Famous people born in 1847

Bram Stoker was a master diction writer who created the popular character Dracula, with his masterpiece of the same name

Otto Wallach was a German chemist who won the 1910 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds

Millicent Fawcett was a British reformer, feminist and intellectual

Kate Sheppard was a social activist and an important leader of the women’s suffrage movement in New Zealand

Joseph Pulitzer was one of the most prominent US journalists and publisher of his times

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-American scientist and inventor, referred to as ‘Father of the Telephone’

Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States

One of the leading inventors of the USA, Thomas Edison was a multitalented personality

Jesse James was a legendary American outlaw, gang leader, murderer and bank robber

Annie Besant was a women’s rights activist, theosophist and Indian nationalist