William Holman Hunt

•  Frederick Abel

  Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet FRS (17 July 1827 – 6 September 1902) was an English chemist. (The Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives his year of birth as 1826. ) Born in London, Abel studied chemistry for six years under A. W. von Hofmann at the Royal College of Chemistry, then became professor of chemistry at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1851, and three years later was appointed chemist to the War Department and chemical referee to the government.

  

  33.3%
  

  44.4%
  

  22.2%
  
•  Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister

  Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS, PC (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was an English surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Lister successfully introduced carbolic acid to sterilise surgical instruments and to clean wounds, which led to reduced post-operative infections and made surgery safer for patients.

  

  26.3%
  

  31.6%
  

  42.1%
  
•  Lew Wallace

  Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, American statesman, and author, best remembered for his historical novel '.

  

  33.3%
  

  44.4%
  

  22.2%
  
•  Augustus Pitt Rivers

  Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 1827 – 4 May 1900) was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections. Born Augustus Henry Lane Fox at Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Wetherby, Yorkshire on 14 April 1827, he was the son of William Lane Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a sister of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton.

  

  30.4%
  

  39.1%
  

  30.4%
  
•  Goffredo Mameli

  Goffredo Mameli was an Italian patriot, poet and writer, and a notable figure in the Italian Risorgimento. He is also the author of the lyrics of the current Italian national anthem.

  

  12.5%
  

  25.0%
  

  62.5%
  
•  John Hanning Speke

  John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an officer in the British Indian army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa and who is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile.

  

  20.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Wilhelm Bleek

  Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (March 8, 1827 – August 17, 1875) was a German linguist. His work included A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages and his great project jointly executed with Lucy Lloyd: The Bleek and Lloyd Archive of ǀXam and !kun texts.

  

  25.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Valentine Baker

  For Captain Valentine Baker, of Martin-Baker Aircraft, see Valentine Baker (pilot). Valentine Baker (also known as Baker Pasha) (1827—1887), British soldier, was a younger brother of Sir Samuel Baker. He was educated in Gloucester and in Ceylon, and in 1848 entered the Ceylon Rifles as an ensign. Soon transferred to the 12th Lancers, he saw active service with that regiment in the 8th Cape Frontier War of 1852—1853.

  

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  66.7%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Sandford Fleming

  Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor, known for proposing worldwide standard time zones, Canada's postage stamp, a huge body of surveying and map making, engineering much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and being a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Royal Canadian Institute, a science organization in Toronto.

  

  50.0%
  

  33.3%
  

  16.7%
  
•  Alexander Balloch Grosart

  Alexander Balloch Grosart (18 June 1827 - 16 March 1899) was a Scottish clergyman and literary editor. He is chiefly remembered for reprinting much rare Elizabethan literature, a work which he undertook because of his interest in Puritan theology.

  

  40.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  40.0%
  

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•  Lorenzo Giovando

  Lorenzo Giovando was twice MLA in British Columbia's Legislative Assembly for the Conservative Party of British Columbia for the seat of Nanaimo and the Islands. His 1952 and 1953 victories are examples of how the Instant runoff voting of how the IRV system works to allow ensure that a majority find the candidate accceptable.

  

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•  Eleuthérios Venizélos

  

  15.8%
  

  57.9%
  

  26.3%
  
•  Barrier (arcade game)

  

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•  Graphiphora inficita

  

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•  William Pierpoint (politician)

  

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