TOP VICTORIANS? - last updated 24/07/03

• Art & Architecture
  • Aubrey Beardsley
    Ford Madox Brown
    Edward Burne-Jones
    William Frith
    Herbert Horne
    Lord Leighton
    Edwin Lutyens
    Charles Rennie Mackintosh
    Daniel Maclise
    John Everett Millais
    Roderic O'Conor
    Sir William Orpen
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    George Frederick Watts
    James Whistler
    Mrs Henry Wood
    William Wordsworth
• Business
  • William Lever
    George Hudson 
    Nathaniel Rothschild
    Lord Inchcape
    Samuel Cunard
    Harry Gordon Selfridge
• Exploring
  • Sir Samuel Baker
    Richard Burton
    Charles Doughty
    Sir John Franklin
    Mary Kingsley
    David Livingstone
    Roderick Murchison
    John Hanning Speke
• Horticulture
  • William Robinson
• Literature & Criticism
  • Matthew Arnold
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    Charlotte Bronte (and family)
    Robert Browning
    Lewis Carroll 
    Thomas Carlyle
    Wilkie Collins
    Joseph Conrad
    Charles Dickens
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    George Eliot
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    George Gissing
    Sir George Grove
    Thomas Hardy
    Mrs Humphrey Ward
    Henry James
    Benjamin Jowett
    Rudyard Kipling
    G. H. Lewes
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    George Meredith
    George Moore
    William Morris
    James Murray
    Walter Pater
    Beatrix Potter
    John Ruskin
    George Bernard Shaw
    William Robertson Smith
    Leslie Stephen
    John Addington Symonds
    R L Stevenson
    Algernon Swinburne
    Alfred Tennyson
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    Anthony Trollope    
    Oscar Wilde
• Medicine
  • Elizabeth Blackwell 
    Elizabeth Garret Anderson
    Sophia Jex-Blake
    Florence Nightingale
    Joseph Lister
    James Young Simpson
    John Snow
• Performing Arts
  • Mrs Bandmann-Palmer
    Arnold Dolmetsch
    W S Gilbert
    Charles Halle
    Marie Lloyd
    Henry Irving
    Elizabeth Robins
    Ellen Terry
• Philosophy
  • John Stuart Mill
• Politics & Military
  • Prince Albert
    Edmund du Cane
    Viscount Edward Cardwell
    Edwin Chadwick
    Joseph Chamberlain 
    Lord Randolph Churchill 
    Earl Cromer
    R.B. Cunninghame Graham
    Lord George Curzon
    Benjamin Disraeli
    Charles Dilke
    Lord Dufferin
    W E Gladstone
    Charles George Gordon
    Keir Hardie
    Lord Hartington
    Lord Kitchener
    Lord Melbourne 
    Viscount Morley
    Daniel O'Connell
    Lord Palmerston
    Charles Stuart Parnell
    Robert Peel 
    Samuel Plimsoll
    Cecil Rhodes
    Field-Marshall Lord Roberts
    Earl of Rosebery
    Lord John Russell
    Nana Sahib
    Lord Salisbury
    Earl of Shaftesbury
    Queen Victoria
    Prince of Wales
    Duke of Wellington
    Sir Garnet Wolseley
• Publishing & Journalism
  • Samuel Beeton
    J.T. Delane
    Alfred Harmsworth
    George Newnes
    William Howard Russell
    W. H. Smith
    W. T. Stead
• Religion
  • Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
    John Keble
    Charles Kingsley
    Cardinal Manning
    Frederick Denison Maurice
    Henry Melvill
    John Henry Newman    
    E. B. Pusey
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• Sciences & Engineering (exc. Medicine)
  • Charles Babbage
    George Boole
    Joseph Bazalgette
    I K Brunel  
    William Crookes
    Charles Darwin
    Michael Faraday
    John Herschel 
    Joseph Hooker
    T H Huxley
    Edwin Ray Lankester
    Charles Lyell
    Hiram Maxim
    James Clerk Maxwell
    Joseph Paxton
    Lyon Playfair 
    Lord Rayleigh
    Herbert Spencer
    William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    William Whewell
• Social Reform & Social Science
  • Joseph Arch
    Annie Besant
    Barbara Bodichon
    Charles Booth
    General William Booth
    Charles Bradlaugh
    Angela Burdett-Coutts
    Josephine Butler
    Dr. William Henry Duncan
    Henry Havelock Ellis
    Octavia Hill
    Harriet Martineau
    Eleanor Marx
    Karl Marx
    Henry Mayhew
    Robert Owen
    Emmeline Pankhurst
    Olive Schreiner
    Dr. John Simon
• Sport
  • Fred Archer
    W G Grace
    John MacGregor
• Transport and Communication
  • Thomas Cook
    Rowland Hill
    Sir Isaac Pitman