evolution by natural selection

Michael Faraday

Electromagnetic discovery

Louis pasteur

Research vaccines, sanitization

Gotlieb Daimler

Invented gasoline engine

Emmeline Pankhurst

Women sufferage organizer, pivotal leader, voting rights

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Women’s only hospital, first female doctor and mayor

Charles Dickens

Used literature to expose social issues, encourage social reform

Friedrich Nietzsche

Challenge traditional morality, explored individual growth

Charles Stewart Parnell

Leader of Irish parliament party and Irish home rule

Claude Monet

Created impressionism, unique color use

William Gladstone

British Prime Minister, advocate for Irish home rule

Richard Wagner

German composer, invented leif motif

Giuseppe Verdi

Italian composer known for operas

Charles Darwin

theory of evolution by natural selection

Joseph Lister

English surgeon, antiseptic surgery

Jean Baptiste lamarck

Species evolved overtime, inheritable traits

Marie Curie

First to win two nobel prizes, radioactivity

Willhelm Roentgen

First Nobel prize in physics, x-rays

John archer

Britain’s earliest black mayor

Cecil Rhodes

Imperialist, expansion of British control in South Africa

Benjamin Disraeli

Two time British Prime Minister

Louis Carroll

Alice‘s in venture in Wonderland, Charles Dodgeson

Oscar Wilde

Aestheticism, Irish poet and playwright

Victor Hugo

Leader of romanticism, opposed Napoleon

William Talbot

calotype process

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Paintings of women/landscapes, leader in developing impressionist movement

Queen Victoria

Symbol for royal authority, empress of India, not feminist

Elizabeth Fry

Improved treatment of prisoners

Elizabeth Browning

Wanted to abolish slavery, contributed to romantic movement

Emily Murphy

First female magistrate

Louise May Alcott

First to register to vote, “little women”