Authors born in 1859
- A. E. Housman Poet, 1859
- Abraham H. Cannon Activist, 1859
- Alfred Dreyfus Officer, 1859
- Alfred Edward Housman Poet, 1859
- Alfred Harker Geologist, 1859
- Andy Adams Writer, 1859
- Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, 1859
- Arthur Desmond Politician, 1859
- Basil King Clergyman, 1859
- Billy the Kid Criminal, 1859
- Carrie Chapman Catt Suffrage Activist, 1859
- Cass Gilbert Architect, 1859
- Charles August Lindbergh Congressional Staff, 1859
- Charles Comiskey Baseball Player, 1859
- Charles Fletcher Lummis Journalist, 1859
- Childe Hassam Painter, 1859
- Edmund Husserl Mathematician, 1859
- Elsie de Wolfe Actress, 1859
- Ernest Rhys Writer, 1859
- Farquhar McGillivray Knowles Painter, 1859
- Florence Kelley Translator, 1859
- Francis Thompson Poet, 1859
- George Aaron Barton Author, 1859
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Politician, 1859
- George Lansbury Politician, 1859
- George W. P. Hunt Politician, 1859
- Georges Seurat Painter, 1859
- H. A. Guerber Historian, 1859
- Havelock Ellis Physician, 1859
- J. Horace McFarland Leader, 1859
- Jerome K. Jerome Writer, 1859
- John C. Crosby Politician, 1859
- John Dewey Philosopher, 1859
- Katharine Lee Bates Author, 1859
- Katharine Tynan Writer, 1859
- Kenneth Grahame Writer, 1859
- Knut Hamsun Writer, 1859
- L. W Rogers Teacher, 1859
- M. M. Mangasarian Activist, 1859
- Mabel Osgood Wright Author, 1859