| Name | Date | Short Bio |
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Monarchs/Statesmen |
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| Victoria I | 1819-1901 |
Longest reigning English Monarch. Presided over the British Empire at its height. |
| Robert Peel | 1788-1850 |
Important Victorian Era British prime minister who oversaw several free market and political reforms. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881 |
Prime Minister, Author, and conservative rival of Gladstone. |
| William Gladstone | 1809-1898 |
Prime minister and member of the Liberal Party. Opponent of Disraeli. |
| Charles Parnell | 1846-1891 |
Irish Catholic politician who fought for home rule for Ireland. |
| Cecil Rhodes | 1853-1902 |
Power broker in South Africa, tried to turn all provinces into a British Colony. |
Military |
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| Lord Raglan | 1788-1855 |
Field Marshall of English Forces during the Crimean War. |
| Henry Havelock | 1795-1857 |
Led a division to relieve Lucknow during the Sepoy Rebellion. Died during the siege. |
| William Brydon | 1811-1873 |
Surgeon in the Bengal army; sole surviver of the massacre at Khyber pass in Afghanistan. |
| Charles Gordon | 1833-1885 |
General who defeated the Tai-pings in China, served as governor in Soudan and resisted the Mahdi in Khartoum. |
| Lord Roberts | 1832-1914 |
Career officer, saw service in Indian Mutiny, Afghanistan, Abyssinia, India and South Africa. |
| Horatio Kitchener | 1850-1916 |
Military hero of the late 19th century, first in Sudan, and later in the Boer Wars |
| John Franklin | 1786-1847 |
Explorer of the Artic regions of Canada. |
Art and Literature |
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| Sir Walter Scott | 1771-1832 |
Author best known for novels set in Scotland. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1809-1861 |
Eminent poet of the Victorian era. Married to Robert Browning. |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 |
Prolific novelist of the Victorian Era. Wrote David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol and others. |
| Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881 |
Popular Victorian age essayist and historian. |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892 |
Best known poet of he Victorian Age. Write Idylls of the King and many others. |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936 |
Kipling's novel's and poetry are associated with British Imperialism, for good and ill. |
Heroines |
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| Grace Darling | 1815-1842 |
British heroine who saved sailors from a ship that crashed on her father's lighthouse. |
| Florence Nightingale | 1820-1910 |
Nurse who reformed the care of wounded soldiers during the Crimean War. |