Authors born in 1862
- George Davis Herron Clergyman, 1862
- George Sutherland Politician, 1862
- Gerald Stanley Lee Author, 1862
- Gerhart Hauptmann Writer, 1862
- Henri Pirenne Historian, 1862
- Ida B. Wells Journalist, 1862
- J. A. Spender Author, 1862
- J. Chapman Author, 1862
- John Jay Chapman Author, 1862
- John Kendrick Bangs Author, 1862
- Josephus Daniels Editor, 1862
- M. R. James Author, 1862
- Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright, 1862
- Nicholas Murray Butler Philosopher, 1862
- O. Henry Writer, 1862
- Okakura Kakuzo Scholar, 1862
- Walter Damrosch Conductor, 1862
- Wickliffe Rose Director, 1862
- Wilbur Lucius Cross Politician, 1862
- William Henry Bragg Physicist, 1862
- William Walker Atkinson Attorney At Law, 1862