see also Entertainment and Recreation -
                  Music and Musicians

  see also Entertainment and Recreation - Theatre

- A-
    — Prince Albert
    — Matthew Arnold
- B -
    — Michael W. Balfe
    — William Banting 
    — Prince of Battenberg
    — Joseph Bazalgette 
    — Lord Beaconsfield
    — Annie Besant 
    — Thomas Binney
    — Madame Blavatsky 
    — Charles Booth
    — Lord Brougham (1) (2)
    — Robert Browning
    — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- C -
    — Thomas Carlyle (1) (2) (3) (4)
    — Ben Caunt (boxer and publican)
    — Wilkie Collins
    — Eliza Cooke (poet)
    — Emily Crawford (journalist)
    — George Cruikshank
- D -
    — Charles Darwin
    — Charles Dickens (1) (2)
    — Benjamin Disraeli (1) (2)
- E -
    — George Eliot
- F -
    — the "Fairy Queen" 
    — Michael Faraday
    — W. J. Fox
    — Charles Francatelli
- G -
    — William Gladstone
- H -
    — Spencer T. Hall
    — Octavia Hill 
    — William and Mary Howitt
    — Thomas Henry Huxley
- J -
    — John Angell James
    — Douglas Jerrold
- L -
    — Sir Peter Laurie
    — John Leech
    — Lord Leighton (artist) (1) (2) (3)
    — Jenny Lind (ILN, Sept.28 1850)
- M -
    — Thomas Babington Macaulay (1) (2)
    — William Charles Macready
    — Richard Manks (pedestrian) 
    — Princess Maud
    — Dr. Hugh McNeile
    — Joseph Merrick ("The Elephant Man") 
    — Edward Miall
    — Richard Monkton Milnes
    — Lord Morpeth (Earl of Carlisle)
    — G.F. Muntz
- N -
    — Charles Napier
    — Cardinal Newman
- O -
    — Feargus O'Connor
    — Arthur Orton 
    — Charles Orton 
- P -
    — Viscount Palmerston
    — Robert Peel (ILN Picture Library) 
- R -
    — Madame Rachel
    — G.W.M. Reynolds
    — John Ruskin
- S -
    — Lord Salisbury
    — Eugene Sandow (1) (2)  (bodybuilder)
    — Mary Seacole
    — Colonel Sibthorpe
    — Alexis Soyer (chef) 
    — Charles Haddon Spurgeon (preacher)
    — H.M. Stanley
    — W.T. Stead
    — Lord Strathnairn
- T -
    — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1) (2)
    — William Makepeace Thackeray (1) (2)
    — William 'Bendigo' Thompson 
    — Anthony Trollope
- U-V -
    — Queen Victoria
    — Henry Vincent
- W-Z -
    — Richard Wagner
    — The Duke of Wellington
    — H.G.Wells 
    — Oscar Wilde