Authors born in 1865
- Lala Lajpat Rai Author, 1865
- Laurence Housman Playwright, 1865
- Logan Pearsall Smith Essayist, 1865
- Max Heindel Occultist, 1865
- Minnie Maddern Fiske Actress, 1865
- Nelson Henderson Rugby Union Player, 1865
- Neltje Blanchan Historian, 1865
- Olavo Bilac Poet, 1865
- Peter Latham Tennis Player, 1865
- Pieter Zeeman Physicist, 1865
- Rudyard Kipling Writer, 1865
- Ulysses G. Weatherly Sociologist, 1865
- Warren G. Harding Politician, 1865
- Warren Harding President, 1865
- Wilfred Grenfell Activist, 1865
- William Borah Politician, 1865
- William Butler Poet, 1865
- William Butler Yeats Poet, 1865
- William Jerome Songwriter, 1865
- William Lyon Phelps Author, 1865
- William Wendt Painter, 1865
- Wilson Bentley Photographer, 1865