Authors born in 1850
- Andrew Jenson Historian, 1850
- Annie Smith Peck Mountaineer, 1850
- Anton Seidl Conductor, 1850
- Augustine Birrell Politician, 1850
- Cesar Ritz Founder, 1850
- Charles Holland Duell Judge, 1850
- Charles Ranlett Flint Businessman, 1850
- Charles Richet Physiologist, 1850
- Daniel Carter Beard Author, 1850
- Edgar Wilson Nye Humorist, 1850
- Eduard Bernstein Politician, 1850
- Edward Bellamy Author, 1850
- Edward Smith Sea Captain, 1850
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writer, 1850
- Eugene Field Poet, 1850
- Francis J. Grimke Clergyman, 1850
- George William Foote Editor, 1850
- John Watson Author, 1850
- Karl Ferdinand Braun Physicist, 1850
- Kate Chopin Writer, 1850
- Lafcadio Hearn Writer, 1850
- Mary Elizabeth Lease Lecturer, 1850
- Pat Garrett Sherif, 1850
- Pierre Loti Novelist, 1850
- R. J. Reynolds Businessman, 1850
- Samuel Gompers Trade Unionist, 1850
- Sofia Kovalevskaya Mathematician, 1850
- W. W. Rouse Ball Mathematician, 1850
- William Hamilton Gibson Illustrator, 1850
- William Mitchinson Hicks Mathematician, 1850
- William Morris Davis Geologist, 1850