- U.S. teacher of Helen Keller.
- English composer: collaborator with Sir William Gilbert.
- U.S. journalist and television host.
- U.S. psychiatrist.
- U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1882–92.
- U.S. architect.
- Sir Arthur (Seymour). 1842–1900, English composer who wrote operettas, such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) and The Mikado (1885), with W. S. Gilbert as librettist
- Louis (Henri). 1856–1924, US pioneer of modern architecture: he coined the slogan "form follows function"
