Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

The 150 best-known contemporaries

723 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1840.

1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
16. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
19. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
22. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
25. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
28. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
29. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
30. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
31. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
32. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
33. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
34. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
35. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
36. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
37. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
38. John Adams 1735 – 1826
39. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
40. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
41. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
42. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
43. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
44. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
45. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
46. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
47. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
48. James Madison 1751 – 1836
49. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
50. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
51. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
52. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
53. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
54. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
55. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
56. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
57. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
58. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
59. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
60. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
61. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
62. William Blake 1757 – 1827
63. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
64. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
65. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
66. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
67. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
68. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
69. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
70. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
71. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
72. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
73. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
74. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
75. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
76. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
77. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
78. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
79. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
80. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
81. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
82. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
83. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
84. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
85. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
86. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
87. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
88. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
89. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
90. John Keats 1795 – 1821
91. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
92. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
93. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
94. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
95. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
96. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
97. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
98. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
99. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
100. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
101. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
102. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
103. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
104. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
105. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
106. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
107. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
108. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
109. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
110. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
111. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
112. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
113. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
114. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
115. George Sand 1804 – 1876
116. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
117. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
118. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
119. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
120. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
121. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
122. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
123. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
124. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
125. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
126. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
127. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
128. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
129. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
130. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
131. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
132. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
133. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
134. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
135. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
136. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
137. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
138. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
139. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
140. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
141. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
142. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
143. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
144. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
145. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
146. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
147. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
148. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
149. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
150. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914