Famous people born in 1861

Madan Mohan Malaviya was a veteran Indian statesman, educationist and independence activist

Edith Dircksey Cowan (née Brown) was an Australian politician and social campaigner

Dame Nellie Melba was a world-famous Australian opera soprano, best remembered for her beautiful singing and powerful stage presence

Charles Édouard Guillaume was a renowned Swiss physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920

George William Norris was a progressive and liberal U.S

Helen Taft was the wife of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States of America

Fredrick Gowland Hopkins was a Nobel Prize winning biochemist who discovered vitamins

Prafulla Chandra Ray was a renowned Indian Chemist who founded the chemical manufacture company ‘Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Works Ltd.’

William James Mayo was a noted American physician and surgeon who was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic

James Naismith was a Canadian-American inventor of the world famous sport basketball