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Charles Dickens lived from 1812 to 1870.

Some famous people who lived during that same time include:

  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language lived from 1809 to 1892. making him very famous during Dickens' time
  • Allan Pinkerton (American), founder of the Pinkerton National Detective agency lived from 1819 to 1894
  • Benjamin Disraeli, who served several times as Prime Minister and was equally famous for his fiction and non-fiction books, lived from 1804 to 1801.
  • Brigham Young (American), leader of the LDS church after the death of their first leader Joseph Smith, served as a missionary in England during Dickens' time - around 1835-1837.
  • The Brontë sisters, Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë, were literary contemporaries with Dickens. (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell being perhaps their most famous works)
  • Charles Darwin - famous for his Theory of Evolution lived from 1802 to 1882
  • Dr. David Livingstone (he of the famous line "Dr. Livingstone, I presume") lived from 1813 to 1873
  • Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo when Dickens was about 3 years old lived from 1769 until 1852 and was still a major political figure when Dickens was an adult.
  • Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) and Karl Marx (1818-1893), the originators of Communism were contemporaries of Dickens, although they became much more famous posthumously.
  • James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) formulated classical electromagnetic theory demonstrating that electricity, magnetism and even light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon, namely the electromagnetic field.
  • George Boole, the inventor of Boolean logic - the basis of modern computer logic lived from 1815 to 1864.
  • Michael Faraday (English), the famous scientist lived from 1791 to 1867.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne (American) who published The Scarlet Letter in 1850
  • Queen Victoria lived from 1819 until 1901 and was Queen from 1837 until her death - making her the monarch during most of Dickens' life.
  • Richard Wagner (German), the composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, who is most famous for his operas lived from 1813 to 1833.
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