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The pen name of Mary Ann Evans, a novelist, poet, journalist, and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels are well-known for their realism and psychological insight.

An English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

Known as the 'Lady with the Lamp', she was an English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a manager of nurses trained by her during the Crimean War, where she organized care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople.

An English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted and considered a fundamental concept in science.

Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than any of her predecessors and is known as the Victorian era, a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.

An English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth.

An English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.

A British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed 'the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century', his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.

An English inventor whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century. The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron.

A British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. Lister promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He successfully introduced carbolic acid (now known as phenol) to sterilize surgical instruments and to clean wounds.

The pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer, best known for his children's fiction, notably 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and its sequel 'Through the Looking-Glass'.

An English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history, Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, a series of steamships, and numerous important bridges and tunnels.

Leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolorist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.

A British Poet Laureate, Tennyson is one of the most well-loved Victorian poets. He is best known for his short lyrics like 'In Memoriam A.H.H', 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', and 'Idylls of the King'.

A British writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. Regarded as the pioneer of crime fiction, his stories brought the genre to a new height of popularity.

An English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Bronte. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such, are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature.

An English politician known for his leadership of the movement to stop the slave trade. As an independent MP, he became a close ally of the Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, and was a leading abolitionist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.