1838 births
Category: 1838 births

Alpheus Potts
American lawyer, judge and politician

Moritz Hall

Lewis Varney
American lawyer and politician

George W. Brinkerhoff
American politician

Charles M. Holton
American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient

William V. Van Rensselaer
American civil engineer and politician

Edward Charles Buck
British Indian civil servant

J. Levi Roush
American soldier

Philip W. Magruder
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Robert Monro
English cricketer and barrister

John Robinson
U.S. Marshal for Vermont

Charles Ward
English cricketer and Anglican priest

Charles Jordan
Mayor of Tauranga, New Zealand

Helen Tanner Brodt
Painter, the first white woman known to climb Lassen Peak in Lassen Volcanic National Park

John Dartnell
Commandant of the Natal Mounted Police

Harriet Maitland Young
British composer

James H. Pierson
American politician

Thomas Cardozo
American politician, educator

Francis Thornton Barrett
Scottish librarian

Jane Stowe
New Zealand artist and painter

Henry N. Blake
American judge

Carlotta von Boos-Waldeck
German noblewoman

Mark Bernard Hardin
American academic

George Carter Barrett
American judge

James T. Edwards
American educator and politician

Mott Hooton
United States Army general

John M. Washington
Escaped American slave

Henry Graham Ashmead
American historian and chronicler of Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Laurie Phillip Lawrence
Australian businessman and philanthropist

Hezekiah Ranney Dewey
Michigan politician

Emma Leslie
English writer of children's books and historical fiction

Daniel Mearns
Lord Provost of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Henry Linton
English cricketer and civil servant

Jessie Kerr Lawson
Scottish-Canadian writer and poet

Emma Ritter-Bondy
Scottish classical pianist of Austrian origin; music professor

William W. Smith
Arkansas Supreme Court justice

Ivan Iosifovich Yakubovsky
Russian general

Nikolai Petrusevich
Russian explorer

Sergei Mikhailovich Dukhovskoi
Military officer in Imperial Russia

Leonid Matveyevich Dembowsky
Russian infantry general