1797 births
Category: 1797 births
Katharine Augusta Ware
American writer and editor, editor of the periodical Bower of Taste
John Richardson Major
English clergyman and schoolmaster
Henry Riley
British surgeon, anatomist, naturalist, geologist and paleontologist
Silas A. Wade
American politician in Michigan
James Kemp
New Zealand missionary
James Norris
President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Alexander Bravo
Merchant, politician and slave plantation owner
Joseph von Maier
German rabbi
Josef Stern
Austrian Augustinian canon, roman-catholic priest and entomologist
Charles Noble
American politician
Levi Haile
American politician and judge
Isaac C. Smith
New York and New Jersey shipbuilder
Thomas Coutts
Scottish colonist in Australia
Akitsukaze Otoemon
Japanese sumo wrestler
Franz Pokorny
Czech-Austrian theatre manager and composer
Auguste Hilarion Touret
French military philhellene
Kim Jwa-geun
Korean political figure
Joshua Wilson
American politician and physician
Robert Hood
Royal Navy lieutenant
John Newcomer
American politician
Olof Philip Oxehufvud
Swedish ironmaster
Charles Thomas
United States Army quartermaster
Robert Glasscock
English cricketer
Alfred Niger
Antebellum Black suffrage activist and barber from Providence, Rhode Island
Wright Modlin
John Smith
19th century mill-owner and abolitionist
James Ransom Plummer
Mayor of Columbia, Tennessee, in 1832, 1833, 1834, 1836, and 1838.
William Macdonald Mackenzie
Scottish architect, 1797–1856
James Maitland
Church of Scotland minister
Archibald Bennie
Scottish minister
Thomas Ellerby
English portrait artist
Mordecai Jonah Rosenfeld
Polish philosopher
William Gott
British businessman and philanthropist
Maria da Felicidade do Couto Browne
Poet
Warda al-Turk
Ottoman Lebanese poet
Yom-Tob Spitz
William John Hammond
British actor of the 19th-century
Thomas Simpson Woodward
American brigadier general
Noah Prince
American politician
Johan Conrad Huusher
Stage actor