Authors born in 1851

• Adolf von Harnack Historian,  1851
• Alice Morse Earle Historian,  1851
• Andrew Cecil Bradley Scholar,  1851
• Anna Garlin Spencer Educator,  1851
• Arne Garborg Novelist,  1851
• Arthur Evans Archaeologist,  1851
• Arthur Schuster Physicist,  1851
• B. B. Warfield Professor,  1851
• Charles Dow Journalist,  1851
• Daniel S. Lamont Politician,  1851
• David Starr Jordan Educator,  1851
• David W. Oxtoby Academic,  1851
• Eben Alexander Educator,  1851
• Edwin Bailey Elliott Mathematician,  1851
• Emile Berliner Scientist,  1851
• Felix Adler Educator,  1851
• Ferdinand Foch Military Personnel,  1851
• Garrett P. Serviss Astronomer,  1851
• George Burton Adams Historian,  1851
• George Parsons Lathrop Poet,  1851
• Leon Bourgeois Statesman,  1851
• Mabel Collins Author,  1851
• Mary Augusta Ward Novelist,  1851
• Melvil Dewey Librarian,  1851
• Oliver Joseph Lodge Physicist,  1851
• W. C. Brownell Art Critic,  1851
• William Quan Judge Occultist,  1851
• William Robertson Nicoll Journalist,  1851